Welcome to Memoria House
New York City, July 3—Memoria Publishing House, an independent press devoted to historical literary fiction, announces its founding today. The press will publish novels and web serials that return to the record what the record has omitted—the lives, voices, and consequences left at the margins of the official account.
History, as it is conventionally written, is a selection. Memoria House exists in the space of what gets left out. Its catalogue will consist of novels, web serials, and curated classics that take the documented past as a starting point and ask what it failed to document: the servant in the corner of the portrait, the translator whose name appears nowhere in the treaty, the woman whose letters were burned rather than filed. These are not stories invented in defiance of history, but recovered by questioning the official record.
“Every story I read, I ask myself about the different perspectives,” said Shay Miranda, founder of Memoria House. “History has always been written by the victor, and in today’s publishing world, that still remains true. I’m not interested in stories of kings and conquests. I want to know about the ordinary people who did extraordinary things.”
Founded independently by Miranda, Memoria House begins as a deliberately small press with plans to expand its catalogue and editorial reach in the coming years. “Within two years, Memoria House will have a diverse catalogue of stories that everyone can find a piece of themselves in,” Miranda said.
Memoria House has one goal: that historical fiction makes room for all voices, all cultures, and all histories. It is not interested in correcting the historical record, but expanding it.
The press’s first titles will be announced in the coming months.
About Memoria House
Memoria Publishing House exists to tell stories from the margins of history. We publish contemporary and historical literary fiction spanning diverse time periods, voices, and cultures, written with the accuracy to feel real and the warmth to feel like home.
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