Belt was founded in 2013 to promote voices from the Rust Belt, and has expanded their focus to include smart narrative and serious nonfiction on any topic, as well as commercial fiction with a regional foothold. In 2023 Belt was acquired by Arcadia Publishing, where they remain an independent imprint.
- Belt City Anthologies
- 50 Maps
- Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
- Belt Revivals
- Cookbooks
- More Belt Books
The Gary Anthology
$20.00
The Indianapolis Anthology
$20.00
Car Bombs to Cookie Tables (Revised)
$26.00
A Lovely Place, a Fighting Place, a Charmer
$20.00
The Dayton Anthology
$20.00
Rust Belt Chicago
$20.00
A Detroit Anthology
$20.00
Right Here, Right Now
$19.99
City of Hustle
$26.00
The St. Louis Anthology
$20.00
Grand Rapids Grassroots
$20.00
The Pittsburgh Anthology
$20.00
The Louisville Anthology
$20.00
Happy Anyway
$19.99
The Akron Anthology
$19.99
The Milwaukee Anthology
$20.00
Under Purple Skies
$20.00
Pittsburgh in 50 Maps
$30.00
Detroit in 50 Maps
$30.00
Buffalo in 50 Maps
$34.00
Cleveland in 50 Maps
$30.00
The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook
$24.00
Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook
$20.00
The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook
$24.00
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
$20.00
The Artificial Man and Other Stories
$14.95
Stories of Ohio
$14.95
Poor White
$14.95
The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
$24.00
The Girls
$24.00
Main-Travelled Roads
$14.95
One of Ours
$14.95
The Shame of the Cities
$14.95
The Damnation of Theron Ware
$14.95
The Marrow of Tradition
$14.95
The History of the Standard Oil Company
$19.95
The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
$38.00
Midwest Pie
$18.95
The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook
$14.95
The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook
$16.95
Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen
$24.00
Creative Nonfiction
$28.00
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
$19.95
Great Lakes Tarot Deck
$38.00
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
$16.95
Pittsburgh in 50 Maps
$30.00
Detroit in 50 Maps
$30.00
Midwest Pie
$18.95
Rust Belt Arcana (Tarot Deck)
$38.00
The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook
$14.95
Rust Belt Arcana
$16.95
The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook
$16.95
Best of the Rust Belt
$19.99
An Alternative History of Cleveland
$19.95
So You Want to Publish a Book?
$16.95
Chicago House Music
$24.00
Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
$34.00
This City Is Killing Me
$16.95
Buffalo in 50 Maps
$34.00
Midwest Shreds
$24.00
Hannibal's Invisibles
$28.00
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
$18.95
Cleveland in 50 Maps
$30.00
The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook
$24.00
Midwest Futures
$26.00
Belt is excited to tell overlooked stories, particularly those written by writers from underrepresented backgrounds and flown-over places. They especially love books of cultural criticism, books with an urbanism theme or about progressive politics, smart histories that are not nostalgic, and those that "are hard to know where to shelve." We are drawn to scholarly research made plain. Belt publishes everything from memoir to criticism, fiction, maps, and cookbooks.
"Belt anthologies offer readers an opportunity to find stories and perspectives from their place, in which they may recognize themselves."
Alastair Boone and Kriston Capps for CityLab.
"Belt Publishing... promotes a kind of progressive Rust Belt pride without succumbing to cliché or hipster irony."
Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times.