The house opens with one book and three chapbooks. The rest of the catalogue comes from open calls and co-editions.
Uiler Costa-Santos
Aerial photographs of the Bay of All Saints at syzygy — when sun, moon and Earth align and the low tide uncovers new geographies. The book gathers the pesqueiros: circular fishing corrals that Black fishing communities have built for generations by reading the tide. Fishing as relation, not extraction.
240 × 300 mm · 144 pp · hardcover · PT/EN · 500 copies + 40 numbered
Authors to be announced
One chapbook every four months, with authors from the Bahian network. Invited directly by the publisher — Cordel does not run on open calls.
160 × 230 mm · 32 pp · 500 copies each
Open call in March 2027
A first book by an author who has not published one, chosen by a jury of four from submitted dummies. The publisher covers the full production.
190 × 250 mm · 72–96 pp · 300 copies
Partnership in negotiation
The house’s first crossing: a book made with a publisher or art centre in Mindelo or Praia, in Portuguese and English, with print run and cost split between the two shores.
210 × 270 mm · 96–128 pp · 800 shared copies
Translation in preparation
Opening the text collection: an essay on the Black image and the colonial gaze that does not yet circulate in Portuguese.
140 × 210 mm · 112–144 pp · 500 copies