Little Engines started in 2001 with the slow publication of the first four perfect-bound issues of the magazine. Each included a dynamic mix of fiction, comics, interviews, photos, essays, and more. The Stranger called Little Engines “remarkably satisfying” and Philadelphia Weekly said the magazine was “such a wonderful creation.”
The vision is the same now as it was then: Little Engines seeks a few writers, and a few will do, to edit and publish with the utmost care and attention. If trends continue, there will be a little overlap along the way with musicians as writers and heavy readers. If we do this right, it’s totally accessible but deadly serious.
In March of 2025, Little Engines Issue Ten was released in print along with Archive: Selected Work, Issues One-Ten, our first book. Archive collects select stories, essays, poems, and art from the magazine’s near-quarter century.
PERSONNEL
Adam Voith
Editor & Publisher
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Avery Gregurich
Submissions Editor
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Nikita Klimov
Design
Amanda Killian
Design
Hadley Hendrix
Typesetting & Design
Kyle Anderson
Collage
FOR BOOKSTORES & LIBRARIES
Little Engines Archive and Issue Ten are distributed by ASTERISM BOOKS.
SUBMISSIONS
We are always open for stories, essays, poems, photos, and comics. We do not consider previously published work. We are not open for book-length manuscripts at this time unless you have a sick book.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Adam Voith lost his religion as a teenager in Indiana when he found out about the East Bay bands playing Gilman, saw the art-rock stuff from Chicago, and bought everything on Dischord. Soon he was making zines, putting on shows, and touring with bands selling merch.
An undergrad class with the unhappy and borderline mean poet Mark Halliday plus Don Quixote and Paul Auster novels got Adam into books and writing. In 1999, he launched the small press TNI Books, publishing several books from other writers, two books of his own, and the original issues of Little Engines magazine.
TNI Books closed up shop with zero regrets in 2006 in order for Adam to focus on his work as a booking agent. The press was a moderate success, and wildly fulfilling. An accidental mini-hit with a weird baseball book from David Shields about Ichiro Suzuki during the All-Star's rookie year put TNI Books at break-even with a small catalog of titles on the shelf.
For nearly 25 years, Adam represented a small roster of artists including Bon Iver, the Mountain Goats, Vampire Weekend, Kevin Morby, TV on the Radio, Mumford & Sons, HAIM, Songs:Ohia, and more. When he pressed pause on writing and publishing, Adam thought a time would come to start again.
When the pandemic shut down the touring industry in 2020, Adam began writing seriously again and re-launched Little Engines magazine. In the five years since, Little Engines has published six more issues in print, selectively online, and the first Little Engines book, Archive: Selected Work, Issues One-Ten, arrived in March of 2025.
The press is focused on publishing another book or two, another issue of the magazine in print, and select but consistent work online. Adam is finishing work on a new novel of his own.
