Mélanzé

The Publishing Hut

A cabin open to voices, stories and passages

Against palaces, villas and publishing houses, we propose a simple cabin: a light, passionate and open space where books try less to occupy space than to open passages between worlds.

Catalogue

5 published books

Line

Stories, poetry and thought in circulation

Place

A cabin open to the world

Spirit of the hut

A simple cabin, not an empire

Between giant publishing groups, small independent houses fighting to survive, and the countless actors of self-publishing competing for scraps, the book world is saturated. There is little space left. Thankfully, we are not trying to claim much of it.

The hut was not born to grow endlessly, but to stand by a few texts with care, publish sparingly, and let each book find its own form, rhythm and readers.

One tree at the edge of a forest would be enough, a place to build a simple cabin where we can meet, share ideas, dreams and disappointments.

A place within the intimacy of a canopy, where we can step away from noise for a moment, look at the world differently, catch our breath, then return with a little more energy and inspiration.

Against palaces, villas and publishing houses, we propose a simple cabin.

Editorial line

More gradient than line

Our editorial policy is closer to a gradient than a line. We prefer to remain alert and open rather than lock ourselves into prefabricated categories or convenient labels.

We do not pretend to hold a final answer on what deserves to be published. We mainly look for texts that let in air, thought, trouble and landscape.

The hut may be discreet, but it remains open to the world, and open to worlds. It requires no entry visa, only a little good faith, a taste for passages, and the desire to help meaningful voices circulate.

A chosen hideout, never a closed one.

Margins and edges

We stay attentive to writers from extra-European Francophone worlds, first-time authors, less established voices and forms that grow where the dominant gaze lands less often.

Passages between forms

The hut welcomes movement between literature, poetry, image, reflection, travel notes and worldly narrative, without trying to lock these forms into rigid categories.

Bridges rather than borders

We look for books able to shift perception, let distant worlds speak to one another and open bridges where others prefer to build partitions.

A place that brings back a sense of childhood, secret codes and freedom, while remaining open enough to welcome those who want to climb the ladder.

Publications

Books from the cabin

5 books published to date. This page highlights the titles that currently form the most visible editorial presence of the cabin.

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Avant de partir

Raphaël Perrenoud

29 February 2024 Novel 616 pages ISBN 978-2-492305-03-0 €32.00

It all begins with an acrobatic duel on the mountain, above Geneva. When two young people defy predictions and well-trodden paths, daring to leap and head East... Across three generations, the echo of a gesture. Through travel, acrobatics and tea, through resistance in all its forms, Avant de Partir explores the hidden connections that underpin the visible world.

It all begins with an acrobatic duel on the mountain above Geneva. Two young people defy prediction and fixed paths, daring the leap and the departure toward the East.

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Autour du thé

Raphaël Perrenoud & Man Nien Lam

21 March 2022 Illustrated poetry 90 pages ISBN 978-2-492305-01-6 €19.80

Around a tea, most often facing the sky, texts and sketches emerge as poetic prose, drawing or painting, filled with echoes, shadows and reflections on water.

Around a tea, most often seated beneath an open sky, comes the inspiration of a moment that is always singular.

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Contemplations

Collective work

1 March 2021 Poetry and visual arts ISBN 978-2-492305-00-9

Texts and images born in the wake of the Wakashio disaster in Mauritius, between poetry, collective memory and gestures of solidarity.

Contemplations gathers texts and images born in the wake of the Wakashio ecological disaster in Mauritius.

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Que la terre nous soit légère

Joan Bastide

10 August 2020 General literature, novel 584 pages ISBN 978-2-492305-02-3 €20.80

An African forest turned theater of a drama with fractal consequences. A child, heir to a lineage of music-loving warriors, takes the thorny path of migration to Europe. A young humanitarian overcoming his trauma by climbing the ranks of an international organization, with all its paradoxes...

An African forest becomes the stage for a drama with fractal consequences.

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Editorial projects

Sharing an editorial project

We do not currently accept unsolicited manuscripts, but we remain open to conversations around singular, sensitive editorial projects that resonate with the spirit of Mélanzé.

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