Hill Street Press

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Hill Street Press is an independent publisher with a regional focus on the American South. The press publishes approximately twenty titles annually in current events, history, politics, fiction, memoir, African-American studies, gender/women's studies, gay/lesbian interest, nature/gardening, music, business, and sports.

Past HSP publications include Cooking With Jack: The New Jack Daniel's Cookbook (2006) by Lynne Tolley and Mindy Merrell, and The Atlanta Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball (2003) by Tim Darnell.

The publishing company has garnered considerable media attention since its founding on May 5, 1998, in Athens, Georgia, and the company is considered one of the better small publishers in the region. HSP and its books have received media attention in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Black Entertainment Television (BET), the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, the Oxford American, and Publisher's Weekly, among other regional and local media outlets.

Although many of HSP's books spring from the American South, according to the company's president and publisher Thomas Payton, "HSP seeks to publish books that transcend regionalism and appeal to the reader of any region looking for intelligent commentary on every facet of the modern world and the life of the mind."

According to Payton, "HSP seeks to serve as incubator and archive for both the most promising and the most established writers, to offer an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoiding the hackneyed notions of the South as the exclusive province of the gothic or the sentimental dominion of moonlight and magnolias."

HSP books are represented and distributed in the U.S. by Gibbs Smith Publishers of Layton, Utah.

In addition to its main publishing program, Hill Street Press also publishes a line of thematic crossword puzzle books under its Hot Cross Books imprint; subjects covered include blues, Broadway, country music, dogs, feminism, gardening, and movies, among others. The company also publishes a series of books of contemporary and historical trivia and quotes related to U.S. Colleges covered in the series include the University of Alabama, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of Maryland, Florida State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, among others.