2019
Founded as a self-publishing company, now also with international publications.
13
Authors who have published through WORTPALAST to date.
3
Books published, 3 short story collections and 2 novels in progress for 2025.
84 million
People waiting for our worlds – proofread & corrected, printed & digital.
What we do
Publishing anthologies, novels and more
Short stories and novels that get under your skin, induce fear and invite reflection – far more than mere entertainment.
We are constantly looking
for new authors
Unique literary voices enter into dialogue with the mainstream – from all corners, cultures and backgrounds of the world.
Gain access to the German audience
We are working towards an exchange across national borders – for more good books in different languages and genres.
Organizing writing competitions and awards
We want to discover talent and offer them a platform for greater visibility and an audience for their literary voices.
Organize seminars and workshops
To impart practical knowledge for self-publishing and to establish contacts with experts from Europe in this field.
How the WORTPALAST positions itself
Our books create a unique atmosphere: They immerse readers in cozy, spooky worlds where the uncanny and the everyday merge.
But behind the suspenseful fiction there is always a deeper core: Our stories reflect social challenges, grievances and questions that affect us all – be it surveillance, social inequality, identity or moral ambivalence.
In the Dark Contemporary genre, we offer literature that gets under your skin, invites you to fear and reflect – and is thus far more than mere entertainment: a literary mirror of our time in which the dark becomes the starting point for social debate.
What we do
Publication of new voices & content
Short stories and novels that get under your skin, invite you to fear and reflect – far more than just entertainment
We are constantly looking
new authors
Unique literary voices enter into dialogue with the mainstream – from all corners, cultures and backgrounds of the world.
Creating access to the German audience
We are working towards an exchange across national borders – for more good books in different languages and genres.
Organize writing competitions and awards
We want to discover talents and offer them a platform for greater visibility and audience for their literary voices.
Organize seminars and workshops
To impart practical knowledge for self-publishing and to establish contacts with experts from Europe.
Current projects and activities
A writing competition on the topic of identity is planned for early 2026.
Identity in this much-discussed turning point in history. How is it defined and formulated? How do we live it in the face of an increasingly open counter-movement against traditional views and worldviews?
Intensification of collaboration with Text Collective Berlin
We want to not only come closer together in terms of content, but also collaborate and work together more at events such as writing groups.
Anthology in collaboration with the Text Collective Berlin
A project featuring literary works from the creative writing workshop and submissions from across Germany · Planned for 2026
Publishing of the novel "Hands don't lie"
A publication by Thomas Stefflbauer is planned in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Our authors
