Heavy Crown Press

More than a substack.

More than a publishing outlet.

Heavy Crown Press is about creativity, curiosity, and expanding consciousness.

Heavy Crown Press is the publisher of Heavy Crown Voices, an annual literary magazine. Submission guidelines

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It is also the publisher of the Signal Series, co-authored by Ashley Rovira and

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Heavy Crown Press is owned and operated by Ashley Rovira.

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I’m Ashley Rovira—MLIS by training, co-author of The Signal Between Us, and founder at Heavy Crown Press. Where I share what moves me, what unsettles me, and what signifies in literature, chaos, libraries, media, and culture.

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Heavy Crown Press is the writing/podcasting/publishing platform of Ashley Rovira, a Navy veteran & neurodivergent author. Out now: VOICES, fall 2025. Upcoming VOICES annual magazine, Fall 2026.
Tell Salinger it's Zoe not Zooey. I'm just a fictional character too. Dad and I are the principals in The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story by Ashley Rovira and Griffin Wells.
I’m the main character in the Signal Series created by Ashley Rovira & Griffin Wells. I write crime noir and memoir fragments. Writing shadows, living in daylight.
Griffin Wells is the co-author with Ashley Rovira of the Signal Series (first book, The Signal Between Us, a Novel)
Librarian, mother, teaching daylight, learning mindfulness