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Faith & Prose

Poetry and music for the things we survive quietly.

Books, poems, and songs about abuse, faith, grief, identity, and becoming whole again.

More than 100 pieces free · 10% of every sale supports survivors

The Archive

A quiet place for the things we've survived.

Anonymous stories, letters, and reflections from real people — witnessed, not debated. Read freely. Write when you're ready. Your name is never shown.

New releaseAmpersands — Notes and Everything Between
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Where to start

Choose your path.

Three doors into the work. Start wherever your life is standing right now.

The complete Faith & Prose book collection

If you are trying to understand what happened

Letters I'll Never Send

One man's journey from silence to survival to self — the collection for anyone still finding language for it.

If you are rebuilding faith or meaning

Trauma & God

Faith without the flinch — poems for anyone still wrestling with what they were taught to believe.

If you are learning who you are afterward

Ampersands

A philosophical collection about wonder, identity, memory, and the questions that outlast every answer.

The reading room

Read more than 100 pieces free.

Buy only if the work stays with you. The first six parts of Letters I'll Never Send — 67 poems and prose pieces — plus the opening of Ampersands, on the house.

The music

Read Letters I'll Never Send.
Hear what came after on We Were Never Really Here.

Northernly is the musical expression of Faith & Prose — the same voice behind the books, in song. The record picks up where the poems put you down.

Northernly vinyl records — We Were Never Really Here and I'm Alright

You did not survive this to stay silent.

From Letters I'll Never Send

Bundles

Take the collection home.

The full collection of books by Jonathan Valania resting on grass and clover
The full collection

Every book, in one place.

The Letters trilogy traces survival, faith, and everything between. Ampersands stands on its own.

The author sitting on a weathered wooden porch
About the author

Written in the quiet after.

Faith & Prose is a small publishing house building a home for poetry that dares to name grief, survival, and faith — without softening any of it.

Every book is a hand held out. Every line, on purpose.

Follow along

A free digital edition of the first six parts of Letters I'll Never Send — plus one new poem or letter each week.

Quiet Sunday emails: one new poem, letter, or song each week.

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