publishing

  • Submit!

    Now accepting submissions Deadline:  March 1, 2012  The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets. Winner receives $1,000, book publication with Alice James Books and a New York City feature reading. Alice James Books is a cooperative poetry press with a mission is to seek out and publish the best contemporary

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  • Happily, today is LOCUSPOINT‘s fifth birthday, and we have one more reason to celebrate– Brent Calderwood’s San Francisco is live on LOCUSPOINT today. Of the city, Brent writes, “The dot-com boom and bust of the past few decades have made the Bay Area a very expensive place to live—-rarely a good thing for poets and

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  • Resurrection Stories

    Please take a moment, if you can, to pass along this call for submissions to the third annual ReBound Series from Seven Kitchens Press. 7KP will publish a new edition of an out-of-print chapbook, complete with a new ISBN and an introduction by the nominating writer. Submissions are currently being accepted through October 15; complete

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  • Mantra

    We must first ask ourselves if our instinct to salvage is because something is old or because it is valuable, understanding that age and value are mutually exclusive.

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  • So, now that we’ve got this growing bubble of publishing outlets, what’s going to happen? First, I think we’re going to see a lot of non-subsidized literary magazines start to fold and close up shop. The ones tied to universities will mostly be okay, although if New England Review gets shut out in the cold

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  • The Book Bubble

    Is the publishing bubble going to burst? I’m thinking a lot about how literary publishing has really exploded in the past several years, with the rise of small presses, nonprofit presses, print-on-demand services, diy publishing, and so on. I think it is fantastic that there are so many ways to get books into print now,

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