Category: publishing
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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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LOCUSPOINT: San Francisco is here
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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More on the Literary Market
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, […]