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SMOL Fair Discounts!

From March 16th through March 26th, Hidden Timber Books is offering 15% off our inventory of books. Get to know a few new small press authors! Just use SMOLFAIR22 at checkout. Visit our website (hiddentimberbooks.com) to learn more about Hidden Timber Books and what we offer for readers and writers.

20% off at the Bloof Books Virtual Bookfair

Bloof Books

Now through March 27, enter SMOLFAIR at checkout for 20% off all Bloof books and chapbooks—including the already discounted chapbook bundle. (Excludes art prints and used books.)

Smol Fair Discount All Week

Now through March 27th get 20% off all books and anthologies using code SmolFair (excluding pre-orders). Gnashing Teeth Publishing is committed to including underrepresented voices. We have published authors from 5 continents. We only publish work we love. Connect with us on social media and look for opportunities to submit. We encourage anyone to submit …

Rain Mountain Press Giveaways

Today through March 26 Rain Mountain Press – thrilled to be part of SMOL!!! – will be offering RMP Book Giveaways by poetry and fiction authors Michele Madigan Somerville, Rob Cook, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Allen Brafman, John Goode, Jiri Klobouk… As well two of our posthumous poetry collections by Karl Gluck and Lawrence Mallory. Copies …

Sale on Milk & Cake Titles

All books 30%, or buy the Dead of Winter anthology and T-shirt bundle for $40--that's $20 off.

Ongoing

All CavanKerry Press Books 20% Off!

Save 20% on our ENTIRE STOCK of 80+ CavanKerry Press Books 📚🥳 Start exploring our website at: https://www.cavankerrypress.org/product-category/books/?orderby=date

Smol fair sale! Essay Press titles 20-30% off this week

Essay Press titles are 20-30% off this week! https://epbooks.square.site/ Thanks for supporting EP! ~~~ Essay Press publishes artful, innovative writing that questions convention and explores issues of significant contemporary relevance. EP publishes essays that extend or challenge the formal protocols of nonfiction, including, but not limited to: lyric essays and prose poems or poetics; experimental …

“Unhappy in Its Own Way”: a webinar on family dynamics by Vine Leaves Press authors

via Zoom
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In ANNA KARENINA, Leo Tolstoy famously declares that “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This event features six Vine Leaves Press authors whose books offer distinct pictures of familial disarray and its repercussions. Each author will read briefly from their work, followed by a Q & …

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Unsolicited Press Reading with Matthew LaFreniere

Over zoom
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Unsolicited Press Reading with Matthew LaFreniere, author of DON’T TURN THE PROJECTOR OFF!. About the Book DON’T TURN THE PROJECTOR OFF! is a poetry collection that touches on the innermost wonders of humanity. A combination of absurdity and endearment transform everyday images into works of art.Matt sits in his basement and stares at his laptop. …

Reading Poetry, Prose, Translations with Veliz Books, Eulalia Books, co.im.press

The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design 1916 Race St., Philadelphia

Writers, poets, and translators from Veliz Books, Eulalia Books, and co.im.press will be sharing their work. Thursday, March 24th t 5:30pm At The Galleries at Moore 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia w/ Tina Cane, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Ryan Clark, Katherine M. Hedeen, Ignacio Infante, Genevieve Kaplan, Olivia Lott, Jeannine Pitas, Maureen Thorson, Amish Trivedi, Kelsi Vanada, …

Arts & Sciences: Felicity Muth and Alexa Lindauer discuss Am I Even a Bee?

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Felicity Muth and Alexa Lindauer, creators of Am I Even a Bee? (April 2022), will discuss their careers and interests in art and science, and how it led to the creation of their star-reviewed, debut children's picture book.The event will broadcast live from Sundance Books and Music's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSCYo1dz7Goh5tZdzb6FeuQ

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Literary Ladies Talk

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Join us for our final discussion tomorrow. The panelists include Heather Buchanan of Aquarius Press, Lucinda Clark of P.R.A. Publishing and Kim McMillion Phd. of Kim McMillion Inc. These literary ladies will share their experiences as women of color the publishing industry. Buchanan has a new release Black Fire—This Time (2022), an anthology on the …

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Black Sun Lit, The Operating System, 11:11 Press & Contra Mundum Press AWP Offsite Reading

Lot 49 Books 1713 S 6th St, Philadelphia

Join Black Sun Lit, The Operating System, 11:11 Press & Contra Mundum Press for an #AWP22 offsite reading. Thursday, March 24, 2022 Lot 49 Books 1713 S 6th St Philadelphia, PA 19148 6 PM Vidhu Aggarwal Steven Alvarez Jared Daniel Fagen Rainer J. Hanshe Ginger Ko Danika Stegeman Lemay Elæ Moss Vincent James Perrone David …

New Poetry from Milk & Cake Press

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Join us for a reading by Milk & Cake Press poets. Check out selections from our newest titles!

Plague book birthday readings with Whiskey Tit

Young American Hard Cider 6350 Germantown Ave

Join Whiskey Tit authors kt Mather, David Scott Hay, and Abigail Stewart at YOUNG AMERICAN HARD CIDER in Germantown as we toast some titles that have been fermenting to perfection while the pandemic has raged. Join us Thursday at 7:00 PM for readings and a toast to all of us who have held it together …

Using Real-Life Events in Fiction and Memoir: A Panel Discussion

Over zoom
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In both fiction and memoir the saying “Write what you know” holds strong allure…but is it really that simple? In this hour-long talk, Ian M. Rogers, Gina Troisi, Anthony D’Aries, and Elaina Battista-Parsons discuss transposing real-life events on to the page to create something distinct and powerful. Whether it be reluctance to reveal our own …

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Get Fresh Books Reading – Mercy Tullis-Bukhari, Joel Dias-Porter & Wendy Barnes

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join Get Fresh Books poets Mercy Tullis-Bukhari, Joel Dias-Porter & Wendy Barnes for an amazing poetry reading on 3/24 at 7 pm. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866 Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866 Mercy Tullis-Bukhari is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who finds inspiration from being a Bronx-bred Afro-Latina, Honduran and Garifuna, of Jamaican descent. She …

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Dara Barrois/Dixon, Lynn Xu, Dolores Dorantes, Robin Myers, Renee Gladman, Laynie Browne

via Zoom

To celebrate the imminent publication of Wave's spring 2022 titles, poets will read from their forthcoming books. Attendees will receive a discount code towards a future purchase of one of the following titles. Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina - Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier) And Those Ashen Heaps that Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight - Lynn Xu …

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Alternating Current Press and Okay Donkey Press Present

Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St., Philadelphia

Alternating Current Press and Okay Donkey Press Present "The Electric Donkey Reading" at AWP Philly 2022! The Alternating Current Press authors Leah Angstman, Madeline Anthes, Tara Campbell, Aubrey Hirsch, Naz Knudsen, D.W. McKinney, and Veronica Montez will be reading excerpts from their new anthology AND IF THAT MOCKINGBIRD DON'T SING. Okay Donkey authors will be …

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So to Speak + Peatsmoke Virtual Reading

Online

So to Speak and Peatsmoke Journal are teaming up for a virtual reading! Join us for an amazing lineup of Peatsmoke and So to Speak contributors! Featuring Lucy Zhang, Jo Saleska Lange, Brooke Schifano, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Monika Gupta, Megan Falley, Lyd Havens, and Sean Tyler. Please register here: https://eventbrite.com/e/290988814377

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JACKED: A Night of Crime Fiction

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Sponsored by Run Amok Crime, this event, hosted by editor Vern Smith, will feature readings by authors whose stories appear in the crime fiction anthology JACKED.

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RAD READING (with swallow::tale, ANMLY, & Newfound)

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join swallow::tale, ANMLY, and Newfound presses in a Mad, rad reading, featuring a raffle to benefit disability/Mad justice organization Project LETS. Content warnings, captions, and visual descriptions provided. (image via Toronto Mad Pride).

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Between Futurity and Chaos: Imagining Queerer Possibilities

Over zoom
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Between Futurity and Chaos: Imagining Queerer Possibilities! Hosted by Foglifter, just femme & dandy, and SMOL Fair, this free event will feature work from Tarik Dobbs, Aldo Amparán, Kirin Khan, Wo Chan, Elle Hong, KB, and K. Iver, and Wryly T. McCutchen on Thursday, March 24th at 5:00 PM (PT). Closed captioning and ASL interpretation …

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Unsolicited Press Reading with Matthew LaFreniere

via Zoom
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Unsolicited Press is hosting a reading with Matthew LaFreniere, author of DON'T TURN THE PROJECTOR OFF! ABOUT THE BOOK Matt sits in his basement and stares at his laptop. He thinks about movies. He thinks about poems. He thinks about anything but you, reader. Then he thinks about you, reader. He sits beneath a poster …

Politics of Reconfiguration: Writing Complex Masculinity with Jackson Bliss and Tyler James Russell

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The past decade has destabilized contemporary gender constructions in a number of important, powerful, and necessary ways. This has required broader, more inclusive, and more emotionally complex and dynamic definitions of contemporary masculinity. As systems change and structures adapt, many of us wonder how we can adequately and ethically write into that complex and inclusive …

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