Say Yes to the Small Press

Over zoom
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Everyone and their mother wants to publish a book. Commercial publishers continue to be notoriously difficult to access, let alone publish with, and thus self-publishing options have experienced a period of immense growth, even gaining the respect of industry professionals. But there is a middle way: publishing with a small, independent press. What is a …

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.

Christian Livermore & The Very Special Dead

Listen to the phenomenal Christian Livermore discuss and read from her forthcoming novel: The Very Special Dead. To be released in October 2022 by Blackwater Press. For those who enjoy the stranger side of life! "Lyrical, poignant and perfectly grounded in the day-to-day lives of a beautifully evoked New England fishing town, The Very Special …

Poets Facing History: Slapering Hol Press Reading

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Join us for a reading with Susana H. Case, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, and Liz Marlow as they read from their award winning chapbooks that speak to different histories of living and surviving in the face of racial or ethnic hate. Susana H. Case's Scottish Cafe contains poems, combining history and mathematics exquisitely, based upon the experiences …

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Baobab Press Reintroduces Spring 2021

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Authors Tiffany Cates, Colin Rafferty, and Jesse DeLong will read from their works published in Spring of 2021 to those folks who might have missed them the first time around. Cates's M-theory is a novel of mystery and introspection, asking what we can truly know about others or even ourselves; Rafferty's Execute the Office: Essays …

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A Gap in the Settlement Fence: The 3rd Thing Reads at Smol Fair

via Zoom
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The 3rd Thing is an independent publisher of necessary alternatives. Three 3rd Thing writers will hold an hour of virtual space to share a selection of work from titles both recently published and forthcoming. Peer through a gap in the settlement fence with interdisciplinary visual artist and poet of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation, Summer …

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“Eds & Friends” – Press Pause Press

Online
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Come listen to four legendary fight club family members read their work, with Q&As facilitated by our editors! AND with chances to win volumes and merch! READERS ANISSA LYNNE JOHNSON, VOLUME 5 CONTRIBUTOR Anissa Lynne Johnson is a disabled writer and speaker from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Daily …

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Get Fresh Books Reading – Lynne McEniry, Mary Brancaccio, Christina Olivares & Yesenia Montilla

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Join Get Fresh Books poets Lynne McEniry, Mary Brancaccio, and Christina Olivares, together with guest poet Yesenia Montilla for an amazing poetry reading on 3/22 at 7 pm. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866 Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866 Lynne McEniry is the author of some other wet landscape. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart …

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Reading: José A. Alcántara, Matt Daly & Eric Paul Shaffer

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Three poets celebrate the publication of José A. Alcántara's new book THE BITTEN WORLD (Tebot Bach) with a reading from their most recent books. BETWEEN HERE AND HOME, by Matt Daly, and EVEN FURTHER WEST, by Eric Paul Shaffer, are both published by Unsolicited Press.

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To The Hellmouth

Online

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so amazing and it’s the 25th anniversary, so here we are. This workshop will take Buffy’s incredible ability to contextualize real-life problems through fantasy elements. Keagan Wheat will lead the group through a Buffy-specific generative workshop. All levels of Buffy fandom and genres of writing welcome! RSVP at the link …

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CavanKerry Press & Digging Press: 2 NJ-Based Indie Publishers, 1 Night!

This is an Independent NJ-Based Press collaboration! This reading and conversation will consist of Digging Press writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong, poet Dimitri Reyes, and publisher Gessy Alvarez while poets Cat Doty, and David S. Cho will be reading from their CavanKerry Press collections. Digging Press publishes Digging Through The Fat: A Journal for Cultural Omnivores, a …