Small publishing events for the rest of us
Join us for a reading and conversation with Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, author of Centzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment and other titles for Episode Two of Essential Voice, a FlowerSong Series. Thursday, March 3, 2022 7:30 PM 8:30 PM TEDx Speaker Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, a singer-songwriter, teacher and author …
Unsolicited Press hosts a virtual reading via Zoom with Mark MacDonald and Joseph Costa. The reading will be an hour or less with both authors reading followed by a minute or two for questions from the audience. BIOS Mark MacDonald lives in Beaverton, Oregon with his wife of twenty-one years, Tina, their two children, Zoe …
In the competitive job market, employers look for people with experience. Literary agents and publishers are no different, and the experience they are looking for is called a “platform.” This platform, however, is not just the list of your publications; it’s the sum of your total footprint in the publishing world. This panel will help …
This was an event share by poets who are still in or have connections to Ukraine. Hundreds attended. Theme Worlds together.
Free, hour-long Journaling Workshop on Zoom sponsored by the Richmond Public Library, Richmond, CA. Received a journal as a gift? Have a journal stuffed in a drawer? Journaled in the past? Never journaled before? Join this free, one-hour Journaling Workshop via Zoom on Thursday, March 10th, 2022 at 6PM sponsored by the Friends of the …
The next conversation on preparing your work for consideration with Cynthia Mitchell and Lucinda Clark. Cynthia is the founder of Lady Love Publishing, where she self publishes her work. Lucinda is the founder of PRA Publishing a indie traditional press in Georgia. With two of three conversations they plan to hold a pitch your title …
Join Candiano Books author Marcus James in a lively, insightful, fun, and thought-provoking conversation with his longtime editor, Evanne Freeman-Casey as they discuss writing, the impact/importance of writing as vocation and integrity, telling honest and complex queer characters, the lasting legacy, importance, and influence of the late, Great Anne Rice and how her works saved …
To celebrate this year's SMOLfair all books at Bull City Press are only $7! All issues of INCH are 4 for $10!
Using a fictional narrative to investigate the infamous and tragic 1985 murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena in Guadalajara, Mexico, Someone Had to Die combines more than thirty years of research, investigation, interviews, and analyses, including facts never before published, with a thrilling narrative to derive a unique perspective on the case and resolve …
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.
Join PRA Publishing for some engaging conversations with literary professionals, including author Geza Tatrallyay, professor Dr. Giada Biasetti, and filmmaker Xavier Clark. Released daily at 10:00am EST between Tuesday, March 21st and Wednesday, March 23rd. Check them out on our Youtube Channel or on our sister organization's Instagram, @poetrymattersproject
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.)
Join us on Instagram Live for poetry readings from two self-published poets. We'll be chatting about all things poetry, the journey of self-publishing, and our new books. We can't wait to see you there! Learn more about us here: linktr.ee/alexandra.mireanu linktr.ee/risvrosepoetry
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Come into the forest and meet some of the Forest Path Books authors and their work. Forest Path Books publishes divergent fiction (and occasional nonfiction) from other times and places.
Award-winning small press author Brian Evenson will be kicking off SMOL Fair with a keynote address and Q&A. He has written and translated dozens of books, most recently The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell: Stories (2021, Coffee House Press) and Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019, Coffee House Press), which won a Shirley …
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 …
A Rio Grande Valley International Festival Event Saturday, April 30 @ 12:00 p.m. Small Press Publishing: Pains & Gains A workshop for the unpublished poet, presented by Edward Vidaurre We will focus in this class on key aspects of editing, research, community, submitting, rejection, and staying focused. Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet with eight …
Come join Alternating Current Press and TNBBC as we brunch on SMOL readings from our authors! The lineup includes: Jayne Martin, Jackson Bliss, Sara Rauch, Leah Angstman, Tyler Friend, Ryan Ridge, Cameron MacKenzie, Jen Michalski, Suzi Q. Smith, and David Leo Rice https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81367362069?pwd=Z2dBQk1oQXdZQ3ZBenU1M1ByY0Jhdz09 Meeting ID: 813 6736 2069 Passcode: 122759
A great bRunch of authors are reading together for A SMOL BRUNCH on Z00m, Saturday, March 19th, at 1 p.m. EST. TNBBC Publicity and Alternating Current Press are teaming up to bring you Jackson Bliss, Leah Angstman, Ryan Ridge, Jen Michalski, Cameron MacKenzie, Jayne Martin, Sara Rauch, Tyler Friend, Suzi Q. Smith, and David Leo …
Get 20% off books at the Meerkat Press store (excluding preorder packages). https://meerkatpress.shop/collections/smolfair-2022
Three authors from Unsolicited Press read from their books followed by a Q & A. Gary Almeter In this moving, sophisticated, and often humorous novel, Gary Almeter artfully crafts a group portrait of several families using the finest of details in seemingly mundane encounters and everyday events. It’s 1983 and a young Brown University librarian …
Featuring: Aimee Parkison, N/A Oparah, Debra Di Blasi, David Leo Rice, Alana I. Capria, C.A. Blintzios, Loie Rawding, Dana Green, Jason Teal, José de Piérola, Jordan A. Rothacker, Jared Joseph, Andriana Minou, Elizeya Quate, Jefferson Navicky, and Julian Mithra Join via Zoom - https://zoom.us/j/97908681446?pwd=ZWFWUDl4MVhKMTlDUmRDdHVlQXFzQT09
Join Get Fresh Books poets Rosebud Ben-One, Kathy Engel and Ananda Lima for an amazing poetry reading on 3/19 at 7 pm. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866 Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866 Darla Himeles is the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough (2017) and the full-length poetry collection Cleave (forthcoming, 2021), both from Get Fresh Books. …
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 …
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 …
Come into the forest and meet some of the Forest Path Books authors and their work. Forest Path Books publishes divergent fiction (and occasional nonfiction) from other times and places.
The Poetry Box LIVE for KIDS – Special April Edition Time: April 9, 2022, at 2pm (Pacific) / 5pm (Eastern) The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading series on the 2nd Saturday of each month hosted by Portland poet/ publisher, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders. For National Poetry Month, we are having a special edition …
Four poets with recent work from Broadstone Books—Ann Lauinger, Mervyn Taylor, Margo Taft Stever, and Susana H. Case read from their recent collections. Dime Saint, Nickel Devil, New of the Living, The End of Horses, and The Damage Done, respectively. Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage …
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 …
All books 30%, or buy the Dead of Winter anthology and T-shirt bundle for $40--that's $20 off.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lady Love Publishing and PRA Publishing founders Cynthia Mitchell and Lucinda Clark close out their series of sessions on preparing your pitch before, doing and after an author completes their manuscript. Here the self publishing author and traditional publisher complete the series with examples.
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 & …
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 …
Join us for a Zoom reading by some of our jackalopes (a.k.a. Tolsun Books authors): Jordan E. Franklin, Hunter Hazelton, and Sarah M. Sala. Email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
Upcoming Book Reading sponsored by Small Press Book Fair * Hidden Treasure: A Mystery in a New Dimension with author Margaret C. Murray reading from her novels of the ancient Southwest Sundagger.net and Spiral Moderator: Chris Goslow, composer, musician Friday, March 25, 2022 2:30 – 3:30PM PDT on Zoom
Exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Heather Cox's workshop! Explore the world of her new book, So... Readers, no matter their age or language, will delight in So..., a wordless picture book that follows the journey of a simple circle traveling through colorful landscapes. Adventures await in this vibrant world filled with curious sewing notions and …
Host Andrew C. Gottlieb will lead this lively reading with press authors Matthew Daddona, Alina Ștefănescu, and Penn Stewart, plus special guest Iris Graville.
Hang out with Shawn Berman - Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Drunk, author of "Mr. Funnyman" and "At The Movies" - to talk about how to effectively use nostalgia and pop culture in your writing. This will include a generative workshop about your favorite childhood movie! https://uno.zoom.us/j/86032652483
Wandering Aengus Press Poetry Editor, Tina Schumann, will host this reading featuring press authors Lucy Ferriss, Holly J. Hughes, and Gerald McFarland, plus special guest Evan Morgan Williams.
Authors Kasimma and Ukamaka Olisakwe read from their latest books, All Shades of Iberibe and Ogadinma, and discuss contemporary Nigerian fiction with award winning writer Frances Ogamba.