Switchback Books Fundraising Subscription Sale

From Switchback Books:

In an effort to boost sales and give our supporters a great deal, we will be adding a subscription option on the Switchback Books Website (www.switchbackbooks.com/catalog). This will give you the opportunity to purchase up to five books at an amazing deal. Details on our blog now (switchbackbooks.blogspot.com)!

In addition, we’ve added donation buttons to our blog and website, allowing you to instantly support Switchback in any increment you can. As we work toward becoming a 501c3 nonprofit organization, we’re relying on others’ help to aid our efforts in supporting women’s poetry, voicing feminist ideals, and building an inspired and inspiring community of writers. No donation is too small, and we appreciate all forms of generosity.

Our goal—$800 by the end of the year for the printing and promotional costs of Marisa Crawford’s The Haunted House—is within reach with the help of even a modest donation.

Thanks to those of you who participated in and contributed to our bartending fundraising event held earlier this summer!

Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets

From Achiote Press:

We are excited to announce Achiote Press' newest chapbook: Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, edited by Ching-in Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee.

Kundiman is a wonderful 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing a nurturing space for Asian American poets. Like many other arts organizations in these difficult times, Kundiman has suffered from budget cuts. To help, Achiote Press teamed up with three Kundiman poets to create a beautiful anthology featuring numerous Asian American writers.

We conducted a fundraising reading on the UC Berkeley campus on 9/17/09, and now we are continuing our efforts online.

Please click link to order your copy of this chapbook and to read the introduction (http://www.achiotepress.com/kundiman.htm). Cost: $7 (shipping included). Proceeds will be donated to Kundiman.

Supplies are limited so please order soon.

Writers in the anthology Include:

Neil Aitken, Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, Marilyn Chin, Oliver de la Paz, Vanessa Huang, Janine Joseph, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ngoc Luu, Sally Wen Mao, Noel Pabillo Mariano, Soham Patel, Jai Arun Ravine, Margaret Rhee, Melissa Roxas, Brynn Saito, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Yael Villafranca, Andre Yang, and Debbie Yee

Fou 3

On the twenty-first day of September, two thousand nine years after the common era, Fou Magazine, the first aerial panda parade, catapults itself simultaneously from Paris and New York, to escape the confines of captivity and cover all regions of the Internet, Earth, and beyond with its benevolent embrace. On this ethereal monument, let future ages record the wondrous enterprise of empire, aided by heroic carousing, abetted by the fortitude of mankind, this great improvement on panda-based literary dissemination that the World Wide Web hath generously permitted.

Featuring poems by:

Samuel Amadon, Erik Anderson, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Joshua Beckman, Christopher DeWeese, DJ Dolack & Allison Titus, Claire Donato, Noah Falck, Jessica Fjeld, Alina Gregorian, Richard Jones, Caroline Knox, Rebecca Loudon, Ben Mirov, Alexis Orgera, Tomaž Šalamun, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Peter Jay Shippy, Bianca Stone, and no others!

www.foumagazine.net

Tarpaulin Sky Press Reading Period

During the month of October, Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading full-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and cross-genre work. Manuscripts should be postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2009. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Tarpaulin Sky Press publishes paperbacks as well as a literary journal that appears in online and paper editions. Our trade paperbacks are available though major retailers and independent booksellers alike, and are distributed by Small Press Distribution--where the majority of our full-length titles have appeared on the distributor's "Best Sellers" lists, sometimes for several months. In addition to being included in "Ten Great Titles from Underground Presses" in Time Out New York, Tarpaulin Sky Press and its titles are featured and reviewed in places such as Poets & Writers, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Bloomsbury Review, and Bookslut, among others.

TO SUBMIT:

Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not "blind"--we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address.

Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work.

We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, and short-run chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $20 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $10 reading fee. Current subscribers to Tarpaulin Sky Press do not need to include a reading fee (you've already done plenty to
support the press--thank you). Everyone submitting a manuscript is welcome also to choose from any TSky Press trade paperback (sorry, no chapbooks)--just let us know which title you would like, and enclose with your submission packet a 9x12, self-addressed, stamped envelope with $2.64 in postage. We will ship the books separately from your notification SASE.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in February 2010. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2010 & 2011.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of books that we publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by purchasing one of our titles.

This Week at No Tell

Jennifer L. Knox wrangles up grub like a real cowboy this week at No Tell Motel.

I See Straight People

Please join AQLF for a fun -- but not frightful -- fundraising event, I See Straight People. This reading will feature straight allies who will be reading from their poetry to help support AQLF. The reading will be held Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Horizon School Auditorium, 1900 DeKalb Ave.

Featured poets include No Tell's Laurel Snyder and Bruce Covey along with Cecilia Woloch, Megan Sexton, Jon Goode and Alice Lovelace. Rupert Fike will host.

No Tell Motel Reading Period is Open

No Tell Motel is accepting poetry submissions during the month of October. Please follow the guidelines.