This week, four of us from Ooligan will be attending the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to promote our upcoming title, Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide for Teachers. This will be the third year that students have traveled to this conference: two years ago in New York, we were [...]
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This is a busy season for Ooligan! Two of our recent titles– Dot to Dot, Oregon by Sid Miller and Killing George Washington by Anne Jennings Paris –were recently celebrated at the Doug Fir here in Portland, OR at an intimate book launch party. The Doug Fir was an excellent venue for Ooligan, Ms. Paris, [...] Held at the Convention Center on the weekend of October 10 and 11, Wordstock 2009 was a big smash for Ooligan. Two new poetry books, Dot-to-Dot Oregon and Killing George Washington were available to the public, adding to our poetry backlist. We unveiled another new title, Cataclysms on the Columbia, which is about the formation [...] From the Gottesman Libraries at Columbia University: Christoph Keller is a Swiss writer and critic, living in New York City with his wife, the poet Jan Heller Levi. He has written three prize winning novels in his native German; plays for Swiss, Austrian, and German audiences; and most recently a memoir about living with a progressive [...] Classroom publishing front cover In conjunction with the upcoming publication of Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide for Teachers, we at Ooligan Press have created a blog for educators, in order to provide an online forum where those interested in or engaging in classroom publishing can find additional resources for their own classroom publishing curricula, and [...] This week, Portland Fashion Week (PFW) put on a four day event in sustainable style. Their vision: “to emphasize eco-responsible fashion, stage independent designers, and draw national attention to Portland’s unique intersection of Art, Commerce, and Sustainability.” According to Prasenjit Tito Chowdhury, executive producer of PFW, “This is the first and only sustainable production of a [...] This year’s Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association (PNBA) trade show, held at the PDX Airport Holiday Inn from September 10–12, was a great success. Events focusing on aspects of publishing and bookselling were held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, including the usual book signings, hunts for this season’s buzzworthy books, and panels on effectively using Facebook to [...] September 4th marked the beginning of Ooligan Press’ commitment to becoming a sustainable publisher. With the printing of the book Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution, Ooligan began moving toward its new OpenBook series. In addition to that book, this small party for the series is the start of a large move toward publishing [...] |
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