• Skip to content
  • Skip to footer

Ooligan Press

Ooligan is an award-winning not-for-profit general trade press that publishes books honoring the cultural and natural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

Main navigation

  • About
    • Submission Guidelines
    • The Graduate Program
    • Awards
    • Donate to Ooligan Press
    • Ordering Information
    • Green Press Initiative/OpenBook
  • Ooligan Blog
    • Start to Finish
  • Books
    • Frontlist
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Young Adult
    • Education and Curriculum
  • Events
    • Write to Publish
    • Transmit Culture

classics

First-Draft Blues

By Jennifer Guiher

October 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

First-Draft Blues

Not all great hits in the world of publishing and storytelling start off with a bang. In fact, many well-known authors had ideas upon ideas for their stories, characters, and voices that were scrapped before their final drafts were produced—final drafts that might be surprising in comparison to the original ideas from which they developed.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, character names, classics, developmental editing, Editing, first draft, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, harpercollins, plotline, Sherlock Holmes, Sherrington Hope, To Kill a Mockingbird

Book Clubs In and Around Portland

By Jacoba Lawson

November 18, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Book Clubs In and Around Portland

If you ever find yourself in a reading rut, joining a book club could be your literary salvation. “There are too many good books in the world to bother reading something that just makes you go . . .” Heidi Hoogstra gives a little shrug to illustrate a lack of impact. “Whatever you like to […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Beaverton, Book clubs, books, classics, discussions, fiction, Multnomah County Library, nonfiction, Portland, Vancouver

Four Amazing Books You Won’t Find On Any Other Summer Reading List

By Ooligan Press

August 8, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt As the middle of summer approaches, people are getting ready to go on vacation (or are already on vacation, if they don’t go to summer school like I do). Anticipating the free time we’ve suddenly got, many of us are thinking about leisure activities like camping and going to the beach, or […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Aldhelm, Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Aristotle, Babylon, Beowulf, bizarre, Boethius, Christianity, Classical Period, classics, Descartes, ebook, France, Germany, Hartmann Schedel, Jesus, King David, Leibniz, Liber Chronicarum, Locke, Malebranche, Medieval, Micromegas, novel, philosophy, Plato, reading list, Recommendations, Renaissance, Roman, summer reading, The Chronicarum's, The Consolation of Philosophy, The Liber Monstrorum, Voltaire

Footer

Learn More

  • About Ooligan Press
  • Contact Us
  • Donate to Ooligan Press
  • The Graduate Program
  • Submission Guidelines
  • Ooligan Blog

Sign up for the Ooligan Press Mailing List

Subscribe
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

Search Ooligan

Copyright © 2017 | Ooligan Press