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Wax On, Wax Off

By William York

June 24, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Wax On, Wax Off

We were severely late, and the production room was a madhouse. The editorial staff was hugging the walls, having learned—for their own safety—to stay out of the way of the creative team. Like a scene out of a Bruce Lee movie, the production team was racing and lunging in and out between the numerous large […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: adventure, Graphic Arts, history, Manhattan, New York, Printing, publishing

Graduate Insight: An Interview with Kait Heacock

By Corinne Gould

August 21, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Graduate Insight: An Interview with Kait Heacock

As a 2012 Ooligan graduate, Kait Heacock has made a graceful transition from the Portland publishing scene to Overlook Press in NYC. She is a fiction writer and works as a book publicist. She has been published in the Portland Review, Tin House’s Open Bar blog, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Sunday Stories section, among other […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: books, New York, Ooligan, Overlook Press, publishing, Reading, writing

Interview with Mary Breaden, Ooligan Alum

By Andrew Fitzgerald

May 2, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Interview with Mary Breaden, Ooligan Alum

I introduce to you, Mary Breaden, an Ooligan Press alum who graduated from our program in 2013. During this time, she founded a website called PDXX Collective, which is dedicated to showcasing women writers. She also helped publish Wax Bullet War, which is our most recently launched title. Since graduating, she held various jobs around […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: alumni, interview, Jobs, Mary Breaden, Mediabistro, New York, PDXX Collective

Poetry’s Alive in Portland

By Ryan Kauffman

November 14, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Poetry’s Alive in Portland

This past Sunday, November 10th, local poets John Beer and Zachary Schomburg came together for a reading and conversation at the Literary Arts event space here in downtown Portland. They brought Joshua Beckman along for the ride, another accomplished poet who splits his time between Seattle and New York. The event was well-attended with the […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Black Ocean Press, communities, Fjords Vol. 1, John Beer, Joshua Beckman, Literary Arts, New York, Octopus Books, poetry, Portland, portland state university, PSU, Scary No Scary, Seattle, The Inside of an Apple, The Man Suit, Wave Books, writing, Zachary Schomburg

Kickstarter Pedal Powered: Marketing by Bike

By Lauren Hudgins

October 14, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

After journeying around the world with her two young sons, Rebekah Tyler plunged into the world of self-publishing with a successful Kickstarter campaign for her memoir, Full Tilt. She popularized herself while traveling around northern New Zealand by bike, with a cart advertising her book trailing behind her. For those who are unfamiliar with New […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: creative marketing, Ellen Degeneres, Full Tilt, Kickstarter, Kickstarter Campaign, London, Marketing, marketing by bike, Mothers' Day, New York, New Zealand, Pearl District, Portland, Powell's, Rebekah Tyler, Shasta Kearns, Wordstock

Lilija Valis Guest Poet Post

By Lilija Valis, guest author

May 16, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Lilija Valis Guest Poet Post

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Lilija Valis, a poet from Vancouver, B.C. Please enjoy her post! POETRY FAMILY We are strangers among strangers. Even within our blood […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: 19th century, Afghanistan, Alive at the Center, Anna Akhmatova, Boston, British Columbia, Chinese poets, Cold Mountain, communities, Dead Poets society, Emily Dickinson, freedom, Freedom On the Fault Line, Hafiz, Han Shan, Han Shan Poetry Project, Heritage Grill, Hogan's Alley Open Readings, India, Lao Tzu, Latin America, Lilija Valis, Lithuania, love, Mother Nature, New England, New Westminister, New York, ooligan press, Opid Mandelstam, Pablo Neruda, Persia, Poet Laureate, Poetic Justice, poetry, Poetry Around the World, Poets Potluck, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Rumi, Russia, San Francisco, Tao Te Ching, The Condemned Man Ate A Hearty Meal, torture, Twisted Poets Literary Salon, Vancouver, World Poetry, Writers International Network, writing

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