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Small Presses and Local Niches

By Kristin Choruby

July 17, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Small Presses and Local Niches

In the world of publishing, the big houses have a reputation of attracting as large and general a readership as possible. Large publishers often exclude books that are primarily of local interest, books that recount some quirk of local history or the current trends in the region. Some writers have resorted to the difficult and […]

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“Untangling the Knot” Author Casey Plett on Small Press Publishing and the Art of Writing

By Dory Athey

March 13, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

“Untangling the Knot” Author Casey Plett on Small Press Publishing and the Art of Writing

Ooligan Press will release Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity in February of this year. What began as an anthology of queer narratives from the Pacific Northwest has become a nationwide collection that explore the concepts of marriage equality as it comes to a head in the national political dialogue. In […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: A Safe Girl to Love, Casey Plett, McSweeney’s, Pacific Northwest, Topside Press, Untangling the Knot

The New Cookbook: This Is Not Fannie Farmer!

By Zack Eggemeyer

November 6, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

This past week in Portland, Ooligan brought the city another installment of its ongoing conversation series, Transmit Culture. The topic: Food Writing and Publishing. A food-focused panel of professionals from the publishing world gave their time to clue in the audience about current trends. The panel offered up many insights about what food writing might […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Breanna Goodrow, cookbook, cookbooks, El Bulli, Food Network, food writing, Greg Mowery, Marnie Hanel, Momofuku, ooligan press, Pacific Northwest, Pok Pok, Portland, Transmit Culture, Travel Channel

Summer Reading List Part Three: Books You Should Not Be Reading This Summer

By Rebekah Hunt

August 22, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

In view of the spectacular success of my first two summer reading list blogs (we’re talking Facebook likes in the upper threes, people), I feel I would be remiss in not cramming one more in before the back to school sales end and the leaves start to change. You people seem to love when I […]

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Unique Ink: Roosevelt High School’s Student-Run Publishing Program

By Ooligan Press

July 22, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

by Rebekah Hunt   This summer term, I had the immense pleasure of participating in Ooligan’s collaboration with Roosevelt High School’s Unique Ink Publishing program. Organized by the incomparable Dennis Stovall, the program is a symbiosis between Ooligan students and groups of students from RHS, in which we help them create, design, edit, publish, and market […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Art, Business, creative marketing, nonfiction, Ooligan, Pacific Northwest, poetry, portland state university, publishing, Roosevelt High School, short fiction, teaching, Unique Ink

Susan Parr Guest Poet Post: “Flight from Fancy”

By Ooligan Press

July 4, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

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 Susan Parr, a poet from Seattle, WA. Please enjoy her post! The Flight from Fancy That secret shake and cloak—the pen-name (or ‘anon’)—reads at […]

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