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
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 […]
The New Cookbook: This Is Not Fannie Farmer!
By Zack EggemeyerThis 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 […]
Summer Reading List Part Three: Books You Should Not Be Reading This Summer
By Rebekah HuntIn 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 […]
Unique Ink: Roosevelt High School’s Student-Run Publishing Program
By Ooligan Pressby 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 […]
Susan Parr Guest Poet Post: “Flight from Fancy”
By Ooligan PressEvery 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 […]