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Birthing a KidLit Event: The Seattle Children’s Book Festival

By Nif Lindsay

July 31, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Birthing a KidLit Event: The Seattle Children’s Book Festival

Launching a KidLit Festival requires a lot of work, planning, and risk-taking—even for a UNESCO City of Literature like Seattle. But how can success be measured?

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: book festival, bookfest, children's book event, kidlit, kidlit event, kidlit fest, litevent, litfest, litfest launch, Ooligan at large, pnw book events, Seattle, Seattle Children's Book Festival, starting an event

Surprise! Amazon Opens a Brick-and-Mortar Store

By Maeko Bradshaw makosharkattack

March 4, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Surprise! Amazon Opens a Brick-and-Mortar Store

Picture this: You sit down with your morning coffee and routinely check your social media site of choice—in this case Twitter. Lo and behold, the trending topic of that dreary November morning is none other than (surprise!) Amazon’s new brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, Washington. Your heart sinks, and suddenly that morning coffee doesn’t quite taste […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, books, bookstores, brick-and-mortar, independent, Ooligan, Publishing industry, purchases, Reading, Seattle

Comics Events Two Ways: Emerald City Comicon and Linework NW offer different experiences for fans, creators

By Bess Pallares besspallares

September 2, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Comics Events Two Ways: Emerald City Comicon and Linework NW offer different experiences for fans, creators

Within just a few weeks of each other, two comics-related events were held this spring in Seattle and Portland, offering different opportunities for fans and creators alike to celebrate nerd culture and embrace comic art and illustration. As a comics fan and editor, I was excited to have easier access to comics conventions after moving […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: cartooning, Comic Books, Comic-Con, comics, ECCC, Emerald City Comicon, illustration, Linework, Linework NW, Portland, Seattle

Backlist to the Future: Dreams of the West

By Tyler Mathieson

November 14, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Backlist to the Future: Dreams of the West

With the release date of Ooligan’s upcoming book, tentatively titled Mastersounds, quickly approaching, we prepare to once again look at how our cultural history has shaped this place we call home. Mastersounds will show the rich history of jazz throughout the Pacific Northwest with a specific focus on Seattle and Portland. This new text, written […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future Tagged With: Backlist to the Future, CCBA, Chinese, Dreams of the West, history, jazz, Lynn Darroch, Mastersounds, oregon historical society, Pacific NW, Portland, Seattle

The Wax Bullet War Summer Tour: Sean Davis Reads at Third Place Books in Seattle

By Ryan W. Brewer

September 17, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Wax Bullet War Summer Tour: Sean Davis Reads at Third Place Books in Seattle

Big things are happening for The Wax Bullet War this summer! It’s Sean Davis’s August readings blitz. During the first week of the month alone, Sean had four readings scheduled in ten days, in cities all over the Pacific Northwest: Bend, Seattle, Tacoma, and then back home to Portland. I recently had the pleasure of […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Allison Green, Marketing, publicity, readings, Sean Davis, Seattle, The Wax Bullet War, Third Place Books

Ooligan Press at AWP: A Review

By Keely Burkey

March 5, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Press at AWP: A Review

Greetings, all! As many of you probably know, Ooligan Press recently attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, and there’s a lot to report. It was a great experience for everyone involved: Ooligan Press, Portland State’s book publishing program, and all of us hooligans who trekked up north […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: AWP, future, ooligan press, publishing, Seattle, transmedia, trends

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