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A Season of Change at Ooligan Press

By Rachel Howe

July 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Season of Change at Ooligan Press

The arrival of summer means that our second-year students, including managers, are graduating and moving on from the program, while our new incoming managers are wrapping up their training and preparing to take over their departments for the summer term of classes. It will be interesting to see how these different experiences, learning environments, and mentalities will influence the press in the future.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: changes, Covid, graduation, in-person classes, new managers, ooligan press, pandemic, remote learning, student-run press, students, Summer, training

Ooligan Press: Making Books, Designing Careers

By Scott Fortmann

May 1, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Press: Making Books, Designing Careers

My much-younger classmates at Ooligan are in a very different phase of life. They are exactly where I was thirty-five years ago: they are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives and how they want to start their careers. Ooligan gives these students a hands-on, immersive experience in the publishing process.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: accessible publishing, Authors, careers, hands-on, learning, Ooligan, purpose, skills, students, teaching, values

Instant Entertainment: Ebooks at the Library

By Bryn Kristi @bryncessk

September 12, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Instant Entertainment: Ebooks at the Library

So now you really can download the app, get a library card and borrow dozens of ebooks all without ever leaving your home.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: download ebooks, ebook apps, eBooks, ereader, free books, free ebooks, instant books, kids, Kindle, libraries, library, Multnomah County Library, overdrive, students

The Case for a Single Style Guide

By Kelly Hogan

April 30, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Case for a Single Style Guide

English is hard. According to the Oxford Royale Academy, it’s one of the top five most difficult languages in the world today. So why do we, as writers and especially as editors, accept making our jobs that much more difficult by using so many different style guides?

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: copyediting, copyeditors, edit, Editing, Editors, guides, students, style, writers, writing

We Belong in History at Broadway Books

By Kurt Spickerman

February 19, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

We Belong in History at Broadway Books

On February 12, We Belong in History: Writing with William Staffordwas honored with a reading at Broadway Books. Every seat in the house was full and, after a brief introduction by Michael Berliner, Kim Stafford entertained all in attendance with a story about his father’s attempt at writing an autobiography. It seems that Stafford discovered, […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Broadway Books, Emily Kendal Frey, event, Kim Stafford, poetry, Reading, students, We Belong in History, William Stafford

“We Belong in History” launch

By Ariana Vives

January 10, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

“We Belong in History” launch

Portland’s typical gloomy weather did little to stop Ooligan Press’s lively launch party at In Other Words Feminist Community Center for its latest title, We Belong in History: Writing with William Stafford. An in-house passion project, We Belong in History combines a selection of Stafford’s best work with submissions from Oregon’s finest student writers,

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Anushka N., launch party, Paulann Petersen, students, teacher, We Belong in History, William Stafford

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