Ooligan Press is proud to announce our upcoming title: the thought-provoking, skin-crawl-inducing, non-cannibalism-condoning novel Odsburg by Matt Tompkins, to be released October 29th.
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Book Sales, Or Math for English Majors
By Grace Evans @gracemalizia
Sit in a room full of English majors long enough, and you’ll eventually hear someone groan, “Ugh… math.” The topic may be differential calculus or how to split the tab, but the sentiment is always the same. Why, the lover of words bemoans, do we have to take a break from talking about books to do things with numbers?
Ooligan in the World
By Grace Evans @gracemalizia & Elizabeth Hughes @elizabig
From intimate readings to established conferences and book festivals, we’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months arranging opportunities for the world—at least our Pacific Northwest corner of it—to meet our books and their authors. There have been plenty of volunteer schedules to fill, promotional marketing and social media posts to plan, and boxes of books to cart to and fro. In return for that work, we’ve watched our authors delight and charm audiences while their books are admired, applauded, and carried away to new homes. So where in the world have we found Ooligan authors this fall?
From the Missions to the Sea: Driving the Path of the Missoula Flood with Cataclysms on the Columbia as a Guide
By Brian Tibbetts BRIANRTIBBETTS
There are many places in the world where one can see the dramatic effects of cataclysmic events carved into the face of the earth, if one knows how to look. Eastern Washington is one such place, and the revised second edition of Cataclysms On the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods will show you where and […]
40 Years of Poetry Publishing
By Alexandra Haehnert
Founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, William O’Daly, and Jim Gautney, Copper Canyon Press started out selling hand-bound, letterpressed limited editions of poetry books out of the trunks of their cars. Today, over forty years later, with nearly 500 poetry titles under its belt and operating out of a white clapboard house in […]
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 […]