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Ooligan Blog

Beyond Start to Finish

By Ooligan Press

April 22, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Interview with Eliot Treichel by Miranda Rabuck Ooligan’s innovative Start to Finish pages, which document a book’s progress from its acquisition to its launch, are valuable to our authors because they give them a behind-the-scenes look at the development of their books. Since many authors think of their books as their babies, the blogging that […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: book launch, Close is Fine, Daniel Kine, Editing, Eliot Treichel, Eugene, Marketing, ooligan press, Sam Bond's Garage, Stargazer, start to finish

26th Annual Oregon Book Awards

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April 19, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Kacie Peterson On the book front, there has been exciting news for some of Portland, Oregon’s best writers! The Oregon Book Awards were held this week on the night of Monday, April 8. The awards are a program held annually by Literary Arts, and this year marked their twenty-sixth anniversary. Many of Oregon’s finest […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Allen Say, award-winning books, Blue Thread, California, Cheryl Strayed, Crazy Enough, creative-nonfiction, Drawing From Memory, Gerding Theatre, Kent Hartman, Literary Arts, Oregon Book Awards, Portland, Readers Choice Award, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Simon and Garfunkel, Storm Large, The Beach Boys, The Ninth Day, The Wrecking Crew, Washington, Wild, YA Literature

Small Updates

By Becky Stevens

April 19, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

I don’t have much to update this week—but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening. The marketing plan and tip sheet for We Belong in History are complete, and the Design department has started work on the cover. And (most importantly!) Oregon’s students are hard at work creating amazing content for us to show off. […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: books, Ooligan, poetry, submissions, We Belong in History, William Stafford

Susan McCaslin Guest Poet Post: “The Han Shan Poetry Project: How Poetry Came to Save a Rainforest”

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April 18, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Susan McCaslin, a poet from Fort Langley, BC. An earlier version of this piece was first published in the March 2013 […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: Alive at the Center, Alive at the Center: Featured Poet, Art in the Park, Australia, BC Book Prize, British Columbia, California, China, Cold Mountain, Earth Day, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Great Spotted Frog, Han Shan Poetry Project, Langley, New Mexico, ooligan press, Pacific Water Shrew, Poet Laureate, poetry, rainforest, Susan McCaslin, Sustainable forests, Thanksgiving, The Opus Women's Choir, township, turkey, United Kingdom, University of Alberta Press, Vancouver Island, Watchers Of Langley Forests, www.susanmccaslin.ca

The Truth is Out There: Fact Checking in Editing

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April 15, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt There are a lot of things that are considered to be common knowledge. For example, did you know that karaoke is Japanese for tone-deaf? Did you know that Mr. Rogers was a Navy SEAL? Did you know that chewing gum takes seven years to pass through your digestive system? Well, unfortunately for […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: common knowledge, Editing, fact checking, Georgia, Golden Gate Bridge, Google+, information, magazine, Navy SEAL, newspaper, ooligan press, San Francisco, Star Trek, urban legends, writing

A Really Big Deal

By McKenzie Workman

April 13, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

On Monday, Ooligan author Ruth Tenzer Feldman won an Oregon Book Award for her first novel, Blue Thread. Published last year, Blue Thread has been a bestseller for Ooligan Press and has earned an impressive reputation among reviewers and readers in the Pacific Northwest. We have always been proud of Ruth and of Blue Thread, […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Blue Thread series, books, fiction, Ooligan, Oregon Book Awards, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, The Ninth Day

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