Chapbook Confab; readings at Chop Suey

What: Chapbook and Small Press Reading and Panel Discussion Admission: Free On Sun., Jan. 20, from 1-5 p.m., Chop Suey Books will host a Chapbook Conference in our upstairs gallery. Poet Liz Canfield has organized this event and has gathered a number of poets and fiction writers who will read from their chapbooks (a small, limited edition […]

January 9, 2008; 12:11 PM • by FTRea

What: Chapbook and Small Press Reading and Panel Discussion
Admission: Free

On Sun., Jan. 20, from 1-5 p.m., Chop Suey Books will host a Chapbook Conference in our upstairs gallery. Poet Liz Canfield has organized this event and has gathered a number of poets and fiction writers who will read from their chapbooks (a small, limited edition publication of an authors work, usually self-published or printed at a small press).

This event seeks to celebrate independent publishing and to showcase writers who have published with small presses. A panel discussion will follow the reading and will include a conversation about how to get published, the benefits of working with small, independent presses, DIY publishing, and how to start/run a small, independent press. Chop Suey Books will also feature chapbooks and small publications by the authors who are reading and presenting.

Some of the readers/presenters include: Joshua Poteat, whose chapbook, Meditations, won the Poetry Society of America’s 2004 National Chapbook Award, and whose full-length book of poems, Ornithologies, won the 2004 Anhinga Poetry Prize; Allison Titus, whose chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal , winner of the 2007 Bateau Press Chapbook Prize; Nathan Long, who has won a number of fellowships and whose chapbook is published by the local press, Popular Ink; Susan Settlemyre Williams, the author of Ashes in Midair, winner of the 2007 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2008), and whose chapbook, Possession, came out through Finishing Line Press in 2007; Nan Byrne, poet and fiction writer, and editor of the collection Bar Stories (Bottom Dog Press, 2007); Lee Capps, local fiction writer, whose story appears in Bar Stories; and Dan Abergotti, whose book, The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), was selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; among other local/traveling poets and fiction writers.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

When: Sun., Jan. 20, 2008, 1-5 p.m.
Where: Chop Suey Books, 1305 W. Cary St. (Cary and Randolph Sts.)
More info: info@chopsueybooks.com; Liz Canfield (liz.canfield@gmail.com)

– This notice was provided by Ward Tefft, owner/proprietor of Chop Suey Books

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