About me: Small Press Distribution is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. Our goal is to connect readers with writers. We believe that our diverse culture must be served by an equally vibrant diversity of literature. We’re the only wholesaler in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. We distribute these small press books nationally and internationally. This makes us a great centralized source for interesting poetry, fiction and non-fiction you won’t hear about anywhere else.
On our myspace blog, you’ll hear about some of SPD’s public programs and advocacy efforts, newly arrived books, and the amazing writers who often visit our warehouse.
Hey SPD -- Just wanted to stop by to tell your readers and writer friends that we at Hidden River Arts have begun our 2008 reading cycle for the fiction and playwrighting competitions -- which offer $1,000 for each category's winner. Our website offers guidelines and application information, and can be found at: www. hiddenriverarts. com
Submissions are open April 1st for Going Down Swinging No.27. Send us your poetry, short fiction, comic and graphic art, and spoken word recordings. www. goingdownswinging. org. au/submissions for details. No.26 is available now in bookstores around Australia and from our website. Poetry, fiction, comic art, spoken word CD and special street art feature. 30 limited hardcover editions. Keep on swinging. Love GDS.
Dag. Last day at SPD. There is a cat ON my head eating my hair right now and there's bossa nova music playing. Truly a unique and loving workplace. SPD, it's been a pleasure and a privelage. I sure love you a lot.
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Keeping the world safe for poetry and poets cool beans, yes, La!
Up the Staircase has been launched! We are featuring writers such as Sophia Argyris, Tatevik Kurshudyan, Red Shuttleworth, Frank Reardon, Amanda Joy and more!
The marathon reading tonight is sure to be absolument faboo. I will be wearing a sweatband and running in place behind the Poetry Trading Post the whole time. I'm taking pledges.
Thanks so much for the add from the 7 yr. old author who's giving 50% of all the money I earn in scholarships for first-generation and low-income college students. I want to be known as an intelligent, loving, and brave young lady who teaches others by doing, while also letting my LOVE FOR GOD show in everything I do. Visit me on myspace. Be Blessed. Makya Stell, a.k.a. Tink-Tink
How quickly one year rolls by! This issue of TSP is our one-year anniversary issue, with feature author, Russell Rowland; feature poet, William Doreski; travel essay on Greece by Jeannie Sanders; and pages of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, book and cigar reviews, links and resources, and more. Visit TSP today to see why we have grown so quickly: A fine cigar and good literature, two of life's finest pleasures.
To submit your work for the spring issue, see our submission guidelines at THE SMOKING POET.
"The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
