Join us in an extravaganza of indie presses, printmaking, artist books, lit journals, and zines! The Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival's second annual Small Press Fair takes place all day Saturday, April 19, from 10 AM to 5 PM, in Hamilton Smith Hall's atrium. The Fair will include the following presses (and more!)
Cape Code Review provides a well-needed outlet for strengthening the creative writing community that exists past the greater Boston area on Cape Cod (why should Boston have all the journals anyway?). We aim to connect the disconnected writer with open mics, launches, workshops, and better built bridges with writing community. Our publications not only showcase the talent of local Cape Cod writers but also aim to give voice to concerns that are specific to the unique social/political/geological landscape of the area, all while pushing outwardly toward national and international poetics.
Website: http://www.capecodpoetryreview.com
Founded in 2017, Game Over Books is a small Boston-based press run by nerdy artists. Our mission? Print books from diverse voices that push creative writing forward into the Next Level. From acceptance to publication, we give continual guidance to writers as they continue to gain experience points, grow their craft, and navigate the world of publishing.
Website: https://www.gameoverbooks.com
Plan B Press is a small independent publishing company that produces high-quality, limited-run poetry chapbooks. Our primary focus is to publish authors at the beginning of their careers (first through third books - any type of book) and to create books that are visually appealing, combining imagery and words, and packaging the collections as a completed thought. Plan B Press also emphasizes the plastic nature of poetry by encouraging collaboration with artists from other mediums beyond traditional form.
Website: https://www.planbpress.com
Originally created in 2009 by MFA students from the University of New Hampshire, Barnstorm Journal is celebrating 15 years of publishing some of the best personal essays, short stories, poetry and visual art. Barnstorm loves work that's playful, takes risks, and harnesses energy. In spirt of this, the journal is currently holding a contest for hybrid work to announce our new submission category! This contest, consisting of a monetary prize, runs until April 26th with no entry fee.
Website: www.barnstormjournal.org
Bauhan Publishing is an independent publisher in Peterborough, New Hampshire. We focus mostly on New England regional books in the areas of poetry, history, art, nature studies, and memoir, as well as venturing into thoughtful books that explore sustainability of both the earth and the spirit. In 2012, we established the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, a prize celebrating the centenary of May Sarton (1912-1995), who lived for many years in nearby Nelson, NH. Bill Bauhan published her poetry book As Does New Hampshire—May’s love letter to the town of Nelson and its people—in 1967. The poetry contest is open to all and has a new judge every year who reads every manuscript. This past year’s winner is Heather Treseler, whose book Auguries & Divinations has just been released. Check out her workshop with Anthony Walton at this year’s Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival!
Website: https://bauhanpublishing.com
bottle rockets press mainly focuses on a number of Japanese poetic forms such as haiku, senryu, tanka,haiga and short western style poems. Its magazine, bottle rockets: a collection of short verse is the longest running continuous haiku magazine under one editorship in the United States. The staff is celebrating its 25th year in print! Its contributors have ranged from poets such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Ann Waldman to lesser known, but equally worthy poets that you might bump into at a neighborhood reading or café.
brp also publishes single-author poetry books, as well as, a series of anthologies on fireflies, cats, birds, flowers, and amusement parks.
Part of the brp mission statement is to publish books that explore the human condition from a multitude of perspectives. bottle rockets is including in its pages a new section that will explore haiku art, book art, letterpress printing, book making, and poetry poster/ broadsides. bottle rockets press encourages art, thinking, questioning, and activism to be incorporated into our daily lives and promote all types of peace.
Website: bottlerocketspress.com
Founded in 1997, Perugia Press is a nonprofit feminist press that publishes one beautifully designed book each year: the winner of the Perugia Press Prize, our annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women. Our mission is to support and promote women poets, including all gender-expansive definitions of that term, in print and beyond. We aim to expand the audience for poetry by making books that welcome longtime readers of poetry and those new to poetry. We celebrate our poets, and poetry, whenever we can, through social media, and at local, regional, and national book fairs, readings, and events. We also maintain resources for educators who would like to incorporate our books into their curricula.
Website: https://perugiapress.org
Now in our 20th year, Slate Roof Press is member-run and committed to publishing the best new voices in poetry with a focus on Massachusetts and regional poets. While addressing a range of material, our chapbooks are emotionally, intellectually, and musically rich. Slate Roof chapbooks are designed by the poets themselves, and feature letterpress covers, special papers, and hand-sewn bindings.
Website: http://www.slateroofpress.com
Zephyr Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing house founded in 1980 specializing in bilingual books of poetry from generally underrepresented cultures. We like to say that we serve as a bridge between cultures. Our books have won or been short-listed for the Griffin Prize, the National Book Critics Circle award, the Harold Morton Landon Award, and the Heldt Prize, among other accolades. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova was named one of the best books of its year by the New York Times.
Website: www.zephyrpress.org
At Maxella Designs, we specialize in handcrafted gifts and accessories for all! This weekend, we’ll be bringing tons of handmade crochet plushies, one of a kind jewelry, and fun accessories.
Website: https://www.maxelladesignsstudio.com
Squirrels, foxes, naked ladies from the swamp. It's all fair game. Public school teacher-powered Squirrel Nest Press is about printing on sustainable materials and promoting a sustainable lifestyle. For us, that's not so much individual actions but about burning down systems that don't work any more. It's about education, so we can repair and build better systems together. It's about paper and ink.
Instagram: @bethanymclarke
Hi! We are The Whole Knit and Kaboodle! We are a queer-owned shop that specializes in handmade crochet items and original art prints/stickers. Our crochet products are primarily stuffed animals, but also include home decor, bags, clothing, and jewelry. Our overall vibe is cute, cozy and eccentric! We hope for our products to bring joy to our customers above all else!
Website: https://www.wholeknitncaboodle.com