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Please join us for our Fall 2020 Transmit Culture event, Own Voices in Children's Publishing. We are excited to announce our three guests for our panel discussion: DongWon Song, literary agent at Howard Morhaim; Bryan Parker, author, illustrator, and publisher at Believe in Wonder; and Kyle Sullivan, publisher at Hazy Dell Press. Our panelists will engage in a discussion led by Ooligan Acquisitions Manager Jen Ladwig about current events in children's publishing, the changing nature of the publishing landscape in 2020, and the ways they have worked to foster diversity, representation, and positive social change through children's books. The event will be held remotely via Zoom on November 12 from 7:00–8:00 p.m. PST. Register here for a link to the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQuoLuw6ynNqPgx9_8DTKgu7TY769dsf7qHgRuQ-twWxeK3A/viewform?usp=sf_link We hope to…
New Show Format: Panel Discussion FREE on YouTube at 7:30pm PDT feat. Dirty Lola, Stella Harris, Reba Sparrow and more! From vanilla to kinky, queer to straight, and everything in between, a night at The Mystery Box Show brings you tales of one-night stands, explorations into fetish, awkward first times, dark fantasies come true, and much much more. Storytellers have included bestselling authors, nationally touring comedians, adult film industry veterans, theatre professionals, sex toy experts, members from the kink community, students and people from all walks of life. Nothing here is too raw, too sweet, too strange, or too deep; it's all about the sex, and all about the story.
CARLOS MOTTA: HISTORY'S BACKROOMS / BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION WITH ARTIST & GUESTS Co-presented with P.P.O.W. Gallery Tuesday, December 8, 2020 / 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM EST Live-stream at picatv.org / Register in advance here / Closed-Captioned FREE / Donations will be shared among PICA, Pueblo Unido, and Voz Workers' Rights Education Project Carlos Motta–whose exhibition We Got Each Other's Back is currently on view at PICA–will be in conversation with special guests to mark the publication of History's Backrooms (Skira, 2020), the first comprehensive monograph of his work documenting nearly 20 years of the leading Colombian artist's interdisciplinary practice and prolific career exploring alternative and marginalized narratives, identities, communities, and their social and political contexts. Guest panelists Hendrik Folkerts (Dittmer Curator…
OSU Press History Showcase, Presented by the Authors History is always in the making at Oregon State University Press. As this historic year winds to a close, we’ve gathered together the authors of four books published in 2020 that deepen our understanding of and broaden our perspective on Oregon’s past. This sampling of new books explores the agricultural landscape of the hops plant, the underappreciated art of Clifford Gleason, one woman’s fight for racial equity in the U.S. Forest Service, and the emergence of the Pacific Northwest as a global economic force. Prior registration is not required to attend this program. Ability Accommodation Information This event provides the following accommodations: Handicap Accessible Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service…
Paths to publishing careers are so varied that it's impossible to say there is a "traditional" path. In this Winter 2021 installment of the Transmit Culture event series, members from our Advisory Board will be talking about how to empower yourself and others in publishing, sharing their career paths and challenges, mentorship opportunities, and offering advice for others wanting to enter the publishing industry. Featuring: -Leah Altman - Developmental Manager of Native Arts & Cultures Foundation -Seth Dellon - Director of Strategic Development at Publishers Weekly -Michele Cobb - Forte Business Consulting, PubWest, and Audio Publishers Association -Brian O'Leary - Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group -DongWon Song - Literary Agent at Howard Morhaim Literary We hope to see you on Wednesday, February…
Celebrate twenty years of Ooligan Press by joining us for a panel discussion featuring some of our fabulous alumni to learn about the many different career possibilities for graduates of the book publishing program. Panelists include Jenny Kimura, YA book designer at Little, Brown; Dory Athey, who just hung out a shingle for a boutique marketing firm in Minnesota, having marketed for Counterpoint/Softskull (she's also a zine maker); Lisa Hein, an editor working in production at U. Chicago Press; and Kate Barnes, who is an ebook producer at W. W. Norton. Register for the event here: https://forms.gle/onYwabefbeTXHA2i9
Do you dream of having in-depth discussions with your favorite authors about their latest books? Join a panel of Electric Literature’s veteran interviewers—Tyrese Coleman, J.R. Ramakrishnan, and Arriel Vinson—to learn how the professionals do it. How do you pitch an interview to a publication and get the author to agree to talk to you? What are the secrets of crafting great interview questions—and how do you avoid the ones that thud? How do you get your conversation with the author to really flow—and if it does flow freely, is there any way to make transcribing less arduous? Our panel will dig into all of these questions and more. Moderated by Preety Sidhu. Q&A to follow.
You know you want to publish a book—but you're not sure how to take the first step, or even what the first step is. (“Write the manuscript,” obviously, right? Well, no, not always!) Agent DongWon Song (Howard Morhaim), nonfiction editor Rakia Clark (HMH), fiction editor Angeline Rodriguez (Orbit), and marketing director Meghan Deans (Ecco) open up the black box of publishing and walk you through the steps between “good idea” and “physical book you can sign.” Learn what to expect, what will be expected of you, what to watch out for, and how to prepare yourself to navigate the publishing world. Moderated by Jess Zimmerman. Q&A to follow.
First impressions count—and they never count more than when you’re trying to impress an editor who has 1,500 submissions to read. Editors often say that they can tell within the first page whether a story will be worth accepting, so how do you make your first page really shine? Eavesdrop on our evaluation process—and vie to get your story noticed—with Recommended Reading editors Halimah Marcus and Brandon Taylor. They’ll be reading opening pages submitted just for the occasion, sharing their reactions and thought processes as they go. Submit your own first page anonymously to see if your story has what it takes to catch our editors’ eyes, or simply tune in to see how other writers fare. Submission instructions: You can find the link to…