We go down to Paradise City with Amorak Huey & Todd Kaneko discussing their Diode Editions chapbook SLASH / SLASH (part 1 of 2).

Amorak Huey’s fourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.  website: http://amorakhuey.net

W. Todd Kaneko is the author of the poetry books This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press 2021). He is co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. A Kundiman Fellow, he teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  website: https://toddkaneko.com

SLASH / SLASH by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/slash-slash-by-amorak-huey-w-todd-kaneko

POETRY: A Writer's Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poetry-9781350020153/

LOW BUDGET MOVIE by Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills* (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/low-budget-movie-by-kendra-decolo-tyler-mills

*DeColo & Mills appeared on episode 7 of THE CHAPBOOK, listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/715c6e1f

EQUILIBRIUM by Tiana Clark (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/equilibrium/

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We're back with new releases and submission opportunities in this July NEWS YOU CAN USE episode! 

Dive into these new titles and send out work to these upcoming submission deadlines!

Titles/Presses

BODYELECTRIC: Poems by Aerik Francis (Trouble Department): https://troubledepartment.com/?product=bodyelectronic-poems-by-aerik-francis-paperback-preorder

Blanket Sea Press: http://blanketsea.com

(title from episode--NEW & PERMANENT, Frances Klein)

Dancing Girl Press: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com

(title from episode--AGAIN THE GRASS AGAIN THE WIND, Sam Killmeyer)

Ethel: https://www.ethelzine.com

(title from episode--FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY, Joshua Burton)

Sundress Publications: http://www.sundresspublications.com

(title from episode--FOR THE JOY OF IT, Anais Peterson)

Cutbank: http://www.cutbankonline.org

(titles from episode--TEACHING ENGLISH LIT..., Craig Beaven; EACH LIE THAT POLLUTES..., Kevin West)

THE WALL WHERE YOU LEAVE ME by Martina Litty (Inch #51, Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/the-wall-where-you-leave-me-inch-51/

Submissions

DIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contest

RIVER GLASS BOOKS: https://riverglassbooks.com/submit/

GASHER: https://www.gasherjournal.com/submission

YELLOW ARROW PUBLISHING: https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions

RINKY DINK PRESS: https://rinkydinkpress.com/submission-guidelines/

Places that have submission databases

HEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/

DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunities

CHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.com

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Robin Miura, Senior Editor & Associate Publisher, from BLAIR PUBLISHING joins us to help answer a listener question about publishing material that's already been shared on the internet.

Robin Miura is Senior Editor and Associate Publisher at Blair and has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. She has worked with all types of books, but her passion is literary fiction and creative nonfiction. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine South Writ Large.

Blair Publishing: https://www.blairpub.com
Blair Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blairpub/
Blair Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlairPublisher
South Writ Large: https://southwritlarge.com

The Last Bookstore: https://www.lastbookstorela.com
Marie Manila author of THE PATRON SAINT OF UGLY: https://www.mariemanilla.com

Upcoming Blair titles (Fall 2022):

A GIRLHOOD: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
ATOMIC FAMILY, Ciera Horton McElroy
(I don't find links for these at the Blair site yet, so follow Blair on social media & keep an eye out for both!)

Ciera Horton McElroy website: https://www.cieramcelroy.com

Robin Miura twitter: https://twitter.com/robin_miura

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We get into all kinds of chapbook love with poet and educator Liz Ahl!

Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), Home Economics(Seven Kitchens Press, 2016), Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012), Luck(Pecan Grove Press, 2010), and A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Measure, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review. Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Books, 2020), Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press, 2018) and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017), among others. She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. She teaches writing at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Liz Ahl website: https://lizahl.com
Liz Ahl facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Liz-Ahl-220024568036054
Liz Ahl twitter:  https://twitter.com/SurlyAcres

Young Writer's Workshop/UVA: https://www.theyoungwriters.org

Ethel Chapbooks: https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooks

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It's the May NEWS YOU CAN USE episode with new releases, author & title recommendations, and calls for chapbook submissions!

BOOKS & AUTHORS

Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s chapbook, Notes from the Birth Year: https://bateaupress.org/index.php/chapbooks/notes-from-the-birth-year/ 

Joan Kwan Glass, website: https://joankwonglass.com
"What We Don't Say," at Rust+Moth: https://rustandmoth.com/work/what-we-dont-say/

If Rust Can Grow On The Moon, coming in June from Milk & Cake Press: https://milkandcakepress.com

Steve Henn, Guilty Prayer and American Male, from Main Street Rag: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?s=henn

Caroline M Mar, Dream of the Lake, from Bull City Press: https://bullcitypress.com/product/dream-of-the-lake-by-caroline-m-mar/

Benjamin Niespodziany, Pickpocket the Big Top, from Dark Hour Books:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/darkhourbooks
Niespodziany interview at Touch The Donkey: http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2022/05/ttd-supplement-214-seven-questions-for.html
Niespodziany online reading at David Has Zoom Pro Reading Series: https://twitter.com/DavidHasZoomPro
David Wojo, poet: https://twitter.com/MrWojoRising

Ae Hee Lee wins the Tupelo Dorset prize: https://www.tupelopress.org/2022/05/09/tupelo-press-announces-the-results-of-the-2022-dorset-prize/

SUBMISSIONS

Gasher https://www.gasherjournal.com/submission

Seven Kitchen Press https://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-allison-joseph-series/

Cutbank  http://www.cutbankonline.org/submissions-calendar

The Poetry Question https://thepoetryquestion.com/pamphlet-series-submission-guidelines/

Slapering Hol https://www.writerscenter.org/contest/

Bull City https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/chapbook-open-reading-period/

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Second time's a charm! In this episode, Hananah Zaheer--author of the flash collection LOVEBIRDS--chats flash fiction, reveals a secret about her chapbook, and offers timeless parenting advice. 

Hananah is a writer, editor, improvisor and photographer. 

She is the author of a flash chapbook Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). Other writing has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as The Cut, Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Waxwing,  AGNI, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong (Pushcart nomination), Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, South West Review, Alaska Quarterly Review (with a Notable Story mention in Best American Short Stories 2019) and Michigan Quarterly Review, where she won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction. She was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference for 2019,  was  a finalist for the Smoke Long Fellowship 2019, the Doris Betts' Fiction prize 2014 and a recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rivendell Writers' Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. 

She serves as a Fiction Editor for Los Angeles Review, and as senior editor for SAAG: a dissident literary anthology—a project that seeks to make space for radical and experimental South Asian art and writing. She is the founder of the Dubai Literary Salon, an international prose-reading series and a guest editor for SmokeLong Quarterly for Winter 2021-22. Currently, she is working on a novel.

Hananah is represented by Kent D. Wolf of Neon Literary. You can reach him at kent (at) neonliterary (dot) com. 

Website: http://www.hananahzaheer.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HananahZaheer
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hananahzaheer

Lovebirds (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/lovebirds-by-hananah-zaheer/

Sayaka Murata wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayaka_Murata

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In this second of two episodes, we round out our conversation about the dollars & cents of chapbook publishing.

PART ONE:
Glass Poetry Press
CLMP submission manager
Submittable submission manager
Unicorn Press
Bookmobile

PART TWO:
Small Press Distribution
PirateShip.com

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In this first of two episodes, we get into the dollars & cents of making and selling chapbooks.

Glass Poetry Press
CLMP submission manager
Submittable submission manager
Unicorn Press
Bookmobile

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
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We got you all set with April 2022's NEWS YOU CAN USE!

Links to items mentioned in this podcast:

SHUTTER by Taylor Byas from Madhouse Press
Host Publications
LOONEY by Dave Housley from HAD
Interview with Dave Housley
Glass Poetry chapbooks
Tram Editions
WHY I MISREAD A CLOUD by Emily Carlson Tupelo Press 2022 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award

Submissions:

/tƐmz/ Review
Two Sylvias Press
Slapering Hol Press
Homebound Publications

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
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In this episode we welcome Sara Moore Wagner to discuss her chapbook Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks).

Sara Moore Wagner is the author of two full length books of poetry, Swan Wife (winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize) and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript prize winner), a recipient of a 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. She is the author of the chapbooks Tumbling After (Redbird, 2022) and Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Nimrod, Western Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, and The Cincinnati Review, among others, and she has been nominated for multiple times for a Pushcart prize, for Best of the Net, and for Best New Poets. Her poetry has also been supported by a SAFTA residency, a merit scholarship from the Juniper Institute, and a scholarship to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival as a finalist for the Thomas Lux prize. She holds a BFA from BGSU, and an MA in literature from NKU, where she currently teaches Intro to Creative Writing.

She lives in West Chester, OH with her filmmaker husband Jon and their children, Daisy, Vivienne, and Cohen.

Sara Moore Wagner (website)
Sara Moore Wagner (twitter)
Tumbling After (Redbird Chapbooks)
"Her Kind" by Anne Sexton
Angela Carter
William Butler Yeats

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