Hooray for Brad Flis!
1913 Press congratulates Brad Flis, whose most excellent manuscript “Strong Suits” has been selected by the editors for publication in 2012. And a HUGE thanks to the many fabulous writers who also submitted their work to the 1913 Press Open Reading Period in 2011.
Under Consideration...still!
If you submitted to 1913 a journal of forms' Issue 6...your work is STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION (unless you have been notified otherwise)!
Many many thanks for everyone's patience as we continue reading yr work with care...
Many many thanks for everyone's patience as we continue reading yr work with care...
Reviews of Home/Birth!
Check out this review of our fantastic "Home/Birth" (Greenberg & Zucker) in the excellent lil mag Bellevue Literary Review:
Plus a new paper review in lovely Lilith!
Plus a new paper review in lovely Lilith!
Jane Lewty interview @ Make mag!
Our love goes out to the lovely & brilliant Jane Lewty...check out her interview @ Make mag & get ready fr her 1913 debut!
1913's 1st Book Results, selected by Fanny Howe!
Dear wonderfuls,
I am thrilled to announce the results of 1913's 1st book reading period, selected by Fanny Howe:
-Jane Lewty's Bravura Cool
-Nathaniel Otting's Why Not Pass Easily Through Another's Life--A Book of Hours; or Another Wrong Book
Both fantastically amazing books will be published by 1913 Press in 2012.
It's inane to say how many fabulous manuscripts were submitted...yet it's true. I am humbled to have had the chance to personally read all of them--so much good stuff!--& I'm feeling buoyed by the direction of new writing...there was so much to love & so much wild uncategorizable excellent goings-on!
We'd especially like to single out the remarkable finalists, below:
-Alexandra Mattraw's honest as any treeless place
-Sara Mumolo's You Invent the Weapon I Touch You With
-Matthew Nye's Pike and Bloom
-Amarnath Ravva's American Canyon
-Aisha Sloan's Resolution in Bearing
-Colin Winnette's Ink
-Carolyn Zaikowski's A Child is Being Killed
Big congrats to the many of you whose books were selected for publication elsewhere along the way--& big thanks to those of you who let us know in advance!
Mine, Fanny's, & 1913's gratitude to all those who submitted...
yrs,
sandra/1913.
I am thrilled to announce the results of 1913's 1st book reading period, selected by Fanny Howe:
-Jane Lewty's Bravura Cool
-Nathaniel Otting's Why Not Pass Easily Through Another's Life--A Book of Hours; or Another Wrong Book
Both fantastically amazing books will be published by 1913 Press in 2012.
It's inane to say how many fabulous manuscripts were submitted...yet it's true. I am humbled to have had the chance to personally read all of them--so much good stuff!--& I'm feeling buoyed by the direction of new writing...there was so much to love & so much wild uncategorizable excellent goings-on!
We'd especially like to single out the remarkable finalists, below:
-Alexandra Mattraw's honest as any treeless place
-Sara Mumolo's You Invent the Weapon I Touch You With
-Matthew Nye's Pike and Bloom
-Amarnath Ravva's American Canyon
-Aisha Sloan's Resolution in Bearing
-Colin Winnette's Ink
-Carolyn Zaikowski's A Child is Being Killed
Big congrats to the many of you whose books were selected for publication elsewhere along the way--& big thanks to those of you who let us know in advance!
Mine, Fanny's, & 1913's gratitude to all those who submitted...
yrs,
sandra/1913.
SPD White Sale
hey hey hey
summer is hot & SPD is having a white sale. this is exciting for you b/c it means you can get lots of titles with white covers for 40% off, including 1913 titles 1913 Issue 5 & Hg-The Liquid by Ward Tietz, AND Fence title Dead Ahead by Ben Doller.
sweet summery deal. and don't forget to submit for issue six.
Now Reading for Issue 6!
We are now reading for Issue 6 from June 15 through September 15! Please submit via Submishmash. You may submit any form of work, in any form. Evident familiarity with 1913 is a plus. There is a nominal $2.00 reading fee, for which we apologize in advance. Please contact 1913press@gmail.com with any questions.
You can see the fab work that we've already published in Issues 1 and 2, available here and here as PDFs.
You can see the fab work that we've already published in Issues 1 and 2, available here and here as PDFs.
1913 @ Boog City in NYC Tuesday 6/28!
Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press...
1913 Press
FREE!
Event will be hosted by 1913 founder and editrice Sandra Doller
Featuring readings from:
Claire Donato
Ben Gocker
Lucy Ives
Jeff Johnson
and music from Dorit and Friends
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
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**1913 Press
http://www.journal1913.org/
Founded in 2003 by l’editrice Sandra Doller, 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press are committed to publishing the baddest in poetry, poetics, prose, and their intersections with the arts of all forms in handsome book-as-art-objet fashion.
**Claire Donato
http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com/
Claire Donato writes across genres; lives in Brooklyn; and has taught at Hunter College, The New School, Brown University, and 826 Valencia/NYC. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and Octopus. She holds an M.F.A. in literary arts from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. In August, she will be in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, N.Y.
**Dorit and Friends
http://www.doritworld.com/
Dorit is a singer songwriter, actor and Middle Eastern Dancer. Also a very proud native New Yorker.
She is currently working on two different music projects. One is her debut solo album hopefully to be completed by August. The second is an E.P. for the hard rock band she is lead vocalist for. This acoustic show will feature original songs from both projects. Joining her will be Chris Medrano and James Gillespie.
Please check out her youtube video and original song tribute to her childhood hero Wonder Woman.
And for more information and updates about both projects please visit the above url.
**Ben Gocker
Ben Gocker was born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Bushwick and works for the Brooklyn Public Library.
**Lucy Ives
Born in New York City, Lucy Ives is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems and criticism have appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, The Colorado Review, Fence, Ploughshares, Verse, n+1 online, and Wave Books' The Bedazzler. Ives is the author of a chapbook, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at NYU. She lives in Bushwick with her husband, Ben Gocker, with whom she ran the reading series Poetry Time.
**Jeff T. Johnson
Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT,Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, is the poetry editor at LIT, and is an editor at Dewclaw.
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Directions:
C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
1913 Press
FREE!
Event will be hosted by 1913 founder and editrice Sandra Doller
Featuring readings from:
Claire Donato
Ben Gocker
Lucy Ives
Jeff Johnson
and music from Dorit and Friends
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
------
**1913 Press
http://www.journal1913.org/
Founded in 2003 by l’editrice Sandra Doller, 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press are committed to publishing the baddest in poetry, poetics, prose, and their intersections with the arts of all forms in handsome book-as-art-objet fashion.
**Claire Donato
http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com/
Claire Donato writes across genres; lives in Brooklyn; and has taught at Hunter College, The New School, Brown University, and 826 Valencia/NYC. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and Octopus. She holds an M.F.A. in literary arts from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. In August, she will be in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, N.Y.
**Dorit and Friends
http://www.doritworld.com/
Dorit is a singer songwriter, actor and Middle Eastern Dancer. Also a very proud native New Yorker.
She is currently working on two different music projects. One is her debut solo album hopefully to be completed by August. The second is an E.P. for the hard rock band she is lead vocalist for. This acoustic show will feature original songs from both projects. Joining her will be Chris Medrano and James Gillespie.
Please check out her youtube video and original song tribute to her childhood hero Wonder Woman.
And for more information and updates about both projects please visit the above url.
**Ben Gocker
Ben Gocker was born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Bushwick and works for the Brooklyn Public Library.
**Lucy Ives
Born in New York City, Lucy Ives is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems and criticism have appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, The Colorado Review, Fence, Ploughshares, Verse, n+1 online, and Wave Books' The Bedazzler. Ives is the author of a chapbook, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at NYU. She lives in Bushwick with her husband, Ben Gocker, with whom she ran the reading series Poetry Time.
**Jeff T. Johnson
Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT,Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, is the poetry editor at LIT, and is an editor at Dewclaw.
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Directions:
C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
1913 Reads Again. Anybook. Anygenre. May.
May might be grey, but don't let that get you down. 1913 is reading again, oh my.
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE! Please submit your work via the submission button below. There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller. Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions. 1913press@gmail.com
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE! Please submit your work via the submission button below. There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller. Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions. 1913press@gmail.com
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