September 2017 Dear Community, this month kicks off CLMP's 50th year. Please join me as we celebrate small! CLMP has been helping small literary publishers through the business of publishing, working to connect to them to one another and to you, for a remarkable five decades. We'll be officially celebrating on November 8th, with our "Pierogies from Heaven Gala," and we have a lot of special programming in the works throughout the year. First off, we've just launched a new CLMP blog, where we will share longer pieces and archival finds we've been digging up and saving just for you. We're also initiating some exciting new digital programming for CLMP publishers to allow even greater participation across our community. Lots of fabulous public programming will be coming up as well, so stay tuned for announcements, but do mark your calendar now for June 7, 2018, when we'll announce the next round of Firecracker Award-winning books and magazines. Whether you are a publisher, a writer, a lover of literature, or even all three, you are part of CLMP. We care deeply about our literary heritage remaining vibrant and diverse. That's why we do what we do here, working to keep our independent literary publishing community strong, and why your participation matters. We're counting on your support this anniversary year. Please help us continue to make it possible for the greatest diversity of remarkable writing to reach the greatest diversity of readers. CLMP exists to help small publishers strengthen and grow, and equally to help them stay small. By remaining independent, small publishers take risks that their larger counterparts frequently can't afford to, and that's so important. I thank you in advance for your support this anniversary year, and for sharing our passion for small! https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 1/10
Sincerely, Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director CELEBRATE SMALL at CLMP's FALL GALA https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 2/10
NEW! THE CLMP BLOG In celebration of our 50th anniversary year, we invite you to join us on the CLMP blog, a new digital platform for all things independent publishing. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 3/10
An extension of the news and commentary we provide you through Fresh Pressed, our monthly e-newsletter, the CLMP blog will feature an indepth look at the people, the places, the projects, and the shared values that hold our vibrant community together. Stay tuned for interviews, profiles, tidbits of publishing history, event recaps, exclusive looks at monographs from CLMP's resource library, and more. We look forward to connecting with you in this new way, and your feedback is always welcome. Below, you will find highlights from our most recent posts to the blog. Enjoy! CLMP Trustee James Sherry on CLMP's 50th Anniversary Forty years ago, I started Roof, a small press dedicated to publishing new writing. I lucked out and found a readymade generation of poets ready to revise the accepted standards of American verse culture. Today those writers have succeeded in establishing a firm profile in American poetry and literary institutions. James Sherry Read more. Jennifer Kitses on Landing an Agent at LWC}NYC Two years ago, I was in a classroom at the New School, waiting to meet agents in what's known as the "speed-dating" session. I was a little nervous, though maybe I shouldn't have been. This was my third time at the Literary Writers Conference. Read more. Jennifer Kitses LWC}NYC: LEARN HOW TO BE A PROFESSIONALLY PUBLISHED AUTHOR https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 4/10
CLMP's Literary Writers Conference } NYC will take place on December 7 & 8, 2017 at The New School in New York City. The conference for the serious writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, LWC}NYC focuses on the business of publishing. Learn how to maneuver in the marketplace as an informed, empowered, professional writer. Two days of workshops and discussions include two "working lunches" and opening lines, query letter, and "elevator speech" clinics; "Literary Agents 101" with Erin Harris, Anna Stein, and Renee Zuckerbrot; a "5 Under 30" showcase with National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas; "Publicity 101" with Nicole Dewey of the legendary PR firm Shreve Williams; and much more. Agent speed dating will connect you with Agent Speed Dating at LWC}NYC 2016. literary agents from Bradford Literary Agency, Don Congdon Associates, Fletcher & Company, Folio Literary Management, Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Jane Rotrosen Agency, Lotts Agency, Trident Media Group, Writers House, and other top literary agencies. Register now! Participation is limited to 100 writers. Featured speaker Jen Kitses on meeting her agent, Lisa Grubka, at LWC}NYC in 2015: "I mentioned a new idea I'd been considering, the story I hoped to write after I finally finished my crime novel. The agent's response surprised me. This new idea, she said, sounded like the kind of book she liked to read." Read the full essay here. REGISTER NOW FOR CLMP MEMBERS: VIRTUAL MISSION STATEMENT CLINCS CLMP Live! with Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 5/10
"In these clinics, each limited to six participants, we'll discuss what mission statements really do and how they can make a greater impact. Join me on October 18 as we workshop each of your mission statements, interrogating and fine-tuning them so that everyone who reads them can share your passion and know exactly why they should care about what you do." RSVP FOR CLMP LIVE WELCOME NEW CLMP MEMBERS Read on to learn about the newest members of the CLMP publishing community: Acre Books, a small-press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, publishes works of "poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and hybrid forms," and is "devoted in particular to finding, and bringing to a broad readership, remarkably talented newcomers." The press expects to publish four or five titles each year. Acre's officially stationed in the University of Cincinnati's English department, but Editor Nicola Mason describes the staff as "far-flung" with members also in Louisiana and Oregon. "Publishing runs in the family!" Nicole says of herself and her husband, who also works in publishing; they worked together at The Southern Review in the 90s. Acre's first publication, A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology, features work by prominent authors Julianna Baggott, Brock Clarke, and Rebecca Hazelton, among others. "A promotional volume that includes a wide array of voices, styles, and forms," the anthology serves as a stellar example of the high-caliber work Acre Books looks to publish. Forthcoming are a novel by Michael Downs, a debut story collection by Jenn Scott, and a poetry collection by T. R. Hummer. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 6/10
Arbor Farm Press, based in New Mexico, has published three books to date. The press looks for unique literary and nonfiction works and places "special emphasis on the design and production of beautiful books in print and/or digital editions." The Arbor Farm Press book Follow the River Home by Corran Harrington received the Best New Book in Fiction award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. Death Comes, a Willa Cather and Edith Lewis mystery by Sue Hallgarth, will be released on October 1st. Breathe Free Press, an online literary magazine dedicated to "resistance and awareness," features "essays that subvert imposed constraints of genre conventions" and that "transform and transgress meta narratives of authority and power structures." Founded just two days after President Trump was elected, Breathe Free Press aims to publish content that is not only outstanding in voice and content, but also in its courageousness "to resist the threat [Trump] poses to freedom, liberty, and democracy." Founder and Managing Editor Deborah Di Bari writes, "Mr. Trump's presidency is proving to be a catalyst for the literary community and the American community to wake the United States up to defend those freedoms we take for granted." Deborah manages Breathe Free Press from an office overlooking the East River. The magazine released its second issue this summer and welcomes essays from both emerging and established authors. Foundry, a poetry journal started just last year, publishes four issues per year and is "interested in poems as made things, and we are interested in their making." Poets featured in their journal have been nominated for the 2017 Best New Poets and awarded the Pushcart Prize. A statement from the journal reads: "Foundry publishes a range of styles and forms, from short lyric poems to prose poems and longer narratives. We are drawn to poems that feel as much as they think." Foundry celebrates their one year anniversary this month. Laird Unlimited Editorial Services LLP is a digital press focusing on poetry in translation. Translations Editor Susan Ye Laird works to promote https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 7/10
authors whose work champions cultural appreciation and the celebration of heritage, with an aim to bridge cultural divides "in this interesting time of ours." Laird Unlimited is an offshoot of Better Than Starbucks!, an online poetry magazine where Laird also works as a translations editor. Literary Mama, a magazine dedicated to "writing about the many faces of motherhood," started up in 2003 and publishes 10 issues per year, featuring pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Their all-volunteer staff has remote team members working in sixteen states and three countries, and has published the work of more than 1500 contributors. Editor-in-Chief Karna Converse writes, "Our goal is to share stories that move readers from the outside to the inside, from observation to empathy, and we love it when our readers have the same take-your-breathaway reaction to a piece that we did." Literary Mama strives to encompass all the various facets of motherhood in their work, and considers motherhood a lifelong, evolving process." Literary Mama Staff Karna is also excited for Literary Mama's recent push to grow their social media presence, as well as readership for their blog and newsletter. They celebrate their 15th anniversary in 2018. SEARCH PUBLISHERS ONLINE BECOME A FRIEND of CLMP Keep literature diverse. As CLMP enters its 50th year of helping small publishers through the business of publishing, connecting exceptional literary writers with great readers, your support is particularly meaningful. Your tax-deductible gift, regardless of size, helps ensure that the greatest diversity of writing finds the greatest diversity of readers. Become a friend of CLMP now. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1128858513648&format=html&print=true 8/10
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