The Writer’s Block Festival Print Fair
located in the beautiful Creation Gardens Market Hall (725 East Market St.)
October 15, 2011
9am – 5pm
FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE ALL DAY LONG
Come explore the exciting and impressive variety of publishers and presses located near and around the Louisville, KY, region. From letterpress arts to trade paperbacks and bestsellers, you’ll be surprised and delighted to discover the impressive book arts community right under your nose! Book signings, demos, and multi-media book arts demonstrations while you shop. More details to come!
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SPONSOR VENDORS
Typecast Publishing – A truly independent press, focused on the art of the reading experience, from content to book design. Also home to the multi-award-winning project, The Lumberyard Magazine, the only place for swinging poetry and totally wasted design.
Holland Brown Books, Louisville, KY
Friesens
Butler Books is a Louisville, Kentucky-based full service publisher of trade fiction, non-fiction and illustrated books. Since 1989, the family-owned company has published hundreds of titles, spanning a wide variety of subjects. A complete catalog of current Butler Books and authors is available on the company’s website: www.butlerbooks.com.
The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition.
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The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. UPK has a dual mission—the publication of books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields for a largely academic audience and the publication of books about the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, and Appalachia.
Spalding University MFA/The Louisville Review housed at Spalding University since 1998, was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville by faculty editor Sena Jeter Naslund and two students. The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished. In 1996, to celebrate twenty years of continuous magazine publication, the Fleur-de-Lis Press was launched. The mission of the Press is to publish first books by authors who have been published in The Louisville Review.
Murray State MFA Program/New Madrid literary journal
OTHER VENDORS:
Accents Publishing – Accents Publishing, LLC was launched in 2010 by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Our mission is to promote brilliant voices in an affordable publication format, and to foster an exchange of literature among different world cultures and languages.
Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety – A handmade poetry journal edited by Matt Hart, designed & published by Eric Appleby in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rabbit Catastrophe Press publishes Rabbit Catastrophe Review, a hand bound journal of fiction, poetry, and art twice yearly. In addition, we print a chapbook series called ScrapChaps, which is entirely composed of scrap paper generated during the printing of the journal. We are located in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Louisville Paper
University of Louisville/The White Squirrel – Our purpose is to showcase the talent of poets, fiction writers, and artists at the University of Louisville and in the greater Louisville community. Founded in 2008, The White Squirrel is student-run literary journal and has published more than fifty individuals.
Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary press founded in March 1994, in Louisville, Kentucky. Our focus is on poetry and short fiction, genres that in the recent past have received less than generous attention from the mainstream publishing industry. In an effort to mediate that imbalance and nurture good writing, Sarabande Books works to provide talented authors with a final product and visibility, in short, a real “home” for their work.
Goodwill Zine is a local publication of Louisville, KY created and edited by June Leffler. We feature journalism, comics, art, poetry and offbeat articles by Louisville’s youth.
Wind Publications is an independent small press located in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Since 1993 Wind has published more than 130 books covering a broad spectrum of topics, including poetry, fiction, literary criticism, history, biography, and culinary works.
Hound Dog Press Owned and operated by Nick Baute and Robert Ronk, Hound Dog Press is a full service letterpress shop located at 309 East Market Street (Suite 103) in Louisville, KY.
Poems & Plays is a literary annual published in the spring out of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. As its title suggests, the journal welcomes submissions of poems and short plays during its reading period of Oct.-Nov. During that period, P&P also reads 20-24 page manuscripts for the Tennessee Chapbook Prize. The winner is published interiorly in the subsequent issue. Poems & Plays was recently awarded a Pushcart Prize for a poem in its current number.
Catch Up is a triennial print and online journal, presented by The Gold County Paper Mill, focused in poetry, short fiction, and comics.
Black Wyrm Publishing formed in 2003 to produce superhero, science fiction, and fantasy roleplaying game material. In 2009, the company expanded its vision to create a line of novels in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. These titles include experimental works penned by some of the best underground talent working in fiction today.
The Writer’s Workshop Project fills a gap between expensive college programs and workshops and grassroots workshops or solo writing efforts. The low workshop fee is affordable by most writers and helps promote a professional environment. All writing levels are welcome. A limit of no more than 10 participants maintains the WWP’s comfortable, intimate atmosphere. Come whenever you wish. No extended purchases are ever required. Currently, the WWP meets after hours at Nancy’s Bagel Grounds in the heart of the historic Clifton Neighborhood of Louisville. Most workshops are led by Michael Jackman, M.A., Lecturer in Writing at Indiana University Southeast, who also directs the WWP.
Black Tongue Review is a hot new zine that converges poetry with international artwork. Current poets included Bob Hicok, Mary Ruefle, Chad Sweeney and more with featured artist Martin Wittfooth. Each issue of BTR works towards a specific charity to which all proceeds are donated. Using art to change the world…
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BOOK SIGNINGS – Meet some area writers and their publishers and walk away with an autographed edition!
Accents Publishing Table
Richard Taylor, “Fading Into Bolivia” 11:00 am
Nana Lampton, “Bloom on a Split Board” 12:00 pm
Bobby Steve Baker, “Numbered Bones” 1:00 pm
Bianca Spriggs, “How Swallowtails become Dragons” 2:00 pm
Frederick Smock, “The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues” 3:00 pm
Matthew Haughton, “Bee-coursing Box” 4:00 pm
Black Wyrm Publishing
Gary Yeagle, Seasons of Death, Little Big Men, Angel’s Footprints ALL DAY
Teddi Robinson, The Meddlers, The Challenges, The Misadventures of a Country Girl ALL DAY
Sarabande Books Table
Julie Marie Wade, Small Fires, 11:00 am
Join the “Make a Zine in a Month Challenge”!
Louisville needs zines and anyone can make ‘em. Writers, artists, cartoonists, printmakers, and everyone else, take the Make a Zine in a Month Challenge and get your work out in print.
The challenge is in anticipation for The Writer’s Block Festival Print Fair. Goodwill Zine has two tables for newbie zinesters to be a part of the fest, trade their zines, and show what Louisville’s DIY culture has got.
Stay tuned here for upcoming workshops and a viewable zine library.
For more Print Fair information, contact Jen Woods: jen@typecastpublishing.com