BLACK AGGIE PRESS

BAP's first publishing project was a great success! We thank all of our contributors for giving us so much exciting material to consider, David Krasner of The Bell Foundry's Castle Print Shop for his generosity, guidance, and support, everyone who came out to the poetry performance and print show at the Holy Underground, and especially our writers who came to perform that night!

The BROADSIDES PROJECT Vol. 1 took the form of ten limited editions of ten screen-printed posters featuring a curated selection of poetry, designed in-house by A-B Moore and Mark Wadley. As designers, A-B and Mark find common ground through poster/flyer design in Baltimore's eclectic music scene, making the graphic marriage of text and illustration a natural starting point for their first collaboration. After reviewing contributors' work, selections chosen served as loose inspiration for the collaborative broadside designs- Mark's classic typographical aesthetic and eye for formatting meeting A-B's sci-fi-psychedelic illustrative style in a poster format. Using the time-tested print tradition of the "broadside" format enabled us to present written work in a visually arresting way, encouraging the cross-pollination between illustration, design, and creative writing we are interested in at BAP. 

Here are two intermediary pieces that we're rolling out while we sift through submissions for our Broadsides Project. The patches are available for a $1-$5 donation and can be purchased by emailing us at [email protected].

Black Aggie Press (est. 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an experimental publishing house focused on designing and printing limited editions of new literary work. We are specifically interested in publishing magic realist, transrealist, gothic, and experimental writing, but welcome submissions of any work that explores the boundaries of form, genre, and “literature” as such. Our first offering will consist of 10 broadsides—designed in-house and printed by hand at Baltimore’s Castle Printshop—to be debuted at a reading given by their respective authors in the spring of 2014. Please direct submissions of poetry or flash fiction of no more than 350 words to blackaggiepress [at] gmail [dot] com by February 1st, 2014.