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Where Oh Where Can Your Work Be Found?

I spent a transformative hour this morning in the Bewilderness with poet Ellis Elliott. I ssigned up for her course and spent an hour with a group of other authors as we put the rubber on the road and wrote in response to two poems Ellis shared with us. I struggle with giving my own writing practice the time and respect it deserves, so it took a lot of hemming and hawing for me to allow myself to…

Exciting News!

I was thrilled today to have the privilege to mail three new Old Scratch Press books off to the National Book Awards! If you follow all of our doings around here you may have seen this post from last year, where I was lucky enough to do the same thing! Gosh, you know, we’re going up against the big guys when we send our books in to the National Books Awards. Most of the other books being sent in…

DID YOU KNOW…. Instant Noodles is an online literary magazine that I created and run? DID YOU KNOW…. Instant Noodles has its own website now? https://instantnoodleslitmag.com DID YOU KNOW… Old Scratch Press is curating the December 2023 issue? “Please take note, we’re shortening our word count. Can you take the challenge and keep it brief by making every word count? For our Winter issue…

In January I emailed a bunch of poets who had allowed me to publish their poetry, and asked them if they would be interesting in forming a poetry collective, a thing where we could work together to promote and sell poetry, so that DPP could afford to publish poetry. MOST poetry chapbooks are published either by contests, or universities with large budgets, so that it doesn’t matter if the book…

Congratulations to OLD SCRATCH PRESS founding member Morgan Golladay, whose poem “The Day Arose Cold,” featured in Solstice, was a Delaware Press Award winner. WAY TO GO MORGAN! The Day Arose Cold The sun roseinto a pink sky, pausingto gain strengthbefore entering this frozen day.Yesterday’s snowis untroddenby the small ones,searching for food.Even squirrelshave forsaken their branchesfor…

Very quietly… I put a little link near the end of our most recent newsletter to just clue people in to our newest enterprise… Old Scracth Press. Somewhere along the way, that link picked up an extra HTTP, making it non-functional. What do they say? Measure twice cut once? With proofreading it is literally hundreds of times, because sometimes the platform tries to help out, and inserts itself in…