Fiction, Poetry, and Memoirs
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Moderator: Joseph Parsons, Acquisitions Editor, University of Iowa Press
Panelists: Laura Cerruti, Acquisitions Editor and Editorial Director for Digital Publishing, University of California Press; Ladette Randolph, Associate Director & Humanities Editor, University of Nebraska Press; Ann Regan, Editor-in-Chief, Minnesota Historical Society Press; John McLeod, Marketing and Sales Manager, University of Georgia Press
Description: Speakers shared success stories and failures from the worlds of fiction, poetry, and memoirs. Can university presses successfully publish in these areas on a consistent basis? If so, how are we doing it? What is the impact of publishing in these areas on the marketing staff? What is the actual financial return on these books? Are they held to a different standard than our other titles? What about fiction contests and poetry contests?
Please post outlines, notes, and/or links to presentation materials below.
APPENDIX - Marketing Ideas for Fiction, Poetry, and Memoirs
Please add and edit - maybe we even want to post this in a more general part of the AAUP website? -LC
READING VENUES
St. Mark’s in the Bowery / Contact: Anselm Berrigan, Creative Director
Notes: Anselm Berrigan is son of Ted Berrigan, the famous NY School Poet.
Bowery Poetry Club / Contact:
Between A&B / Contact:
Notes: a small but really nice series at a bar. Use publicity machinery at Fence Magazine
Poet’s House / Contact: Steven Motika
The New School (Literary Forums) / Contact:
Poetry Society of America / Contact: Alice Quinn (also the Poetry Editor at The New Yorker)
Notes: they have their readings at the New School, and seem occasionally interested in wide-ranging work.
San Francisco State University: The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives / Contact: Steve Dickison, 415/338-3401, steved@sfsu.edu
Notes: SFSU and USF have been known to collaborate on big events.
University of San Francisco / Contact: Aaron Shurin 415/422-5357, shurin@usfca.edu
Notes: SFSU and USF have been known to collaborate on big events.
San Francisco Public Library / Contact: Catherine King, cking@sfpl.info
Notes: could be old contact info
City Lights Bookstore / Contact:
Stanford Humanities Center (Palo Alto) / Contact: Albert Gelpi
Lunch Poems Reading Series (Berkeley) / Contact:
Poetry Flash Reading Series (Berkeley) / Contact: Joyce Jenkins or Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash
The Townsend Center (Berkeley) / Contact:
Hammer Museum Reading Series (Los Angeles) / Contact: Stephen Yenser, UCLA, yenser@humnet.ucla.edu
Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles) / Contact: Fred Dewey, FRDewey@aol.com
Notes: The oldest & maybe best in Los Angeles. Venice area.
Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles) / Contact: Paul Vangelisti
Notes: Readings taking place somewhere in Chinatown.
Skirball Museum / Contact: stellasue@aol.com
Ruskin Art Club / Contacts: Cal Bedient, UCLA; USC; Red Hen Press
Cal Arts / Contact: John D’Agata
Notes: Organizes readings at the downtown Red Cat (Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts auditorium) a year in advance.
DG Wills Bookstore (San Diego) / Contact:
Barnes & Noble (Santa Monica) / Contact: Jeanette Clough, JClough@getty.edu
Casa Romantica / Contact: Stephanie Brown, esreverbrown@hotmail.com, Crpoetry@aol.com
UCSD (San Diego) / Contact:
Notes: Mandeville Library has good collection of the papers of 20th-Century poets
SDSU (San Diego) / Contact:
Poem Present Series, University of Chicago / Contact:
Columbia College Reading Series / Contact:
Printers' Row Book Fair / Contact:
Notes: Run by the Chicago Tribune, a very well-attended event
Poetry Center of Chicago / Contact: Kenneth Clarke
Danny's Reading Series (at Danny's Tavern) / Contact: Joel Craig, jgcraig@hotmail.com
Chicago Poetry Project at the Harold Washington Public Library
Contact: John Tipton
Notes: very experimental, but well attended.
Newberry Library
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Northwestern University
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Prairie Lights in Iowa City
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Notes: New California Poet Mark Levine says: “the bookstore where everyone reads. If the reader coordinates with the Writers' Workshop, there can be a really good turnout there.”
