Good news Elastic Press, one of Britain’s most imaginative small publishers, has picked some winners in the past, as far as I’m concerned. Brian Howell’s collection The Sound of White Ants, and David Swann’s collection The Last Days of Johnny North are both on my bookshelf. Now they have listed Jai Clare’s The Cusp of […]
Bookplates It’s a truism that a writer does not get to choose his or her publisher. The publisher chooses the author, of course. But if I could choose, right now, I would choose William Morrow in the USA. Why? Because they have just sent my good friend Ellen Meister a stack of bookplates to give […]
Pushcart Nominations The Pushcart Prize confuses me. Here’s what they say about it: ‘Little magazine and small book press editors may make up to six nominations from their year’s publications by our December 1 deadline. The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot. Editors may nominate self-contained portions of […]
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