Thursday, March 22, 2012

A CALL TO SMALL PRESS LITERARY PUBLISHERS IN NEW ZEALAND


 AWP (US Association of Writers & Writing Programs) 2013
Annual Conference & Bookfair
March 6-9, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts 
  
In 2011, poet David Howard and Roger Hickin of Cold Hub Press (http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/) partnered with the US publisher Zephyr Press
(http://www.zephyrpress.org/) to present a table of editions from New Zealand small press publishers at the AWP bookfair in Washington DC, where titles were bought by American publishers, magazine editors, writers and academics.
Follow up efforts saw books go to the Woodberry Poetry Room of Houghton
Library, Harvard University and to The Poets' House in New York.

Given their past success, David and Roger now invite approaches from
New Zealand small press publishers who would like their titles to be
represented at the AWP Conference & Bookfair in Boston, March 6-9 2013.

Here is an attractive way to display your broadsheets, chapbooks, and full length collections prominently, alongside offerings from the likes of Copper Canyon Press and W.W. Norton & Company.

What will it cost? The only cost to participating presses will be an equitable
share of stock freight costs, together with a proportion of the table and
signage costs. We will cover the return airfares and accommodation costs
so that Roger Hickin can personally present your titles to prospective buyers.
This is likely to be less than NZ$250 all up. No handling charge for sales will
be made, with all income being returned to the respective publishers.

If you would like your publications to be showcased then email Roger Hickin: coldhub@gmail.com

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