New Literary Journal – Need a name!

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For the past month or so I’ve been I in the early stages of forming a literary journal, a biannual with an overall nature motif and each issue will have a theme with the first issue centered around “creation stories”. I’ve got some literary heavy hitters already on board, an editing staff and even the format worked out but what we’ve failed to come up with is a name.

Of course it will be letterpress printed and include original artwork from wood engravings and linocuts. Open to all writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories that might work in a serialized format. No politics – to ephemeral.

But in order to start promoting and informing the world at large we exist we need a name to attach to a website/blog and print media.

Here’s where you come in dear reader. If you have an idea that you would care to share please comment. If it’s a really really good idea send it to me in a personal message. If we use your idea you will be compensated with a year subscription to our humble effort.

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This image is taken from a cover I did for the Wood Engravers Network publication Block & Burin, #24 Winter 2000 that featured one of my wood engravings and a quote from Thoreau – with a little digital editing so you get the idea.

New York, here I come….

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What does the Deep Woods have to do with New York? Normally, absolutely nothing, there are no trout in New York.

However, yesterday I got a notice that the Fine Press Book Association (see sidebar link) is sponsoring a new event in conjunction with the Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Show (Shadow Fair) which is in conjunction with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory:

~ The Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair

April 5th and 6th, 2014 at the Altman Building on 135 West 18th Street.

Saturday, 5pm-9pm and Sunday 8am-4pm

More details to come as the event has just been announced but if this year proves successful it will join the ranks of the FPBA sponsored fairs at Oak Knoll in Delaware and at Oxford in the UK. More chances for me to catch up with fellow printers and meet those on the collecting side of things. Northern Michigan has lots of trout but no other fine press book publishers.

The Altman Building in Manhattan.

The Altman Building in Manhattan.