Fri 3/27 – 8PM – Black & Tan – Stories Bookstore

This is the first of the 3 final readings Kim Calder will be reading before she leaves Los Angeles. She’s really done quite of bit of work over the past year, promoting her work, participating in readings. It can get really difficult and tiring and we commend her for it.

So don’t miss her!

Friday, March 27th, 8 p.m. at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park, 1716 Sunset Blvd.

Kim will be reading with Karen Harryman, a Black Goat Press poet (now an imprint of Akashic Books), and here’s her deal:

Karen Harryman’s poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Poetry New Zealand, and the Cortland Review, as well as other print and online journals. Before moving to Los Angeles, she lived and worked in Kentucky for most of her life. Currently, she teaches English and creative writing at YULA, an Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles. Auto Mechanic’s Daughter is her first book.

Stories, if you haven’t been yet, is a beautiful little bookstore that opened in Echo Park. They, like all small independent bookstores, could use our support.

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Published on March 26, 2009 ~ 06:00 PM

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Large Update – 3/26

Apologies to our fans and supporters for the lack of update in the past couple of weeks. One of our goals from the start has been to maintain a constant relationship and dialogue with our readers and friends. But, for some reason, it’s been hard to achieve.

But, we’re back with some news and updates:

+ Kim Calder will be doing her 3 final readings in Los Angeles before she leaves Los Angeles for the summer. She received a fellowship to study and write in Prague for the summer! And after that, she’ll be heading off to school for more education and writing.

Check out the events on the sidebar —->>>

+ We’re beginning proofreading Aaron Henne’s manuscript. He’s been really great to work with, devouring edit notes as a complete professional. Just awesome. And now that Judeth’s on spring break, she’ll be working on the layout.

We are scheduled to release the book at the end of May. We’re hoping to do it again at La Cita Bar in downtown, in addition to a few events at theaters around the city.

We’ll post some pictures from the design process in the following weeks and a few excerpts from Aaron’s book.

More updates to come!

Thank you all.

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Published on March 26, 2009 ~ 04:52 PM

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WLP interviewed on BlogTalkRadio

Writ Large Press was interviewed by Stacey Mangiaracina and Roy Johnston of “Between the Sheets,” a show on BlogTalkRadio. They wanted to know what our process has been in launching a small literary press and we read some of the poems from Kim’s collection.

The two hosts were really great, generous and supportive, and we’re looking forward to speaking to them again.

Come on in! We’re open!

Okay. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but we have finally opened our (virtual) bookstore.

Here’s the entrance. Come on in.

Once inside, you will see our entire catalog of books. Don’t freak out when you see only one title in this catalog, because we all know that it’s going to grow into something incredible.

We have the Proof

It’s here. It’s beautiful. And we’re excited as all freakin’ hell. Yesterday, we received the proof copy of Who’s to Say What’s Home from Lightning Source.

We spent a good amount of time going through the pages, checking for errors, and mostly staring at it from all angles. To paraphrase our dear friend Michelle in New York, it is beautiful and perfect. (Okay, there was one slightly misaligned page that we instantly corrected, but still perfect!)

LAUNCH DATE SET – Friday 5/2!!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Friday, May 2nd, 7 pm on. The Writ Large Press Launch. Kim Calder book release.

We just talked to a manager at La Cita and he says it’s a go. We’re going to have our launch and release party there on May 2nd. So mark your calendars and plan on joining us.

They’re letting us have the back patio of the bar at no cost, other than all the booze that people will be buying and drinking, on a Friday night. It will start at 7 and we’ll start wrapping up around 10′ish.