The New York Center for Independent Publishing is venturing into a new medium with our first Annual Graphic Novel Symposium entitled SPLAT. It will take place on Saturday, March 15, 2008.
As graphic novels move further into the mainstream of popular culture, they are attracting more interest than ever before.
Addressing this recent graphic novel resurgence into [...]
The 2007 London Book Festival has named Matthias Kuentzel’s Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 as the grand prize winner of its annual competition honoring books worthy of greater attention from the international publishing community.
Kuentzel’s work, released through New York-based Telos Press Publishing, traces the alleged impact of European fascism on [...]
WHAT: CUP & PEN PRESENTS CALAMARI PRESS
WHERE: THINK COFFEE, 248 MERCER AND 3RD ST.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 2007 8pm-10pm
FREE AS A BIRD!
Cup and Pen puts Calamari Press back under the looking machine and pulls up the rorschachian images presented by their language-driven magazine sleepingfish. New Pages lit review claims “This is a journal where the swish of the [...]
On December 8th: the first WORDBRIDGE FAIR in Manhattan.
Plant consciousness crosses roads with speculative fiction and contemporary art show. All day program with authors and artists. Relaxed ambience and music for art viewing, book signings and chit chat between scheduled readings which will begin on time. Check the full program at www.wordbridgefair.org.
FREE OF CHARGE. All [...]
The 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair takes place on Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd, at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (an educational program of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen), at 20 West 44th Street in New York City. With over 100 cutting-edge presses from the U.S. [...]
Click here to purchase tickets to the Gala Benefit
Peter Mayer, publisher of Overlook Press, will be this year’s recipient of the New York Center for Independent Publishing’s (NYCIP) Poor Richard Award for outstanding contributions to independent book publishing. The award will be presented to Mr. Mayer by special guest presenter Ed Victor, the internationally renowned [...]
According to The New York Times, the Library of Congress has agreed with UNESCO to join the World Digital Library Project, currently in its testing phase and not available for public use until next year. “The digital library is searchable in seven languages, with video commentaries from curators alongside material including original maps, manuscripts, photographs [...]
According to Publisher’s Weekly, The Lace Reader, an independently published debut novel by Brunonia Barry, that received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly in early August has now received a seven-figure world English rights deal with William Morrow for that book and a second. Several publishing houses competed for the rights including Grand Central and Hyperion, [...]
Nominations are now being accepted for the third William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recongizes newly published works of fiction and non-fiction with a $12,500 award for the winner in each category,
The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging writers [...]
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America’s literary magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines - [...]
