March Update: Events & News!

FBP Events

Author News

Holly Hughes’ chapbook, Passings,  the first edition from Expedition Press sold out last year, but Wandering Aengus Press will be reprinting it and it’s due out in March, in time for AWP.
AWP Portland is coming soon and many Floating Bridge Press authors are involved, if you will be in town, make sure to check out these amazing people:

Ben Cartwright: Teaching Alternative Writing Workshop Models

C123, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

Rena Priest: Native American Voices: A Reading from Recent Works in Native Letters

B116, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Michael Schmeltzer: The Poetics of Addiction 

E145, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 10:30 am to 11:45 am

And the Books & Brews offsite reading!

F149, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, Friday, March 29, 2019
from 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Claudia Castro Luna: Salvadoran Poets, American Letters

A107-109, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, Friday, March 29, 2019 from 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Maya Jewell Zeller:

Thursday, March 28, 7 pm: free offsite at Ace Hotel, ft. Black Ocean, Poetry Northwest, Chin Music Press, and Entre Rios Books.
 
Friday, March 29, 11-12: AWP Bookfair, CWU Table: Signing
 
Saturday, March 30, 3-3:30: Ace Hotel/The Cleaners Book: Signing at Entre Rios Table
 
Saturday, March 30, 7-9 pm: Offsite at Cider Riot! (807 NE Couch St.) Reading with Construction Magazine, Four Way Review, INCH, & New South–ft. Kelly Grace Thomas, Sonia Greenfield, Saddiq M Dzukogi, Maya Jewell Zeller, sam sax, etc.

Reminders

Our annual chapbook competition is underway and we are accepting submissions until March 15th! It’s our 25th year as a press and 24th year publishing chapbooks in our Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition and we would love to read your poetry chapbook. Click here for submission guidelines and information.

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