{"id":14263,"date":"2011-10-12T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14263"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:52:58","slug":"dinah-press-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14263","title":{"rendered":"Dinah Press Lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember, about a year and a half ago, when I posted that I was starting up a small press<\/a>? \u00a0Well, after many, many months of planning and work, we’ve finally gone live!<\/p>\n

Dinah Press<\/strong> (www.dinahpress.com<\/a>) publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by women of color, trans people, people with disabilities, members of colonized peoples, and other talented writers whose work has been deemed “unmarketable” by mainstream publishers. We’re currently holding a fundraising drive<\/a>, and our goal is to raise $3,000 by January 1st<\/strong> to fund our first print run. \u00a0If you contribute, you get fabulous things:<\/p>\n

$10-$24: A link to your website on our Supporters<\/a> page
\n$25-$49: A signed print of original art by one of our authors or artists
\n$50-$99: An original sketch and thank-you note by one of our authors or artists
\n$100-$199: An original sketch and thank-you note plus copies of our first three books as they become available
\n$200+: Any two of the previous gifts, plus a personal call by one of our authors (please include your phone number and preference with your contribution)<\/p>\n

You can contribute by clicking the link in our ChipIn meter above. \u00a0Also, if you contacted us way back when I first announced our call for editors and volunteers, we haven’t forgotten about you. You’ll be hearing from us! If you’d like to volunteer now, leave a comment on this post or email us at dinahpress at gmail com.<\/p>\n

Below you’ll find our press release, which details the three projects we’re working on: my novel, Other Life Forms<\/em> (from which I’ll be posting excerpts in the coming months); a collection of poems by Cynthia Oka<\/a>; and a collection of fiction and essays by Elena Rose<\/a>, AKA little light<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dinah\u00a0Press\u00a0Ready to Launch\u2028
\nOctober 01, 2011\u2028
\nwww.dinahpress.com<\/a><\/strong>
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\nDinah\u00a0Press, a publishing\u00a0press\u00a0specifically by\/for women of colour, queer women, trans women, Indigenous women, and other talented writers who are too often deemed \u2018unmarketable\u2019, launches its new website and\u00a0\u00a0aims to fundraise $3,000 by January 2012 in order to publish extraordinary literature by Cynthia Dewi Oka, Elena Rose, and Julia Glassman.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2028Dinah\u00a0Press<\/strong>, a volunteer-run collective publishing\u00a0press, works to\u00a0fill in the gaps in today\u2019s literary landscape by publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and everything in between by women of color, trans people, people with disabilities, members of colonized peoples, and other talented writers whose work has been deemed \u201cunmarketable\u201d by mainstream publishers.<\/p>\n

Dinah\u00a0Press\u00a0believes that our stories and writing cannot be separated from the organizing that we do. Our work, our words, our representations and our survival are interrelated, informing and growing from one other.\u00a0Dinah\u00a0Press\u2019 mission is intrinsically political, although the work we publish may not define itself as such. In building solidarity with individuals across communities and letting writers control the production of their work, we strive to break down the idea that writing is a solitary, isolated, and privileged act, or that publishing is necessarily hierarchical. Writing\u2014especially when one\u2019s voice is not valued in mainstream society\u2014is a necessity, not a luxury.<\/p>\n

We are now in the process of fundraising\u00a0$3,000 by January 2012<\/strong> so that we can publish original work by three incredible writers!\u2028\u2028\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cynthia Dewi Oka<\/em><\/strong>, poet, community organizer, revolutionary mother, twice alumnus of the Voices of Our Nations Summer Writing Workshops for Writers of Colour and previously published in\u00a0580 Split: Journal of Arts and Letters, Kweli Journal, SCHOOL Magazine, P U L S E Media, and Leftturn: Notes from the Global Intifada,\u00a0is finishing her first book-length poetry collection. Oka\u2019s work seeks to recover terrains of joy, possibility and power inside the complicated\/complicit spaces of late imperialist\/colonial\/hetero-patriarchal capitalism.<\/p>\n

Religion scholar, medic, and Filipina-Ashkenazic mixed-class trans dyke mestiza\u00a0Elena Rose<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is working on a collection of fiction and essays. Her writing can be found online at\u00a0http:\/\/takingsteps.blogspot.com<\/a>, as well as everywhere from law school classrooms and academic conferences to bathroom mirrors and protest marches. Elena Rose serves on the advisory board of the Allied Media Conference in Detroit; has twice been a San Franciso Pride Featured Performer with the National Queer Arts Festival production Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue, and was a charter member of the Speak! Radical Women of Colour Media Collective.\u2028<\/p>\n

Radical librarian\u00a0Julia Glassman\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> debut novel,\u00a0Other Life Forms<\/em>,\u00a0a meditation on the complexities of creation, identity, strength, and the self, is forthcoming this spring.\u00a0Glassman has written fiction and essays\u00a0for\u00a0make\/shift magazine,The Missouri Review,\u00a0Kitchen Sink,\u00a0Monkeybicycle<\/em>, and various blogs, including\u00a0Feministe,\u00a0JVoices, and\u00a0Alas, a Blog.<\/p>\n

Media contact: Vanessa Fernando
\n\u2028tel: (438) 868 6032\u2028
\nemail: dinahpress at gmail com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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