Five Fresh Picks for Green Reading
April brings us spring and Earth Day, which I’ve always found fitting. Spring evokes freshness, bright colors, new life, and sunshine (if us Portlanders are lucky)—there is a heightened awareness […]
Take a Shelfie
Quick take a selfie … no, wait, take a shelfie! For those not in the know, a shelfie is literally a picture of your bookshelf, preferably demonstrating just how good […]
The Taste of Victory
The award season has ended, everybody! We’ve got the Oscars and the Grammys, and let’s not forget our local award celebration, the Literary Arts Oregon Book Awards. As we all […]
Interview with Ooligan Alum Brooke Horn
Brooke Horn graduated from the Portland State University publishing program in 2015. During her first year at Ooligan Press she worked on We Belong in History and The Wax Bullet […]
Interview with Daniel Bullard-Bates of Scout Books
Daniel Bullard-Bates graduated as a religious studies major from Guilford College. He worked for a time in Washington, DC, and currently works for the Portland-based Scout Books. Check out his […]
Manager Monday: A Publisher’s Assistant’s Guide to Mailing Things (Operations)
Mailing books is just one of the many jobs that keeps our publisher’s assistants busy. So what else, exactly, does a publisher’s assistant at Ooligan Press do? We take care […]
Happy #BookBirthday! Memories Flow in Our Veins Has Arrived
Last week, amidst the flurry of the twelve thousand writers, publishers, and book lovers in attendance at the 2016 AWP Conference in Los Angeles, Memories Flow in Our Veins: Forty […]
An Aesthetic Ode: A Condensed Song
My crazed pursuit of good design emerged a year after I graduated from college, albeit I’ve always had a love of “the arts” (raise that pinky). However, I was living […]
From Rain to Rivers
Now that the rain here in Portland has finally given way to a beautiful, sunshiny spring, our team at Ooligan is turning its attention from Rhythm in the Rain to […]
Learning How to Brag About Our Short Story Collection
Leading up to a brief break between terms, our group members have been astonishingly productive. After the cover concept was selected by the press, we worked with Kait Heacock to […]