26th Annual Oregon Book Awards
By Kacie Peterson On the book front, there has been exciting news for some of Portland, Oregon’s best writers! The Oregon Book Awards were held this week on the night […]
Small Updates
I don’t have much to update this week—but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening. The marketing plan and tip sheet for We Belong in History are complete, and the […]
Susan McCaslin Guest Poet Post: “The Han Shan Poetry Project: How Poetry Came to Save a Rainforest”
Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we […]
The Truth is Out There: Fact Checking in Editing
By Rebekah Hunt There are a lot of things that are considered to be common knowledge. For example, did you know that karaoke is Japanese for tone-deaf? Did you know […]
A Really Big Deal
On Monday, Ooligan author Ruth Tenzer Feldman won an Oregon Book Award for her first novel, Blue Thread. Published last year, Blue Thread has been a bestseller for Ooligan Press […]
Alive at the Center Seattle Launch
by Kait Heacock On Friday night, poetry fans gathered at Richard Hugo House, a literary hub in Seattle, for the first of three city launches of Alive at the Center, […]
The First Submissions
Today is a good day. It’s the day we have been waiting an entire year for—the day the first submissions of student writing have made it to our mailbox. These […]
Martha Silano Guest Poet Post: How the Aliens Finally Landed
Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we […]
Self-Publishing Together
By Drew Lazzara The thing that surprises me most about the evolution of the publishing industry is a gut feeling I have that lots of people really don’t like the […]
The Rush
Over spring break, our intrepid Editing team pulled off a giant task for us: they copyedited The NinthDay in about half the time we usually take. The reason for the […]