Event Info
Publishing 101
Presented by Kingston WritersFest
9:00am - 11:30am
$42.48
Event Description
Publishing 101
Hazel and Jay Millar
Writers Retreat Master Class
Crawford Room
9:00 – 11:30 am
Limited enrolment.
You’ve drafted, edited, spit, and polished. Now that the writing is done, how do you get it in people’s hands so they can read it? Hazel Millar and Jay MillAr have been the dynamic force behind Book*hug Press, a radically optimistic Canadian independent publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture, for two decades. Come with your burning questions!
Hazel is the co-owner and co-publisher at Book*hug Press, an independent literary press based in Toronto. Publishing since 2004, Book*hug Press works at the forefront of contemporary book culture. They specialize in dynamic and contemporary literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and literature in translation. They publish critically acclaimed, award-winning literary work, and champion emerging and established literary writers whose work meaningfully contributes to and reflects contemporary culture and society, books that challenge and push the boundaries of cultural expectations. Hazel is the Past Chair of the Board of the Literary Press Group of Canada and sits on several publishing-related boards and advisory committees.
Jay MillAr is the author of several books, including Mycological Studies, the small blue, esp: accumulation sonnets and Other Poems. His most recent book is Timely Irreverence, poetry collection that explores the intricate smallness of seemingly irrelevant things, including poems, poets, amoeba, geometry, patience, and television. ARC Poetry says of the collection, “MillAr’s poetry very much revels in the quiet of the everyday, of the domestic, in that William-Carlos-Williams or Robert-Creeley way of the meditatively immediate.” He is also the author of privately published editions, including Lack Lyrics, which won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jay is the co-publisher at Book*hug Press; he also curates Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. For many years he taught poetry/poetics at Toronto New School of Writing.
Fri. September 29th 2023 + Add to Calendar
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