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StringTown Press

Press from Medical Lake (near Spokane) publishes poetry, short fiction and an annual literary magazine.

Clear Cut Press

Clear Cut Press is a publishing and distribution company from North Pacific America. Our principal business is the production of well-published, original softbound books. Our books are available by subscription, eight titles per series.

Verse Chorus Press

Verse Chorus Press is an independent book publisher in Portland specializing in works of fiction and punk rock histories, with a sideline in crime fiction via its Criminy! imprint. Editors Katherine Spielmann and Steve Connell previously published the longrunning music magazine Puncture.

Original Fairy Tales, some unpleasant - Bret Fetzer

The title says it all. Well, I suppose not. I've had three collections of original fairy tales published (and one was just recently published in the lit mag/zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, #14), and I would read selections of these. They are not "fractured fairy tales", i.e, self-referential postmodern whathaveyous; they aspire to be true to the form, some intersection of dream life and social reality, in which bad things happen to good people and vice versa and something these things get better and sometimes they don't. As in classic fairy tales, there tends to be a lot of violence. There is also a good dose of humor. Light makes the dark darker and vice versa.

Projectile Publishing Society

Projectile Publishing Society is a non profit society located in Vancouver Canada. We are a project based publishing house. Projectile began in 1999 as a group of artists who wanted to publish a magazine called Trajectory. Sadly, all printed copies of Trajectory's first issue Emergency were destroyed in a warehouse fire associated with the Y2K crisis. After over five years, we are on to other projects now. Most of our online activity takes form through Rubyarts.org.

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Newsletter For Literature

In early March, Clear Cut Press, with support from the Netherlands Architecture Fund, flew Clear Cut author Matthijs Bouw from Amsterdam to North Pacific America to prepare for a four-city lecture tour. After an intense weekend of research with Seattle-based architect Jerry Garcia (designer of the Clear Cut book kiosk), Matthijs joined Matthew and I for a trip to Canada. Our purpose was to visit the Lux Ballroom at Vancouver’s Western Front artist collective, where Matthijs will lecture as part of the Unassociated Writers Conference (see below).

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Desktop printer printable poster for Mathias Bouw's lecture and dance party tour through North Pacific America.

Unassociated Writing Conference & Dance Party at Western Front April 2nd -- Line-up Announced

Vancouver BC – A day-long gathering of unaffiliated writers and independent presses (that will end as all good stories should end — in a dance party) will take place in the Lux Ballroom at Western Front (303 East 8th Avenue). Doors open at 11 am, events until 5 pm. Evening festivities begin at 9 pm and feature a talk by Mathias Bouw of Amsterdam’s One Architecture and live music from the Vancouver-based quartet P:ano and the Olympia, WA, rock band The Strangers. $8 (CAN) all day / $6 (CAN) evening

Document of Unassociation

Here is the original document describing the Unassociated Writers Conference event from several weeks ago, in the fall of 2004.

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Here are the start times for the performances.

Black and White Printable Graphic

Here is a PDF for printing and doing what you will.

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Construction of the Space of Unassociation Complete

A team of crack novelists, poets and composers of short, pithy anecdotes operated electric screw drivers and made many trips of the dollar store for supplies in the successful construction of the Space of the Unassociation.

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Initial Report Regarding the Day of Unassociation

More than 200 writers, readers and producers of independent literature gathered in the space of unassociation during the day to read, listen, talk, bounce on the inflatable bouncy, drink and eat yummy toasties.

Free Associating in Vancouver

April 7, 2005

The Benefits of Unassociation

April 4, 2005

A creative-writing conference draws the literati from novice to big-name

Sunday, April 10, 2005

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