Our reading month

By mieladmin / On / In Print, Publishing

We received about a hundred and fifty manuscripts in June, for which thank you. They have all been read once; over the next two weeks, I’ll read them again and draw up a list of finalists by the end of July. (Rejection letters will go out by the end of  July.) Out of the finalists, I’ll choose the manuscripts for our 2016-17 list.

The manuscripts are incredibly strong this year, very varied, very interesting. Many demonstrate a compelling deftness with form. In content, manuscripts ranged from the very lyric to the confessional to the conceptual. The balance this year was heavily to poetry—about two thirds—so if you have a prose chapbook manuscript, do consider sending it to us next June.

However the list ends up, it has been a real pleasure to get acquainted with your writing, and it will be very, very difficult to decide whose work will best fit our plans for the coming year(s). (You can read about why I limit our list here.) Thank you.

late June at Dickinson House

Megan M. Garr—TERRANE

By mieladmin / On / In Books, Print, Publishing

Megan M Garr - TERRANE - MIEL 2015Megan M. Garr’s Terrane (28 pp., February 2015), evokes the in-between experience of migration. In collected shards of narrative and image, Garr’s long poem scatters us in space both stellar and terrestrial, reminding us from the very beginning not to forget “the radiant dust” that precedes and imbues our lives on earth. In this attempt to recognize and to name the world as a purposely unfamiliar place, Garr creates a terrain all her own—but one that is open to our traversal.

Available for pre-order here (€9 + shipping).

* birds & women * a calendar for 2015 *

By mieladmin / On / In Objects, Print

birds and women miel calendarOur 2015 calendar is in the shop now. It’s called birds & women, and it contains lots of kind of magical images, all reproduced from original watercolors and drawings.

There’s the birdwoman, of course, and Sailor Moon; there’s a blue-and-white tea set and pink wagashi. There is another tea set and a bunch of smoggy animals to keep the tea-drinkers company. There are girls in pretty clothes, a garden gnome, and some strange rabbits.

Every calendar comes wrapped in a slip of paper with a little watercolor birds and women miel calendarreproduction on it, tucked into a cellophane envelope, and mailed in a bubble envelope. We’re in the habit of putting a little extra surprise in the envelope with these, too.

Making the drawings for this calendar was really a pleasure—I hope they make you happy when they hang in your house!