Making Sweet Chapbooks 02/06/2012
 In the last month, the Sweet Design Team has been hard at work putting together our first two chapbooks. Our talented designers and book craftspeople have drawn, printed, glued, drilled and sewed--just about anything you can do to make a book! We're proud of the finished product, but even prouder of the authors who wrote them. Wordsmiths Megan Gannon and Amy Monticello will enchant you, and we're thrilled to be part of their early literary careers, which are sure to be brilliant and successful. Very, very soon we will have enough books finished so you can order them here. And if you're planning to be at the AWP Conference in Chicago, please come by the Sweet/University of South Florida table, space B8. Both chapbooks will be available for sale there for $10 each. In a few months, we'll have the e-book versions of both of these amazing books available. 1 Comment Press Release 08/14/2011
PRESS RELEASE August 14, 2011 In celebration of our fourth year of publication, Sweet: A Literary Confection, is expanding its ventures by publishing chapbooks by emerging writers in the upcoming year. This is a big step, an exciting one, which will not only continue our devotion to exemplary poetry and creative nonfiction, but also expand Sweet into a literary press. Sweet Publications will be publishing two chapbooks: one in poetry and one in creative nonfiction. These books will be handmade and produced in house. They will also be available in ebook format. Publication is scheduled for February 2012. This year’s authors are former Sweet contributors Megan Gannon and Amy Monticello.  A Witch’s Index: Spells/Incantations/Poems by Megan Gannon The Witch’s Index is a love letter, a lifeline to women past and present. Against caustic self-criticisms and bitter disappointments, against our most inhibiting instincts and darkest demons, there is a spell.  Close Quarters by Amy Monticello Close Quarters reaffirms that love doesn’t always end when a marriage does. In the dim, acrid haze of smoke and booze, this broken family repair their seams, indulge or overindulge their collective penchant for nostalgia, and examine the hurt even love can’t prevent. | Founding EditorsNonfiction Editor Ira Sukrungruang is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, a memoir, and co-editor of the fat books What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. His favorite candy is anything that has sour-sucking power and unhinges his jaw because of extreme gumminess. Design TeamJim Miller is the head of the design team of Sweet Publications and the Graphic Nonfiction Editor at Sweet: A Literary Confection. Jim loves to read, loves to write, but yet has few kind words for arithmetic. He teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at various institutions of learning and in his free time…uhm…uh…in his free time?
Claire Stephens is an MFA Student at University of South Florida. Before that, she was a photographer. She likes gummy bears, science fiction, and english breakfast tea. She doesn't care for vinyl, the word 'mauve,' or vodka. In the case that reincarnation is the upshot, she'd like to come back as a redwood, and failing that, a basset hound. Her work has appeared Prick of the Spindle and Bad Penny Review. Gloria Muñoz is an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida and recently received the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize and the Bettye Newman Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in Dark Phrases, The Brooklyn Review and The Sarah Lawrence Review. Gloria enjoys traveling, cozy thunderstorm tea and making things with her hands. Categories |
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