Dos Gatos Press
From Dos Gatos Press:
Happy New Year!
I decided to start the year with a somewhat overdue newsletter to bring you up to speed on what's been happening with Dos Gatos. As always, let me assure you that I do not share your contact information with others, but should you wish to be removed from the list, all you have to do is let me know.
I'm assuming that most of you have started using your 2009 Texas Poetry Calendars. We are down to exactly two 2009 calendars that weren't bought up during the "great deal" we offered a couple of weeks ago, and I was very pleased to see the last box of calendars dwindle down to a mere handful! We expect that throughout January we may have a few more calendars available once our retailers return unsold copies; but we'll see (in other words, if you still want a calendar, it's best to check with us before you order!). Nonetheless, it's rewarding to come to the end of the 1200 copy run.
Of course, now it's time to start thinking about the 2010 calendar--yes, already! Cindy Huyser and I will again be editing the calendar, and complete guidelines for submitting poems are available in the back of the 2009 calendar as well as on our website. While you're thinking about it, mark March 20 as the last date to send poems for consideration for the 2010 calendar!
The Dos Gatos anthology, Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, has been selling very well, and we thank you for spreading the word about it. Again, consider asking your local libraries to order copies for their collections, and write a brief review on Amazon.com for the anthology. We'd love to sell out and have to reprint the anthology! Towards that purpose, we plan on having several Big Land readings throughout 2009, and consider this a call for readers for the first three Big Land readings:
--Houston, February 10 at Borders, 3025 Kirby, at 8 p.m.
--San Antonio, February 28 at the Twig, 5005 Broadway, at 3:00 p.m.
--Austin, April 4 at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, at 3:00 p.m.
If you have a poem in Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, we'd love to have you plan on participating in one of these readings (or others further down the road). You do not have to live in the city of the reading to participate; in fact, it's more fun if you meet and hear poets in other cities, especially when they are in the afternoon on a weekend. At any rate, please let me know within the next week (by January 8), if you would like to read at the Houston, San Antonio, or Austin readings.
Finally, I am conducting a "three-peat" of the Jump-Start Your Creative Engines workshop for the Writers' League of Texas next month, three because instead of one session, we will have three Saturday morning sessions: February 7, February 21, and March 7, 10 a.m. till noon. For more info on Jump-Start Redux, see the WLT website: www.writersleague.org I'd love to see some of you in my class!
Looking forward to your poems this year--we sincerely hope your 2009 is productive and rewarding. Thank you again and again for the support you so generousy offer us!
Scott Wiggerman
Dos Gatos Press
1310 Crestwood Road
Austin, Texas 78722
editors@dosgatospress.org
www.dosgatospress.org
Happy New Year!
I decided to start the year with a somewhat overdue newsletter to bring you up to speed on what's been happening with Dos Gatos. As always, let me assure you that I do not share your contact information with others, but should you wish to be removed from the list, all you have to do is let me know.
I'm assuming that most of you have started using your 2009 Texas Poetry Calendars. We are down to exactly two 2009 calendars that weren't bought up during the "great deal" we offered a couple of weeks ago, and I was very pleased to see the last box of calendars dwindle down to a mere handful! We expect that throughout January we may have a few more calendars available once our retailers return unsold copies; but we'll see (in other words, if you still want a calendar, it's best to check with us before you order!). Nonetheless, it's rewarding to come to the end of the 1200 copy run.
Of course, now it's time to start thinking about the 2010 calendar--yes, already! Cindy Huyser and I will again be editing the calendar, and complete guidelines for submitting poems are available in the back of the 2009 calendar as well as on our website. While you're thinking about it, mark March 20 as the last date to send poems for consideration for the 2010 calendar!
The Dos Gatos anthology, Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, has been selling very well, and we thank you for spreading the word about it. Again, consider asking your local libraries to order copies for their collections, and write a brief review on Amazon.com for the anthology. We'd love to sell out and have to reprint the anthology! Towards that purpose, we plan on having several Big Land readings throughout 2009, and consider this a call for readers for the first three Big Land readings:
--Houston, February 10 at Borders, 3025 Kirby, at 8 p.m.
--San Antonio, February 28 at the Twig, 5005 Broadway, at 3:00 p.m.
--Austin, April 4 at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, at 3:00 p.m.
If you have a poem in Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, we'd love to have you plan on participating in one of these readings (or others further down the road). You do not have to live in the city of the reading to participate; in fact, it's more fun if you meet and hear poets in other cities, especially when they are in the afternoon on a weekend. At any rate, please let me know within the next week (by January 8), if you would like to read at the Houston, San Antonio, or Austin readings.
Finally, I am conducting a "three-peat" of the Jump-Start Your Creative Engines workshop for the Writers' League of Texas next month, three because instead of one session, we will have three Saturday morning sessions: February 7, February 21, and March 7, 10 a.m. till noon. For more info on Jump-Start Redux, see the WLT website: www.writersleague.org I'd love to see some of you in my class!
Looking forward to your poems this year--we sincerely hope your 2009 is productive and rewarding. Thank you again and again for the support you so generousy offer us!
Scott Wiggerman
Dos Gatos Press
1310 Crestwood Road
Austin, Texas 78722
editors@dosgatospress.org
www.dosgatospress.org
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