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Join us the Aug 27th @ Hook & Ladder Lounge for a night of readings from Kao Kalia Yang, Alison McGhee, Casey Jarrin and music from @squinnysquinny.bsky.social, Whispered the Rabbit, and Kith + Kin Chorus to celebrate our MN Book Award winning Locker Room Talk app.opendate.io/e/locker-roo...

Book Fair for Grown Ups — Inbound BrewCo

Did you love the Scholastic Book Fair? We got you covered! Tomorrow I'll be with @spoutpress.bsky.social tabling at the Book Fair for Grown Ups! Stop by!
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This Saturday! We hope to see you there!

Poet, performer J. Otis Powell dies at 61 Those who knew him say he was a master of his literary tradition.

Read more about J. Otis Powell here via @mprnews.org www.mprnews.org/story/2017/0...

This Juneteenth, we're returning to our title from the late-great J. Otis Powell, a legend of MN writing and spoken word communities. Through the rest of June, his book WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP is 25% off on @asterismbooks.bsky.social Buy here: asterismbooks.com/product/wait...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage,
@slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage,
@slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Last night, editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich accepted the MN Book Award for Best Anthology for “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.” Here is a clip of their lovely acceptance speech. Thank you and congratulations to the 30+ wonderful contributors!

New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women Co-editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich look to reframe the traditional sense of locker room talk and celebrate the privates spaces where women are often at their best in “Locker Room Talk: Wo...

Editor Michelle Filkins and contributor Shá Cage spoke about Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces for KAXE's What We're Reading Series! Read the full feature "New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women" by Tammy Bobrowsky here:

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Spout editor Xander with a brilliant interview of @santisugi.bsky.social about erasure poetry, documentary and visual poetics, writing against colonial legacies, and his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

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Women share stories of connection and support in ‘Locker Room Talk,’ up for MN Book Award For the first time since 2006, the Minnesota Book Awards include a category for anthologies. One of the finalists is the story collection “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.”

We were delighted to talk about our new collection LOCKER ROOM TALK: WOMEN IN PRIVATE SPACES on @mprnews.org today with @ninamoini.bsky.social !!

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Cover of book "Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Space", nominated for the Minnesota Book Award Best Anthology

Red text saying "Through a prismatic series of essays, “Locker Room Talk” indexes the myriad shapes of women’s behind-closed-doors encounters: from the mammogram suite to the BDSM dungeon to P!nk’s backstage dressing rooms. These stories reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves, each other, their communities, and our world. Available only through Asterism Books"

We are delighted and humbled to have our book LOCKER ROOM TALK nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology!! It feels too appropriate to have this collection protesting Trump's misogyny to be recognized now at the onset of another Trump term. Buy @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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@asterismbooks.bsky.social Included our title Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces in their new blog post of books to look out for 😀

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Square maroon slide with circular photos of two Black men and text: Embracing Our Roots: Rooted and Rising Dr. Haki Madhubuti & Chaun Webster Saturday, Feb. 1, 1-3 p.m. Elmer L. Andersen Library

This Sat Feb 1, we're co-presenting MFA student Chaun Webster, a two-time Minnesota Book Award Poetry winner, talking with poet and Third World Press founder Dr. Haki Madhubuti about self-determination in Black writing, publishing, and distribution:
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We are extremely grateful to be named a grant recipient for the CLMP Small Press Future Fund! We are delighted to be named along with other presses that we admire. Please check out their books and support small presses.