Working the Land, Working the Sea and Upcoming Readings
May 1, 2025
Dear Empty Bowl friends,
As we announced in our recent newsletter, in 2026, as part of the celebration of Empty Bowl’s fiftieth year of operation, we’ll be publishing Working the Land, Working the Sea. This anthology will explore and celebrate traditional foodways and livelihoods in farming, forestry, ranching, and marine trades in the Cascadia bioregion. We’re happy to announce that the anthology’s editors will be Tele Aadsen and Jessica Gigot. We’re looking for submissions from those who tend, gather, farm, fish, ranch, research, or work in managed landscapes, restoration, or in a variety of occupations at sea. We’ll be accepting submissions through Submittable. You can also find details on our website. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2025.
Upcoming readings
We also want to alert you of several upcoming readings featuring Empty Bowl Press authors.
We’ll be at the Raymond Carver Writing Festival in Clatskanie, Washington, on Saturday May 3, to participate in the Publishers and Writers Fair. Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Holly will be reading as part of the festival at 3:30 p.m. More details about the festival here.
Andrew Schelling will be reading from his poetry collection Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers at the Marin County Free Library in Bolinas, California, on Tuesday evening, May 13. The reading begins at 6 p.m. You can find more details on the library’s website.
On Sunday, June 1 at 4 p.m., Ann Spiers, author Wild Cucumber, which we just released, will be joined by Lost Mountain poet Kate Reavey, author of Curve, for a reading at the Meetinghouse in Port Townsend. Curve was recently featured on Bethany Reid’s excellent blog “A Habit of Writing.” For more details, check the Empty Bowl events page, where you can keep up with other readings as they’re scheduled.
Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock and editor of A Watershed Runs Through You, will be reading in Corvallis, Oregon, on Tuesday, June 10, at 5:30 p.m. at the Toomey Lobby at PRAx at Oregon State University. Thanks to the Spring Creek Project and Grass Roots Books and Music for sponsoring this event.
With warm wishes for the start of May.
Holly and John