Of Note
Expedition Press, a poetry-focused letterpress shop in Seattle, is running its second annual broadside contest Oct 1-31. You can submit one poem for consideration to be published as an original letterpress broadside. Winner will receive a $100 cash prize, 20 copies of the broadside, and a feature in Expedition’s newsletter and blog. Entry fee is $15. Learn more and submit here.
Read a selected chapter, “Risking it All at Ugashik,” from Kurt Hoelting’s book Apprentice to the Wild in the latest edition of Adventures Northwest Magazine! Copies are available to be ordered physically, or viewed online at this link.
On May 6, the fifth and last season of the award-winning podcast Ten Thousand Things, hosted by Empty Bowl author Shin Yu Pai, will launch from Acast Creative Studios. Ten Thousand Things is a show about objects, how material things carry memory, identity, and story within Asian American communities. This final season expands on that idea, exploring objects as agents of personal transformation. Find the season trailer (with an on-screen audio transcript) below!
Read an excerpt from Apprentice to the Wild, an Empty Bowl book by author Kurt Hoelting, on Terrain.org
Join Jackie Canterbury on Nature Now as she talks with Kurt Hoelting about his memoir, Apprentice to the Wild. Her interview on KPTZ 91.9 FM airs at 12:30 on Wednesday and Saturday, and at 5:30 on Thursday or via podcast.
Join us for a book launch event for Writing Home, a memoir written by local author Anna Odessa Linzer, also published with Empty Bowl in Seasons Unleashed. The event will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m., and will feature a reading from the upcoming novel. Writing Home is a moving, lyrical portrait of both family betrayal and family love and the healing power of place and nature.The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Stuart T. Rolfe room in Seattle University’s Admissions and Alumni building. It is hosted by the Seattle University Philosophy Department.
Read more about the award in a recent story from the Port Townsend Leader.
Chemakum tribal elder, Empty Bowl Press receive Humanities Washington awards by Kirk Boxleitner at The Leader
We were surprised and deeply grateful to have received one of fifty awards given by Humanities WA this year in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, acknowledging Empty Bowl’s five-decade-long contribution to the humanities. We were especially moved by the words of our nominators: “The people of Washington State are fortunate to have a publisher like this, which originated as a quixotic idea from a bunch of muddy tree planters, but which has become a literary press of unique and diverse voices connecting the Pacific Northwest to the world, and vice versa.” We’re honored to be in good company with forty-nine others, including two of our Empty Bowl authors, Shin Yu Pai and Kate Reavey! For more details, visit the Humanities WA website. To register to watch the Humanities WA award ceremony, use this link to register.
Empty Bowl Press and the award-winning anthology I Sing the Salmon Home were recently featured by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) in a spotlight of independent publishers in the Pacific Northwest.
View a conversation between Kurt Hoelting, author of Apprentice to the Wild, and Stephen Posner, recorded as part of the Garrison Institute's Pathways to Planetary Health initiative. Find the transcript, along with further information, at the Garrison Institute’s Website.
A new book by longtime Empty Bowl publisher Michael Daley, Ground Work, was released by Ravenna Press in October.
Andrew Schelling, author of Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, has a new book of translations coming out this November from Circumference Books. Old Time Love Song Magic is a bilingual edition of poems by Vidyā, who may have been the earliest woman to write poetry in Sanskrit.
