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Events or Book Launches in March

Saturday, March 4th from noon-2 pm at The Bowery Poetry Club.
Alimentum Literary Magazine - The Literature of Food. Original fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction all around the theme of food. Readers: Donald Newlove, author of Painted Paragraphs, First Paragraphs, Those Drinking Days, etc., and Peter Selgin, author of numerous stories in numerous literary reviews including Glimmer Train, Bellevue Literary Review, Missouri Review, Descant, The Literary Review, Like Water Burning... For more info please go to: alimentumjournal.com
Join members of the St. Louis Publishers Association for a FREE workshop on HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR BOOK at local Borders Books & Music stores in the Metro St. Louis Area. These highly-anticipated annual seminars will be presented on three Saturdays in March and one in April 1 in four different stores. Local authors will answer all your questions on the publishing industry from their own experience. In one information-packed evening, you'll get an overview of what it takes to become a successful published author. Each workshop runs from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday evening at these St. Louis area Borders locations:
Saturday, March 4, 2006 (Borders - Sunset Hills, MO - 10990 Sunset Hills Plaza)
Saturday, March 11, 2006 (Borders - Creve Coeur, MO - 11745 Olive Blvd.)
Saturday, March 18, 2006 (Borders - Fairview Heights, IL - 6601 North Illinois St.)
Saturday, April 1, 2006 (Borders - St. Peters, MO - 1320 Mid Rivers Mall)

St. Louis Publishers Association
Giving authors and publishers the tools to create, market and sell more books. Susan Sylvia, Newsletter Editor/Affiliates Liaison & Edward F. Sylvia, Past President
T: 314-290-8611 C:618-558-9504
E: SLPA@staircasepress.com
B. RUGGED (est. 1975) shall launch Susanna Cuyler's writing archive March 8, 2006, International Women's Day.
On Thursday, March 9 at 7:30pm Douglas Martin reads from Branwell (Softskull) at Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn.
On March 14, co-authors Kay Williams and Jerri Williams Lawrence will visit Wesley Ridge Retirement Center in Reynoldsburg, Ohio and read from their new novel One Last Dance: Never too Late to Fall in Love (Calliope Press) a tale about finding love at any age (part of a series of programs and book signings at bookstores, libraries and retirement centers).
A book launch party for Sarah Getty's second book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart, will be held on Sunday, March 19, at 3:00 p.m., at the Bedford Free Public Library, Mudge Way, in Bedford, Massachusetts. Ms. Getty will read from the book and inscribe copies. Wine, cheese, and crudités will be served. The event is sponsored by Higganum Hill Books.
On Thursday, March 30, 7:30pm, Joanna Fuhrman and Drew Gardner will read at Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue in Albany, NY. Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press, Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003) and Moraine (2006.) Her poems written with others are forthcoming from Soft Skull in Saints of Hysteria: a Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Drew Gardner is the author of Sugar Pill (Krupskaya, 2002) and the newly released Petroleum Hat (Roof, 2005). Garden is also the editor of Snare magazine.
Lost Horse Press is releasing three new titles in March: The winner of the 2005 Idaho Prize for Poetry, Thistle by Melissa Kwasny, A Change of Maps, poems by Carolyne Wright and Like Men, Made Various, short stories by Paul Bowers.
Lost Horse Press will present a reading, STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH at AWP, March 10th at 1 pm in Austin, Texas.
Sheila Ruth of Imaginator Press will be featuring small press titles for children and teens in her Wands and Worlds blog throughout the month of March. Wands and Worlds is a book review and directory web site specializing in juvenile and young adult fantasy and science fiction. For the Small Press Month blogfest, she'll be branching out and including a variety books for kids and teens, instead of limiting it to fantasy and science fiction. The Wands and Worlds blog may be found at http://www.wandsandworlds.com/blog1 . Small press publishers and authors interested in having their book reviewed for this special event can email Sheila Ruth at sruth@wandsandworlds.com with information about their book.

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