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Cover of Senior Citizens Writing II  Cover of Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics  Cover of From Oracle Bones to Computers  Cover of Transforming English Studies  Cover of What Stillness Illuminated  Cover of Roman Rhetoric

The New Measure Poetry Prize

Parlor Press’s poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is pleased to announce The New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Cole Swensen will select the winning manuscript. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked in April or May of 2009. The non-refundable entry fee is $25.00; checks and money orders should be made out to “Parlor Press.” Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions will announce the winning manuscript no later than December 1, 2009.

New Realities for Academic Presses in Trying Economic Times

Posted 24 March, 2009 - 16:01 by David Blakesley

Presented at the Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication San Francisco, March 11, 2009

Abstract

Scholarly presses may be in peril due to diminishing markets, tight budgets, and over-reliance on the monograph as the signifier of scholar achievement, but individuals and organizations in rhetoric and composition can take specific action to ensure that scholarly presses not only survive momentary crises but also thrive in the years ahead. In turn, presses themselves also need to adapt to the changing needs of the multiple constituencies they serve and the new technologies that enable the democratization of peer review, production, distribution, and delivery.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing

Writing Spaces LogoParlor Press is pleased to announce an exciting new collaborative project with the WAC Clearinghouse and series editors Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a new textbook series seeking proposals for essays for the composition classroom. Each volume of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing will contain peer-reviewed collections of essays all composed by teachers for students, freely available for download under a Creative Commons license.

So What's New at Parlor Press?

Posted 8 January, 2009 - 07:55 by David Blakesley

Our website, for one. As some of you have noticed, we have been in "maintenance mode" for a few days while we have completed the transition to a new website. The conversion is complete, and our site now offers many more possibilities for connecting authors, readers, editors, and others to each other across the network. Our e-commerce system is entirely new and more secure than ever, so we hope our readers find the process of buying books easier. The site is now run by Drupal (ver. 6.8), the excellent and powerful open source content management system. Our integrated e-commerce system is run by Ubercart, the Drupal module, which is also fantastic (we speak from considerable experience on this!). Our new payment gateway is PayPal, which gives customers numerous options. The whole site is now more closely knit and searchable so we expect that people will see just how much we have grown recently and in spite of the many obstacles facing scholarly presses recently.

Forthcoming in Early 2009

Posted 7 January, 2009 - 19:08 by admin
  • Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber, eds., Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke
  • John Ramage, Argument in Composition (Ref. Guides Series)
  • Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts
  • Amedée Baillot de Guerville, Au Japon: The Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892-1894 (edited by Daniel Kane)
  • Christine Tardy, Building Genre Knowledge
  • W. Ross Winterowd, Attitudes: Prose and Poetry
  • Judith Rodby and W. Ross Winterowd, The Uses of Grammar (Rev. & Expanded Edition)
  • Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda, Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing
  • Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, Michael S. Reidy, Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
  • Dorsey Armstrong, Morte Darthur
  • Leslie Atzmon, ed., Visible Culture: Design Artifacts and Participated Meaning

Parlor Press 2008 - Bazaar

What we've been up to lately . . .

Video Title: "Parlor Press 2008 - Bazaar"
Producer/designer: David Blakesley
Images/duration: 68/3:48
Track: Modern Jazz Samba
Artist: Kevin MacLeod

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