Read This Press
Please note that Read This is not currently accepting submissions, but you can visit our sister-site, OneNightStanzas.com
for literary advice, resources and other opportunities to be published!
What is Read This Press?
Read This Press is a brand new poetry micropress run by Read This Magazine's editor-in-chief, Claire Askew.
Its aim is to produce small-scale pamphlet collections and anthologies for new, young and emerging poets to showcase their work and get their names "out there."
"Masters" is the poetry anthology of the University of Edinburgh's MSc Creative Writing Poetry Class of 2009. It features never-before-published works by Niki Andrikopoulou, Claire Askew, Aileen Ballantyne, Dave Coates, Aiko Harman, Natalia Herrero, Struan Robertson and Hayley Shields. "Lyrical, clear, thought-provoking" -- Barry Frauman, poet. ONLY SIX COPIES AVAILABLE. Visit our Read This Press storefront to buy, or grab a copy from the Read This Press etsy store!
Sharks Don't Sleep is the brand new pamphlet from New Jersey spoken-word artist Eric Hamilton. Described as "a grimy, romantic and fucking funny look at the world," Sharks Don't Sleep examines what it is to be young, hopeful and desperate in 21st century America. You can purchase a copy from our storefront or the Read This Etsy Store.
You Old Soak is the first poetry collection from upcoming Scottish poet Chris Lindores, who is also an Editor at Read This Magazine, a MSc Creative Writing student at the University of Edinburgh, and a freelance tutor of English. Quintessentially Scottish, but drawing on influences like Charles Bukowski, Tom Waits, Ivor Cutler and Allen Ginsberg, You Old Soak is a must read. Available from the Read This Storefront and the Read This Etsy Store.
Read This Press' first book, Skin Deep, is a fantastic anthology of poems on the theme of tattoos and tattooing. Skin Deep features work from prize-winning poets Kim Addonizio and Kevin Cadwallender, tattoo expert Marisa DiMattia, tattooed goddess Gala Darling, and a whole bunch of other fantastic poets and poetesses. Get your hands on it at the Storefront, or on our Etsy.
The Read This Press Editor:
Nomadic by nature, Editor-in-Chief Claire Askew reads all kinds of poetry and is a fangirl of Allen Ginsberg. She is passionate about providing help and encouragement to emerging writers. Her own work has featured in Textualities, Poetry News and the Edinburgh Review, and she was Poet in Residence at the 2008 London Poetry Festival. Claire's work was recently selected to appear in the Scottish Poetry Library's 20 Best Scottish Poems of 2008 anthology, and she is the new Poetry Co-Ordinator for arts festival this collection. In early 2008, Claire won the Sloane Prize for Short Fiction in Lowland Scots Vernacular, The Grierson Verse Prize and the Lewis Edwards Award for Poetry, and she was more recently awarded the William Sharpe Hunter Memorial Scholarship.
Claire also runs this great resource for young writers: our sister-site OneNightStanzas.com