Violet Spurlock selected by Poets & Writers as a debut poet for the Get the Word Out program
We are excited to announce that forthcoming 2023 Futurepoem author Violet Spurlock was selected by Poets & Writers for their Get the Word Out program along with amazing new authors from Tupelo Press, Pitt Poetry Series, Akashic Books, Tin House, and others!
Poets & Writers has announced the ten debut poets selected for their spring 2023 cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator designed to provide expert advice and peer support for early-career authors—at no cost to the authors or their publishers.
In the months ahead, these ten poets will take part in a series of workshops led by Morgan LaRocca, publicist at Milkweed Editions, supplemented by seminars with other leading publishing professionals. The poets, who hail from cities across the United States including Amherst, Massachusetts; Atlanta; Oakland; and Richmond, will each develop and execute a strategic marketing plan designed to leverage the pivotal opportunity presented by their debut collections.
The program is part of United States of Writing, an initiative to extend and deepen Poets & Writers’ service to writers nationwide. It aims to reduce barriers to success for writers from historically marginalized communities—including BIPOC and LGBTQ writers—as well as those from outside of New York City and those whose books are published by independent presses. Get the Word Out is generously supported by Leonard and Louise Riggio and Macmillan Publishers. (For more information visit at.pw.org/GTWO.)
Violet Spurlock was selected to receive the 2021 Other Futures Award for her book
In Lieu of Solutions.
Violet Spurlock is a writer living in the Bay Area. Her published works include Alloyed Bliss (Eyelet, 2021) and VS VS VS (Gauss PDF, 2021). In addition to writing poetry, she also facilitates a writing group for trans authors and is currently at work on a novel. In Lieu of Solutions is her first full-length book and is forthcoming from Futurepoem in 2023.