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.
Thank you to everyone who helped us reach our 2019 end-of-year fundraising goal!
Thank you so much to everyone who supported our end of the year campaign. We really really appreciate your help and encouragement. Thanks to you we successfully met and exceeded our end of year fundraising goal through combined donations through our website, facebook and other platforms. With that support, we are excited to publish some amazing new books of poetry and cross-genre literature in 2020. It will also enable us to support our publication opportunities like our annual open reading period and our new Other Futures Award in the spring/early summer. In addition, your support will help us continue to develop our new online publishing space futurefeed that supports online residencies by noted writers and to continue to host free literary events for the public in New York City and nationally. It will also enable us to pay our freelance editors and designers a fair wage that supports the quality work they are doing on behalf of our authors and the press.
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The Editors
FUTUREPOEM AT AWP CONFERENCE 2017
IN WASHINGTON D.C. FEB. 9TH–11TH
IN WASHINGTON D.C. FEB. 9TH–11TH
Futurepoem will be at AWP (Associated Writing Programs) Conference 2017 in Washington D.C. from Thursday, February 9th–Saturday 11th!
We'll be showcasing our books and authors at the AWP Bookfair at the Washington D.C. Convention Center at a shared table with Elis Press. We will also be hosting a reading event with readers from Futurepoem, Elis and Litmus Press on Friday evening Feb. 10th. And Futurepoem Founder and Executive Editor Dan Machlin will be speaking at an AWP panel discussion Friday morning about our recent website redesign by Everything Studio.
More details and links to follow.