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Red Beard Press Red Beard Press is the nation’s first youth-driven press. Since 2008, we’ve published work by youth writers alongside established authors.

03/09/2017

WHOA

this is an exciting opportunity for youth writers & editors! Let's get Michigan represented in this fellowship!

"We are so proud to open up this new opportunity for youth writers & editors to actively engage in a literary atmosphere as they navigate their daily lives outside of their craft.
WT fellows will grow their administrative & editorial skills, create & develop new creative work, & add to our collaborative ecosystem. The fellowship hopes to address the intellectual & curatorial labor process in a way that is mutually sustainable.
(funding + publication + mentorship)
http://www.wintertangerine.com/fellowship"

We are so proud to open up this new opportunity for writers & editors to actively engage in a literary atmosphere as they navigate their daily lives outside of their craft.

WT fellows will grow their administrative & editorial skills, create & develop new creative work, & add to our collaborative ecosystem. The fellowship hopes to address the intellectual & curatorial labor process in a way that is mutually sustainable.

(funding + publication + mentorship for writers 18+)

http://www.wintertangerine.com/fellowship

04/07/2017
Rattle

The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.

Deadline is July 15th!

We don't like poetry contests, so we designed one that we'd want to enter.

The only problem is, it's our contest, so we can't enter.

17/06/2017
“Shadow of a Shadow” by Niko Galifianakis

Niko Galifianakis (age 10)

SHADOW OF A SHADOW

Your shadow sways by you
like a grapevine’s vine.
But what no one ever thinks about
is the shadow’s shadow
swaying behind.

Niko Galifianakis (age 10) SHADOW OF A SHADOW Your shadow sways by you like a grapevine’s vine. But what no one ever thinks about is the shadow’s shadow swaying behind. —from 2017 Rattle Young Poet…

16/06/2017
Kelly Link on Dialogue

Dialogue tip from Kelly Link: If what the character is thinking is supported or echoed by the dialogue, then don't put it in; put in dialogue if it contradicts or complicates what the character is thinking.

Kelly Link talks about constructing dialogue. She's just one of the authors featured in "How to Write a Novel", the series of novel writing courses from the ...

16/06/2017
University of Michigan offering free tuition for families making less than $65K

!!!

"The "Go Blue Guarantee" provides four years of free tuition to students with a family income of up to $65,000, within certain asset limits. The $65,000 benchmark is roughly equal to the state's median family income of $63,893 (2015). These students also may be eligible for additional aid to cover non-tuition costs."

The University of Michigan is offering free tuition to in-state tuition for families earning up to $65,000, the university announced at its Thursday, June 15, Board of Regents meeting.

03/06/2017

Pufferfish 2017 at

21/05/2017

Red Beard Press's cover photo

08/05/2017
zaphra

Check out Red Beard member Zaphra Stupple's poem in HEArt!

http://www.heartjournalonline.com/zaphra

HEArt — Human Equity through Art — is a dynamic online journal featuring the best international literature, art and music that gives voice and bears witness to the effects of discrimination and promotes social justice.

05/05/2017
zine scholarship for young writers

Back Pocket Press is offering a zine scholarship for people under 18! Do you know any young people with a voice that needs to be amplified?

"our scholarship includes ~50 copies of your completed zine printed, collated, bound and mailed to your address. as part of the scholarship, we are also available to you for consultation and questions regarding your project. we are here as resources to you, but you are the director of your zine. in this way, we are happy to answer questions, provide feedback, proof read and edit as you desire but will not put our noses anywhere you don’t ask them to be. we would like to feature your zine on the news section of our website upon its completion."

we are thrilled to offer a zine scholarship for young writers! zines are an absolutely transformative medium that provide an access to radical information that many of us in the zine community woul…

16/01/2017
The New York Times

“At a time when events move so quickly and so much information is transmitted,” he said, reading gave him the ability to occasionally “slow down and get perspective” and “the ability to get in somebody else’s shoes.” These two things, he added, “have been invaluable to me. Whether they’ve made me a better president I can’t say. But what I can say is that they have allowed me to sort of maintain my balance during the course of eight years, because this is a place that comes at you hard and fast and doesn’t let up.”

In an interview seven days before leaving office, Barack Obama talked about the role books have played during his presidency and throughout his life.

06/01/2017

Want your tracks to sound professional? Come to this ~free~ mixing and mastering workshop with DJ ELL, this Saturday, 2-4pm, at the Neutral Zone!

14/11/2016

New blog post. Featuring the poetry of the incomparable Carson Borbely:

"I love when my blood stays where it belongs & it announces itself in trumpeting blushes. Every morning I sit up in bed, I praise the invincible ache. I love what I can’t beat. Whether or not I am happy, I am here, a piece of ecstatic evidence."

Remember to submit to Pufferfish by December 10th!

http://www.redbeardpress.org/blog/november-14th-2016

07/11/2016

Get your eyeballs on this poem by Fatimah Asghar, a featured poet of Poetry Night in Ann Arbor 2016! Like what you see? Reserve PNAA tickets with [email protected] and don't forget to pick up your copy of Gun Unfired Since Deer Season, featuring Fatimah Asghar, José Olivarez and Chace "Mic Write" Morris. See more of Fatimah at fatimahasghar.com/

Stank Face

Each morning I stitch a scowl
to my smile. Let my eyes sass
every person standing between me
& the bus stop. My eyelashes
icy. Call it survival. Call it eyeliner
so crisp it could kill a bitch.

You look prettier when you smile
says the traffic guard & I cut out
his tongue. It wags like a pet snail
slimy in my palm. My eyes laser
each crooked smile that comes
my way. I take all their lips
and mount them to my wall.

Ay can I get your number?
& the air sucked through my teeth
cuts the windshields open, dead day
of summer. Don’t f**k with me, bitch.
I’m queen of the dignified clap back
got thesauruses on my throne.

Got dead bodies in my closet.
cause of death? Thirst. Cause of death?
Frostbite, burn, too hot & too cold.

I mist when the world droughts.
& no, I’m not sharing.

15/10/2016

"i’ve cooked them each a meal with a star singing
at the bottom of the bowl, a secret ingredient

to follow home when we are lost:
sunflower oil, blood sausage, a name

given by your dead grandfather who eventually
forgot everything he’d touched. i promise:

i’ll never stop stealing back what’s mine.
i promise: i won’t forget again."

Franny Choi killing it at September FRUIT

"i’ve cooked them each a meal with a star singing
at the bottom of the bowl, a secret ingredient

to follow home when we are lost:
sunflower oil, blood sausage, a name

given by your dead grandfather who eventually
forgot everything he’d touched. i promise:

i’ll never stop stealing back what’s mine.
i promise: i won’t forget again."

-Franny Choi
FRUIT 9/10/16

10/10/2016

hey Red Beard fans across Ann Arbor!!

The moment you have waited for is here. Pufferfish vol. 2, now open for submissions! We'll be running several content generating and editing workshops, so keep your eyes peeled.

Here's how to submit your art or writing:

1) Create a folder using the following naming convention: FirstName LastName, School
-Text should be submitted as word docs, and art in jpg or tiff format

2) Title your documents with the type of submission (literary, art, photography) and the title of your work

3) Share this folder with [email protected] (make sure to grant editing privileges).

4) Profit

designed by Mia Shin!

Submit at
http://www.redbeardpress.org/submit-to-pufferfish.html

25/06/2016
We Only Communicate Telepathically

We Only Communicate Telepathically

For those who didn't get a chance to see the 2016 end of the year chapbook, here is a PDF version of it, available for free! Check out work by the Neutral Zone's Literary arts members!!!!

14/06/2016
Last Meeting of The Year

Last meeting of the year :C

Alas, the last meeting of Red Beard Press was bound to come. As a graduating(-ed) senior, these are my last few weeks at the Neutral Zone, and today was my last meeting in the conference room. I will...

21/05/2016
Submissions

Poets and writers, check this out! Open submissions for Horsethief until May 31st.

Horsethief welcomes submissions from now until May 31st. If you have a book, chapbook, or a handful of poems that are looking for a way to find the world, send them our way by clicking the Submittable button below.

15/05/2016
Ethan Cohen!

!!!!

Hey Everyone! Check out the new interview with Ethan Cohen, author of A Delicate Lesson!   Also, if you are a Neutral Zone Senior, be sure to send in your stories about your experiences to...

10/05/2016
"The Narrative of A Neutral Zone Fanatic" by Illyana Balde

More appreciation for the Neutral Zone from graduating seniors! Illyana Balde everybody, yet another voice who the Neutral Zone has helped promote and make more visual. Thank you Illyana for your words and sentiments. Your presence at the Neutral Zone and your work for Riot Youth has meant a lot to those involved.

"I was still in eighth grade when I first heard word of The Neutral Zone, some friends and I were walking past the B-Side and the building still hadn’t been painted, nor did it have The B-Side neon...

10/05/2016
What Red Beard Press Has Meant to Me: An Account From a Sappy Neutral Zone Senior

Neutral Zone Teens! Please help me tell our stories! Comment below or send your stories to [email protected] to receive your own blog post devoted to what the Neutral Zone has done for you. (Options for anonymity are available, make sure to make your preference clear).
I want to make sure to again thank Carlina Duan, Fiona Chamness, Alex Kime, Mary Gallagher, Jeff Kass, and all the friends I have made through the literary arts programs at The Neutral Zone. Clara Kaul, Jaime Davidson, Natalie Delph, Osa Svensson, Zaphra Stupple, Carson Borbely, Ezra Kushmaul, Julia Bohm, Cecilia Shoopmann and so many others. It has honestly meant the world to me to get to know all of you and become close to you.
Also to those poets who I got to know who are incredible and mean the world to me and whose voices I would never be able to help promote without the Neutral Zone thank you for your participation and your words/lessons/workshops. Shira Erlichman, Angel Nafis, Danez Smith, Nate Marshall,Mahogany Browne, Molly Raynor, and other people who have been involved in workshops and other literary arts events/collections.
-Löwe Denkten Wir

Hello Red Beard Press friends and fans! Today's meeting was focused around the planning of an end-of-the-year literary arts program chapbook as well as promoting Red Beard to underclassmen to get...

03/05/2016
New Interviews!

New Interviews!

Thats right! Didn't see an interview with your favorite artist featured in Pufferfish? Not to worry, we're still going. Check out this week's interviews with Carson Borbely, author of Medication ...

01/05/2016
Great Turnout!

Great Turnout!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the reading tonight! So many buttons were made, screen printing turned out really well (Thanks Natalie & Clara), about seventy people came to the reading, we...

01/05/2016
01/05/2016

Timeline Photos

01/05/2016

Don't you wish your screen printing was professional like this

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