Press 1

21/01/2016

Press 1 is now seeking submissions for their upcoming issues! Please send PDF versions of your work (poetry, fiction, lyrics, essays, and reviews) to [email protected], and include a short bio (about 50 words).

20/11/2014

Dear Press 1 Community,
Our new issue is available now, and features work by Jordan Hartt, Valerie Fox, Sean Kearney, Dan Bruskewicz, M.G. Piety and Don Riggs. We hope you’ll enjoy the new issue and join us in looking ahead to the new year. Submissions are now open. Please send PDF versions of your work to [email protected], and include a short bio (about 50 words).

Plans for 2015 include expanding our staff so we can handle more submissions and release issues more regularly. More announcements coming soon! Thank you for your continued support.
Elizabeth
http://www.press1magazine.com/

20/08/2014

Hello, Long-Lost Press 1 Community. We're looking for a good short story to finish off our new issue. If you have something you'd like to share with us, please send it to [email protected] ASAP, along with a short bio. Thank you!

21/02/2013

Dear Press 1 Friends--
We are writing to let you in on the exciting news that Beth Thorpe has now taken over the editorship of Press 1.

We want to thank all of our faithful readers over these past five+ years. We also want to thank all of the writers and artists, including columnists and frequent contributors, who have helped through their dedication and hard work to make the magazine a very distinctive presence on the web. Thanks to those of you also who have written with ideas and support over the last couple of months while the magazine was on break.

Many of you know Beth's wonderful fiction from the magazine. You also will recall that she guest edited the fiction offerings for us for IV:3: http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/fiction-intro.html. This link includes her thoughtful introduction to that issue's fiction, and gives you some insight into her editorial ideas.
Check out the "Author Archives" to find stories by her, as well.

Beth has given us some hints as to where she'll be taking the magazine. She clearly will continue in much the same spirit: in many ways, but not least in furthering the sense of timeliness and community that we always considered integral to the magazine.

We are going to be devoting more time to our various projects and look forward to following the magazine. Best to you, Beth. And again, thanks to everyone in the Press 1 family.
Arlene Ang, Valerie Fox, Nicole Kline, and Phyllis Wat

Elizabeth ThorpePainted Bride QuarterlyPer ContraPress 1Puckerbrush ReviewStolen Island ReviewThe Maine ReviewPostcard Fiction Collaborative

02/02/2013

Thanks everyone for your patience, suggestions, and encouraging words! Stay tuned for news on the return of Press 1 (soon).
Valerie

12/12/2012

Press 1 contributor Leonard Gontarek is reading this Friday in Philly--http://poetdelphia.wordpress.com/!
Also, Mike Ingram and Kathleen Volk Miller will read. There should be a lively q and a after.

A Community of Writers

21/10/2012

Congratulations Rose Hunter on your new book!
http://www.amazon.com/four-paths-Rose-Hunter/dp/0615715036/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350833158&sr=8-1&keywords=rose+hunter+four+paths

Rose Hunter’s [four paths] concerns itself as much with the sights of its poems as it does with the sounds of these fractured articulations. The reader may recognize an ending in the trail of intimate intonations, but exotic possibility is brought sublimely to the fore – to the Mexi...

22/08/2012

Congratulations Thad Rutkowski!

THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI WINS NYFA FELLOWSHIP

Thaddeus Rutkowski has been awarded a fellowship in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts. The fellowship is a $7,000 grant given to artists at critical stages in their careers. Artists can use the funds in any manner to further their work.

This year, 18 awards were given in fiction writing. A total of 94 fellowships were awarded in five categories; fellows were selected by statewide panels from 4,317 applicants.

Rutkowski is the author of the innovative novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse. He is a graduate of Cornell University, and he received a master’s in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University. He teaches at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan.

18/08/2012

Press 1: A Literary Arts Journal

18/08/2012

Congratulations Agustin D. Martinez. "Graciela's Wedding" (in latest Press 1) is an excerpt in The Mares of Lenin Park.


From Press Release:
Miami Native, Agustin D. Martinez, Wins Prize Americana for Prose 2012

Drawing from his experience growing up in a bilingual household with parents and siblings who fled Cuba in the 1960s, author

Agustin D. Martinez writes The Mares of Lenin Park, his debut novel about a 14-year old boy forced to flee Cuba in the early 1990s.

http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v6n1/martinez.html

Press 1: A Literary Arts Journal

18/08/2012

Congratulations, Agustin! An exerpt from his prize-winning work, "Graciela's Wedding" was first published in Press 1.

Miami Native, Agustin D. Martinez, Wins Prize Americana for Prose 2012

Drawing from his experience growing up in a bilingual household with parents and siblings who fled Cuba in the 1960s, author

Agustin D. Martinez writes The Mares of Lenin Park, his debut novel about a 14-year old boy forced to flee Cuba in the early 1990s.

16/07/2012

Check out the latest Press 1!
www.leafscape.org/press1

Featured Poet: Leonard Gontarek; Featured Artist: Anthony Amato Jr.; Fiction: James Claffey, Jeanne Holtzman, Miriam Kotzin, Agustin Martinez, Marcus Speh; Columns: Nicole Kline, Susan Smith Nash, Nathan Leslie, Marshall Warfield, Rina Terry, Robert Anthony Watts, ME McMullen; Poetry: Daniela Elza, Dana Guthrie Martin, Vasiliki Katsarou, David Keller, Kelly McQuain, Heather Thomas, James Valvis, Marshall Warfield; Interview with collage artist Liz Cohn.
Plus assorted reviews. Enjoy this fine work--Thanks to Arlene Ang as always for the lovely design.

25/05/2012

Hi All--Press 1 contributor Christine Hamm at Brickbat Books in Philly tonight (may 25th) at 7.

http://brickbatbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/event-general-idea-7.html?spref=fb

All items listed and reviewed are available for purchase directly from Brickbat Books, although quantities are limited. Brickbat Books is located at 709 South Fourth Street, in the heart of Fabric Row, in Philadelphia.

22/04/2012

Press1 is delighted to be included here along with Apiary, Per Contra, PBQ and other amazing magazines based in Philly!
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20120422_Philly_online_poetry_magazines__A_garden_of_many_delights.html?page=1&c=y

If Philadelphia and environs were a garden of poetry, it’d be … quite a garden. It’d be huge. This is a big poetry town that, while perhaps not as famed for verse as New York and San Francisco, is lush and fertile, especially during April, Poetry Month. No gardener could tend it a…

15/04/2012

Submissions for Press 1 September issue now open!!
www.leafscape.org/press1

18/03/2012

A big welcome to Nicole Kline who has joined our staff! (Here's her bio from the magazine.) Nicole is a Philadelphia native who loves to write, play video games, and shop for socks. She has a regular day job as a secretary, but by night, she’s the Senior Editor of video game site Warp Zoned, Senior Editor of local game developer site Games in Philly, and a contributing writer at local blog Geekadelphia. She’s also involved in Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia as well as GameLoop Philly, and has recently gotten back into Dungeons & Dragons with a serious vengeance. Her current goal is to write a novel and get super famous.

03/02/2012

www.leafscape.org/press
Arrived!

Press 1: A Literary Arts Journal

10/01/2012

I'm afraid the January 2012 issue is going to be delayed for a couple of weeks more: OX S Lion ate my Leopard programs, making it necessary to revamp the website. Thanks for the patience—you're going to love the next issue! ♥♥♥

13/05/2010

is proud to have a clickable submission manager with rabbit eyes and ears—thanks to Michael A. FitzGerald of submishmash.

Thanks to , Press 1has ventured away from typewriters to enter the computer age of submission managers. To tap into this wonderland system, please use your mouse to follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole. You will receive instructions from there.