Author Archives: AP
We’re coming for you, AWP. And we’re bringing Boston with us.
“Devereux’s choice of imagery has a rich, arresting quality to it…They Used To Dance On Saturday Nights paints an intriguing portrait of faded grandeur and decayed excitement. It is brief, bright and thoroughly readable.” — Christopher Frost, Neon Magazine Read Christopher Frost’s entire review here. Afterward, buy your copy of They Used to Dance on [...]
It’s official. We’ve bought our passes. We’ll be in Chicago for AWP 2012. Also, we’re hosting a reading at Inner Town Pub on Thursday or Friday night.
Videos from the latest Literary Firsts reading are up! Pushcart Prize nominees from the first print issue of apt have been announced! J.F. Lynch was the first to write an apt comparison! We are once again accepting online submissions for apt! More great news is on the way–AWP news, apt V2: Issue 2 news, book [...]
There’s less than a month left until submissions close for the second print issue of apt. Thereafter, we’ll be announcing submission guidelines for forthcoming online content (prose only and 1000 words or less!), but more news on that in October. Speaking of October, the year’s final Literary Firsts is just around the corner, so be [...]
You might have missed Gillian Devereux reading from They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights at Lorem Ipsum Books last week. To make it up to yourself, why not buy a copy of Gillian’s book? Go on. You deserve it. While you’re waiting for it to arrive, watch this video:
“They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights is…a punch in the gut. This small collection of poetry carries a spark of imagination in its throat, and reading the language is reminiscent of grit and fire igniting the page….the fantastical tone carries you to a Tom Waits style of readability that grabs your hair and makes [...]
The following list includes factual evidence we gleaned about you as soon as you landed on our site: You want to go to a party at the end of August. A bookish party. A party where people will read to you. A party where these people will read to you: Gillian Devereux. Carissa Halston. Vincent [...]
You can now buy copies of Gillian Devereux’s forthcoming chapbook, They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights. Eight dollars (plus shipping) for all the carnival delights a sweltering summer demands. Pre-orders will be mailed Friday, August 26. Read an excerpt and buy the book here. Related show Artist: They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights [...]
We’ve been dropping hints about Gillian Devereux’s forthcoming chapbook, They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights, for months. We now have a release date–on Friday, August 26, you can have your very own copy. The pre-sale will begin tomorrow (get your wallets ready!) and, to accompany the fanfare, we will unveil AP’s first book trailer. [...]