This August, two indie presses – Dead Rabbits Books and Southern Fried Karma Press – will embark on a collaborative literary tour across North Carolina in an effort to bring writers, readers, and publishers together to expand and uplift the literary community.
Dead Rabbits Books is a small press based out of New York & Seattle with the mission to publish books that matter in ways that matter. The aim is to make their publishing process as transparent and writer-centric as possible – with a heavy emphasis on the literary community. Having started as a reading series in 2014, Dead Rabbits launched a press in autumn of 2018. Their first title will be out in September 2019.
Based out of Atlanta, Southern Fried Karma Press cultivates diverse voices – literary expressions from Brooklyn’s Williamsburg to Chicago’s Wicker Park. The artist’s path to reach a wider audience is no longer under the exclusive control of corporate gatekeepers that measure acquisitions purely through economic return. Such is the founding premise of SFK Press, whose mission is to publish a million stories speaking to “Y’all Means All”.
Events:
August 5th, 7:30pm: Scuppernong Books in Greensboro
August 6th, 6pm: Bookmarks in Winston-Salem
August 7th, 5:30pm: Sunrise Books in High Point
August 8th, 6pm: Firestorm Books in Asheville
August 9th, 6pm: Main Street Books in Davidson
August 10th, 12pm: Walls of Books in Cornelius
August 10th, 7pm: Closing Celebration at Finnegan’s Wake in Winston-Salem
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