M. Allen Cunningham's Blog, page 12
October 16, 2015
I calmly await a corrective by Annie Dillard, Lewis Hyde,...
I calmly await a corrective by Annie Dillard, Lewis Hyde, Adam Kirsch, or Marilynne Robinson to this confused screed https://t.co/j7XS1vUfbB— M. Allen Cunningham (@M_A_Cunningham) October 16, 2015
August 28, 2015
Three More Days! Every Pledge Counts.
The Atelier26 IndieGogo fundraising initiative closes on Monday, August 31st. That's three more days to make a pledge and/or to help us spread the word to potential supporters (those other avid readers in your life).
If you've been meaning to pledge, there's never been a better time. Here are some things to keep in mind:
Your pledge is tax-deductible (and brings you beautiful books)The use of all funds is overseen by our fiscal sponsor, an external nonprofit arts organization Your pledge will go directly to the up-front expenses of reprinting and promotion necessitated by our new national distributionYour pledge will have a direct impact on the size of the initial People Like You print-run (we want to go big!)Your pledge will allow us to make the most of the opportunities before us and sustain our place in the lives of readers.Thanks to 77 generous donors, we're at 26% of our goal and will have the privilege to send out many books, including scores of Margaret Malone's brilliant debut People Like You. We'd love to send out even more! Click over to see the literary goodies we're offering and the deductions that come with them, and help us make the most of these final three days.
Viva Readers! Atelier26 HQ
P.S. Have you seen the advance praise for People Like You?
P.P.S Our authors are busy this Fall. Are they reading near you?
August 17, 2015
Going for 40% This Week! (New Bonus Perk = $20 Bookstore Gift Card!)
MOMENTUM!
In the 17 days since our Next Big Chapter campaign launch, 60 of you have pledged your support and collectively brought us to the 22% threshold! Your pledges are matched by your moral solidarity in helping us get the word out about our quixotic literary mission. Thank you for your retweets, FB shares, and other links. For all of it, we’re more grateful than we can say.
We have just 14 days to go, and we’re driving toward the 30% mark, but with your continued help in sharing via social media and word of mouth, we believe we can get to 40% funded by this time next week.
Here’s to maintaining the terrific momentum!
THE “READ LOCAL” MUG GOES TO…
We've drawn a name from the hat: Congratulations to supporter William Summers, who receives this week's bonus perk, a stylish “Read Local” mug!
Each week we’ll send out one or more BONUS PERKS. If you’ve pledged $15 or more since our campaign launch, your name remains in the hat!
THE BONUS PERK FOR THIS COMING WEEK IS…
PLEDGE BY: 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, August 23rd
LITERARY VALUES & VISION
I'm just back from the Catamaran Writing Conference in Northern California, where I had the opportunity to participate in a distinguished publishing panel and to share the values and vision of Atelier26 Books. It was my first such opportunity, and I spoke from the heart, outlining my idealistic reasons for founding this tiny publishing operation, and sharing the gratifications that come of forming nurturing relationships with gifted writers. What I said, in part, was that in founding Atelier26 I was seeking to answer a number of important questions, including:
How to publish mindfully? How to publish, as much as possible, from the writer’s perspective? How to publish as beautifullyas possible? How to be small, and still create meaningful, significant relationships with readers? How to be reasonable and sustainable in our aims, to grow steadily, to remain relationship-oriented, and to focus on culture (rather than a “marketplace”)?I was unabashedly earnest and enthusiastic. How could I be anything else? It feels so right to share the good news of this press and its authors. And the coming chapters are so very exciting!
Yours quixotically, in gratitude,
M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26
THE STATS
Atelier26 Next Big Chapter Funding Goal:
$12,000
Amount Raised as of Today:
$2,590 (or 22%!)
Remaining Amount to Raise:
$9,410
Fundraising Days Remaining:
14
In the 17 days since our Next Big Chapter campaign launch, 60 of you have pledged your support and collectively brought us to the 22% threshold! Your pledges are matched by your moral solidarity in helping us get the word out about our quixotic literary mission. Thank you for your retweets, FB shares, and other links. For all of it, we’re more grateful than we can say.
We have just 14 days to go, and we’re driving toward the 30% mark, but with your continued help in sharing via social media and word of mouth, we believe we can get to 40% funded by this time next week.
Here’s to maintaining the terrific momentum!
THE “READ LOCAL” MUG GOES TO…
We've drawn a name from the hat: Congratulations to supporter William Summers, who receives this week's bonus perk, a stylish “Read Local” mug!
Each week we’ll send out one or more BONUS PERKS. If you’ve pledged $15 or more since our campaign launch, your name remains in the hat!
THE BONUS PERK FOR THIS COMING WEEK IS…
A $20 gift certificate to your local independent bookstore! (Goodness, think of the paperbacks!)MINIMUM PLEDGE $15
PLEDGE BY: 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, August 23rd
LITERARY VALUES & VISION
I'm just back from the Catamaran Writing Conference in Northern California, where I had the opportunity to participate in a distinguished publishing panel and to share the values and vision of Atelier26 Books. It was my first such opportunity, and I spoke from the heart, outlining my idealistic reasons for founding this tiny publishing operation, and sharing the gratifications that come of forming nurturing relationships with gifted writers. What I said, in part, was that in founding Atelier26 I was seeking to answer a number of important questions, including:
How to publish mindfully? How to publish, as much as possible, from the writer’s perspective? How to publish as beautifullyas possible? How to be small, and still create meaningful, significant relationships with readers? How to be reasonable and sustainable in our aims, to grow steadily, to remain relationship-oriented, and to focus on culture (rather than a “marketplace”)?I was unabashedly earnest and enthusiastic. How could I be anything else? It feels so right to share the good news of this press and its authors. And the coming chapters are so very exciting!
Yours quixotically, in gratitude,
M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26
THE STATS
Atelier26 Next Big Chapter Funding Goal:
$12,000
Amount Raised as of Today:
$2,590 (or 22%!)
Remaining Amount to Raise:
$9,410
Fundraising Days Remaining:
14
August 10, 2015
You Can Help Us Push Toward 20%!
We’re ten days into the Atelier26 Next Big Chapter Campaign and 16% along, and we think that is tremendous! With three weeks remaining, it may be a photo finish, but we’re confident we can get to our goal. As we move further into this second week of fundraising, please help us spread the word about The Atelier26 Books Next Big Chapter Campaign, via links from our Facebook page, retweets from our Twitter account, or other shares from the sidebar on this page.
Thank you to all our awesome supporters!
OUR FIRST BONUS PERK RECIPIENTS!: We’ve drawn two names from the hat, and it’s our pleasure to announce that supporter Sarah Berry receives a copy of Kyle Minor’s acclaimed short story collection Praying Drunk,and supporter Tracy Burkholder receives Forest Avenue Press’sThe Night, and the Rain, and the River!
We’ll send your bonus perks out shortly, Sarah and Tracy. Congrats!
THIS WEEK’S BONUS PERK: Each week over the course of this campaign we’ll send out one or more BONUS PERKS. As long as you’ve pledged $15 or more since our campaign launch, your name will remain in the hat! This week’s perk is…
A stylish READ LOCAL mug! (Because authors, publishers, and bookstores in one's own community are where it's at, right?)
MINIMUM PLEDGE $15
PLEDGE BY: 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, August 16th
A PREVIEW OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU: This spring, Margaret Malone’s short story “The Only One” appeared in Propeller Quarterly. Read the story entire online, and whet your appetite for the book's exciting launch!
Yours bookishly, in gratitude,
M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26
THE STATS
Atelier26 Next Big Chapter Funding Goal:
$12,000
Amount Raised as of Today:
$1,945 (or 16%!)
Remaining Amount to Raise:
$10,055
Fundraising Days Remaining:
21
Thank you to all our awesome supporters!
OUR FIRST BONUS PERK RECIPIENTS!: We’ve drawn two names from the hat, and it’s our pleasure to announce that supporter Sarah Berry receives a copy of Kyle Minor’s acclaimed short story collection Praying Drunk,and supporter Tracy Burkholder receives Forest Avenue Press’sThe Night, and the Rain, and the River!
We’ll send your bonus perks out shortly, Sarah and Tracy. Congrats!
THIS WEEK’S BONUS PERK: Each week over the course of this campaign we’ll send out one or more BONUS PERKS. As long as you’ve pledged $15 or more since our campaign launch, your name will remain in the hat! This week’s perk is…
A stylish READ LOCAL mug! (Because authors, publishers, and bookstores in one's own community are where it's at, right?)
MINIMUM PLEDGE $15
PLEDGE BY: 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, August 16th
A PREVIEW OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU: This spring, Margaret Malone’s short story “The Only One” appeared in Propeller Quarterly. Read the story entire online, and whet your appetite for the book's exciting launch!
Yours bookishly, in gratitude,
M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26
THE STATS
Atelier26 Next Big Chapter Funding Goal:
$12,000
Amount Raised as of Today:
$1,945 (or 16%!)
Remaining Amount to Raise:
$10,055
Fundraising Days Remaining:
21
August 7, 2015
Why We Publish
Take a look behind the scenes at Atelier26 Books. If you like what you see, consider pledging your support and receiving some fabulously unique literary perks!
May 4, 2015
Celebrate Short Fiction This Saturday at Another Read Through in Portland
>Saturday, May 9, 2015 / 1:30 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham reads from Date of Disappearance in a lineup of fellow short fiction writers Stevan Allred, RJ Samuel, and Evan Morgan WIlliams in celebration of National Short Story Month.
Another Read Through
3932 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, Oregon 97227
http://www.anotherreadthrough.com/eve...
March 31, 2015
M. Allen Cunningham Presents Partisans at Powell's Books, April 6th
Monday April 6, 2015 / 7:30 p.m.
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 972014
A riveting meditation on war, art, ambition, perception, and subversion, Partisans is a lost work by the mysterious writer G.P. Leed, edited according to Leed's designs as indicated in manuscripts discovered after his disappearance. One half of Partisans concerns a war in an unspecified past, the other half centers on Leed himself as he struggles to survive in an unspecified future.
Cunningham's presentation will include audio-visual elements in addition to his reading from the book. Learn more about Partisans .
Here's an audio teaser:
March 23, 2015
Audio Excerpt: A Reading from M. Allen Cunningham's Partisans: A Lost Work by Geoffrey Peerson Leed
Will you join me at Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Monday April 6th (7:30 p.m.) to hear more? Details for this and other upcoming events HERE.
March 6, 2015
Special Pre-Order Offer Ends March 8, 2015
Only three days left to get 50% off an additional title when you pre-order Partisans!
"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand.
The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and
without resorting to prior interpretations is the extent
to which we escape oppression." —G.P. LeedTo use your 50% discount on your second Atelier26 book, enter that book's Promo Code into the box at the checkout: For Elizabeth Rosner's Gravity : enter GRAVITYFor Harriet Scott Chessman's The Beauty of Ordinary Things : enter TBOOTFor M. Allen Cunningham's The Honorable Obscurity Handbook : enter HONORABLEFor M. Allen Cunningham's Date of Disappearance : enter DATEFor Cunningham's The Flickering Page : enter FLICKERINGDiscount limited to one copy of a single title per customer. Offer only applies when pre-ordering Partisans.
Offer expires Sunday March 8, 2015.PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE
"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand.
The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and
without resorting to prior interpretations is the extent
to which we escape oppression." —G.P. LeedTo use your 50% discount on your second Atelier26 book, enter that book's Promo Code into the box at the checkout: For Elizabeth Rosner's Gravity : enter GRAVITYFor Harriet Scott Chessman's The Beauty of Ordinary Things : enter TBOOTFor M. Allen Cunningham's The Honorable Obscurity Handbook : enter HONORABLEFor M. Allen Cunningham's Date of Disappearance : enter DATEFor Cunningham's The Flickering Page : enter FLICKERINGDiscount limited to one copy of a single title per customer. Offer only applies when pre-ordering Partisans.
Offer expires Sunday March 8, 2015.PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE
February 12, 2015
PRE-ORDER PARTISANS NOW and get 50% off another Atel...
PRE-ORDER PARTISANS NOW and get 50% off another Atelier26 title! (details below)
"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand.
The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and
without resorting to prior interpretations is the extent
to which we escape oppression." —G.P. LeedTo use your 50% discount on your second Atelier26 book, enter that book's Promo Code into the box at the checkout: For Elizabeth Rosner's Gravity : enter GRAVITYFor Harriet Scott Chessman's The Beauty of Ordinary Things : enter TBOOTFor M. Allen Cunningham's The Honorable Obscurity Handbook : enter HONORABLEFor M. Allen Cunningham's Date of Disappearance : enter DATEFor Cunningham's The Flickering Page : enter FLICKERINGDiscount limited to one copy of a single title per customer. Offer only applies when pre-ordering Partisans.
Offer expires Sunday March 8, 2015. PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE
"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand.The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and
without resorting to prior interpretations is the extent
to which we escape oppression." —G.P. LeedTo use your 50% discount on your second Atelier26 book, enter that book's Promo Code into the box at the checkout: For Elizabeth Rosner's Gravity : enter GRAVITYFor Harriet Scott Chessman's The Beauty of Ordinary Things : enter TBOOTFor M. Allen Cunningham's The Honorable Obscurity Handbook : enter HONORABLEFor M. Allen Cunningham's Date of Disappearance : enter DATEFor Cunningham's The Flickering Page : enter FLICKERINGDiscount limited to one copy of a single title per customer. Offer only applies when pre-ordering Partisans.
Offer expires Sunday March 8, 2015. PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE
