I’m starting something new. It’s called Awkward Press. I don’t really know what it’s going to be yet, but it will have something to do with words. This is the URL: www.awkwardpress.com. (FYI: Contemporary Press still exists, we’re just on hiatus while we clear up some monkey madness with our distributor.) We’re having a coming out party/reading in New York on Monday. I think it’s going to be pretty cool. If you’re in New York, please come!

Details:
Awkward Press Coming Out Party
Monday, February 11th
7-9 PM
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St. btw. Bowery & 2nd Ave.
Free

More details:
Join Awkward Press, a new publishing experiment from the creators of The Pumpkin Pie Show, A Very Merry Unauthorized Scientology Pageant, and Contemporary Press, for a night of reading, music, and future regrets. Featured readers include:

Clay MacLeod Chapman: creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel.

Jeffrey Dinsmore: cofounder of Contemporary Press and author of the novels Johnny Astronaut (as Rory Carmichael) and I, An Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey. Occasional rock star. What not can be found at www.jeffreydinsmore.com. You do not have to click this link because you are already here.

Kyle Jarrow: OBIE Award winning playwright and member of rock sensations The Fabulous Entourage and Sputnik Sweetheart, among many other talents. Kyle’s play Armless won the Overall Excellence Award at the New York International Fringe Festival. Upcoming projects include writing the music for Hostage Song which will premiere April 2008 at the Kraine Theater. More info at http://www.landoftrust.com.

Tony O’ Neill: author of Seizure Wet Dreams, Songs from the Shooting Gallery: Poems 1999-2006, and the underground classic Digging the Vein. He has two new works coming out in 2008—Down and Out on the Murder Mile (the sequel to Digging the Vein, available on Harper Perennial) and Hero of the Underground (the memoir of former NFL player Jason Peters, available on St. Peters Press). More info can be uncovered at www.tonyoneill.net.

Lou Perez (Luis Amate Perez): writer and performer whose short stories have appeared in Fiction and will be published in the forthcoming anthologies: Born in the 1980s (Route, 2008) and Rejected (Villard, 2009). You can check out his sketch comedy duo at gregandlou.com.

Rachel Shukert: Rachel Shukert is an author and playwright in New York City. Her first book, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard in April 2008.

With a song or two by Jeffrey D. Probably two.