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The US Postal Service is about to raise the rate for small magazines and publications. The new rates, proposed by Time Warner, will raise the cost for little publications by 30%. This is coming up fast (April 23rd), so please act today!

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Call for Manuscripts

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press is putting out a call for manuscripts. We are looking at one or two projects for 2008. If you have a full-length book of literary-quality fiction, creative non-fiction, or social / cultural criticism, we may be interested in reviewing it. We are not accepting poetry at this time.

Please see our guidelines.

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Coming Events

Poetry from the Streets on the last Friday. 6:30pm at Friendly House, NW 26th & Thurman. CANCELLED!

Jane Glazer will be reading from her recently published memoir, “Cornsilk, Growing Up Green,” on Thursday, April 19th at 7 PM in the new LOOKING GLASS BOOKSTORE location. Karen Anna has moved from her old location on S.W. Taylor St. to a charming new space,(red caboose, waterfall garden, fireplace room, the works!) at 7983 S.E. 13th St. in Sellwood. Just circle along the bluff on S.E. 13th St., across from the library and next to the Grand Central Bakery. Cozy and welcoming. Jane’s first venture into prose from her usual poetry.

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The Eye of the Moon review copies to be available

We will have a few review copies of The Eye of the Moon available in late May. We can’t afford to run off very many of these, but if you seriously want to do a review, and have a publication in mind, we would love to send you one. Just let us know.

Judith Barrington says if The Eye of the Moon,

“Shelley Davidow’s extraordinary, lyrical prose is dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. The short sections read like perfect snapshots of the past, holding a rhythm and deep sensuality reminiscent of French writers like Monique Wittig and Helene Sixous, whose work this memoir joins as a classic feminist tale–a gem of wisdom and beauty.”

We will release The Eye of the Moon in late July.

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press is putting out a call for manuscripts. We are looking at one or two projects for 2008. If you have a full-length book of literary-quality fiction, creative non-fiction, or social / cultural criticism, we may be interested in reviewing it.

We are a very small press with volunteer editors. Because of this, we ask that your manuscript be fairly polished, if not professionally edited. In the rare case of a “diamond in the rough,” dealing with a vital and timely subject, we may be inclined to take on some major editing tasks, but we simply do not have the resources to farm out this work. We are extremely picky about this. Polish it up.

We can not pay advances, and the only author compensation beyond royalties, will be in author copies. In exceptional cases we may provide an advertising budget beyond our standard web promotion. Author sales will depend upon the willingness of the author to sell their work. Even the big publishers generally require this, unless you are a superstar.

Please send us a polished manuscript which meets the following criteria:

• 40,000 to 80,000 words,
• literary fiction, creative non-fiction, social of cultural criticism (no poetry at this time),
• work must deal with an important social, cultural or political issue,
• author must be unpublished in the genre (in book-length form),
• in the case of fiction, we require literary quality - we are not looking for pedantic screeds or genre fiction (ie: “entertainment” fiction),
• include a cover letter with a short marketing plan telling us how you would promote your book,
• manuscript should be in rtf (rich text file) format. Please do not send us word or wordperfect documents. Almost all word processors allow you to save in this format.

If you have inquiries, you may email us:
editors (at) rainynightspress (dot) org