Listen In! Selections from the CLMP Audio Archive

• CLMP Panel—Trying on New Bootstraps: Self-Sustaining Models for Literary Magazines
  (from AWP 2013)
  Lindsey Alexander (Lumberyard Magazine), Megan M. Garr (Versal), Halimah Marcus (Electric Literature) moderated by Steph Opitz(CLMP)
  As the university-supported literary magazine increasingly becomes a less viable model, literary magazines must find new methods for generating support. Publishers from leading magazines share their secrets.
   
• CLMP Panel—Hurdles and Widgets and Dishes: The State of Literary Publishing
  (from AWP 2013)
  Richard Nash (Small Demons), Patrick Thomas (Milkweed), Julie Schaper (Consortium), Max Rudin (Library of America) moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf (CLMP), Jon Fine (Amazon)
  Literary publishing professionals discuss the latest challenges, innovations, and intrigues facing literary publishing today.
   
• CLMP Panel—Party Down: Effective Fundraising Events on the Cheap
  (from AWP 2013)
  Maribeth Batcha (One Story), Paul Morris (PEN America), Eric Lorberer (Rain Taxi) moderated by Steph Opitz (CLMP)
  Dinners and formal wear—learn from party masters about producing effective and novel small fundraising events and strategies on a budget.
   
• CLMP Panel—Getting a Read on Things: Assessing Literary Engagement
  (from AWP 2013)
  Jocelyn Hale (The Loft), Harold Augenbraum (National Book Foundation), Ken Chen (Asian American Writers Workshop) moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf(CLMP)
  At the same time that foundation funding for literary organizations has been shrinking, other art fields have been developing new and exciting methods of assessing engagement. Members of the Working Group on Assessing Lit Engagement share what they've been doing to ensure that literature has its place at the funding table.
   
• CLMP Panel—Bored Board: Rethinking Your Most Important Volunteers
  (from AWP 2013)
  David Lynn (Kenyon Review), Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse) moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf(CLMP)
  Find out how two very different organizations have built and utilized effective boards. Wondering what to do with those nice people whose names are on your letterhead? Learn strategies for rectifying "founding board" syndrome, do-nothing boards, and/or boards who don't give.
   
• A Conversation With The National Book Foundation
  (from LWC}NYC 2012)
  Author Christopher Beha (What Happened to Sophie Wilder) in conversation with Harold Augenbrau, executive director of the National Book Foundation.
   
• Making a Name for Yourself
  (from LWC}NYC 2012)
  Jeffrey Lependorf moderates, with Amanda Bullock (Director of Public Programing at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe), Justin Taylor (author), Kate Travers (Director, Digital Business Development at Workman Publishing) and Rob Spillman (Editor at Tin House). Industry professionals share innovative ways writers promote their work and maintain a presence in their various and sundry communities, online and otherwise.
   
• The Author and His Team
  (from LWC}NYC 2012)
  Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham with his publisher, agent and publicist: Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Gail Hochman (Brandt & Hochman), and Jeff Seroy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
   
• Literary Agents 101
  (from LWC}NYC 2012)
  Julie Barer (Barer Literary) and Renee Zuckerbrot (Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency ) tell you all you need to know about finding and working with an agent.
   
• A Room with a Review: The Art of Literary Criticism
  (from AWP 2012)
  Andrew Ciotola (West Branch), Daniel Torday (Kenyon Review), Mindy Kronenberg (Book/Mark Quarterly Review), Scott Parker (Rain Taxi), Christina Thompson (Harvard Review). Literary journal editors discuss the ethics, mechanics, and value of reviewing.
   
• Phoning It In: Publishing to Mobile Phones and Other Devices
  (from AWP 2012)
  Maribeth Batcha (One Story), Tyler Meier (Kenyon Review), Chad Post (Open Letter), moderated by Steph Opitz (CLMP). Representatives from leading publishers discuss their experiences: the pitfalls, successes and strategies of publishing digitally.
   
• Leaving a paper trail: The Relevance of Print Culture in a Digital Age
  (from AWP 2012)
  Eric Lorberer (Rain Taxi), Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse), Harold Augenbraum (National Book Foundation), Guy Lamolinara (Center for the Book). Leaders in the field of literature discuss the role of print today and what print culture means in an increasingly electronic world.
   
• CLMP Workshop—Budgeting Essentials for the Book or Lit Mag
  (from AWP 2012)
  Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Melanie Moore (American Short Fiction). Two experienced literary publishers share how to project cash flow, set up P&L statements, budget effectively, and more!
  (+Download a zip file with two sample Excel sheet here)
   
• CLMP Workshop—Individual Fundraising Essentials for Literary Publishers
  (from AWP 2012)
  (annual campaigns and major donors) Jeffrey Lependorf, CLMP's Executive Director presents the art of effective fundraising letters, membership campaigns, and building a base of individual contributors through board development and cultivation events.
   
• The Dynamic Duo: Exploring the Author/Publisher Relationship
  (from AWP 2012)
  An honest, thoughtful discussion between authors and their publishers. The good, the bad, and the ugly details of working with each other. With Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press & Marie Mockett author of Picking Bones from Ash and Sarah Gorham from Sarabande Books & Kathleen Ossip author of The Cold War.
   
• Editor as Mentor: Literary Magazines and Emerging Writers
  (from AWP 2011)
  Rob Spillman (Tin House), Hannah Tinti (One Story), C. Dale Young (New England Review), editors savvy in the ways of molding minds (in addition to manuscripts), share stories about some of the relationships they've fostered and the writers they've nurtured, and what these mentorships have meant for their respective publications.
   
• CLMP Panel—So You've Made an eBook... Now What?
  (from AWP 2011)
  Featuring Ron Hogan (Electric Publishing), Gloria Jacobs (Feminist Press), Julie Schaper (Consortium Book Sales) and Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) in a marketing-focused symposium for publishers about how small presses and literary magazines can make the most out of paperless publishing.
   
• Nice Help When You Can Get It: Making Effective Use of Interns and Volunteers
  (from AWP 2011)
  Rose Carlson (Tupelo Press), Andrew Ciotola (West Branch), Stephanie G'Schwind (Colorado Review) and Jamie Schwartz (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) share strategies for creating mutually beneficial working relationships with volunteer labor.
   
• CLMP Keynote Address—
  Size Matters: Big Houses, Small Presses and the Literary Ecology of American Publishing
  (from AWP 2011)
  Gerald Howard, board co-chair of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and the Maxwell E. Perkins Award-winning Doubleday executive editor and vice-president, talks about the coexistence and cross-pollination of independent and commercial publishing in the US. Questions and answers follow the talk.
   
• The Art of Nonprofit Publishing
  (from AWP 2011)
  Executive publishers Press Erika Goldman (Bellevue Literary), Brigid Hughes (A Public Space), Allan Kornblum (Coffee House Press), Fiona McCrae (Graywolf Press), and Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), join Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) in discussing how mission-driven literary publishers acquire grants and donors in addition to manuscripts.
   
• Marketing your books online: Virtual Touring, Social Media, and Promotion in the Digital Age
  (from AWP 2011)
  Kate Travers (Digital Marketing Manager for F+W Media) and Dan Blank (a consultant working with publishers to build their online strategies who has trained hundreds of writers in online content and marketing) outline ways that book publishers and authors can market their books and engage readers with low-cost, high-value online strategies. Learn how you can utilize social media to promote authors, publishers, and create a dialogue with the community and readers you are hoping to reach in the new digital age of publishing!
  
  Download PDF of PowerPoint accompanying presentation here.
   
• Rejection, Revision, Resubmission
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Featuring Sarah Burnes (The Gernet Company), Megan Lynch (Riverhead), Denise Oswald (Soft Skull), and Ira Silverberg (Sterling Lord Literistic), literary agents and editors, discussing the process of first draft to final publication and the changes that a manuscript undergoes along the way, plus a variety of tips on working effectively with agents and editors.
   
• Opportunities for Writers
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Mira Bartok (Mira's List), Elliot Figman (Poets & Writers) and Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) share tips on applying for grants, awards, book contests and colonies.
   
• A Conversation With The National Book Foundation
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Author Tiphanie Yanique (Escape From a Leper Colony) in conversation with Harold Augenbrau, executive director of the National Book Foundation.
   
• Anatomy of a First Fiction Book
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Featuring Katie Arnold-Ratliff, author of Bright Before Us, in conversation with her literary agent, Sarah Burnes, on the trials and tribulations of publishing a first book.
   
• Publishing Now
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Sara Nelson, Book Editor for O Magazine, moderates with Nicole Dewey (Executive Publicity Director of Little Brown), Brendan Cahill (Vice President and Publisher, Open Road), Fiona McCrae (Publisher, Graywolf Press), Richard Nash (Publisher, Curser), and Dale Peck (author and Publisher, Mischief + Mayhem) on new publishing models and challenges.
   
• Making a Name for Yourself
  (from LWC}NYC 2010)
  Kate Travers, book marketing consultant, moderates with Jessica Stockton Bagnulo (Owner, Greenlight Books), Michael Barrs (Senior Online Marketing Manager, Harper Collins), Gabrielle Calcovoressi, (author and Advisory Board Member for therumpus.net Poetry Book Club), discussing how to establish a platform, working with online and independent booksellers, and making the most of today's online and guerilla marketing tools.
   
• 2010 CLMP Keynote Address: "Small Press Heaven: Poetics of the Floating World"
  (from AWP 2010, Denver)
  Performer, professor, editor, cultural activist, and author of over forty books of poetry, Anne Waldman discusses her storied history with independent publishers (with live musical accompaniment on Japanese, Korean ands Chinese bamboo flutes performed by CLMP Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf). Recording compliments of AWP.
   
• Lit Mags in the Classroom: Literary Journals in Creative Writing Curricula
  (from AWP 2010, Denver)
  Kimiko Hahn, Carolyn Kuebler, David H. Lynn and Jay Baron Nicorvo
  Notable literature first appears every month on newsstands, but in this form it is rarely incorporated into classroom syllabi. These panelists will recommend strategies for making the most of the work published in today's literary magazines that determines tomorrow's literary canon.
   
• Life on the D-List: Digital Publishing
  (from AWP 2010, Denver)
  LeAnn Fields, Ivory Madison, Leslie McGrath, Richard Nash and Jay Baron Nicorvo
  Panelists savvy in the ways of zeros and ones—from University of Michigan Press, redroom.com, Drunken Boat, Cursor and the Ploughshares Blog—talk about the hows and whys of this next phase of the published word.
   
• "The Changing Face of Publishing"
  (from LWC}NYC 2008)
  Panel discussion led by Sara Nelson (Publishers Weekly), with Eric Simonoff (agent), Becky Salitan (Houghton/Harcourt), Michael Peech (Little, Brown), Ruth Leibman (Marketing Director, Random House)
   
• "The Business of Being a Writer: Colson Whitehead"
  (from LWC}NYC 2008)
  "Happy Endings" host Amanda Stern in conversation with author Colson Whitehead.
   
• "The Business of Being a Writer: Jessica Hagedorn"
  (from LWC}NYC 2008)
  National Book Foundation executive director Harold Augenbraum in conversation with author Jessica Hagedorn.
   
• "Anatomy of a Book: Dark Glasses Like Clark Kent"
  (from LWC}NYC 2008)
  New School writing program director and author Robert Polito in conversation with author Therese Sveboda.
   

And enjoy selections from Periodically Speaking at the New York Public Library here!