<![CDATA[What Books Press - Events/News]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:43:38 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[TWo wbp authors reading this saturday, along with david st. john]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:31:18 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/two-wbp-authors-reading-this-saturday-along-with-david-st-john
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]]><![CDATA[Exciting news for one of our latest titles]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:28:28 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/exciting-news-for-one-of-our-latest-titles
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]]><![CDATA[Cameron walker will read from her collection on October 29th]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:25:21 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/october-24th-2025The New Short Fiction Series, Los Angeles' longest running spoken word series, presents How To Capture Carbon by Cameron Walker in cooperation with What Books Press, October 29, 2025 on Crowdcast. The performance stars host and spoken word artist Sally Shore, with guest cast Trevor Davis (The Ripple Effect, How to Get Away With Murder) and Jesse Holcomb (Mourners Inc., Glee). Performance stream begins at 7:00 pm Pacific time. Tickets are $15.00 early bird by 10/17/25, $20 advance purchase by 10/28/25, $25 day of stream. Crowdcast registration required for ticket purchase.
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]]><![CDATA[recognition  for  Dreamer  Paradise]]>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:33:06 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/recognition-for-dreamer-paradiseOne of our poets, David Quiroz, has been given an 
Honorable Mention at the 2025 International Latino
Book Awards, the largest Latino literary awards in
the United States, for his book Dreamer Paradise, 
published by What Books Press in 2024.The awards
have been sponsored by Empowering Latino Futures
since 1998. The awards ceremony, where David
will receive his honorable mention for the
Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Award, will take place
on October 25, 2025, at MiraCosta College in
Oceanside, California. 
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]]><![CDATA[The AWP Conference comes to LA this month!]]>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:33:40 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/an-evening-with-new-authors-from-what-books-pressgiant-claw
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]]><![CDATA[2024 Launch reading]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:46:46 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/2024-launch-readingPlease join us in Culver City this coming Sunday at Village Well Books for our annual launch of new titles. Readings, signings, sales, and more. 
https://shop.villagewell.com/events/42692
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]]><![CDATA[Now readers can buy books directly from us]]>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:51:40 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/now-readers-can-buy-books-directly-from-usHere's some very good news for those readers who want good prices for the books they buy but want their money to go to authors and to the presses that publish those authors, rather than to enormous corporate booksellers. Yes, our books do appear on Amazon, and we provide links that allow readers to go that route when desired, but we're very pleased to announce that it has recently become possible to buy books directly from What Books Press, through a new set-up from our distributor, Ingram. It will take us a while to get all our books linked on the website that way, but do please watch for the opportunity to purchase using the "Buy from What Books" button that you'll find on most of our individual book pages. If you do choose that option, we will get a significantly larger percentage of your purchase price, which will allow us to go on publishing the kinds of books we love to publish, and that you love to read. Thank you!]]><![CDATA[Five new books for 2024]]>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:08:05 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/five-new-books-for-2024
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What Books Press is pleased to announce
five outstanding new publications, scheduled
to launch in October, 2024. Check back here
then to learn more about the books and their authors.

How to Capture Carbon, short stories by Cameron Walker 
Dreamer Paradise, poems by David Quiroz 
Slow Return, poems by Paul Lieber
The Manuscripts, a novel by Kevin Allardice
Father Elegies, poems by Stella Hayes
]]><![CDATA[What books press on the radio]]>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:39:11 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/what-books-press-on-the-radioWhat Books author and KPFK radio host Andrew Tonkovich interviews
What Books editor/author Katharine Haake in this just released broadcast.
​It's a great way to learn our history and the kinds of books we love to publish.  https://www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/performance-edition-featuring-gregory-tower-kristen-leigh-schwarz-gm8p7-4wkwc-86ccc-fmrms-g75gs-frrwf-s49tl-jbrcz-e9zrh-ngej9-nsshd-ez88k-5j4zb-wafg8-key6w-tnygb-dxbyj-jh7d4-d5tnp
 
​​]]><![CDATA[Announcing our first contest]]>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:16:35 GMThttps://www.whatbookspress.com/eventsnews/announcing-our-first-contestIn 2024, What Books Press is celebrating fifteen years of bookmaking!
 
To mark the occasion, we are excited to announce the inaugural
​Gronk Nicandro First Book Prize. This prize is offered in honor of and with gratitude to the renowned artist, known simply as Gronk, whose astonishing work distinguishes all of our fifty plus covers and counting.
 
If you would like to receive more information about this prize and other What Books news, please sign up for our email list here.
 
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