Sugartown Publishing

August 8, 7 p.m., Tuesday, John Hart, author of Storm Camp released Spring 2016, will read at Marin City Library. He is joined by fellow Sugartown poets Bonnie Thomas and Judith Yamamoto, as well as Sharon Pretti, Barry Peterson, Phyllis Teplitz. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, Sausalito, (415) 332-6159. Cathryn Shea hosts.

Join Pandemonium Press at The Octopus Literary Salon (new venue)

We have updated our website and added a new blog posting. Check it out for events and news about recent book titles: http://sugartownpublishing.com

Once again, Sugartown Publishing, will have a table at this year's Watershed Festival sponsored by Poetry Flash in Martin Luther King Jr. park in downtown Berkeley: Saturday, October 1, from 11-4. Come visit! Authors Gary Turchin, Dale Jensen and Judy Wells will be joining publisher Jannie Dresser throughout the day. http://poetryflash.org/

We are greatly saddened at the loss of Sugartown author Fred Ostrander. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx

November Poetry Salon on William Blake and Call for Submissions to California Poets website & Central Valley Anthology

Book Launch Reading & Celebration 6-8 p.m., Sunday, November 1, 2015 Consignment Plus Home Furnishings 1299 Parkside Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 ... Writer Uses Poetry to Heal from Abusive Relationship Cheri Coleman started to write the poems in Stronger Than I Know in June of 2011 as a way to recover after leaving an abusive relationship. The book chronicles the emotional roller-coaster of being caught in a web of strong, often contradictory emotions. Coleman uses her spiritually-driven poems to express the push and pull of attraction, jealousy, anger, disappointment and liberation as she works to release herself and begin a new life. The most challenging part was making the decision to leave once and for all. It took six times to make the final break. It was not easy, but I am so grateful that I did it! I have met the most amazing people since and my life is in such a different place. When you surround yourself with positive people you start attracting what you want and its funny the minute I started doing things, like writing poetry (I never set out to write a book) it just happened. Cheri Coleman Coleman will officially launch her book and read from it on Sunday, November 1, 2015, from 6 until 8 p.m. at Consignment Plus Home Furnishings, 1299 Parkside Drive in Walnut Creek. The event is open to the public. For more information or to order a review copy of Stronger Than I Know, contact the publisher at [email protected] or call 510.290.6254. To order copies of the book, visit http://sugartownpublishing.com

Lovely article by Sarah Rohrs in the current Contra Costa Times about Sugartown! http://www.contracostatimes.com//crockett-publishing-ventu

Sugartown was voted "BEST LOCAL PUBLISHER: A voice for local poets." -- East Bay Express, 7/22-28, 2015

Deborah Dashow Ruth's beautiful "Joyriding on an Updraft."

We attended the first -- hopefully, annual -- Bay Area Book Festival, more as observers than participants (shame on us, we missed the deadline for having a booth and were daunted by the expense). The well-attended event was held June 6 and 7 in Berkeley, with several blocks of booths, displays and buildings where events and panels were hosted. The organizers are to be congratulated. Sugartown Publishing's printer of choice, Minuteman Press of Berkeley was one of the event's c...Continue reading