Come visit Sweet: A Literary Confection at the AWP conference in Portland, Oregon. This week, from Thursday March 28 to Friday March 30, Sweet booth #10058 is featuring a variety of chapbooks for purchase, with author signings scheduled throughout the conference.
Our chapbook and broadside lineup this year includes:
Kindling by Lisa Laughlin
Lisa will be signing the last of these handmade chapbooks on Thursday from 3:00pm-3:30pm. Don’t miss your chance to get this beautiful book!
Borderlines by Jill McCabe Johnson
Jill McCabe Johnson’s lyric essay, “Borderlines” dives into memory and water. In poetic prose, Johnson fragments a moment in her life, seeking to understand and uncover the innocence of childhood and the dark shadows that ever follow.
Rules for Loving Right by Brian Baumgart
In Rules for Loving Right, Brian Baumgart practices misdirection in that understated way unique to the upper Midwest. These are the final handmade chapbooks we have in our inventory, so get yours before it goes digital!
All of Us—Sweet: The First Five Years edited by Katherine Riegel
If you’re looking for a great poetry anthology, look no further! Katie will be at the booth and ready to tell you more about this book.
Lady in Ink by R. Claire Stephens
Still our most popular book, Lady in Ink is a mystery, the kind that everyone is trying to solve every minute of their lives: “Why did I do that? Why in God’s name did I do that?”
All of these are available in the Sweet Shop online if you can’t make it to Portland this year.
New to the Sweet lineup this year:
After the Night, a comic by Jarod Roselló
This comic details a father’s struggle with the demands of raising his little girl. In a heartwarming sketched style, Roselló candidly retells his own experiences and lessons learned on the importance of patience, love, and family.
Also making a first-time appearance, are the winners from our 2018 Nonfiction and Poetry competitions:
Jaw Wiring: What You Need to Know by Kristine Jepsen (nonfiction winner)
This pamphlet-style prose piece is an excellent teaching tool for explaining hermit crab essays. Using the guise of a medical pamphlet, Jepsen details her own experience with jaw wiring as a treatment for a broken jaw. Each section title and formatting detail alludes to a brochure one might find in a waiting room—but the content takes readers down a different path.
“1943” by McKayla Conahan (poetry winner)
This broadside is created in conjunction with Print St Pete (http://www.printstpete.org/), a community letterpress located in St Pete, Florida. 1943 is a snapshot of a time in world history roiling with conflict and desperation, where the workings of the human heart are raw and real and the ties that bind us together are more important than ever.
McKayla will be signing copies of this beautiful letterpress broadside Friday from 3-3:30.
And if that weren’t all enough…we will be introducing Sweet Aperitifs and their new book from Melissa Carroll, Body of Starlight. Melissa will be signing pre-release copies on Saturday from 10-10:30.
Also available for sale are our Sweet t-shirts and Christmas ornaments. Stop by and say hello to us at booth #10058 and chat with our authors!
