Larry R. Smith's Blog

• Riders on the Storm: A Novel by Susan Streeter Carpenter

  February 26, 2010

  • As many of you know, I direct of Bottom Dog Press, an independent small literary publisher from the Midwest. Age...over 60, so I was around during the turbulent 1960's and early 1970's...in fact was teaching at Kent State University when the shooting occurred. So when I received a big 400 page novel about that era, set in Cleveland's University Circle, Chicago, and Atlantic City, I gave it close ...
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• Bottom Dog Press News: 25th Anniversary Poetry Anthology...out in March

  February 5, 2010

  • We are pleased to announce the publication of our Bottom Dog Press Poetry Anthology, the fruits of 25 years of independent small press publishing. Due out in March. Edited by Laura Smith, Allen Frost, and senior editor Larry Smith. Poems from our 91 books and 65 poets. It's a chorus of voices that carry the songs of Midwest, working-class,  Nature, Buddhism, engaged writing. From the ...
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• Great Lakes Novel Prize to Erika Meyers

  January 13, 2010

  •   Results of the Great Lakes Novel Prize Announced        The editors of two of Ohio's independent presses, Bottom Dog Press and Drinian Press, have announced the winner of the first Great Lakes Novel Prize. Strangers in America by Erika Meyers of Mantua, Ohio, has been selected by final judge, novelist Robert Flanagan. The award includes a $350 prize and publication of the novel. ...
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