We had a smaller showing at this year’s AWP conference. Kim didn’t attend, having begun her college career in Missouri, she could only think of the weather and the unpredictability of flights in early February in Kansas City. But of course, Madville has a number of authors who have no such aversion to the cold or fear of driving on icy roads, and they did attend and represented Madville happily.
Poet Rick Campbell reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Queen Dolly regally awaits selfies with fans at the Book Fair! Photo by Lee Zacharias. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Wondra Chang reads from her Sonju during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Jenny Molberg reads during the Madvillans Read Event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author and photographer Lee Zacharias takes a photo with authour Michael Gills. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Mike Hilbig reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Anna Sandy-Elrod reads during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Michael Gills reads from The Green Mage during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis reads during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis take a photo with Dolly at the Book Fair. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Poet Rick Campbell reads from his collection Gunshot, Peakcock, Dog at Madvillans Read. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Kari Gunter-Seymour reads during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Writer Cherise Pollard reads during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Former Texas Poet laureate Karla K. Morton reads from her collection, Turbulence and Fluids, during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Writer Troy E. Wilderson reads during the The Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Bruce Overby reads from The Cyclone Release at the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Ulrick Casimir reads at the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Lisa Lanser Rose reads at the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Mike Hilbig reads during the Madvillains Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Jodi Angel speaks during the The Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Poet Raye Hendrix reads during the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Former Texas Poet laureate Karla K. Morton reads from her collection, Turbulence and Fluids, at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Lisa Lanser Rose reads at the Madvillans Read event.Michael Gills reads from The Green Mage during the Madvillans Read event.Former Texas Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton reads from her collection, Turbulence and Fluids, during the Madvillans Read event.Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis, author Lisa Lanser Rose, unknown, and writer Cherise Pollard take a group photo before setting up the Book Fair booth.Author Kari Gunter-Seymour reads during the Madvillans Read event.All the books ready to go to the Book Fair!Author Jenny Molberg reads during the Madvillans Read Event.Author Anna Sandy-Elrod reads during the Madvillans Read event.The view from the conference hotel in Seattle.Writer Cherise Pollard reads during the Madvillans Read event.Our beautiful booth, stocked with books for AWP 2023!Bill Davis sightseeing in Seattle before AWP 2023.Author Stephanie Powell Watts during the Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel.Michael Gills speaks during the Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel.Sightseeing in Seattle before AWP 2023.Poet Raye Hendrix reads during the Madvillans Read event.Sightseeing in Seattle before AWP 2023.Cat Smith and Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis pose in front of the Madville Publishing booth poster at AWP 2023.Author Bruce Overby reads from The Cyclone Release at the Madvillans Read event.Francine Rodriguez laughs as Jodi Angel speaks during the The Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel.Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Author Jodi Angel reads at the Madvillans Read event. Photo by Lee Zacharias.Cat Smith and author Francine Rodriguez eat dinner at Ristorante Barolo Ristorante.Former Texas Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton and Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis pose in front of the Dolly poster. Karla is holding a stack of copies of her poetry collection, Turbulence and Fluids.Madville Publishing founder Kim Davis and author Stephen Powers take a photo in front of the Dolly poster.Lana K. W. Austin, author of Like Light, Like Music, reads at the Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press.Author Susan O’Dell Underwood reads at the Madvillans Read event.Author Mike Hilbig reads during the Madvillains Read event.Author Francine Rodriguez gets a photo with the Dolly poster at the AWP Book Fair.Francine Rodriguez reads from A Woman’s Story during the Urban and Rural: Writing about Poverty panel.
4:00 PM-5:30 PM – Offsite Reading at The Chieftain Irish Pub: Madville Publishing, Iris Press, and Stephen F. Austin State University Press (Readings from Lana K. W. Austin, Rick Campbell, Mike Hilbig, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, karla morton, Bruce Overby, Susan O’Dell Underwood, Lee Zacharias & more!)
6:00-7:30 PM –Meet and Greet the Madvillans
Reception in the Ballard Ballroom, Sheraton Grand Seattle, Third Floor, Pike Street Tower Madville Publishing invites friends and those who would like to become friends to join us for an opportunity to meet our authors. There will be libations!!
Friday, March 10, 2023
9:00-5:00 PM – in the book fair (Booth number 722)
The Columbia Room, Sheraton Grand, Seattle, Fourth Floor, Union Tower
(Readings from Jodi Angel, Lee Zacharias, Maurice Ruffin, Cherise Pollard, Lana Austin, Michael Gills, Francine Rodriguez, karla k. morton, Wondra Chang, Rick Campbell, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Makayla Gay, Bruce Overby, Susan O’Dell Underwood, Mike Hilbig, Dion O’Reilly, Hillary Behrman, Kim Addonizio, Anna Sandy-Elrod, Raye Hendrix, Jenny Molberg, Kim Davis, Lisa Rose, and Gigi Marino.)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
9:00-5:00 PM – in the book fair (Booth number 722)
While class is often the backdrop to a story rather than the main point, writing about poverty is often compartmentalized. Grit Lit, Street Lit, Kmart fiction, even noir, there seems to be a place to put this work rather than actually looking at it as writing about the human condition. This panel brings together prose writers from rural and urban settings to discuss commonalities, differences and the bigger picture when class is a major factor in the work.
Have a look at our Spring 2023 books, & help us launch them at AWP23
original cover art by Andrew Dunn, “Tessia and the Dragon”
Madville Publishing will be in attendance at AWP in person this year. We also recorded a virtual panel so you can see a few of us even if you can’t attend in person. Our booth is #1044… near the food court! This page shows our schedule.
We will update here with information about author book signings. We didn’t get that info in in time for the official program listings.
Publishing with a small press with a limited promotion budget can leave an author feeling adrift and alone when it comes to advertising and promoting their books. Some (who have the resources to do so) hire outside publicists. This panel seeks to answer some hard questions about how to find the right publicist to promote your work and how to gauge your success. What should a publicist cost? How many books will the author have to sell to cover that cost? Is it worthwhile in the long run?
Kimberly Davis(moderator) is the director at Madville Publishing, a nonprofit independent press based in Denton, Texas. Kim writes mostly fiction and has an MFA from SHSU. She spent five years at Texas Review Press.
Caitlin Hamilton Summie is the former marketing director of MacMurray & Beck and of BlueHen Books/Penguin Putnam. At each firm, she also managed imprint profile and directed all publicity, hardcover and paperback. In 2003, she founded Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity.
Gigi Marino is a senior publicist with Otter PR in Orlando, Fla. She has more than twenty-five years of experience working in higher education as a writing lecturer, magazine editor, photography director, and director of communications, She also is a poet and essayist.
Lee Zacharias is the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and four novels. Her work has received IPPY silver medals for fiction and nonfiction, two Sir Walter Raleigh Awards, the Phillip H. McMath Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Michael Simms founded Autumn House Press in 1998 and served as editor in chief until 2015 when he started Vox Populi, a public sphere for politics and poetry. His poetry collections include American Ash and Nightjar, and he’s been the lead editor of over 100 published books.
Madville On Stage
12:10pm – 1:25pm on Friday March 25, 2022 Michener Center for Writers Bookfair Stage Hall D & E, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 200 Level
Cover art by Cliff Wockenfuss/Zito Art, PittsburghCover design by Jacqueline DavisCover photo by Michael KunzingerCover by CrowcrumbsCover art by Angelyn Debord
This reading brings together poetry, essay, creative nonfiction, and fiction from recently released or upcoming Madville titles. We’ve invited several of our authors who enjoy performing to read on the AWP Bookfair stage. Each of these talented writers/performers has a new book coming out in time to share at AWP22. They are:
· Gerry LaFemina
Gerry LaFemina’s poetry collections include Baby Steps in Doomsday Prepping, The Story of Ash and Little Heretic. His essays on prosody, Palpable Magic, came out in 2015 and Kendall Hunt recently released his textbook, Composing Poetry: A Guide to Writing Poems and Thinking Lyrically. He teaches at Frostburg State University and in the Carlow University MFA Program. https://gerrylafemina.com/ His latest collection is creative nonfiction in flash format, THE PURSUIT: A MEDITATION ON HAPPINESS (Madville, Feb 2022)
· Mike Hilbig
Mike Hilbig graduated in 2017 from Sam Houston State University with an MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing. He lives in Houston, TX and teaches English at the University of Houston-Downtown and at Lone Star College. His new collection of short stories is JUDGMENT DAY & OTHER WHITE LIES (Madville, Feb 2022)
· Lee Zacharias
Lee Zacharias is the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and four novels. Her work has received IPPY silver medals for fiction and nonfiction, two Sir Walter Raleigh Awards, the Phillip H. McMath Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her most recent novel is WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD THIS COULD BE (Madville, Jun 2021)
Pauletta Hansel is a poet, memoirist and teacher who is author of eight poetry collections including Friend, Coal Town Photograph and Palindrome, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian Poetry. Her writing has been widely anthologized and featured in print and online journals including Oxford American, Rattle, The Writer’s Almanac, American Life in PoetryandVerse Daily, the Appalachian Journal, Appalachian Review, Cincinnati Review, and Still: The Journal, among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate, 2016-2018 and for ten years served as managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Read Pauletta’s work and hear her read her own work on her website, paulettahansel.wordpress.com. Her latest collection is Heartbreak Tree (Madville, March 2022)
