BLACK AGGIE PRESS

experimental publishing house from Baltimore, MD

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Black Aggie Press

Our webstore is LIVE! Broadsides, notecards, bookmarks, patches, and art prints for sale NOW!

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Black Aggie editors Mark & A-B will both be showing their flyer work at this upcoming show at Platform Gallery. Come check it out!

Platform Gallery presents: Starcrossed, an exhibition that looks into the relationship between Baltimore’s visual artists and musicians through flyers and posters.

Following past to present, Platform presents Globe Letterpress’ Collection (MICA) of soul posters which includes prints made for The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, and more. To represent the current music to art relationship, Platform will show the work of A.B. Moore, Zach Inscho, and Mark Wadley. Each artist promotes local bands through their designs or prints. Opening Reception: July 17th 7-10pm  Exhibition open: July 17th- August 10th

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Keep an eye out.. we're busy developing our online store, where screenprints from the Broadsides Project will be available online, plus a unique batch of limited edition printed goods...

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BAP's first publishing project was a great success! We thank all of our contributors for giving us so much exciting material to consider, David Krasner of The Bell Foundry's Castle Print Shop for his generosity, guidance, and support, everyone who came out to the poetry performance and print show at the Holy Underground, and especially our writers who came to perform that night!

The BROADSIDES PROJECT Vol. 1 took the form of ten limited editions of ten screen-printed posters featuring a curated selection of poetry, designed in-house by A-B Moore and Mark Wadley. As designers, A-B and Mark find common ground through poster/flyer design in Baltimore's eclectic music scene, making the graphic marriage of text and illustration a natural starting point for their first collaboration. After reviewing contributors' work, selections chosen served as loose inspiration for the collaborative broadside designs- Mark's classic typographical aesthetic and eye for formatting meeting A-B's sci-fi-psychedelic illustrative style in a poster format. Using the time-tested print tradition of the "broadside" format enabled us to present written work in a visually arresting way, encouraging the cross-pollination between illustration, design, and creative writing we are interested in at BAP. 

Stay posted for prints from the show available for sale online soon, and on view at LitMore's Community Poetry Library.

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More studio shots by David Krasner at Castle Print Shop of work from Black Aggie Press's inaugural publishing project, BROADSIDES VOL.1.  

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From the studio at Castle Print Shop, photos by David Krasner. Trying out a rainbow roll for Z.T. Christensen's poem, Paradox Grace.

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We can't wait! Come check out the work we've made; we're very proud of it!

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Selections have been made and designs are under way! Thanks so much to all who submitted. We're really looking forward to the reading on April 25th and to PMF V on March 8th and 9th.

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We are very excited to be participating in Open Space's fifth annual Print and Multiples Fair! We'll have patches, postcards, prints from both AB and Mark, and the first two broadsides. Come check out our table and support all the other presses, labels, and artists. March 8-9, 12-6pm.

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Here are two intermediary pieces that we're rolling out while we sift through submissions for our Broadsides Project. The patches are available for a $1-$5 donation and can be purchased by emailing us at [email protected].

The beautiful postcard will finished with typeset information about Black Aggie and will be free.

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Hello World/Call for Submissions

Black Aggie Press (est. 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an experimental publishing house focused on designing and printing limited editions of new literary work. We are specifically interested in publishing magic realist, transrealist, gothic, and experimental writing, but welcome submissions of any work that explores the boundaries of form, genre, and “literature” as such. Our first offering will consist of 10 broadsides—designed in-house and printed by hand at Baltimore’s Castle Printshop—to be debuted at a reading given by their respective authors in the spring of 2014. Please direct submissions of poetry or flash fiction of no more than 350 words to blackaggiepress [at] gmail [dot] com by February 1st, 2014.

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