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Forever stoked I have so many rad and talented pals. I got the new Trace Ramsey - All I Want to Do Is Live - in the mail the other day, and I picked up Korye Champion’s new book - Counting Shadows - when I saw him last Saturday. You can preorder Trace’s book here, and Korye’s book can be purchased here.
Help Trace Ramsey (author) and Pioneers Press (publisher) print a new book of creative nonfiction, essays, and poetry.
hey! i just made a song with words from Trace Ramsey's zine Quitter Ten, which you can listen to below~~~
::: https://sweatermouth.bandcamp.com/…/age-forty-one-winters-o… :::
but the main event is that Trace and Pioneers Press have a crowdfunding campaign going to help fund his latest book of creative nonfiction, All I Want to do is Live (find that link way up above!). my experience of Trace's work is visceral and dreamy all at once; he gives snapshots of existence that have left me feeling less alone + more amazed. Pioneers Press is an amazing organization (distro, publisher, farm, animal sanctuary, home to good folx doing good work, and on and on and on~) at Hard Fifty Farm in rural Kansas. this project is gonna help them both tremendously + give life to this book.
TL;DR - i made a song with words from a great writer named Trace + Trace is crowdfunding to get his book published so help if you can + click the links !
contest loot from @wearepioneerspress came today. amazing stuff from julia eff, @gnade and @quittercarryingcapacity ! feeling too lucky thanks y'all! 🌱 (at Tracie's Community Farm, LLC)
Gonna be announcing the winners of our Quitter/Trace Ramsey contest in a few minutes but for now check out a review review by Jack Cheiky of Trace’s latest!
http://syndicatedzinereviews.blogspot.com/2016/04/quitter-ten.html
Quitter / Ten 52 pages, mini $6 + postage I really loved this. I was pretty sure I'd read an earlier issue, but when looked it up I couldn't find anything. As I was eking out words that might adequately praise this work, I got distracted looking over a book of excerpts from previous issues that had come in the same package. On the back cover were the requisite blurbs. One struck me as being precisely what I would say. Then I realized I had written it for a review in an issue of Zine World. "The subject matter is intimate and stark. With precision wordsmithing, Trace ventures into parts of the emotional landscape we normally avoid, and engages us by tapping the common well of humanity with an unflinching examination of his personal experience. Inspirational." All of the above still holds true, though this issue is perhaps a little less stark. Lovely art inserted in unexpected places. Some of the typeface is art as well. It goes forward and backward in time to draw together bits of the writer's life and weave them into an unlikely something. The center point being a house that isn't there anymore. A memory of a house that is a depository for family nestolgia. A house that is now just part of a corn field. The continual and eventual wiping away of the past is juxtaposed against the unfolding the now in the form of his wife and baby girls. Thoughts of mortality are the middle ground between his past and future. Stories of birds told to his older girl are the common thread that stitch it all together. I suspect I would be enthralled by anything this guy wrote. Order http://pioneerspress.com/products/quitter-10
Adding a third prize in our Trace Ramsey/Quitter zine contest!
New details:
Hey friends!We’re running a contest from now until the end of the week based around the work of Quitter author Trace Ramsey.
The rules are simple. Post a photo (here or elsewhere) of yourself or an animal posing with one of Trace’s zines or his book, tag it “traceramsey” or email us a link so we can find it, and you’ll be put in the drawing to win:
1) First prize! One copy of a limited-run, signed edition of Quitter #10 printed on beautiful cotton paper, a copy of Trace’s book we published, Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying, a copy of his long out-of-print zine Gravity Kills, a copy of the Julia Eff book we published, Every Thug is a Lady, Adam Gnade’s new short novel Locust House, and EVERYTHING published by Pioneers Press and its imprints for ONE FULL YEAR.
2) Second prize! One copy of a limited-run, signed edition of Quitter #10 printed on beautiful cotton paper, a copy of Trace’s book we published, and a copy of the long out-of-print zine Gravity Kills.
3) Third prize! One copy of Trace’s book we published, Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying, along with a gift package of new stickers!
Contest ends at 5pm E.S.T. TODAY!
Reminder: my pals over at @wearepioneerspress are running a contest. Here's a picture of me looking hypnotized with a really great zine in my hand.
My pals over at @wearepioneerspress are running a contest right now, and this is my entry. Trace writes some of the best zines I’ve ever read. Get into it.
As a side note, the only book the little cutie in this picture has ever destroyed was Trace’s Good Luck Not Dying. He ate the cover and first few pages of publishing notes and introductions, but stopped right at the beginning of the first section of writing. Guess he’s a fan!
Here’s a look at the fancy limited-edition Quitter zine you can win in our contest. Enter here. You can also get the regular version here.
