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Put Me Down, I'm Terrible Featured on Readers' Favorite

Put Me Down, I’m Terrible Featured on Readers’ Favorite

Reviewed by Rich Follett for Readers’ Favorite   Put Me Down, I’m Terrible by Katie Lewington is a smart and sassy collection of laser-precise poems celebrating the importance of each moment in everyday life. Finding the extraordinary in the mundane is one of the prime directives of nearly all contemporary poets; in Put Me Down, I’m Terrible, Lewington exceeds all expectations in this regard.…

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Monville Reviews Scraped Knees

Monville Reviews Scraped Knees

Jamie Monville writes:   “Kristine Brown’s debut chapbook Scraped Knees is obsessed with moments. Conversations and daydreams litter this collection and the speaker of these poems is always vacillating somewhere in between the way she feels about it, the way she thinks others feel about it, and the way she thinks she ought to feel about it. She’s interested in the edges of these perspectives and…

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DRM-Free

Trendy restaurants love selling “farm-to-table” food. Ugly Sapling, a trendy publisher, is all about “press-to-shelf” media (or “laptop-to-eReader”). As such, we produce 100% original, DRM-free, and ethically-sourced fiction. We’re better for your mind than free-range eggs or grass-fed beef. But what does “DRM-free” mean?     DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It’s a policy that gives…

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Flavia Reviews Scraped Knees

Flavia Reviews Scraped Knees

This review was written by Hermione Flavia and originally shared on her blog, CravenWild.     Poetry is a funny thing. It’s kind of forced on us in school, and becomes something we love or hate, something that bores us to tears or moves us deeply. It’s also something that, well, a lot of modern hipsters like to think they’re poets, right? Poems are a lot like man-buns, lumberbeards, Mac laptops…

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Even the best stories and poems read better by candlelight #poetry #stories #indiepress #readbycandlelight

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Review of Scraped Knees

Review of Scraped Knees

Cammie Finch reviews Scraped Knees by Kristine Brown:   Scraped Knees, Kristine Brown’s newest poetry collection, is a celebration of childhood wonder and curiosity. It’s a celebration of the lightness and darkness and the gray complexities that make up the phenomenon of “growing up.”   Brown is a scientist, creating her own poetic compounds by morphing two unique subjects into one novel piece of…

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Scraped Knees

We’re pleased to announce Scraped Knees, a collection of stories and poems, by Kristine Brown.     In her debut chapbook, Kristine Brown captains thirty-nine beautifully crafted poems and stories that bite with honesty. Scraped Knees is an exploration in sensory details; an incense-thickened yet clear-eyed look into the often hazy world around us. Brown scratches at the surface of tender…

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Put Me Down, I'm Terrible

Put Me Down, I’m Terrible

We’re pleased to announce a new chapbook by Katie Lewington! In Put Me Down I’m Terrible, Katie Lewington explores mundanity: a couple making love in a car, a woman preparing for a date, a donut shop. But to say these occurrences are mundane is only half the story. In poetry as achingly familiar as it is uncharted, Lewington feeds readers scenes of fumbling vulnerability, teeth-clenching honesty,…

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We’re pleased to announce Katie Lewington’s Put Me Down, I’m Terrible!

Read it for free on Gumroad: http://bit.ly/putme-g

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Solstice Review: Summer 2016

Solstice Review: Summer 2016

Our first Solstice Review is on the shelf! Read prose and poetry from 7 authors in Ugly Sapling’s first lit review.     An accident during the summer of 1969. A home that’s become a breeding ground for spiders, fed on dirty dishes and discontent. Two teenaged girls, one aching to grow up, the other bound down by secrets. A couple struggling to stay together under the pressure of a parental…

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The Book of Apparitions

The Book of Apparitions

Ugly Sapling is excited to announce The Book of Apparitions by Jacob Steven Mohr!     Jacob Steven Mohr’s debut novel follows imaginative, empathetic Marshall Brithaus across twelve years of his life as the stressors of growing up – both natural and supernatural – drive him to his physical and emotional limits. Over the course of his life, Marshall encounters four highly unusual characters: a…

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Last Chance To Submit To Solstice Review

Last Chance To Submit To Solstice Review

There’s less than a week to go until the deadline to submit material for our Solstice Review, but Ugly Sapling is still seeking and encouraging submissions! Send us prose of around 2,000 to 6,000 words and poetry of any length by May 22 for an opportunity to be featured in our first ever publication of longer format creative work. Click on the submit tab to send us something today! 

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Cammie Finch reviews "all girls"

Cammie Finch reviews “all girls”

Review of Elizabeth Ribar’s “all girls will not feel pretty at some point” By Cammie Finch   Elizabeth Ribar’s debut chapbook of poems is the kind of book which demands to be read again and again. Ribar’s poetic voice is so strong, the only way to read her beautiful product is aloud. Her voice stretches through the pages, punches through walls, flosses through teeth, and covers the generations,…

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Submit today to our Solstice Review

Submit today to our Solstice Review

Ugly Sapling is still seeking submissions for our Solstice Review! We’re looking for prose of around 4,000 to 6,000 words and poetry of any length. Work must be original, compelling, and free of grammatical errors. Every submitter will receive a free physical copy of the Solstice Review, and a free Ugly Sapling postcard. Head over to our website and submit today!

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all girls will not feel pretty at some point 

Ugly Sapling is excited to announce the publication of all girls will not feel pretty at some point by Elizabeth Ribar!     Featuring twenty poems by Elizabeth Ribar, all girls will not feel pretty at some point is a gripping debut anthology that grapples with issues of identity, violence, femininity and coming of age. The poems weave through the intersections of life, from the ache of growing up…

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Solstice Review Seeking Submissions Ugly Sapling is now seeking submissions for our first Solstice Review. We’re looking for longer format prose of around 2,000 to 6,000 words and poetry of any length to fill the pages of this seasonal review, set to release on the summer solstice.