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• Lit Fest Press Releasing 12 Original Creative Works in 2015

  Jane L Carman is raising funds for Lit Fest Press Releasing 12 Original Creative Works in 2015 on Kickstarter! We publish quality hybrid work that redefines genre

  work that might otherwise be deemed unpublishable or overlooked by larger presses.

  Lit Fest Press Releasing 12 Original Creative Works in 2015

  Feature Articles

  Editorial

  University Teaching

  Hybrid Writing

  Theory

  Book Reviews

  Journalism

  Novels

  Team Building

  Books

  Critifiction

  Poetry

  Pedagogy

  Storytelling

  Genre Studies

  Web Content

  Organization Of Events

  Creative Writing

  Future of Literature and Writing

  experimental writing

  Carman Ph.D.

  Jane L.

  Carman Ph.D.

  Lit Fest Press

  Festival of Language

  Illinois State University

  Illinois State University

  Gilson

  Illinois

  Born out of a need to support fellow artists and writing/art that defies genre

  boundaries

  and expectation

  Lit Fest Press is launching with a Kickstarter Campaign and the goal of publishing at least a dozen titles in 2015

  beginning with Amy L. Eggerts SCATTERSHOT

  Martin Nakell's IS

  Joani Reese's NIGHT CHORUS; Bill Yarrow's BLASHPEMER

  and Wendy Vardaman's RELIQUARY OF DEBT

  all to be released March-April. Also in the works are two anthologies connected to the first and second annual David Foster Wallace conferences held at Illinois State University in 2014 and 2015. These anthologies will be collected works presented at the conference and titled NORMAL IN 2014 and NORMAL IN 2015. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/453943873/lit-fest-press-releasing-12-original-creative-work

  Founder

  Editor-in-Chief

  Lit Fest Press

  Multiple

  Festival of language was started in 2009 as an offsite event at the annual AWP conference in Chicago

  Illinois. Growing from less than a dozen audience member and readers

  the reading is currently capped at 50 readers and many more audience members. Past events have been held in Denver

  DC

  Chicago (twice)

  and forthcoming in Boston

  Minneapolis

  Seattle

  LA

  and DC.

  Founder

  Festival of Language

  Normal

  Illinois

  Teaching publishing courses

  marketing

  producing

  and editing journals and small press books

  working with interns and graduate assistants

  founder of the David Foster Wallace Conference at Illinois State University.

  Interim Codirector of the Publications Unit

  Department of English

  Illinois State University

  Teaching \"20 Genres in 15 Weeks

  \" \"History of Women in Literature

  \" and Composition Courses that include traditional and honors sections.

  Illinois State University

  Graduate Assistant

  Taught Creative Writing

  Composition

  Advanced Composition

  Gender in the Humanities

  Literature

  Innovative Literature

  Innovative Writing

  Genre Studies

  etc.

  Illinois State University

  Sutherland Fellow

  Worked for American Book Review

  FC2

  IATE

  Editing

  Book Design

  Submissions Coordinator

  Submissions Reader

  Taught Creative Writing

  Ad Design

  Fact Checker

  etc.

  Illinois State University

  Tangled in Motion

  Forthcoming publication of book n March 2015

  Journal of Experimental Fiction/JEF Books

  Illinois State University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English Studies

  Creative Writing

  Yates City High School

  Western Illinois University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  English

  Creative Writing

  Sigma Tau Delta

  Creative Writers' Society

  Master of Science (MS)