[event:publishing] 2003 DIY BOOK FESTIVAL SETS AWARDS CEREMONY
STILL TIME TO ENTER! DEADLINE SEPT. 25th
John Doe Headlines Gala Literary Celebration to Benefit Beyond Baroque
HOLLYWOOD, CA (September 19, 2003) The 2003 DIY Book Festival has announced that its annual gala awards ceremony honoring independent authors and publishers will benefit the Beyond Baroque Literary Center of Venice, California.
The 35-year old landmark bookstore/performance space/publisher will be celebrated on Thursday, Oct. 2nd at the Derby nightclub in Hollywood with a special night of spoken word performances, music, exhibits, panels and literary readings by some of Beyond Baroque's distinguished alumni, all capped by the 2003 DIY Book Festival awards ceremony.
Tickets for the event are $15 and available by calling the DIY Book Festival at 323-665-8080 or may be purchased online at
www.diybookfestival.com. Entrants to the DIY Book Festival contest are admitted free to the awards program.
The Beyond Baroque Literary Center is a performance and publishing forum at the cultural heart of Southern California.
Formed in 1968 by a group of writers with the publication of an avant-garde poetry magazine, the center has grown into a hub for readings, performances, special events, and ongoing educational classes, including its long-running Wednesday Night Poetry workshop. Among its most important missions is Beyond Baroque Books, dedicated to important emerging and overlooked work that unavailable elsewhere or out of print.
Headlining the DIY Book Festival benefit will be performances by X's John Doe; Paul Krassner, dubbed "The father of the underground press" by
People magazine; Pleasant Gehman, author of
The Underground Guide To L.A.; Larry Jaffe, International Readings Coordinator for the United Nations Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry program; Shawna Kenney, author of
I Was A Teenage Dominatrix. The event will be hosted by poet and spoken word pioneer S.A. Griffin. Other performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Entries for the 2003 DIY Book Festival competition are being accepted through September 25 at
www.diybookfestival.com. The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's books, how-to, photography/art, comics, zines, fan fiction and e-books released after Jan. 1, 2001.
All entries must be in English and have been self-published or issued by an independent house that has published less than 50 works since the entry cut-off point. Competition winners receive cash, travel, software and independent book selections.
The 2003 DIY Book Festival is sponsored by Soft Skull Press, Final Draft Screenplay Software, Alcasid.com, the DIYReporter.com and JM Northern Media.
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