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NOW AVAILABLE: The FALL 2017 CCM Catalogue
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NOW AVAILABLE: The FALL 2017 CCM Catalogue

by CCM September 18, 2017
written by CCM

“Bud Smith is one of the only writers I don’t mind hanging out with in real life. I’ve seen Bud Smith sober and I’ve seen Bud Smith drunk. He’s great either way.”
—Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book

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“Scott Esposito is a true American cosmopolitan—full of ideas and void of pretensions. His way of seeing—inquisitive and gentle—his way of writing—honest and charismatic—are a life-line out of our self congratulatory provincialism.”
—Álvaro Enrigue, author of Sudden Death

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“I’ve never read a book like this in my life and I love that so much I could scream. Ella Longpre’s How to Keep You Alive is a genre bomb love letter to identity dissolution and reformation. I think I held my breath a few times when I felt lyric language kissing the fact of a body, meanings coming apart but then reassembling kind of like the dance that creation and destruction make. Or, more precisely, when we go to tell the story of our lives and our bodies we find that what can be storied can be destoried and restoried. That’s the beauty and terror of memory meeting body meeting language. This storymaking will undo you in the best way, and restory you toward a difference you didn’t know lived in you. We could use that right now. It could save our lives.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan

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“Jared Joseph’s profoundly ambitious Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is simultaneously a mystical text, an autofiction driven by Nabokovian madness, the result of a termite artist eating his way through history, a no-holds-barred conceptual hoax, a personal genealogy. It is a book of fear and a book of defenses: from the violent and treasonous acts depicted in the pages, to the writing techniques of montage and erasure, the book is involved in a constant tugging between violence and protection, attack and defense.”
—Johannes Goransson, author of The Sugar Book

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September 18, 2017
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Announcing the Winners of CCM’s #IAMCOPING Contest

by CCM March 30, 2016
written by CCM

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March 30th 2016: Back in the summer of 2015, I had this idea bouncing around in the back of my head. It involved the CCM Mainline contest and testing things out with a prompt that might have been controversial for some. Given my nature to go ahead and tackle a risk, CCM announced the culmination of the idea, #IAMCOPING, wherein the aim of the contest was to answer the question:

The idea of a book titled “Civil Coping Mechanisms” written by an author or collaboration between authors that fully captures the “inner coping” of the press.

What might it be? A novel? A poetry collection? A little bit of everything?

Fast forward to AWP 2016 and hundreds of submissions later: CCM has found itself in yet another tie situation with its Mainline contest series. In a spectacular demonstration of interpretative potential of the prompt, our contest winners, Russell Jaffe and Sarah Certa, composed highly original collections exploring the nature of what it means to cope.

What is a civil coping mechanism? To answer, Jaffe tapped into the nature of community, lit citizenship, and the motivations of life and literary influences. Certa delved into the psychology of the self, particularly the pain, disorder, emotion, and reaches to which one must go in order to find and maintain oneself. Together, both exemplify, and act as bookends to, the full spectrum of what it means to cope with our intensely modern 24/7 tireless era.

Both books will be published as part of the 2017 CCM Catalogue. Thank you so much, everyone that took part in this exceedingly strange contest and we hope you’ll be around for when Mainline reconvenes later this year.

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A Selection from Russell Jaffe’s Manuscript

CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS: A MAXIM

It’s not true what they say, you know,
about death and taxes.

There are a lot of tax loopholes
a few of us escape through.

Everyone is born. And no one escapes death.
Despite our elegies in lives, even our idols die.

That’s why life is all we assuredly know we have.
Right now, you are reading a book.

—
A Selection from Sarah Certa’s Manuscript

They (Civil Voices)

On the first day of fall I am in pieces
again, too many for anyone to hold.
Like a mirror I am shattered on the floor.
I try to pick myself up and cut my fingertips open,
pass like a ghost from one realm
of pain into the next. I know this is what it’s like
to be inside of you, and who’s to say
I’m not? But still they say I’m not. Still
they say boundaries, and I say trust me,
I’m not ever going to touch anyone again.
But still I have some questions
about reality and ownership, the prison
of words we keep trying to chisel open
with other, better words. If I listen
closely enough I bet you I can blow
a hole in the sky just big enough
for us to crawl through.
I write this poem and listen
to myself writing it, hear my synapses click
into tiny galaxies that will eventually form
a halo around both of our heads. I know
this is a form of meditation/hallucination,
but tell me how real I’m making you feel.
What they call a delusion is my heart growing big
in the space of your absence.
I don’t even have to get high
to open myself to the universal cinema
coursing through our lives at hyper­speed.
I’m so organic, it makes me
really easy to hate, so empty, it makes me
really tempting to fill. Is that
why you won’t leave? I feel you
on a molecular level, as if your body left
its heartbeat in me, each of my cells
an echo in mourning. I am trying
to trace the map of our collective love
and where it went wrong. A map
of all the bruises no one believes we have.
I can’t tell if I’m getting close.
I can’t tell what this film in my mind
is trying to say, this carcass of you
outlined in dark silvery green.
Green because I know you’re not ready to die,
which is why you keep coming to me,
why they keep bringing
me to the edge of you
as if I know how to get in.
As if it doesn’t matter what I want.
As if they know what I want.

—

We’re coping.

March 30, 2016
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Quarter 1 2016 Catalogue

by CCM March 11, 2016
written by CCM

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“To read Janice Lee’s new book, The Sky Isn’t Blue, is to remember. […] The book disappeared as it became each second ticking away in my life, reminding me that I will not be able to save it nor will I ever be able to forget. ”
–Chiwan Choi, author of Abductions

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RaGoransson“Love letters. Love poetry. […] Johannes Göransson’s letters to an ex-lover Ra — as well as the letters in this book to the radiator, history, Susan Sontag, America, poetry itself–come from a poet whose ‘heart [and poetics] belongs to a drive-by shooting.’ Reading them is to be invited into the theater of utterly mixed metaphors where nothing follows.’”
–Steve Tomasula, author of The Book of Portraiture

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insignificana“In the spirit of Donald Barthelme, Dolan Morgan queers the every day and leaves a sinister domestic scene behind.”
–Catherine Lacey, author of No One Is Ever Missing

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AmericanMaryx1“Told almost entirely through lyrical fragments and beautifully-observed scenes, Alexandra Naughton’s American Mary is the latest incarnation of the Great American Novella, at once unsettling and moving.”
–Michael Kimball, author of Us

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TheWomenFarmer“Reading Ashley Farmer’s The Women is like reading a cubist painting. […] Even as she unapologetically documents the power that systemic oppression has over our daily lives, her women emerge as brave, hungry, and resilient. The Women simultaneously made my blood boil and made me feel less alone.”
–Megan Martin, author of Nevers

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youwithyourCover“Gary Shipley’s conception of reality is more like our actual present reality than our literary culture’s usual inbred narrative realism can afford. […] Literature almost doesn’t deserve this maniac, and thank hell he’s here.
–Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million

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Mallbratcover“With pop pastiche, lyrical pirouettes, and sage insights parading as ‘confessions,’ these poems position—like a ballet class at its bar pivoting towards the mirror—the young against the old, the native against the new, and the innocent against the cynical to show them how, together, they more beautifully out of sync.”
–Monica McClure, author of Tender Data

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March 11, 2016
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NOW AVAILABLE: The 2015 CCM Compendium

by CCM January 13, 2016
written by CCM
The CCM 2015 Compendium, CCM Compendium

Cover design by Ryan W Bradley

The 2015 Catalogue

-“Today I Am a Lion” – from “TODAY I AM A BOOK” – by Extie Ecks
-Selections from “THIS BORING APOCALYPSE” – by Brandi Wells
-“The Difference Between” – from “HOW TO POSE FOR HUSTLER” – by Andrea Kneeland
-“A Gin Blossum Struggles” – from ASURAS – by Jayinee Basu
-Selections from “THIS MUST BE THE PLACE” by Sean H. Doyle
-Selections from “THE ARSON PEOPLE” by Katie Jean Shinkle
-“Cable TV” – from “SPIRITUAL INSTRUMENT” – by M Kitchell
-“Pramble” – from “OHEY!” – by Darby Larson
-A Selection from “ANTIGOLF” by John Colasacco
-A Selection from “LAST MASS” by Jamie Iredell
-“Avenue C” – from “DESOLATION OF AVENUES UNTOLD” – by Brandon Hobson
-A Selection from “PLAYDATE” by Mark Katzman
-A Selection from “EVERYONE GETS EATEN” by Ben Brooks
-“Haul Road” – from “NOTHING BUT THE DEAD AND DYING” – by Ryan W. Bradley
-“Gloria” – from “RULES OF APPROPRIATE CONDUCT” – by Kirsten Alene Pierce
-“The Installation of Actions” – from “I/O: A MEMOIR” – by Brian Oliu
-“Refrigerator” – from “YOU AND OTHER PIECES” – by Corey Zeller
-A Selection from “THE DAYDREAM SOCIETY” by Evan Retzer

Glimpses from the 2016 Catalogue

-“Poem from Irfan Abrahim’s Last Book” – from “THE LAST BOOK OF BAGHDAD” – by Justin Sirois
-A Poem from “CAREFUL MOUNTAIN” by Sara June Woods
-“Growing Up” – from “ABLE TO/ALWAYS WILL” – by Ctch Bsnss
-“For Shame” – from “IF ONLY THE NAMES WERE CHANGED” – by Andrew Miller
-A Selection from “AMERICAN MARY” by Alexandra Naughton
-“Why I Was Not in New Jersey for Christmas in 1997” – from “TRANSITORY” – by Tobias Carroll
-“Sad Woman” – from “THE WOMEN” – by Ashley Farmer
-“The New Middle Class” – from “INSIGNIFICANA” – by Dolan Morgan
-“There Is No Such Thing as Apolitical Art Dumb Ass” – from “THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS” – by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
-“Moments from High School” – from “REMEMBER TO NEVER GET BETTER” – by Madison Langston
-“3 Ways I Don’t Want to Die” – from THE IN-BETWEENS – by Matthew Simmons
-“Night Ocean” – from “THE SKY ISN’T BLUE” – by Janice Lee
-“Please Tell Me I Am Just Kidding About This, Crumbs from My Sandwich Falling in Between my Breasts” – from “MALL BRAT” – by Laura Marie Marciano
-“How to Become a Better Sociopath” – from “IN A DREAM, I DANCE BY MYSELF, AND I COLLAPSE” – by Carolyn Zaikowski
-“Can You Use that in a Sentence” – from “THE BOOK OF ENDLESS SLEEPOVERS” – by Henry Hoke
-A Selection from “FLESH OF THE PEACH” by Helen McClory
-“Time of Killing off Surplus” – from “YOU WITH YOUR MEMORY ARE DEAD” – by Gary J Shipley
-A Selection from “DEAR RA” by Johannes Göransson
-“Problem of Plague” – from “CHARACTER, A MAP” – by Lauren Hilger
-A Selection from “THE DEPRESSION” by Mathias Svalina
-A Selection from “BRUJA” by Wendy C. Ortiz

 

Click Here to Buy the Compendium

January 13, 2016
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ANNOUNCING: The 2015 CCM Compendium

by CCM December 7, 2015
written by CCM
The CCM 2015 Compendium, CCM Compendium

Cover design by Ryan W Bradley

CCM is pleased to announce the first annual CCM COMPENDIUM. This is an idea that’s been bouncing around in the back of my mind for at least a year now, and thanks to the help of Ryan W Bradley (who created this fabulous hardcover wraparound cover design) and dozens upon dozens of CCM authors, the idea is now a reality.

Acting as a synergy of present and future, the 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will feature work by every author published by the press in 2015 as well as samples of work from every author with a forthcoming publication in CCM’s 2016 Catalogue. What does this mean? It means you can expect writing from:

(2015 Catalogue) xTx, Brandi Wells, AT Grant, Andrea Kneeland, Jayinee Basu, Sean H Doyle, Katie Jean Shinkle, M Kitchell, Darby Larson, John Colasacco, Jamie Iredell, Brandon Hobson, Mark Katzman, Ben Brooks, Ryan W Bradley, Kirsten Alene, Brian Oliu, Corey Zeller, and Evan Retzer

(2016 Catalogue) Janice Lee, Johannes Goransson, Alexandra Naughton, Dolan Morgan, Matthew Simmons, Gary J Shipley, Ashley Farmer, Laura Marie Marciano, Justin Sirois, Sara June Woods, Madison Langston, Carolyn Zaikowski, Tobias Carroll, Joshua Jennifer Espinosa, Andrew Miller, Ctch Bsnss, Wendy C Ortiz, Henry Hoke, Helen McClory, and Mathias Svalina

At the conclusion of every yearly Catalogue, CCM will publish a Compendium to celebrate the passing of the torch, of sorts, from one year to the next. Each Compendium will be published in a high quality hardcover edition, designed to sit next to both its representative Catalogue of titles as well as other, future Compendiums. It’s my hope that by offering this showcase, readers will be able to enjoy some of their favorite writers’ work in one convenient place as well as discover (and anticipate) the work of writers they might not have known about prior to the Compendium.

The 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will be available January 13th 2016 wherever books are sold. We’re coping.

December 7, 2015
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Quarter 4 2015 Catalogue

by CCM December 2, 2015
written by CCM

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“Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.”
— Noel Fielding
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nbtdad“Ryan Bradley’sNothing but the Dead and Dying is beautiful, dangerous, hardcore, and strong enough to break your ice-brittled bones. Here are the losers and the strivers, the broken and the just-fixed, the down-but-not-out and the ones crawling back for forgiveness on hands and knees. These are the people of Alaska, yes, but they are also all the citizens of the world. They are you and me in our best and worst hours. Ryan W. Bradley goes full throttle down an icy road with these stories. GodDAMN, can he ever drive a story!”
–David Abrams, author of Fobbit

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rulesnew2“Alene makes you feel the wistfulness, the longing, the heart-skipping magic of encountering your true love… as skillfully – more skillfully than many writers who work with strictly human characters.”
–Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown and Deadstock

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IO Cover_win-01“Brian Oliu takes the brightly colored retro gaming tropes that have been gathering dust in our brains for 25 years and applies those tropes to an ache that feels positively adult.”
—Gabe Durham, author of Fun Camp

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CCM_Zeller_coverfin (1)“Zeller not only builds worlds but, exploring the cracks between language and reality, deftly makes them strange, absurd, surreal. You and Other Pieces offers that perfect alternation of soberness and absurdity that allows these pieces to worm their way into your head, demand your attention, and then keep on wriggling long after the book is closed.”
–Brian Evenson, author of Windeye

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daydreamcover“A great book … William Burrough’s heirs combing their way through the jungles of New Orleans and post modern life, here in the second decade of the 21st century.”
–David Dictor, Millions of Dead Cops

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December 2, 2015
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#IAMCOPING: A CCM MAINLINE Contest

by CCM October 8, 2015
written by CCM

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October 8, 2015: This has been bugging me for quite some time; this crazy idea that won’t leave me alone. It began as an idea tossed around in a comment thread of one of my Facebook posts…

 

The idea of a book titled “Civil Coping Mechanisms” written by an author or collaboration between authors that fully captures the “inner coping” of the press.

 

What might it be? A novel? A poetry collection? A little bit of everything?

The idea never amounted to much… until now: The latest in the CCM MAINLINE contest series, “#IAMCOPING.” From now until March 4th 2016, CCM will be open to submissions for full-length work that fully explores the aforementioned idea.

Submit your manuscript to ccmmainline @ gmail dot com. The submission should be at least 90pgs, in both PDF and DOCX formats, and accompanied by a cover letter explaining the nature of the work, particularly answering the question:

 

“How does your manuscript fully actualize the CCM aesthetic through its poetry, its prose?”

 

The winner will be announced at AWP 2016 and will be published as part of the 2017 CCM Catalogue.

We know we’re coping, but are you? –Michael J Seidlinger

 

October 8, 2015
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CCM featured as part of Origami Zoo Press’s Heartfelt Goodbye

by CCM October 7, 2015
written by CCM

CCM Publisher-in-chief, Michael J Seidlinger, was interviewed by Sam Martone of Origami Zoo Press as part of the “What Will Fill the Void” series. Click here for the full interview.

October 7, 2015
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The 2015 CCM AWP Presence

by CCM April 2, 2015
written by CCM

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AWP 2015, Minneapolis—Civil Coping Mechanisms will be running rampant throughout the conference with over a dozen authors in attendance including xTx, Brandi Wells, Robert Vaughan, Alexandra Naughton, Lily Hoang, AT Grant, Jamie Iredell, Sean H Doyle, Brandon Hobson, Justin Sirois, Tobias Carroll, Kyle Muntz, Brian Oliu, Dennis Ashley Farmer, and so many more. We are… wait, let’s not say it just yet.

 

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*1837–CCM/Two art Dollar Radio: HERE BE MONSTERS

 This year, CCM is partnering with Eric and Eliza Obenauf of Two Dollar Radio for the bookfair. Head over to table 1837 to say hello and, who knows, maybe buy a book. Consider this the designated m/ m/ zone, where any and all sorts of random, ridiculous promo may transpire. Keep to Facebook and Twitter feed for info. The official CCM/Two Dollar Radio bookfair presence can be collectively monitored here, via this Facebook event, click here.

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CCM will be stocked with the entire Quarter 1 2015 Catalogue—titles by xTx, Brandi Wells, AT Grant, Jayinee Basu, and Andrea Kneeland—as well as Profiled various titles from previous Catalogues. There will also be a limited number of CCM/Entropy tee-shirts (design by Sommer Browning), CCM/Entropy stickers, and an EXTREMELY limited amount of advanced readers copies (ARCs) from Quarter 2 and 3 2015 Catalogues from authors like Sean H Doyle, Jamie Iredell, Darby Larson, Katie Jean Shinkle, John Colasacco, and M Kitchell but in order to obtain these advance copies, you’ll need to take part in CCM/Entropy’s AWP Treasure Hunt.

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(Disclaimer: Andrew WK is in no way shape or form partying in the same realm as CCM)

Yes, it’s true—CCM’s got a Treasure Hunt transpiring over the second and third days (April 10th and 11th) of the AWP 2015 conference. In order to win stickers, shirts, and/or books, you must achieve one of the following (note: once you win, you CANNOT Catalogue go in for another win. One win per attendee):

* Find AT Grant: Convince him to go with you to the CCM/Two Dollar Radio table. Introduce AT Grant to either Michael J Seidlinger or Janice cheap jerseys Lee. Manage a photo. Post to social media.

* Succeed in selling a CCM book to an unsuspecting conference attendee. *must be at the table, within view of Michael J Seidlinger or Janice Lee.

* Spot a CCM/Entropy sticker plastered to convention center property. Take the photo. Post it to social media. Tag Michael Seidlinger and Michael Copeland.

* Take a photo with the author of the book you just bought beautiful from the CCM/Two Dollar Radio table. Make sure to hold up the book, make it visible, in the photo. Post to social media and tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland.

* Sing/scream a verse or chorus from an Andrew WK song. Record it. Post it to social media. Tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland.

* Recite a line at the CCM/Two Dollar Radio table from Robert Vaughan’s Addicts & Basements, Kyle Muntz’s Green Lights, Edward J Rathke’s Noir: A Love Story, Matthew Salesses’s I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, James Pates’s The Fassbinder Diaries, or Shya Scanlon’s Forecast. Must be within view of the CCM/Two Dollar Radio table (also needs to be: recorded and uploaded to social media).

* Capture Sean Doyle on audio/video telling you an anecdote or story. Post it to social media, tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland.

* Get the hug-of-approval from Jamie Iredell – photo proof necessary (aka social media photo upload).

* Meet xTx and manage to get her to tell you “We’re coping.” Proof necessary – your copy of Today I Am A Book must have both xTx’s signature and the words “We’re coping.”

* Meet Brandi Wells and manage to get her to tell you “We’re coping.” Proof necessary – your copy of This Boring Apocalypse must have both Brandi’s signature cheap nfl jerseys and the words “We’re coping.”

* Find Alexandra Naughton. Convince her to walk with you cheap jerseys to the CCM/Two Dollar cheap nba jerseys Radio table and read a poem or two, filmed via your phone and uploaded to social media. Tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland.

* Find Brandon Hobson. Ask him, “What famous writer once dated Charlie Chaplin’s wife Oona before they were married?” Film and post the answer to social media, tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland.

* Contact Gabino Iglesias, get him to text you “We’re coping.” Screencap, upload to social media, and show to the CCM table representative.

* Find Justin Sirois. Get him to give you a copy of Falcons on the Floor, signed with the phrase, “We’re coping.” Capture a photo, upload to social media (and tag CCM, Michael J Seidlinger, and Michael Copeland). Show to the CCM table representative.

* Prove to Michael J Seidlinger that you’re coping – be it a bout of being hungover from the previous nights events or a damn good story. Either works.

* Dress up as Andrew WK and show up at the CCM/Two Dollar Radio. Be convincing. Would be cool if you really were Andrew WK showing up at the table.

* Get a photo with Seidlinger holding up the metal horns – upload and tag Michael J Seidlinger and Michael Copeland.

* Find cheap jerseys a copy of the Holy Bible. Circle a passage that resonates with your current state of being, take a photo, and post to social media. Tag Janice Lee.

* Baby, it’s cold outside. Get out of the conference hotel for a bit and get some fresh air. Take a picture of a bird. Post to social media and tag Entropy and Janice Lee.

NOTE: Look to ENCLAVE for additional Coaching prompts, live updates on which Treasure Hunts have been fully completed, and more. 

 **Get hunting early because once the prizes are gone, the hunt is over.

NOTE – Prizes are handed out by either Michael J Seidlinger or Janice Lee only.

 

In addition to social media updates, CCM/Entropy will be rocking ENCLAVE with updates from contributors from the ground floor, be it random (and impulsive) posts or post-AWP recaps and contests–so keep ENCLAVE in a tab, on the ready.

NOTE: Be smart and keep track of what’s going on at ENCLAVE because updates on the CCM Treasure Hunt will land there first.

#AWP15. See you in Minneapolis. We’re coping.

April 2, 2015
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The Accomplices LLC is a literary arts partnership and media company dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices and identities, particularly writers of color, through traditional and new media publishing, public engagement, and community building.


CCM + ENTROPY + WLP = THE ACCOMPLICES


The Accomplices is made up of the entities Civil Coping Mechanisms: publisher & promoter of kick-ass independent literature, Entropy: a magazine and community of contributors that publishes diverse literary and non-literary content, and Writ Large Press: an indie press that uses literary arts and events to resist, disrupt, and transgress.

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