WORKISTS

Publisher ● Jim LaMaquina (Jim’s commercial)

Executive Director ● Elijah Mac Jenkins

Senior Editor ● Deena Drewis

Assistant Editor - Prose/Poetry ● Josh Neely

Assistant Editor - Outreach ● Steve Owen

Editorial Assistants ●

Heather Beatty

Lindsey Clemons

Alyssa Knickerbocker

Allison Moen

Editor at Large ● Andy Jones

Online Acquisitions Editor ● Andrew O. Dugas

Press & Rights Manager ● Erin Hosier

Artist in Residence ● Marisa Reisel

Artist in Residence ● Raul Gallardo

Artist in Residence ● Miles Kittredge

Software ● Nathan Smith

Don Draper ● Garret Van der Boom

Assistant ● Lexus Franklin

Intern ● Amy Horton

HISTORY

Elijah Jenkins founded Flatmancrooked as a fiction e-zine in 2007. In March of 2008, Elijah met James Kaelan. Elijah and James partnered to re-launch Flatmancrooked as a full-service, independent online and print publishing house. They intended to do this without taking out any loans and without selling any advertising for their anthology. They received a $5,000 grant from a local patron of the arts, and in September of 2008, Flatmancrooked published it’s first anthology, First Winter, which included the work of Ha Jin, and a new Jorge Luis Borges translation. In August 2008, Deena Drewis began working at Flatmancrooked as an intern. She quickly moved up the ranks to Senior Editor, and in April 2009 was offered a full partnership in the business. Since that time, Flatmancrooked has held events and readings on both coasts, published three more print books, has four in various stages of production, has been asked to speak at myriad universities, and has partnered on various ventures with the likes of McSweeney’s, Opium, AWP, and SxSW. In 2010, Flatmancrooked will launch the Zero Emission Book—a project that will take viable and green publishing to a brand new level.

WHAT WE DO

Flatmancrooked publishes a fiction and poetry anthology, novellas under the New Novella imprint, and novels under the HyperLimited imprint. Flatmancrooked operates the Launch program, an innovative, front-end monetization model for emerging authors. Flatmancrooked very actively tours its authors and reaches its patrons through various events. Flatmancrooked awards three prizes annually: the Fiction Prize (debut judge: Aimee Bender), the Poetry Prize (debut judge: Mary Karr), and the New Novella Prize (judged by the Flatmancrooked editorial staff). Flatmancrooked maintains an extremely active online magazine, featuring book reviews, articles and commentary on the publishing industry, and new short fiction.

CONTACT

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For fiction inquiries, write to [email protected]. For non-fiction inquiries, write to [email protected]. For questions about marketing, underwriting, or for inquiries about scheduling interviews/readings with any of our authors, write to [email protected]. For questions about donating to Flatmancrooked, for comments about content and structure, or for anything else that doesn’t fit into a category above enumerated, write to [email protected].

FOR CRITICS, MEDIA OUTLETS, and BOOK BUYERS

The following links (if any links follow) lead to Flatmancrooked’s Digital Galleys. We’ve decided to house PDF proofs of all books published by Flatmancrooked for critical and media review, as well as bookstore, library, and university perusal. All PDF files are password protected and displayed in full (excepting those works whose authors or responsible estates explicitly prohibit online archival). To receive the password for a digital proof, please send an email to [email protected], containing the following: name, title, business/institution (if applicable), phone number, which publication you’d like to preview, and your reason for the preview request. Pending approval of management, Flatmancrooked will deliver, within two days, the pertinent password for the requested document, either by telephone or by email.

We welcome requests for hardcopies of all publications for critical and media review and will fulfill requests so long as electronic galleys remain available. Flatmancrooked management reserves all discretionary rights for the allocation of electronic access to their publications.

All rights are reserved for the Flatmancrooked Digital Galleys. Please do not print, save, copy, or otherwise duplicate any portion of the galley. Please do not give access to other unauthorized parties, or disseminate the password. Authors may choose at anytime to have their work removed from a Digital Galley. Digital Galleys will be removed shortly after their respective national print release dates.