The Saint Paul Almanac thanks you for your involvement in our commitment to sharing diverse stories about our wonderful city. Thank you for sending in your writing, attending readings, and financially supporting us. It's because of you that we are thriving!
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What if you could help the Saint Paul Almanac win $1000 just by giving $10? On November 16, Give to the Max Day, you can. Make a donation now by clicking on the GiveMN.org graphic: Last year, more than 42,000 donors logged on to GiveMN.org and gave over $10 million to Minnesota charities in 24 [...]
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What is YOUR Saint Paul? The Saint Paul Almanac wants to know! The Saint Paul Almanac is a people’s meeting space for sharing the life of our city—a literary campfire around which our vibrant community gathers to share a unique mixture of stories, history, events and art. Come join our celebration of Saint Paul!
Print This Post This September will see the launch of the 2012 Saint Paul Almanac—the well-seasoned sixth edition of the indispensable guide book to Minnesota’s capital city and Saint Paul’s unique and eclectic community storytelling hub of record! This year, the 416-page, 180+ photo 2012 Saint Paul Almanac is available in full color for the first time and—another first—includes gorgeous, hand-drawn, poster-size, pull-out maps of Saint Paul! An experiment in democratic publishing, the 2012 Almanac brought together a multigenerational team of 18 volunteer community editors to blind select from 400 submissions the 129 stories, poems, and recipes chosen to appear in the coming edition.
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It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you that Deborah Torraine died last Friday night at United Hospital during emergency heart surgery. Deborah had volunteered for the Saint Paul Almanac as a community editor, hosted slams and reading events, authored short stories for publication and, in March 2011, took on a new role as Director of Community Engagement. Deborah will be dearly missed. She was an incredible force for good in the world.
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The nonprofit publisher welcomes new staffers and expands program outreach despite the continuing economic challenges facing many organizations. Arcata Press, publisher of the Saint Paul Almanac, is pleased to announce the recent hiring of three new staff members to assist in community engagement, fundraising and sponsorship development. David Unowsky, founder and former owner of the nationally recognized independent bookstore, Ruminator Books, Robert Smaller, Jr., with more than twenty years of management experience and award-winning performance in sales, and community organizer Deborah Torraine.
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The process of creating a new Saint Paul Almanac each year is an epic community journey that begins with a simple call like this one—to writers and aspiring writers everywhere—to submit essays, poems, reviews, recipes, and short stories about Minnesota's capital city, Saint Paul. Each year, the call is heard by literary giants, everyday residents, kids, grandparents, journalists, new Americans, lovers of Saint Paul who now live in other corners of the world...and the submissions start pouring in. As pens dart across paper and fingers clatter on keyboards in corner cafes here and around the world, the Almanac gets to work with a team of 21 community editors of diverse backgrounds that include 4 professional editors/writers. Seven of the 21 community editors are high school students.
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It's clear I've missed a few stellar odes
on my way to do the laundry—cracks
in the canon, Li Po and Heaney's gold.
