Imaginary Friend Press

02/01/2016

So I write this with both a great sense of joy and sadness. I am shuttering Imaginary Friend Press. I feel like it was a great project for me to run and I published some amazing books. But over the past few months things changed. Publishing wasn’t a joy anymore. Contending with social media and dealing with writers’ egos became wearisome. I lost my spark. I lost my drive.

So rather than peter out and fade away, I’ll just announce my exit. This has been a great few years. I’ve met a lot of amazing poets. I had a lot of wonderful experiences at book fairs.

So I am riding off into the literary sunset now. I am going to go occupy my time with family and friends, board games and booze, my cats and my cats. It will be a new adventure to think of myself only as a poet and not as an editor.

From me and my imaginary friends to yours,
Dan

01/15/2016

So we clearly need someone who is socially media savvy or not a cat or not me to run s**t 'round here. In other news, we hope you had a good new years and have stopped going to the gym by now!

12/21/2015

So we're sitting in the office (that pays the bills) and counting down the hours until we get to celebrate the holidays. We also hope that you get to have fun and spend time with your favorite pets and family members and friends.

11/02/2015

oh snap, 9 more people need to like us to feel validated!!!

10/15/2015

Imaginary Friend Press is not going to LA for AWP. We would go to LA for the Price is Right, but not AWP. Until AWP gets either a. Plinko b. jetskis or c. inappropriate octogenarians who are dead set on spay and or neutering pets AWP Los Angeles is not for us.

10/13/2015

Anyone want to do some book reviewing for us? We have books. We need reviews. Clearly this is a thing that can happen.

09/16/2015

We're happy to be joining up with Voices on Gaming for a future anthology project! Be there from the start. Be a beta writer or write tester or however you want to put it! https://pressstartgameon.wordpress.com/

an anthology forthcoming from Imaginary Friend Press

08/28/2015

Check out Soul Vang's interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXhYDz_mCs&feature=youtu.be

2015 Horizon Awards – Fresno Arts Council featuring Soul Vang

08/28/2015

Here's Soul Vang looking suave as hell at the 2015 Horizon Awards.

Congratulations to Soul Vang the 2015 Horizon Award winner as an artist from the Fresno Arts Council.

07/30/2015

Oh wow! We're socially conscious! We just are intent on publishing work that does three things. Gives no f***s, kicks ass, refuses to deal with jerks.
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07/27/2015

We're really hoping to have everything around the house squared up so we can read submissions on the porch this weekend.