The Evolution of an Oolie, Part Three: Travis Kremer
We’ve reached the end of this series, my friends. After hearing about the anticipation of a green Oolie and the expectations of a graduating Oolie, it’s time to hear from […]
Marketing on Air
Since fall of 2013, Ooligan Press has been trying to find the best ways to get Untangling the Knot into the hands of readers. It’s the same conversation our teams […]
The Birth of a Book
The launch of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me was marked with the excitement and celebration befitting the hard work and creativity that went into it. The big event was […]
Graduate Insight: An Interview with Kait Heacock
As a 2012 Ooligan graduate, Kait Heacock has made a graceful transition from the Portland publishing scene to Overlook Press in NYC. She is a fiction writer and works as […]
Goldie-Oldies: Nostalgia in Literature and Radio
In Allison Green’s unconventional travel memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, nostalgia is a running theme. Green devotes just as much time to journeying down memory lane as she […]
Finding Harmony: Blending The Arts Of Jazz & Literature
So very much has happened since we last updated the progress of this project. First, and perhaps most importantly, we last mentioned that the book previously referred to as Mastersounds […]
The Vastly Different World of Newspaper Publishing
Newspapers and books really aren’t that different from each other. They both contain words, they’re both carefully edited and designed, they both are marketed and put out into the world […]
Graduate Publishing Programs: A Comparative Glance Across the Country
Portland State University’s publishing program has one thing all comparable programs lack: Ooligan Press, a real press staffed by students publishing real books. But apart from that, how does the […]
Interview with Ooligan Alum Sarah Soards
A former student and Project Manager at Ooligan Press, Sarah Soards graduated from Portland State University’s master’s program in book publishing in June 2014. She now runs her own freelance […]
New Student DIY: Building Your First-Term Class Schedule
You spent months collecting letters of recommendation, cultivating your writing samples, hand-selecting each punctuation mark and every turn of phrase on your graduate school application essay. And now you’re in! […]