Elizabeth Bradfield to speak at December Luncheon
Gorgeous, Cheap, and Global: Harnessing the Internet for Publishing and Distribution
Broadsided Press was launched a year ago with the goal of putting art and literature on the streets. Founder Elizabeth Bradfield’s background in online community-building as an executive producer with an Internet parenting site led her to a grassroots and serendipitous distribution method: the Vector. Once a month, Broadsided posts a new publication, and volunteers in 24 states, Canada, England and Germany download, print, and post them. Through simple technologies (pdf, RSS feed, email group), a network is born.
Bradfield, speaker at the Dec. 7 APC luncheon, will talk about how Broadsided was created, how it’s maintained, and why she’s chosen this over the more common blog or literary journal as a mode of publication. Read on for more about Bradfield.
Luncheon Information
Thursday, December 7
11:30 a.m.
Golden Lion Hotel
1000 East 36th Avenue
Anchorage
Lunch: members $16; others $18
Reservations: Email Thetus Smith a thetus@gci.net by noon., Tuesday, December 5, saying you want a reservation for lunch. If you will have guests with you, please include their names, too. Or you may call 274-4723 and leave a message.
More about Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, the Alaska Quarterly Review and other journals. You can also find her work in anthologies such as Best New Poets 2006.
Also coming out soon… Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry. Though Bradfield lives in Anchorage and works as a naturalist and Web designer. See her work at pelagicdesign.com. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Breadloaf Writer’s conference. Twice, she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Liz is Web editor of Ice-Floe Press: International Poetry of the Far North.
She’s also the founder of Broadsided Press,, an online grassroots effort to revive the literary tradition of the “broadside.” Broadsides were single sheets that were printed and posted in towns across the nation. Sometimes they were simply announcements or advertisements. You could also find song lyrics, commentaries, cartoons and poems. The broadside was a below-the-radar way for writers and promoters to get the word out onto the streets.
