Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
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Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
· Jan 8
it's official--my first book will be published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.
Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.
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I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
academicpublishingpod.alitu.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success
<reaches, shakily, through debris, to vial of special teaching cocaine>
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success
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On 11/24, @nysnetwork.bsky.social is hosting a free online event for Women in Independent Publishing, the incredible collection of interviews with women editors & publishers assembled by Stephanie Anderson
feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland!
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland!
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
On 11/24, @nysnetwork.bsky.social is hosting a free online event for Women in Independent Publishing, the incredible collection of interviews with women editors & publishers assembled by Stephanie Anderson
feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland!
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland!
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
saw an NYC art world girlie on IG freaking out about Mamdani & unironically saying "freedom isn't free"--absolutely thrilled for her crash
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
saw an NYC art world girlie on IG freaking out about Mamdani & unironically saying "freedom isn't free"--absolutely thrilled for her crash
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me arriving at mamdani's new york
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
me arriving at mamdani's new york
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Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers & nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund that will distribute a minimum of $50 million over the next five years. https://to.pbs.org/4o6lqua
$50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts F...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers & nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund that will distribute a minimum of $50 million over the next five years. https://to.pbs.org/4o6lqua
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bless
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
bless
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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
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New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
archivesgig.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
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Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
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all the respect to the first person who figured out how to cook and eat an artichoke, that shit wasn't self-evident
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
all the respect to the first person who figured out how to cook and eat an artichoke, that shit wasn't self-evident
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien
theamericanvandal.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
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It's pub day (birthday 0?) for Writing Through Writer's Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction! This is a study of how authors have used the archetype of the blocked writer to identify, analyze, and ultimately work through both internal and external constraints on their creative abilities.
Writing Through Writer’s Block
uipress.uiowa.edu
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It's pub day (birthday 0?) for Writing Through Writer's Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction! This is a study of how authors have used the archetype of the blocked writer to identify, analyze, and ultimately work through both internal and external constraints on their creative abilities.
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Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
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actually more common is that I attempt to search all libraries rather than just “featured libraries” and then it forces me to sign in to actually use the catalogue for its intended purpose
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
actually more common is that I attempt to search all libraries rather than just “featured libraries” and then it forces me to sign in to actually use the catalogue for its intended purpose
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A coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation plans to award at least $50 million to nonprofit literary organizations over the next five years through the Literary Arts Fund, a new initiative headed up by Jennifer Benka.
New Fund to Grant $50 Million to Literary Arts Orgs
A coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation plans to award at least $50 million to nonprofit literary organizations over the next five years through the Literary Arts…
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation plans to award at least $50 million to nonprofit literary organizations over the next five years through the Literary Arts Fund, a new initiative headed up by Jennifer Benka.
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
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"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...
Good news! A new fund will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits.
Several charitable groups—among them the Ford, Hawthornden, Lannan, MacArthur, Mellon, and Poetry foundations—are teaming up to launch the Literary Arts Fund, an effort to give the “essential…
lithub.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...
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Despite its essential role in American culture, literature receives less than 2% of arts funding, leaving the field persistently under-resourced.
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Despite its essential role in American culture, literature receives less than 2% of arts funding, leaving the field persistently under-resourced.
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Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org