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Spout Press
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A Twin Cities collective-based nonprofit publisher of books emphasizing emerging talent, community-building, & artistic collaborations. Distributed by Asterism Books.

https://www.spoutpress.org/
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We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Alum @alisonmcghee.bsky.social reads along with former English writer in residence Kao Kalia Yang this Wed--as contributors to Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces, winner of the 2025 Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology! @spoutpress.bsky.social
Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces | Concert & Reading Celebration
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August 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Join us the Aug 27th @ Hook & Ladder Lounge for a night of readings from Kao Kalia Yang, Alison McGhee, Casey Jarrin and music from @squinnysquinny.bsky.social, Whispered the Rabbit, and Kith + Kin Chorus to celebrate our MN Book Award winning Locker Room Talk app.opendate.io/e/locker-roo...
July 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Did you love the Scholastic Book Fair? We got you covered! Tomorrow I'll be with @spoutpress.bsky.social tabling at the Book Fair for Grown Ups! Stop by!
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Book Fair for Grown Ups — Inbound BrewCo
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July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're excited to see you at the Book Fair! inboundbrew.co/book-fair-fo...
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This Saturday! We hope to see you there!
Did you love the Scholastic Book Fair? We got you covered! Tomorrow I'll be with @spoutpress.bsky.social tabling at the Book Fair for Grown Ups! Stop by!
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Book Fair for Grown Ups — Inbound BrewCo
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July 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This Juneteenth, we're returning to our title from the late-great J. Otis Powell, a legend of MN writing and spoken word communities. Through the rest of June, his book WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP is 25% off on @asterismbooks.bsky.social Buy here: asterismbooks.com/product/wait...
June 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage,
@slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage,
@slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Last night, editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich accepted the MN Book Award for Best Anthology for “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.” Here is a clip of their lovely acceptance speech. Thank you and congratulations to the 30+ wonderful contributors!
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Editor Michelle Filkins and contributor Shá Cage spoke about Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces for KAXE's What We're Reading Series! Read the full feature "New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women" by Tammy Bobrowsky here:

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New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women
Co-editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich look to reframe the traditional sense of locker room talk and celebrate the privates spaces where women are often at their best in “Locker Room Talk: Wo...
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April 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Spout editor Xander with a brilliant interview of @santisugi.bsky.social about erasure poetry, documentary and visual poetics, writing against colonial legacies, and his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
It was an honor to interview @santisugi.bsky.social about decolonial poetics in his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Our conversation on language's erasure and changing context hits uncannily now in the first weeks of 1/4

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<i>Erasure Poetry as Anti-Imperialism: Chris Santiago Interviewed by Xander Gershberg</i><br> by Chris Santiago - MAYDAY
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February 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We were delighted to talk about our new collection LOCKER ROOM TALK: WOMEN IN PRIVATE SPACES on @mprnews.org today with @ninamoini.bsky.social !!

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Women share stories of connection and support in ‘Locker Room Talk,’ up for MN Book Award
For the first time since 2006, the Minnesota Book Awards include a category for anthologies. One of the finalists is the story collection “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.”
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February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We are delighted and humbled to have our book LOCKER ROOM TALK nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology!! It feels too appropriate to have this collection protesting Trump's misogyny to be recognized now at the onset of another Trump term. Buy @asterismbooks.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
@asterismbooks.bsky.social Included our title Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces in their new blog post of books to look out for 😀

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January 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This Sat Feb 1, we're co-presenting MFA student Chaun Webster, a two-time Minnesota Book Award Poetry winner, talking with poet and Third World Press founder Dr. Haki Madhubuti about self-determination in Black writing, publishing, and distribution:
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January 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We are extremely grateful to be named a grant recipient for the CLMP Small Press Future Fund! We are delighted to be named along with other presses that we admire. Please check out their books and support small presses.
We’re thrilled to announce the 35 grant recipients of the Small Press Future Fund! These publishers, formerly distributed by SPD, will receive grants for projects that will help strengthen operations as they move forward.

Thanks to the Mellon Foundation for its support! www.clmp.org/press-center...
CLMP Awards Small Press Future Fund Grants to 35 Publishers Formerly Distributed by SPD - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
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January 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM