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About Slumgullion

Slumgullion is a publishing collaboration project that strives to create
community, empower young voices, and promote literacy and the humanities
through the book arts and zines. We have a bicycle-powered bookmobile, host
live Typing events, support the Rapid Memo Typing Service, and we just set
up a physical location at the new Zootown Arts Community Center on the north
side of Missoula. We are working to gather funding and equipment to create
our dream: a community print shop that offers photocopying and fine arts
printing services while also providing classes, writing workshops, and
creative literacy events for all ages.

Make and distribute books, and build community in the process. Money we make from selling Slumgullion books goes back into making more books. If we select your book for printing and distributing, it will be sold at Haus Frau, at The Zootown Arts Community Center, on our Bookmobile, and at events around Missoula. We tend to do things in very small runs, and then reprint books as they sell out. So don't expect millions from this. The point is to have a venue. But we do strive to at least break even, and often make enough back to reprint another run of the same book. This formula has worked pretty well for us. The important thing to realize here is that this is good for practice and exposure most of all.

Have meetings and workshops to generate energy, support and exchange ideas for producing and selling our work.

Bring in speakers with experience in the field, ncluding but not limited to: small press publishers, editors, mini comic artists, self-published artists and zine artists from around the country.

Create anthologies of our work and raise funds to distribute as widely as possible.

Attend bookfairs, zine symposiums, and any other type of book party, etc.

Create the future Community Print Shop. The space would be for workshops, sharing equipment, as well as a storefront for the books we distribute. We also own a zine and small press library.

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Above all, we simply need money. If you think you can pledge a donation toward a Community Printshop (think Missoula Free Cycles, but for books and prints), or if you want more information about our business plan for this longer-term goal, please contact us! (remember to put the word SLUMGULLION in the subject line! ) Why would you do this? Because we aren't just in it for ourselves, we are trying to reach out to teens and unheard, unpracticed voices and show people how empowering it can be to create your own publication.

We REALLY want a Kelsy Table Top Letterpress.

We also need: Toner for our laser printer. Shelves and spinning racks for our front-facing books ( greeting card racks are great) . A working photocopier, industrial size. Silkscreen materials and supplies. Paper of all kinds, but especially cover stock. Epson printer toner. Copy cards. Staples. Laminator. Paper cutter. Glue sticks. Scissors. Sharpies. Manual typewriters. Rubber stamps. Rubber stamping ink. Tape. Gift certificates for office supplies.

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