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Dun Emer Press at work, ca. 1908

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Lori Ellison

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EDITOR'S NOTE

GRAPE PRESS, WITH ITS black boarders and it's name blazoned in white letters, was a little magazine that I published with friends back in my college days. Each issue comprised a pocket-sized folded piece of paper with a single insert. The idea was that each contributor could do anything they wanted with their issue of Grape Press, and the sky was the limit and it would be their own baby.

In the small hours of the night, we printed on a xerox machine at an office belonging to the father of a close friend.-- cut the Grape Press on the paper cutter in the art school's printmaking department; and the next day distributed copies of the little magazine around campus, at record stores, bars and cafés. We had completed nine issues and were up to a circulation of 250 when Grape Press stopped it's operation in May 1985.

Meanwhile, in a rash moment this Summer, I relaunched Grape Press on facebook with the idea that my friends could post their work on the wall, and see what each other was up to. The wall would be the actual magazine. News of the little magazine's rebirth was received enthusiastically by many of my friends who remembered Grape Press.

It wasn't long before Grape Press launched its counterpart on the web for the sake of a clean and less cluttered home page; free of the advertising, which made our facebook page feel more like the Midway of The State Fair than a literary magazine.

Yet, as things have evolved, Grape Press continues to receive submissions on its facebook wall. It has become a lively and exciting place to visit on the web!

Grape Press on facebook has also in the meantime become the old fashioned transom -- moreover, an internet portal through which Grape Press has received, from both accomplished and emerging writers and artists, a fine range of poetry, fiction, artwork, photos, and even film! Works that continue to dazzle us by finding in the ordinary small things of everyday life the extraordinary.

-- William Dew, September 2010

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SUBMISSIONS

Please post electronic submissions on the "wall" of GRAPE PRESS ON FACEBOOK .

Longer texts may be posted on the discussions board, with the topic heading duly appropriated for the title if there be one.