Sacred Fools Press Blog

Feast of Fools

sacredfoolspress — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:25:38 +0000

Copies of our latest publication, Feast of Fools, are available through Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Fools-Melissa-Guillet/dp/0984507205/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1312723089&sr=8-16

Check out the blog for our upcoming publication, a world-cuisine cookbook using farmer’s market ingredients: http://www.aroundtheworldin100miles.blogspot.com

Feast of Fools

sacredfoolspress — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:23:43 +0000

Copies of our latest publication, Feast of Fools, are available through Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Fools-Melissa-Guillet/dp/0984507205/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1312723089&sr=8-16

Check out the blog for our upcoming publication, a world-cuisine cookbook using farmer’s market ingredients: http://www.aroundtheworldin100miles.blogspot.com

Book Release Party

sacredfoolspress — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:12:05 +0000

Sacred Fools Press will be releasing it’s third anthology, “Feast of Fools” August 17th at 7:30 at the Blue State Coffee House, 300 Thayer Street, Providence, RI http://www.bluestatecoffee.com/stores/bsc-thayer-street.php. Books will be available for $10 (a $2 discount off the cover price), with readings from the collection after an open mic. This anthology features poetry, essays, and stories by sacred fools and tricksters, everyone from Coyote to Quixote, clowns, artists, madmen, poets, and how they shed light on our own need to rebel and reinvent ourselves, but for our timidity to act. Here is the hungry truth, the recipes for disaster, the feast of fools.

“Feast of Fools” is also available through Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Fools-Melissa-Guillet/dp/0984507205/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1282000125&sr=8-1-fkmr0 , Barnes and Noble http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?WRD=%22melissa+guillet%22 , and the Lost Bookshelf http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/g.html . In Rhode Island: ADA Books, Books on the Square, Cellar Story Books, Brown Bookstore (currently sold out), and Symposium Books.

Feast of Fools

sacredfoolspress — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:02:34 +0000

Feast of Fools has been released! This collection features poetry, essays, and stories of the sacred fools and tricksters present even in our modern times, from Coyote to Quixote. Those who act on the fringe of society, reflecting it back on us, be it madman, artist, clown, trickster, or poet, shed light on our own need to rebel, to reinvent ourselves or our world, but for our timidity to act. Here is the hungry truth, the recipes for disaster, the feast of fools. Available at Brown Bookstore on Thayer Street, Providence, RI, and soon at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/ and http://www.amazon.com . Book release party 8 p.m. August 17th, 2010 at the Blue State Coffee House on Thayer Street, in Providence, RI.

Sacred Fools Press Contest/Call for Submissions:

sacredfoolspress — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:59:50 +0000

Greetings Poets, Artists, Writers, and Readers!

We are putting together our third anthology. The theme for this one is “The Sacred Fool.” Send up to three poems, black and white artwork including comics, color art for our cover (a jpg will be requested if accepted), or a short story or essay (under five pages double-spaced), on your interpretation of the sacred fool. This could be the Hopi mudmen or koshare, Iroquois Haduhi, Dakota Heyoka, Cherokee Boogers, Punch (of Punch and Judy), comedians, political satirists, the court jester, the Tarot Fool, Saxon Gleemen, Puka, the village idiot, mummers, King of Fools (Quasimodo), Don Quixote, Sufi Madzub, clowns, tricksters (Coyote and Loki, to name just two), pan-handlers, madmen, and others who teach us about ourselves through their odd behaviors. Do not send first drafts or ideas – we are looking for finished, polished work of high quality. You need not be previously published; we love new voices. There is a $5.00 entry/reading fee, made payable to “Sacred Fools Press”.

You will need to send an RTF or similar attachment upon acceptance. Previously unpublished work only. (Chapbook publication o.k.) Simultaneous submissions o.k. if notified immediately. We acquire first NA serial rights only, which revert back to the author.

Send typed submissions, contact info including email, reading fee, and a short bio to:

“The Sacred Fool”

Sacred Fools Press

45 Dean Avenue

Johnston, RI 02919

Accepted writers and artists will be given a contributor’s copy. A grand-prize winner will receive three contributor copies and $100. Deadline November 1st. Deadline extended: January 15th.