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THE DISPATCH
Fonograf Editions' e-newsletter May 2026 Some days we look just like how we are perceived: foreigners, fussing. In the classroom of English: the low podium of commas, the plastic seats of pronouns. Have you seen Eurovision, where most nations sing in English?...
Fonograf Editions announces the winner of the 2025 Open Genre Book Prize contest
Two years ago, Fonograf Editions—a nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, Oregon—began its annual Open Genre Book Prize contest. As of 2025 the winner receives a 3-week residency at The Rice Place (a small artist residency along the Clackamas...
on contests
Two years ago FE started holding an annual open genre book prize contest. As of 2025 the winner receives a 3 week residency at The Rice Place (a small artist residency outside Portland, OR, where FE is based), a standard royalty contract, and a $1500 cash prize.
February 2026 Dispatch
Celebrate our 10th anniversary with us! Since our first releases in 2016, by Eileen Myles and Rae Armantrout, the press has released over 55 projects, across multiple mediums and genres, from LPs, EPs, and cassettes to chapbooks, broadsides, and full-length books. In...
FONOGRAF EDITIONS DECEMBER 2025 DISPATCH
FE Managing Editor Isabel Lemus Kristensen interviewed Darcie Dennigan over email about her novel Little Neck.
Support Fonograf Editions in Give!Guide 2025!
Fonograf Editions is part of “Give!Guide,” providing a crucial opportunity to continue our volunteer-led work.
Interview with Esther Kondo Heller
Ar:range:ments is working with trying to speak the unspeakable.
Announcing the 2025 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Contest & Little Green Song Writers Residency
Our annual Open Genre Book Contest returns—now with a $1,500 prize, publication, and a new residency at The Rice Place.
Support the Publication of Bird Watching & their First Three Books of Poetry
“I think Chelsea Girls is me teaching myself to be a novelist and this book is me teaching myself to be a poet.” –Eileen Myles
Alice
Fonograf Editions mourns the loss of Alice Notley. Alice was and is one of the guiding lights of our press.