Welcome Table Press
Publishing & Celebrating the Essay in All its forms
In Praise Of The Essay
Read a resounding review of WTP’s 2011 symposium, In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form, on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog.
Publications
Download free PDFs of essays by Robert Atwood, Jerald Walker, Lia Purpura, Brian Doyle, and others, or purchase a set of hand-folded, hand-sewn essay pamphlets.
Why the Essay?
At Welcome Table Press, we believe it’s time to celebrate this form of writing as it’s never been celebrated before.
Upcoming Events
February 26, 2012
Welcome Table Press Founder Kim Dana Kupperman is set to participate in the upcoming Literary Death Match in New York City. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 6, at The Back Room in Manhattan. Doors open at 7, but the event starts promptly at 8:05 p.m. Tickets are $7 for preorder, $10 at the [...]
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Hot Off the Press
February 24, 2012
Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog has published an interview between contributor Christin Geall and Welcome Table Press Founder Kim Dana Kupperman. Here is an excerpt of the interview: CG: Sven Birkerts once noted that “Writers just starting to work with memoir often have real difficulty with (the) crucial distinction between event sequence and story.” What advice would [...]