Tiny Writers’ Conference, Week 2: Rights, Rights, Rights

December 10, 2014 ~ Stephanie Barbé Hammer

A fantastic, clear presentation of some basic copyright and publishing rights information that you may not know.

One of the fun things about going to writers’ conferences as a publisher and editor as well as a poet is that I often get to give talks on the publishing end of literature. Of course, I love talking about the craft of writing, but I’m an odd duck in that I also happen to love the arcane details of publishing. One of the topics that writers typically want to discuss at conferences is that of rights. What are they, anyway? How do you know if you’ve used them? How does a writer protect her work?

View original post 912 more words

Published by Stephanie Barbé Hammer

Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet. A 6-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. Her novel _The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior_ appeared in March 2015 with Urban Farmhouse Press, and her Narrow Interior novelette, _Rescue Plan, appeared in February 2021 with Bamboo Dart Press. Her poetry collection _How Formal?_ was published in 2014 with Spout Hill Press and her prose poem collection _SEX WITH BUILDINGS_ was published in May 2012 by Dancing Girl Press. Stephanie flunked early retirement at the University of California Riverside and is currently feeding her teaching love at Edmonds Community College, Hugo House and the Inlandia Institute. iShe is currently managing editor for SHARK REEF literary magazine and is working on two new novels, and two new poetry collections, Her manual on how to write magical realism _Delicious Strangeness_ is available from Spout Hill Press. View all posts by Stephanie Barbé Hammer