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Deep in the Valley of Gwangi, a posse of bored literature fans, cat fanatics, and T-Rex enthusiasts all pondered one pressing question: Why isn’t there a dreamy lit press that publishes a variety of whimsical writing?
If you're a fan of literature that marries art and broadsides, we're the lit press of your dreams. Meow Meow Pow Pow is a broadside press that takes short prose and poems and creates art to accompany it. Once that art is done, we make it into a free broadside that you can download, print out, and share wherever you want the words to be seen. Wheatpaste it, make it into a paper airplane, crumble it and toss it in the wastepaper basket for an impromptu literature basketball game. We don’t care, so long as you get the words out.
MMPP wants to create works of art for casual readers as well as capital L literary folks. Submit your poetry, prose, pain, partying, putridity, or panoply of librettos on the current theme to our crack team. We love you.
Pow! Pow!
If you're a fan of literature that marries art and broadsides, we're the lit press of your dreams. Meow Meow Pow Pow is a broadside press that takes short prose and poems and creates art to accompany it. Once that art is done, we make it into a free broadside that you can download, print out, and share wherever you want the words to be seen. Wheatpaste it, make it into a paper airplane, crumble it and toss it in the wastepaper basket for an impromptu literature basketball game. We don’t care, so long as you get the words out.
MMPP wants to create works of art for casual readers as well as capital L literary folks. Submit your poetry, prose, pain, partying, putridity, or panoply of librettos on the current theme to our crack team. We love you.
Pow! Pow!
How does this fun work? Submit a piece to us via our Submissions page, and if accepted we’ll make it into a poster. Your words will be immortalized on the streets of cities, the roundabouts of suburbs, and the portcullises of rural communities.
Our broadsides come out weekly, and we accept submissions year round. If you think you wanna hang with our crew, submit to us posthaste!
Learn a little bit more about our group of ragamuffins, ruffians, and wannabe human-puffins below. No matter which genre team is reading your work, we can assure you that we'll treat your art with the care and consideration it deserves. Your art is safe in our hands, and even if we don't accept it this time around, we welcome re-submissions and re-re-re-submissions.
Our broadsides come out weekly, and we accept submissions year round. If you think you wanna hang with our crew, submit to us posthaste!
Learn a little bit more about our group of ragamuffins, ruffians, and wannabe human-puffins below. No matter which genre team is reading your work, we can assure you that we'll treat your art with the care and consideration it deserves. Your art is safe in our hands, and even if we don't accept it this time around, we welcome re-submissions and re-re-re-submissions.
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Jane-Rebecca Cannarella Editor in Chief]Janie (she/her) is the author of Better Bones (Thirty West Publishing House) and Marrow (Thirty West Publishing House); as well as an editor at HOOT Review, a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket, and a sometimes contributor at SSG Music. She likes: playing toy instruments, the ocean, symbolic use of bathtubs, and hanging out with her cats. Feed her candy and validation to receive her eternal gratitude. She loves Philadelphia.
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Cassandra Panek Managing Editor]Cassie is a freelance photographer, writer, and editor based in Philadelphia. She has a BA in English from Arcadia University, has published three books of art and poetry, and overuses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in casual conversation. She is made mostly of ocean and sand. Her photography can be seen at www.cassandrapanek.com, on Instagram @syntheticshadows, and Twitter @synthshadows, and she’s prepared to die on the pro-Oxford comma hill.
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Marie Marandola Poetry EditorMarie is a badass feminist poet who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees from the ground and giving them to people.
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Brennan DeFrisco Poetry EditorBrennan DeFrisco is a poet, educator, editor & typewriter enthusiast from the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, runner-up for the Drake University Emerging Writer Award, and 2017 grand champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars (Nomadic Press) and has served as poetry editor on the masthead of Lunch Ticket. He facilitates creative writing and performance workshops as a teaching artist with California Poets in the Schools, Bay Area Creative, Get Lit, and Poetry Out Loud, empowering young artists’ voices. His work has been published in Words Dance, jmww journal, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Collective Unrest, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.
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Alex Simand Prose EditorAlex lives and works in San Francisco, though he grew up in Toronto after having migrated from the Soviet Union. The latter explains why Alex eats so much poutine and stewed cabbage. Alex holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles; he writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. His short story, Election Cycle, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions Prize. Alex is the former Editor for Blog, Nonfiction, and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize at Lunch Ticket. Find him online at www.alexsimand.com or on Twitter at @AlexSimand.
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Mike Fiorilla Prose EditorMike Fiorilla was born in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. He studied English Literature and Creative Writing with a focus on Fiction at Susquehanna University and has written humor and criticism for online magazines such as Modern Viewpoint and Deadshirt. He currently makes a living as a writer and editor and makes sacrificial offerings daily for colder weather in order to prevent global warming and to cut down on his preservative fluid bills which are, to be frank, somewhat ridiculous.
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Liz Bergland Art EditorLiz grew up in Vermont and earned a BA in English from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She now lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a graphic designer. She plays too many video games and watches too many cartoons for her own good, but since her cat doesn't mind, it's okay.
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Levi Rogers WEB EditorLevi Rogers is a writer and former coffee roaster currently based in the land of the Chinookan and Multnomah people. He has an MFA from Antioch University and his debut novel Utah! A Novel is available from Atmosphere Press. He lives with his wife Cat, their two daughters, dog Amelie, and two cats-Chicken and Waffles.
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J. Sam Williams WEB Editor, Team BeatboxerJ. Sam Williams is an illustrious black-tailed hawk, longing to eat as many vegan mice as possible. In his human form, he is a High School English Teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife, one dog and two cats. A somewhat retired breakdancing teacher, he is now a co-host on the Alohomora Podcast! He has been published on Lunch Ticket, immix: a journal for justice, Mugglenet, and a slew of small sports journalism publications. You can find him on twitter @Jabbernator.
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KELLY MEISSNER RESIDENT DESIGN GEEKKelly is a professional designer living in the Philadelphia area. She has worked in a variety of industries, from tattoos, to fashion, to large scale advertising campaigns. Kelly has been a student of graphic design since the age of 16. She completed her B.F.A in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has gone on to get certifications in content marketing and product development. She currently works for Crossover for Work as a graphic designer and is finishing her Masters Degree at Full Sail University in New Media Journalism. She is responsible for the logos and cats on this site.
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WELL, HI! WE DIDNT SEE YOU COME IN!
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Give the People What They Want.
Meow Meow Pow Pow is a broadside graffiti press that publishes prose, poetry, pain, prettiness, and putridity based on a
revolving theme. Created by a posse of bored literature devotees, T-Rex enthusiasts, and cat fanatics, our crack team wants to see
your words made into bitty posters to share, and wheatpaste, and fashion into paper planes that will glide and decimate in the
ether and become the fabric of the universe.
We welcome all little pups and cantankerous kitties. Inclusivity is our favorite flavor.
revolving theme. Created by a posse of bored literature devotees, T-Rex enthusiasts, and cat fanatics, our crack team wants to see
your words made into bitty posters to share, and wheatpaste, and fashion into paper planes that will glide and decimate in the
ether and become the fabric of the universe.
We welcome all little pups and cantankerous kitties. Inclusivity is our favorite flavor.