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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 writing that’s accessible to all?
Also graffiti?
If you're a fan of literature that marries art and graffiti, 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 that are accessible to all, not just an elite few. We believe in inclusivity and intersectionality and individuality. Submit your poetry, prose, pain, partying, putridity, or panoply of librettos on the current theme to our crack team. We love you.
Pow! Pow!
Also graffiti?
If you're a fan of literature that marries art and graffiti, 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 that are accessible to all, not just an elite few. We believe in inclusivity and intersectionality and individuality. 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 holds a BA and M.Ed from Arcadia University, an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and has attended Goldsmiths: University of London and Sarah Lawrence College. She chronicles the many ways she embarrasses herself at www.youlifeisnotsogreat.com and can be found on Instagram @anotherintro and Twitter @anotherintro. 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, and utilize Google to find where a number of very nice journals and presses have published her. 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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Alisa Hathaway Marketing/Communication/Web]Alisa works in the wild world of medical textbook publishing. She has a BA in Visual Communications from Arcadia University and attended the London College of Fashion and Bond University in Australia. She has previously blogged for Geekadelphia and shot photos for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. She devours all things lit, web, art, and food-related on Instagram @alisahath or Twitter @philemaphobe.
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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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Madeline Zilelian Poetry EditorMadeline is a native New Yorker who is deeply influenced by her Armenian Heritage and by the death of her parents. She earned her MFA in Fiction and Poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles and was a genre editor for their student run literary magazine, Lunch Ticket. She is a former pro-snowboarder and blue ribbon equestrian. Her day job as a real estate investor and futures trader gives her the financial freedom and flexibility to travel and write. She draws inspiration from her travels, especially Morocco, China, Australia and Europe. She lives in Staten Island.
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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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Jared Moore POETRY EDITORJared was born and raised in West Philadelphia, but rather than b-ball, writing is how he spent most of his days. Starting in second grade with his parents' old manual typewriter, Jared has written everything from film reviews to graphic novels. He received his BA in Communication from Temple University. While studying there he published his rap group’s first (and only) EP. He tweets sporadically @JaredAMoore and is aggressively Slytherclaw.
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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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J. Sam Williams Blog Editor/Team BeatboxerJ. Sam Williams is an illustrious black-tailed hawk, longing to eat as many vegan mice as possible. In his human form, Sillyums is working as a freelance journalist and a law research assistant, and attempting to sell his novel to agents. He also happens to have his MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and is the Editor in Chief at immix (theimmix.com). Find him @jsamdubs.
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Levi Rogers Blog EditorLevi has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles and has a Bachelor of English from the University of Utah. He served on Antioch University’s literary journal, Lunch Ticket, as an associate editor for the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction. He runs a coffee roasting company by day and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife Cat, his dog Amelie, and his socks, all of which have holes.
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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.