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JACK D. RITTENHOUSE AWARD NOMINATION DEADLINE EXTENDED
Nominations are open to publishers, authors, booksellers, sales representatives, librarians, and book designers, as well as anyone who has made a significant and lifelong contribution to the community of the book in the West. The award may be given to a living person or it may be given posthumously. One does not have to be a member of PubWest to be nominated. The nominee does not have to know they have been nominated, but that is up to the individual nominating the person. Nominations may be made by any member of PubWest, as an individual or in a role as a corporate member. The deadline to submit a nomination is September 4, 2020. This year’s recipient will be celebrated during the online PubWest conference early next year. Make a nomination using our online nomination form. |
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2020 PUBWEST BOOK DESIGN AWARDS: DEADLINE EXTENDED
A Competition Reflecting the Best of Book Design and Production We've recently made some changes to this year’s PubWest Book Design Awardsprogram. Historically, the judging for these awards takes place in person during the summer. But with travel restrictions, this is not possible right now. So we've made some updates. KEY CHANGES TO NOTE: New Entry Deadline New Eligibility Range New Mailing Address New Email Address New Timeline You can check out all the details for the Awards here. When you’re ready, we invite you to submit your titles and explore the application process. |
ANTI-RACISM STATEMENT & ACTION PLAN
PubWest’s Board of Directors grieves with the Black community and its allies over Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Oscar Grant, and the countless other Black lives lost to systemic violence, oppression, and anti-Black racism in American society. In these turbulent times, when racism and violence are mobilizing Americans and Canadians to take to the streets despite an unprecedented viral pandemic, PubWest’s Board of Directors, led by the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, has committed to honor this statement and execute an action plan to move toward a more equitable and just publishing community. |
PUBWEST ANNOUNCES INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TEAM
MICHELE COBB AND FORTÉ BUSINESS CONSULTING SELECTED Forté Business Consulting, led by Michele Cobb, has been chosen as interim executive director PubWest by its board of directors. Janet Benson and JoAnna Laskas will serve on the team as well. When announcing this appointment, board president Colleen Dunn Bates wrote: “In choosing an interim executive director, the search committee identified immediate priorities for the coming months, including growing membership, improving communications, and 2021 conference planning. They felt, and we agreed, that Michele and Forté Business Consulting are the ideal team to successfully take us to the next step.” Read the full announcement here. |
THE 2020 RITTENHOUSE AWARD PRESENTED TO MALCOLM MARGOLIN
(Lake Oswego, OR)—PubWest, the leading trade association of small- and medium-sized book publishers, has awarded its 2020 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award to Malcolm Margolin. “I’ve been fortunate enough to have some personal interactions with Malcolm, and he has been an absolute inspiration,” said Colleen Dunn Bates, PubWest board president and publisher at Prospect Park Books. “His love of books, his dedication to language and its preservation, and his reverence for the natural world and our mutually beloved state of California have made him a hero to me and every other Western publisher. I can think of no one more deserving of this honor.” Malcolm Margolin will accept the Rittenhouse Award during the PubWest 2020 conference, scheduled for February 20–22 at the Hilton Portland Downtown, in Portland, Oregon. The Founder and Executive Director of the California Institute for Community, Arts, and Nature, Malcolm Margolin is an author, publisher, and former executive director of Heyday (formerly Heyday Books), an independent nonprofit publisher and cultural institution in Berkeley, California, which he founded in 1974. Through Heyday, he published hundreds of books and oversaw the creation of two magazines, News from Native California (1987) and Bay Nature (2001). He also co-founded The Alliance for California Traditional Arts, The Inlandia Institute, and was instrumental in the creation of a number of Indian groups, including The California Basketweavers Association and Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. Malcolm has also written several books on California natural history, cultural history, and Indian life, including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area (1978), which was named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century by a Western writer. He has received many prestigious awards, including a community service award from The San Francisco Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Bay Area Book Reviews Association and the California Studies Association, a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation, and the Chairman’s Commendation from the National Endowment for the Humanities—for this award, he is the second recipient from the United States. His new book, Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderments in Native California, will be published by Heyday in 2021. Heyday was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed The East Bay Out, a quirky, personal, affectionate guide to the natural history of the hills and shores around Berkeley and Oakland. Out of this modest first effort a major California cultural enterprise took shape. From the start, Heyday worked in partnership with many of California’s leading cultural organizations. Heyday cofounded California Historical Society Press with the California Historical Society and together published several distinguished books. Heyday also has produced books in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities; the California State Library; the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; the Oakland Museum of California; the Commonwealth Club of California; Santa Clara University; the California Academy of Sciences; the Japanese American National Museum; Yosemite Conservancy; and many others. |
