Slate Roof is a member-run press committed to publishing Franklin County poets. Now in our fourth year, our membership includes Jim Bell, Trish Crapo, Susan Middleton, Susie Patlove, Ed Rayher, Janine Roberts and Art Stein.

Slate Roof chapbooks are designed by the poets, with letterpress covers printed by collective member and master printer Ed Rayher of Swamp Press, Northfield, MA. Attention is paid to typography, paper choice and binding. Our covers feature the artwork of local artists. All profits return to the press. Poets retain copyright. Our goal is to publish 2-3 chapbooks per year.

Membership in Slate Roof requires a $500 investment in the press and a monthly time commitment of approximately eight to ten hours; one-and-a-half hours of this is spent at a monthly business meeting. Typical member tasks include coordinating print runs with local vendors, sewing books, managing consignment accounts for bookstores, accounting, keeping mailing lists or press release lists up-to-date, designing promotional materials and posting flyers. To find out about joining Slate Roof, visit our new members page.

Readings are essential to our books' sales, and represent another time commitment.

Contact Slate Roof at info@slateroofpress.com or Slate Roof / 15 Warwick Road / Northfield, MA 01360.
MANY THANKS to Terry Ehret from Sixteen Rivers Press, a publishing collective in the San Francisco Bay Area and to Cooperative Development Institute, Greenfield, MA, who kept us from reinventing the wheel. Thanks also to the Arms Library, Shelburne Falls, MA— many of us "got our legs" reading at the Arms Library's Third Friday Open Prose & Poetry Reading Series.



Some of the Slate Roof members (left to right, back to front): Susie Patlove, Ed Rayher,
Trish Crapo, Janine Roberts, Susan Middleton, Art Stein


FRIENDS OF SLATE ROOF
Patricia Lee Lewis
John MacDonald
Prudence Grand
Stan Crapo

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