Comeback of Writer Collectives
As platform dependence and publishing volatility reshape the economics of writing, a new generation of creative cooperatives is building infrastructure for shared survival and shared success.
In a converted warehouse on the east side of Portland, Oregon, twelve writers share a rented studio space, split the cost of a community manager, and co-publish an annual anthology through a small press they collectively own. None of them have full-time literary agents. All of them are earning money from their writing. This scene quiet, unglamorous, practical represents something that would have seemed improbable a decade ago: a working model of collective literary enterprise, built not by an established...
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