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The Long Road to Overnight Success |
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“There are centuries-old publishing houses in New York City that would kill for a single season’s title to receive the acclaim that Binocular Vision received, but there are simply too many bottles and not enough lightning. Or perhaps there is only one Emily Smith . . .”
—Wiley Cash, author of The Last Ballad
Venerable Instructions | Ecotone
“She has had a hand in twenty-two of the magazine’s twenty-seven issues to date. . . . She designed or art-directed our covers, often commissioning custom artwork for them. Her sensibility—refined, elegant, but playful—helped convey both the seriousness of the concerns that attend writing of place, and the need for lightness and surprise in exploring them.”
—Anna Lena Phillips Bell, editor
Interview for the Wilmington city tour | BookTV
C-SPAN’s tour of Wilmington highlighted Emily’s publishing practicum, which offers students engaged learning experiences in the art and craft of publishing through their work on literary imprint Lookout Books.
Lookout Books: Spotlight, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
A Publisher in a Time of Pandemic, North Carolina Writers’ Network
Interview with James Scott, TK podcast
Interview with Laura van den Berg, Ploughshares' Innovators in Lit series
North Carolina Indies Build Lists, Community, Publishers Weekly
A Knockout Start For Lookout Books, Publishers Weekly
