Independent Publishing Resource Center

Specialties

The IPRC’s Mission is to facilitate creative expression, identity and community by providing individual access to tools and resources for creating independently published media and artwork. We offer workshops in Adobe Creative Suite, graphic design, digital publishing, letterpress printing, and bookbinding among many others. Our Certificate Program in Writing & Publishing offers college credit through the University of Oregon. There are three tracks: Comics & Graphic Novels /​Creative Fiction & Non-​fiction /​Poetry. Visit our website at www​.iprc​.org for more information.

History

Established in 1998.

Since its inception in 1998 the center has been dedicated to encouraging the growth of a visual and literary publishing community by offering a space to gather and exchange information and ideas, as well as to produce work. The IPRC is an Oregon 501©(3) Nonprofit organization.

Meet the Manager

Justin H.

Manager

Executive Director since fall 2006 and co-​founder of the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Creative Writing and Independent Publishing.

Justin holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University, where he also taught as an instructor of writing and literature. Before coming to the IPRC, he worked in the New York City publishing industry.

Justin is the author of numerous zines and thirteen books, including Life and Limb (Editor, Soft Skull Press 2004) and Beach 90^th (Swift Season Press 2009). His writing has also appeared in Thrasher, Open City, the Portland Noir Anthology, Concrete Wave, Travel Oregon, The Normal School, Foulweather and others. His memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in September 2013.