Arcata Press dba Saint Paul Almanac

At the Saint Paul Almanac, we know we all do better when we know each other.

Our goal is to use storytelling to help everyone in Saint Paul become friends and neighbors — one big block club of Saint Paulites that understand and support each other in good and difficult times.

• Arcata Press organizes the Saint Paul Almanac as a people's meeting space for sharing the stories of our community through our annual book, public readings, community editor mentorship program, and other activities that showcase and honor local, diverse voices and artists.

• We publish work of nationally acclaimed local writers like Gordon Parks and Garrison Keillor with emerging writers' work and writing from new immigrant, student, elder, and other communities.

• In our partnership with the Saint Paul Public Schools, 2000 students receive Almanacs as part of their language arts curriculum, and we accept student writing as well in the annual Saint Paul Almanac book.

Our goal is to work mutually in St. Paul communities to support a diverse, connected, and engaged city of people around local literature and art.

Having something that I have written published has made me want to write more. It also lets me know that I truly have a gift. Thanks for helping me see that for myself. — Angela Mack

Thanks for all the work you do to make the Saint Paul Almanac possible. It's a terrific institution of community building. I'm pleased to be part of it again this year. — David Mura

[I am] pleased to have my poem appear in the Almanac. Although I have spent much of my working life in an academic setting, it remains very important to me that poetry — and literature in general — reach an audience beyond academia. I am especially honored that my own work might reach that larger audience. — Patricia Kirkpatrick

Thank you so much for letting me be a part of this process of creating the Almanac. I hope that I can be a part this group again. Thank you! — Uri-Biia H. Si-Asar (Central High School twelfth grader who was a 2009 and 2010 community editor)