For the past 34 years, a classroom full of students at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has helped publish books annually by working with various authors, all the while learning valuable lessons about the editing and publication process through Cornerstone Press. The press receives no funding from the University and is entirely self-sufficient. The press maintains its independence by using the ... Read More »
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Sharing Words, Sharing Voices: Book Club Reads “The Appointed Hour”
A group of bibliophiles gathered in a cozy corner of the University Store and Text Rental on Wednesday, March 7, to discuss Cornerstone Press’s most recent release, “The Appointed Hour” by Susanne Davis. Amid the rows of bookshelves and with the windows into the Dreyfus University Center, the book club had a fittingly bookish and collegiate backdrop for its first ... Read More »
Cornerstone Press Launches The Appointed Hour
Students who took part in Cornerstone Press with the book “The Appointed Hour” celebrated the book’s official launch Thursday, Dec. 7. “We were not expecting what we stepped into,” Travis Leopfe, book designer, said in his speech. Leopfe and the rest of the student’s in the fall 2017 section of English 349: Editing and Publishing worked as a class to ... Read More »
Dr. Tangedal Celebrates Second Year At Cornerstone Press
Ross Tangedal is going into his second year of leading the University’s publishing house, Cornerstone Press. The publishing house, which was established in 1984 and specifically designed to staff students taking English 349: Editing and Publishing, become the only student-run press in the UW-system. Each student takes on a specific role from editorial to sales, all with the goal of ... Read More »