Sigma Typewriters in Hamilton, Ontario is featured on TV

"My best customers are young kids."

Call for typed contributions

I received the following announcement. —Richard

Don’t just stuff your short poems and typed prose in a drawer—PUBLISH them in 3 SIMPLE STEPS!

CALLING ALL TYPEWRITER ENTHUSIASTS—you now have a chance to publish in 3 easy steps!
1. Type on a 4x6 lined card
2. Snap a photo
3. Email to the administrators at archivehumanitas.com for a chance to publish in the “4x6 Guestbook” section. See submission guidelines.

- Jeffrey Lucas II. Author/Administrator

Two Phoenix type-ins on December 8

This is a landmark in the rise of typewriter culture: enough interest that there can be two (no doubt successful) type-ins in the same metropolitan area at the same time!

Cold Hard Type: call for submissions to a new project

PDF version of this call for submissions

Follow this link for updated information
 

Phoenix & Bremerton type-ins, Nov. 11 & 18

... and don't forget the Nov. 3 type-in in Columbus, OH (see previous post).

Columbus, Ohio type-in November 3

On Paper, 737 North High Street, Columbus

Typewriter event in Auburn, CA, Oct. 27

This event at the Auburn State Theater, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn (near Sacramento) is the brainchild of Gary Moffat, who welcomes questions at gm50wpm@gmail.com.

Starting at 4 pm, there will be an exhibit of over 50 vintage typewriters. You can try many of them, and possibly win one by participating in a typing test and a 10-word story contest. A few will be for sale. At 6 pm, Richard Polt will be interviewed by Gary and local TV news anchor Edie Lambert. The typosphere's favorite cult film, California Typewriter, follows at 7. Tickets can be purchased here for $25.

 Watch this brief video for Gary Moffat's personal invitation to the event:


Here is the Facebook page for the event.

Tons of typewriters in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

Learn more here.

Typewriter typefaces — a talk by María Ramos Silva

Typeface designer María Ramos Silva refers to blogs from the typosphere in her informative 20-minute presentation on typewriter typeface designs. Video here.