Farrago Productions is the public persona of the Farrago Media enterprise. By bringing live production to the literary, visual, and sonic arts, we create events that represent the unique foci of our literary magazine, Farrago's Wainscot, and our art/culture weblog, Farrago's F.M.I. All our events facilitate donations-based fund raising—the proceeds from these collections go directly to covering Farrago Media's operating costs, paying its contributors or featured artists, or advertising the Farrago Media enterprise. The editors and managers behind Farrago Media do not retain any of these funds.
We neither associate with nor promote vanity publishing or other forms of predatory artistic distribution. Participants in our events embody independent artistic spirit, and we, in turn, support the distribution of their art via both respectable, grassroots channels and traditional, non-fee-charging, royalty-granting production houses. We believe there is a difference between exploiting under-represented voices in mainstream artistic media and assisting those voices with finding beneficial channels for independent distribution.
Rob King, Production Manager
Rob King is a M.S. student in Library and Information Sciences with a B.A. in Creative Writing. He has worked in the fields of book retail, holistic test scoring, and secondary education, teaching English. His promotions work includes the co-founding of Foresite IMC (Independent Musicians Collaborations) where he booked for independent Texas bands in West Texas, the co-foundation and organization of Denton and Lubbock, TX Jack Kerouac Birthday events from 2000-2007, and the co-foundation and organization of "Original PubFest." His writing is currently focused in short fiction.
Michael Constantine McConnell
Production Manager
Michael Constantine McConnell holds a BA and an MA in English. A professional teacher and editor, Michael is a devout student of prose, poetry, palindromes, the autoharp, the 20-button Anglo concertina, the upright bass, and the piano. His projects can be found at the following sites: The Jakeys, Warren Jackson Hearne and the Merrie Murdre of Gloomadeers, Circus della Morte, and Big Ol' Bastards. In his free time, Michael loves to garden and rock out to Iron Maiden.
Darin Bradley, Designer
Darin Bradley is a copy-, content-, and design editor living in Asheville, North Carolina. He holds an M.A. in Literature and Literary Criticism and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Theory. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of journals, and his first novel, Amaranth, is forthcoming in 2010 from Bantam. He keeps a website at www.darinbradley.com.
Farrago's Wainscot—a quarterly journal of the literary weird in fiction, poetry, and experimental wordforms.
Behind the Wainscot—an exhibition of short forms and textual experiments.
Farrago's F.M.I.—an alternative|independent art and culture weblog.
