amateur press association
English
Noun
amateur press association (plural amateur press associations)
- A group of people who collaborate on publishing a periodical for distribution internally to the group.
- 1872 February, “Convention of Amateur Editors”, in The Typographic, volume 2, number 2, page 5:
- The Eastern Amateur Press Association held its first Convention at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, recently, and was attended by thirty members of the amateur Press.
- 1990 Fall, Williamson, Chet, “Weird Tales Talks With Chet Williamson”, in Weird Tales, number 298, page 66:
- I was in the Esoteric Order of Dagon, which is an amateur press association dedicated to Lovecraft and weird fiction.
- 1992, Bacon-Smith, Camille, Enterprising Women, →ISBN, pages 44–45:
- An amateur press association is a small group, seldom more than thirty and usually many fewer members, who collaborate in the publication of an apa.
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Derived terms
- APA (abbreviation)
- apahack
- apazine