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O'Donnell Follows Sitter at CLMP
Calvin Reid -- 11/24/97
James Sitter, longtime executive director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, is leaving the organization and returning to St. Paul, Minn. He will be succeeded by Celia O'Donnell.
O'Donnell has worked at CLMP for the last three years. She previously directed CLMP's marketing program, funded by the Lila Wallace Foundation, and directed other support programs for small presses. O'Donnell told PW that her immediate plans are to finish a survey of CLMP's 300 members (about a third of which publish books and magazines). She expects to spend 1998 developing new initiatives for the organization, which is an advocate and lobbying force for small literary publishers.

Sitter was executive director of CLMP for eight years and is credited with making the organization financialy stable and increasing its grants to presses. Sitter told PW he will continue as a consultant to CLMP. He plans to work on a variety of projects to support independent literary presses and will be traveling to both Washington, D.C., and New York City on a regular basis. He began as a bookseller at the Hungry Mind and also founded Bookslinger, the Granary and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
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