amateur press association

plural amateur press associations

1. A group of people who collaborate on publishing a periodical for distribution internally to the group.

   I was in the Esoteric Order of Dagon, which is an amateur press association dedicated to Lovecraft and weird fiction.

   1990 Fall, Chet Williamson, “Weird Tales Talks With Chet Williamson”, in Weird Tales, number 298, page 66

   2 more examples

   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.

   1872 February, “Convention of Amateur Editors”, in The Typographic, volume 2, number 2, page 5

   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.

   1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women, →ISBN, pages 44–45