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Issue number 71 is a slender volume of poems that act as a slice of American life, with a focus on entertainment. Since entertainment is such a heavy influence in American culture, it seemed fitting, though sometimes oddly juxtaposed to the poems that focus more on rural life in America and to the cover image, the letter and photograph of a Civil War Soldier. Continue reading “Hiram Poetry Review – Spring 2010”
Upon finding Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet on the review list, there was but one response I could make – SQUEE!!! Continue reading “Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet – May 2010”
This issue of one of the very best journals published in North America features the magazine’s novella prize-winner “Brains,” by Tony Tulathimutte, the work of 16 poets, an essay by Jessica Kluthe, and a number of smart book reviews. Continue reading “The Malahat Review – Summer 2010”
Published at Pittsburg State University in the other Pittsburg (Kansas), Midwest Quarterly publishes poetry and scholarly articles intended to be “interesting and readable.” Continue reading “The Midwest Quarterly – Summer 2010”
One of the most unusual aspects of The Missouri Review is the treatment of poetry, the presentation of a group of poems (6-7) by a small number of poets, rather than a single poem by dozens of writers. This issue features the work of John W. Evans, Benjamin S. Grossberg, and Jonathan Johnson. Their selections are preceded by a personal statement, a photo, and longer-than-typical-for-literary-mag bios. Continue reading “The Missouri Review – Summer 2010”
This issue is a tribute to Flannery O’Connor. Eleven essays are accompanied by the work of 11 short story writers, more than a dozen poets, 7 visual artists, a book review, and a series of O’Connor’s letters in their original forms. Photographs by Kathleen Gerard of O’Connor’s residence, Andalusia, are marvelous with their intricate shadows and acute sense of place. I had never really wanted to visit this site until I saw these photos.
Continue reading “Shenandoah – Spring/Fall 2010”Tin House Editor Rob Spillman’s announcement that until 2011 unsolicited submissions will not be considered unless they are accompanied by a receipt for the recent purchase of a new book or literary magazine seems both in keeping with – and in some ways contrary to – the needs, concerns, issues, perspectives, realities, and experiences that surface in the poems, stories, essays, and interview that extrapolate on this issue’s theme, “Class in America.” Continue reading “Tin House – Fall 2010”
Published quarterly by the Western Literature Association at Utah State University, Western American Literature is a small scholarly journal with critical articles on “any aspect of literature of the American West,” book reviews, and artwork (reproduced in black and white) related to the region. This issue is comprised of three essays, Katie O. Arosteguy’s deconstruction of the myth of the cowboy in Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories; Kirsten Mollegaard’s analysis of Louis Sachar’s Holes; “Down the Santa Fe Trail to the City Upon a Hill,” by Andrew Menard, a consideration of the city of Santa Fe in American literature; 18 short reviews of works of criticism, fiction, and creative nonfiction; and paintings, photographs, and drawings by 9 artists. Continue reading “Western American Literature – Summer 2010”
In 2009 Consequence began the Prize in Poetry, an annual award given for an outstanding poem on the subject of war. Kevin Bowen selected Andreas Morgner’s winning poem, “N’Djamena Chad,” and those of seven finalists published in the Spring 2010 issue: Chris Agee, David Eye, Joseph Hutchinson, Jen Karetnick, Barbara Leon, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, and Danny Wilson.
Morgner’s poem is also available full-text on the magazines homepage.
Writer Beware Blog (Victoria Strauss) takes a look at PubIt!, the new e-self publishing service from Barnes & Noble.
The Fall 2010 issue of Boxcar Poetry Review includes a conversation with two poets on the process of publishing their first books – from start to finish: Traci Brimhall, author of Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and Gary L. McDowell, author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry.
Cover Me
A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber; Published by University of Nebraska Press
From the Publisher: Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn’t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber’s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation’s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform.
“I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster,” Huber says. “I carry a messenger bag, a few master’s degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk.” What’s not evident, however, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government’s supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In Cover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told: of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation’s health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death.
Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art #17 features works by the winners of the 2010 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize as judged by Vito Aiuto: first place Hannah Vanderhart; runner-up Ryan Harper; honorable mention Ellaraine Lockie.
In honor of Nobel month The Georgia Review is placing on sale two unique Nobel laureate issues from Spring and Winter 1995. Until 31 October, these limited-supply back issues are available as follows: Spring 1995, $20; Winter 1995, $15; both, $30.
During the planning stages for the summer 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the satellite Cultural Olympiad program, Georgia Review editor Stanley W. Lindberg proposed that the living laureates of literature—they numbered sixteen at the time—should be invited to appear together in Atlanta for an unprecedented multi-day program. His proposal was embraced, and on 23–25 April 1995 eight laureates convened at the Carter Center for readings, panel discussions, press conferences, and social activities. Never before or since have so many of these distinguished prizewinners been in the same room anywhere in the world.
The laureates in attendance were Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, Claude Simon, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott. The introducers and moderators for the event were former President Jimmy Carter, United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove, ABC’s Nightline host Ted Koppel, and Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games President and CEO Billy Payne.
The 350-page Spring 1995 issue of The Georgia Review is entirely given over to the Nobel laureates and comprises the following:
Full texts of the Nobel acceptance lectures given by all sixteen then-living laureates—the eight in attendance plus Saul Bellow, Camilo Jose Cela, Odysseas Elytis, Nadine Gordimer, Halldor Laxness, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Commissioned original essays on all sixteen laureates, written by a range of notable critics—among them Henry Louis Gates Jr., Trudier Harris, Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard.
Bibliographies, photographs, and original drawings of all the laureates, the last by Darrell Rainey.
The Winter 1995 issue of The Georgia Review includes a sixty-page section of material transcribed from the Nobel laureates’ gathering:
Remarks by Jimmy Carter and Rita Dove.
A panel discussion featuring Joseph Brodsky, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburo Oe, and Wole Soyinka, with Ted Koppel moderating.
A panel discussion featuring Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz, Claude Simon, and Derek Walcott, with Ted Koppel moderating.
Four pages of photographs taken during the events.
Ghost Ocean is a new online publication edited by Heather Cox, Emily Hansen, and contributing editors Madeline Phillips and Timothy Moore, who hope that Ghost Ocean will be a “venue for writing that is surprising, engaging, clever, and downright fun to read” and will include both new and established writers.
Issue one features poetry by Brandon Courtney, DSD, Flower Conroy, and Robert Lee Brewer; flash fiction by Cee Martinez and Nick Kimbro; and an interview with Susan Slaviero, author of CYBORGIA (Mayapple Press).
Ghost Ocean is open for submissions of poetry and flash fiction year round. The theme for issue two is “ghost / ocean / ghost ocean / ocean ghost — basically anything somewhat relevant to the title of the magazine.”
This is a repost by popular demand – as it seems the time of year for writers to be looking for that perfect presentation binder!
Our friend Judy Kerman at Mayapple Press has searched high and low to bring back one of the greatest inventions of all time: Springback Binders. The entire spine of the binder is a steel spring clip (the big brother of those binder clips everyone uses nowadays for papers). The boards and spine are covered with black leatherette, good for years of use. To insert pages into a springback binder, you bend back the covers until they almost touch and the clip opens. The binder comes with a black tagboard folder to hold your pages. You just insert the folder with the pages (or the pages alone) and return the cover to the “closed” position. No holes, no mess, no fuss. And very professional-literary looking. Great for those who do public readings and for keeping manuscripts organized. Order online from Mayapple Press. Click on “Manuscript Binders” link in the left navigation bar.
The Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Nimrod (University of Tulsa) includes works by winners, honorable mentions, finalists and semi-finalists of the 32nd Nimrod Literary Awards.
For The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry: first prize winner Terry Blackhawk; second prize winner Jude Nutter; and honorable mentions Harry Bauld, Katie Kingston, and Francine Marie Tolf.
For The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction: first prize winner Shannon Robinson; second prize winner Laura LeCorgne; and honorable LydiaKann and Sue Pace.
There were 690 poetry manuscripts and 571 short stories submitted to the 2010 competition. The finalists’ manuscripts, without cover letters or names, were sent to the judges for 2010, Molly Peacock, poetry, and David Wroblewski, fiction. They chose the winners and honorable mentions from the finalist group. Semifinalists and finalists are also noted on Nimrod’s website.
The 33rd Nimrod Literary Awards competition begins January 1, 2011; the postmark deadline is April 30, 2011.
Sarah Miniaci and Leah Stephenson are editors of the newly launched online (Issuu) Burner Magazine “a digital pop art magazine” that “aims to take the boring out of the literary and arts scenes, bringing together original and edgy artists of all shapes and sizes. It promises to get your blood pumping, heart racing, and to induce literary and visual crushes. The Burner contributor is a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent. Burner is about science, art, truth, conspiracies, naturalism, cyborgs, music, beauty, sex and everything in between.”
The first issue of Burner features:
Short Fiction by Kate Baggott. Anne Baldo, Guy Cranwick, Joseph DeSimone, Jeremy Hanson-Finger, and Margaret Zamos-Monteith
Poetry by Walter Beck. Dylan Carpenter , Jack Conway, William Doreski, Gail Ghai, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Meredith Holbrook, Mark Jackley, Alex Linden, Joseph Reich, Robert Spiegal, Ben Zucker, and Leah Stephenson & Sarah Miniaci
Photography and Visuals by Greg Andruszcenko, Josephine Close, Julie Dru, Kelly Evers Jackson, Matt Hannon, Yumi Ichida, Christina Luther, David Platt, Bea Sabino, Jak Spedding, Lisa Stegman, and Grace Suwondo
and an Interview with Nadja Sayej.
Burner is accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction/non-fiction, photography, visual art, music, and “gak” – which is anything that “doesn’t fit into any of the above categories.” Deadline for next issue: October 20
Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets
Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Contributors needed for articles about: websites for women poets, using life experience, magazine markets, networking, managing family, blogs, unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual poetry, continuing education, queries and proposals, anthologies, conference participation, contests, promotion, self-publishing, teaching tips, and other areas women poets are interested.
Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful. Please avoid writing too much about “me” and concentrate on what will most help the reader. No previously published, co-written, or simultaneously submitted material.
Foreword: Molly Peacock, the author of six books of poetry, including The Second Blush (W.W. Norton and Company, 2008).
Co-editor Carol Smallwood is a 2009 National Federation of State Poetry Societies award winner included in Who’s Who of American Women who has appeared in Michigan Feminist Studies, The Writer’s Chronicle. She’s included in Best New Writing in Prose 2010. Her 23rd book is Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook (American Library Association, 2010). The first chapter of Lily’s Odyssey (2010) was short listed for the Eric Hoffer Prose Award; chapbook by Pudding House Publications; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6m7PXGQIU
Co-editor Colleen S. Harris is a 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her book of poetry, God in My Throat: The Lilith Poems(Bellowing Ark Press, 2009), was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Book Award. Her second and third books, These Terrible Sacraments and Gonesongs, are forthcoming in 2011. Colleen holds an MFA degree in writing and has appeared in The Louisville Review, Wisconsin Review, River Styx, and Adirondack Review, among others. Her work has been included in Library Journal, and Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages.
Please send 2-3 topics you would like to contribute each described in a few sentences and a 65-75 word bio using the format of the bio’s above. Please send in a .doc Word (older version) file by November 15, 2010 using POETS/your last name on the subject line to
You will receive a Go-Ahead with guidelines if your topics haven’t already been taken. Contributors will be asked to contribute a total of 1900-2100 words. Those included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy as compensation.
From Brent Peterson at Palehouse Books:
We are looking to hire a copy editor, freelance writers, marketing specialists, and sales associates. If you or anyone you know would like to work for an independent publisher please send us an email with resume to: contact-at-palehouse-dot-com – list the position you are applying for in the subject line.
The following have recently been added to the NewPages guides – click the guide link to go to the full list.
NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
esque – poetry
Spooky Boyfriend – poetry
Rubric (AU) – fiction, poetry, ficto-criticism, critical theory
Harp and Alter – poetry, prose, reviews
The Common – fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, images
Lowestoft Chronicle – poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork
Pebble Lake Review – poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews
Paper Darts – art, writing comics, video, music
The Ante Review – poetry, fiction, nonfiction, dramas, book reviews
Curly Red Stories – flash fiction
The Licking River Review – poetry, prose or creative non-fiction
Southern Grit – fiction
Burner Magazine – poetry, short fiction/non-fiction, photography, visual art, music
Liminal – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, music reviews, poetry, artwork, comics, photography, short film
Willard & Maple – poetry, fiction, artwork
NewPages Guide to Small, Independent and University Publishers
Black Radish Books – poetry
H_NGM_N BKS – poetry
Browser Books Publishing – poetry, prose
Raw Dog Screaming Press – fiction, nonfiction, children’s
GenPop Books – fiction, poetry
Spring Garden Press – poetry, chapbooks
NewPages Guide to Podcasts, Audio, and Video
New York University Creative Writing Program – Podcasts of Writing Series Highlights
Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature – recordings of modern Assyriologists reading ancient Babylonian and Assyrian poetry and literature aloud in the original language.
NewPages Guide to Alternative Magazines
On the Issues Magazine – a magazine of critical, independent thinking
NewPages Guide to Writing Conferences, Workshops, Retreats, Centers, Residencies & Book and Literary Festivals
Books & Publishing – An International Conference at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ted Hughes’s poem on the night Sylvia Plath died – Published in the October 7 issue of New Statesman.
Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web series is a yearly anthology compiling the best fiction, poetry, and non-fiction published in online literary journals. Previous editions have been guest-edited by Steve Almond, Lee K. Abbott, and Kathy Fish, and have published award-winning writers such as Chris Bachelder, Robert Olen Butler, Dan Chaon, Kim Chinquee, Elizabeth Crane, Brian Evenson, Amelia Gray, Stephen Graham Jones, Ander Monson, Christine Schutt, Terese Svoboda, and Kevin Wilson, as well as many of today’s most exciting emerging fiction writers, poets, and essayists.
This year’s guest editor will be Adam Robinson, the founding editor of Publishing Genius, an independent press based in Baltimore, and the author of two books of poetry, including Adam Robison and Other Poems. Writing inBest of the Web 2011 will be selected Mr. Robinson, series editor Matt Bell, and other in-house Dzanc editors.
Nominations for Best of the Web 2011 will be accepted until October 31st, 2010. Each online literary journal is allowed to nominate up to three works they’ve published, in any combination of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
To be eligible, works must have been published exclusively online between November 1st, 2009 and October 31st, 2010.
For full nomination guidelines and to submit work from your magazine for consideration in Best of the Web 2011, please visit:
http://www.dzancbooks.org/botw-nominations/
BREAK-UP BARS (A Recipe…)
by
Rick Rofihe
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Yes, We Are Still Dancing is the collaborative work of Susan Amstater, artist, Connie Dillman, artist, and Jacquelyn Stroud Spier, poet. The book is a project published in partnership with the Frontera Women’s Foundation (FWF), El Paso, Texas, dedicated to increasing resources and expanding opportunities for women, girls and their families who reside along the U.S./Mexico border. The mission of FWF is to improve the conditions and status of these women by fostering positive social and economic change through education, economic empowerment, improved health, and safety in their communities. All profits from this publication will be used to fund an arts and culture endowment to support those pursuing arts in the Borderland.
This is a gorgeous book (11 x 11 format; glossy throughout), published by Fresco Fine Art Publications in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every page is full bleed with full, vibrant colors in a range of subject, from families to landscapes to fish, flowers, and fruit, as well as a range of mediums that makes each turn of the page a fascinating new discovery. The poetry is infused throughout in a symbiotic relationship with the art – but don’t be thinking of light “gift book” poetry here. While some of it is joyful and some humorous and sweet, there’s also some grit in here, some grief, and some final lines that will keep readers staring at the words and images deep in thought. There are also poems written in Spanish with English translations provided at the back of the book.
There are several versions of the book available for purchase, each in a limited run with its own level of cost. The collectors first edition includes signed archival mounted and framed original artwork from the book, a linen hard-cover book w/linen slip cover, and is signed by all three artists. The deluxe first edition includes linen hard-cover book with linen slip cover (signed by all three artists). A linen hard-cover first edition, a flex bound first edition, and a soft-cover first edition are also available.
Any one of these would certainly make a great gift for yourself or someone else, and provide support for a worthwhile effort.
Issue Six of Canteen devotes forty pages of the journal to the 2010 Canteen Awards in Photography: Anatomy of a Photo Contest, including a comment about this inaugural event from Stephen Pierson, introductory and individual portfolio remarks from judges Arnold Lehman, Director of the Brooklyn Museum, and Matthew Porter, Photographer. Rowan James was selected as the winner, and Shea Naer, Tracey Mancenido-Tribble and James Frank Tribble as runners-up. There is also the inclusion of a selection of divisive “non-winning” photos with the opposing viewpoints of the judges as well as the comments of the photographer himself, Geoff Smith. An epilogue by Porter with several other non-winners rounds out the collection.
In their first ever three-day tour, Eat These Words, Alimentum editors Paulette Licitra and Menupoemer Esther Cohen take attendees out to sample and dine, talk with cooks and purveyors, tour the markets and food malls, and take breaks to write about the experience and inspirations. From Friday October 29 – Sunday October 31, this first tour includes the neighborhoods of Queens with future tours planned to explore other NYC neighborhoods for tasty places not normally visited. Included each day: Walking Tour; Writing Workshop; Food artisans & Chef meetings; and ALL MEALS. Limited to 15 participants.
Rick Maddocks announced in the Fall 2010 issue of Event: The Douglas College Review that after four years as editor of the publication, he will be handing over the reins to Poetry Editor, Elizabeth Bachinsky.
Emma Brown Trithart, the visual arts editor for 5×5 put a special note in her editorial comment in the Fall 2010 issue: “A quick note to all the high school students out there: submit your stuff! I was once in high school and was drawing constantly, just like you. I wish I would have put an effort into putting my work out into the world more, just to get into the habit of it. We’d love to publish your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture…any of it!” Upcoming themes for 5×5 include Labor (Nov 1 deadline) and Secrets (Feb 1 deadline).
Arcadia is a new literary journal from the MFA program at the University of Central Oklahoma. Arcadia will publish quarterly online with an print annual “best of” fiction, poetry, and drama (next issue due out in April).
Volume 1 of the publication is in print, and includes works by Jeffrey Alfier, Rilla Askew, Jenn Blair, Andrew Coburn, Robert Dugan, Alana Elyshevitz, Adam Ferrari, Gaynell Gavin, Douglas Goetsch, Andrei Guruianu, Christopher Linforth, Patrick Moran, Tanya Perkins, Johanna Stoberock, and Dallas Woodburn.
Volume 2 will be online this month, and Arcadia is accepting a broad range of submissions: short stories, short films, music, flash fiction, poetry, drama performances, stand-up routines, photographs, artwork.
The Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature website collects recordings of modern Assyriologists reading ancient Babylonian and Assyrian poetry and literature aloud in the original language. It is the first undertaking of its kind and is intended to serve several purposes, some for Assyriologists, and some for the wider public.
First, it aims to foster interest among students of Babylonia and Assyria in how these civilisations’ works of verbal art were read aloud in the past, and how they should be read aloud today.
Second, it provides a forum in which scholars who have theories about Babylonian and Assyrian pronunciation, metre, etc. can present a concrete example of how their theories sound in practice. (In this function the archive does not of course aim to replace scholarly discussion in established channels, but rather to provide a useful complement to written publications.)
Third, as a record of the ways in which contemporary scholars read Babylonian and Assyrian, it will some day serve a historical function. Many great Assyriologists, including some who had influential theories of Babylonian metre and phonology, passed into history without leaving a single recording of how they read Babylonian and Assyrian. This archive will provide at least some record of how scholars read Babylonian and Assyrian in the twenty-first century.
Finally, but not least, the questions which students of ancient languages most frequently hear from laymen are: “How did they sound? And how do you know?” This website is meant to serve as an introduction to these issues, providing the public with some idea of how modern Assyriologists think Babylonian and Assyrian were pronounced.
Designmatters is an educational department that partners with every discipline at Art Center to focus on art and design education with a social impact agenda and “real-world” outcomes that are implemented through a series of unique partnerships and alliances with global development agencies, government groups, academic institutions, local and national non-profits, and leading industry. Artwork by Ani Gevorgian from a series of posters created by Art Center College of Design students in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Fall 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review includes several of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Award Recipients. Of the 590 entrants, first prize went to Anna Faison (Aiken, South Carolina). Her poem “Han” appears in The Kenyon Review. Runners up whose works were also published include Emma Broder (Hamden, Connecticut) and Megan Gallagher (Greenville, South Carolina). Though their works do not appear in print, special merit recognition was given to Kevin Hong (Needham, Massachusetts), Mallory Weiss (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and Vienna Wagner (Carmel, Indiana).
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers is open for electronic submissions November 1 through November 30, 2010. The link to the submissions page for the contest will be active from this webpage on November 1, 2010.
Edited by Chrisopher Spiker, The Ped
The jury for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Peter C. Rollins Documentary Award is currently accepting film and video documentary/nonfiction entries that treat aspects of popular and American culture. Selection for the Rollins Award will be based primarily on strength of message, creativity, technical innovation, and overall style as the work treats popular and American culture topics or themes.
Submission for the award is open to professional and amateur moving-image makers working in film, video, and digital media. Work must be completed within the last three years in order to be considered. Entries may consist of one feature-length or up to three short works and must be provided with the completed entry form below. Entries must be in VHS videotape or DVD formats. Two copies of each work must be submitted. Submitted copies will not be returned. There is no entry fee.
The award includes a $500 travel grant to assist winners in attending the conference. The winning work and a short program of finalists will be exhibited during the 2011 national Popular Culture/American Culture Associations’ meeting April 20-23, 2011, in San Antonio. See the PCA/ACA website for more information about the national meeting.
Send submission copies with completed entry form to the jury chair. Materials must be received by December 20, 2010. Inquiries are welcome via email: dennis_cutchins[at]byu[dot]edu
Mail Submission Entries to:
Dr. Dennis Cutchins, Jury Chair
PCA Rollins Documentary Award
English Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Four authors – Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Kamila Shamsie – in the same seering, satirical tone as Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa” (originally published in Granta, 1992) have created their own advice on How to Write About Pakistan. Here’s the start of Hanif’s list:
1. Must have mangoes.
2. Must have maids who serve mangoes.
3. Maids must have affairs with man servants who should occasionally steal mangoes.
4. Masters must lecture on history of mangoes and forgive the thieving servant.
5. Calls to prayer must be rendered to capture the mood of a nation disappointed by the failing crop of mangoes.
6. The mango flavour must linger for a few paragraphs.
Read the rest on Granta.com
The 2010 print annual of Many Mountains Moving: A Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices features the winners of their contests from the past two years:
2008 Flash Fiction
Winner: Laura Loomis
Runner-up: Maureen O’Briend
2008 Poetry
Winner: Brian Brodeur
Finalists: Susan Deer Cloud, John Jeffire, Mark Wagenaar, and Sarah Zale
2009 Flash Fiction
Winner: Francisco Q. Delgado
Runner-up: Karin Lin-Greenberg
2009 Poetry
Winner: Margaret Walther
Finalists: Brian Brodeur, Ellen LaFleche, Christa Setteducati, and Kathryn Winograd
MMM 2010 Flash Fiction and Poetry Contest is open until December 30, 2010; MMM also has a Poetry Book Prize with an extended deadline of September 20, 2010.
Terrain.org is featuring ten art quilts of textile and mixed media by Colorado artist, designer, and clothing creator Jan Rickman, who has concentrated in the past 15 years on textile art.
Edited by Charles Degelman, Voice from the Planet includes award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood joining forces in Harvard Square Editions’ second volume of Living Fiction. Net proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Some of the authors whose works make up this anthology are: Alisa Clements, Tom Dolembo, Maya Levantini, Jorge Contreras, Charity Shumway, Stan G. Duncan, Geoffrey Fox, Jonathan Facelli, Phyllis Helene Mattson, Guy Kuttner, Tony Rogers, Lowry Pei, Margot Singer, and J. L. Morin.
Kevin Baggett is the sole editorial force behind Southern Grit, an online journal that seeks “to uncover the hidden talents and authentic voices of the American South.” Currently, Southern Grit publishes only fiction.
The inaugural issue features stories by Mike Hampton, M. Alexander Bass III, John Solensten, Michael Smith, Brian Tucker, Jason Stuart, and a review of The Help by John Gifford.
Submissions for Volume 1 Issue 2 are being accepted until December 1.
Young Adult Author Amy K. Nichols is editor of Liminal Journal, a literary journal for teens. Liminal publishes original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, music reviews, poetry, artwork, comics, photography and short film from artists aged 13-19. Liminal will appear online quarterly with biannual print “best of” issues.
The inaugural issue feature poetry by Tiffany St. John, Nina Kentwortz, Roopa Shankar, Mara Kachina and fiction by Nana Kwame Adjer-Brenyah and Antonia Angress.
Liminal is currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis.
Author Michael Gizzi (1949 – 2010)
Hard Press Editions Bio
Penn Sound
The Poetry Foundation
The Department of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln seeks applications and nominations for an advanced associate professor or a full professor to serve as the Glenna Luschei Professor and Editor of Prairie Schooner. Candidates must have a distinguished publication record as a poet, significant experience as an editor of creative works, a record of excellent teaching, and an active creative/research program. The Editor of Prairie Schooner is a tenured member of the English Department faculty with a one-one assignment teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes and is also expected to assume normal service responsibilities. As Editor of Prairie Schooner, the faculty member supervises all aspects of the journal and the Book Prize Series, makes all final production and editorial decisions, monitors budgets, and supervises the managing editor, graduate assistants, and interns.
Qualifications: Candidates must have a PhD or MFA in English or closely related field, a significant nationally recognized record of publication in poetry, substantial editorial experience, and evidence of excellence in teaching.
Applicants must complete the Faculty/Academic Administrative Information form, requisition #100576 and attach required documents.
For information about the application process, contact:
Professor Marco Abel, Recruitment Chair
402-472-1850
mabel2[at]unl[ot]edu
For information about the position, contact
Professor Susan Belasco, Department Chair
402-472-1857
Review of applications will begin October 25, 2010 and continue until a suitable candidate is found.
The University of Nebraska has an active National Science Foundation ADVANCE gender equity program, and is committed to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers.
Application Information
Contact:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Online App. Form:
http://employment.unl.edu
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. There is also a series of PostSecret books published by Harper Collins, and “PostSecret Live” – a multi-media presentation by Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret. Audience members can see postcards that were banned from the books, hear the inspiring and funny stories behind the secrets, and share their secrets at the microphone. The schedule for upcoming performances (many sold out) in on the site.
Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press are proud to announce the publication of Clash of the Geeks, a special and fantastical electronic chapbook featuring stories by Wheaton, Scalzi, New York Times bestseller Patrick Rothfuss, Norton Award winner and Hugo Best Novel nominee Catherynne M. Valente, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee Rachel Swirsky and others, for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. The chapbook is free to download, but voluntary payment is strongly encouraged, via Paypal or by tax-deductible donation forms. All proceeds go to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America.
Brace yourself for The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leila Marouane. Not only is it hilarious and disturbing, it is also disorienting, cunning, and bizarre. Continue reading “The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris”
With his first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee, I encountered the spine-tingling creature known as the “contemporary writer” – contemporary in both the sense of writing now and writing at an age close to my own. After coming to terms with Lin’s persona (an unfortunate combination of reading the back cover of books and the Internet), fiction diverged from my ideas of authorship and the dead white guys who’ve historically run the show. Continue reading “Richard Yates”
In his “36 Assumptions About Playwriting,” José Rivera instructs, “In all your plays be sure to write at least one impossible thing. And don't let your director talk you out of it.” Jonathan Ball takes this idea to a new level in his collection, Clockfire. Billed as poetry on its press release, this genre-defying collection consists of “blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce.” Continue reading “Clockfire”
In this, her third book of poems, Jen Currin is at her most elliptical. Yes, it’s a somewhat useless term, one replaced by something even more vague by the critic who coined it, but it is a term which has come to indicate a certain sort of poem to me, which Jen Currin’s poems are: not really fairy or folk-tale-like, but having commonalities with fantastic narratives with an object lesson; not really domestic surrealism, but certainly in love with the idea of slippage, the morphology of phrases when juxtaposed, etc.; not really symbolism in a heavy handed way, but light, contemporaneous, elliptical indications of meanings just beyond the text. Continue reading “The Inquisition Yours”
My grandfather used to tell me and my siblings stories about World War II all the time. But he never talked about Alsace-Lorraine. He never talked about whether he heard the potato masher that filled him with shrapnel. He never talked about if he saw from where the bullet came that shredded the nerves in his right arm. He never talked about how he was presumed dead, like everyone else in his unit by the German army that day. He never talked about crawling through the woods while trying to keep his consciousness. He never talked about the year in a British hospital. He never talked about why he hated fireworks, or backfiring cars or popping birthday balloons. He never talked about why he woke up every night of his life in a sweat until he was 75. He never talked about the small pieces of metal that would work their way out of his skin and end up next to him in bed some mornings. He never talked about a lot, but he wrote a lot of it down, in the margins of his bankbook, in a photo album, scratched onto the back of his Purple Heart. Continue reading “Phantom Noise”
