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Whenever I pick up an issue of The American Poetry Review, I inadvertently stop whatever else I’m doing and am drawn into other worlds, and the current issue is no exception. These poems are beautiful but concrete, challenging yet not esoteric. Continue reading “The American Poetry Review – May/June 2009”
When I first read – or rather, studied – this issue of ZYZZYVA, I had no idea how to review the thing. The entire issue is in “textimage, instances in which text and image collide on the page,” and since I’ve been interested in the written word for over twenty years and visual art for only five, I ought to be excused for my quandary. On my second reading, I decided to describe what is in the journal and encourage readers pick up a copy and make their own commentary. Continue reading “ZYZZYVA – Spring 2009”
Editor Stacey Swann opens this issue of American Short Fiction with a concise, impassioned defense of the short story, relishing its unique power. The modern short story, Swann says, “contains multitudes…multiple faces, multiple forms – so many, it seems constraining to define it as a single object.” The stories chosen for this issue seem to bear out this assessment. The three lengthy stories are interspersed with brief, somewhat experimental pieces that add a great deal of spice. Continue reading “American Short Fiction – Spring 2009”
Rarely can a literary magazine balance innovative and mainstream material so effortlessly. The Spring/Summer edition of the always innovative Black Warrior Review adroitly incorporates not only short stories, poetry, and art, but a veritable activity book for the literary-minded but child-at-heart brand of reader. Continue reading “Black Warrior Review – Spring/Summer 2009”
This literary journal is celebrating one year of publishing stories and modestly advertises itself as “The best new fiction on the web. Or anywhere else, for that matter.” The winter issue presents eight stories and an editor’s note giving a synopsis of their accomplishments to date. Certainly they have something to brag about when they state: “We’re developing something of a reputation around these parts. The word’s out that Freight Stories authors have published over 50 books, including finalists for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and bestsellers.” They are also proud of the fact that they have brought the reader the work of first time and emerging writers, “just like we planned.” Continue reading “Freight Stories – February 2009”
When highly regarded essayist and self proclaimed heir of Thoreau Scott Russell Sanders submitted his essay, “Simplicity and Sanity,” to The Georgia Review, the editors thought his “yet familiar, yet vital” argument was a “strong starting and focal point for some important discussion of nothing less than the fate of our country and planet.” So, they sent an invitation to a number of accomplished essayists for responses, full-fledged essays in their own right that became this issue’s special feature, “Culture and Environment – A Conversation in Five Essays.” It’s a conversation worth listening to, and many other fine contributions notwithstanding (stories by Lori Ostlund and David Huddle, poems by J. Allyn Rosser, Margaret Gibson, David Clewell, and others, and numerous book reviews), it’s the most compelling reason to read the magazine. Continue reading “The Georgia Review – Spring 2009”
Hawk & Handsaw – “The Journal of Creative Sustainability” – “was born out of a deceptively simple pair of truisms: first, reflective sustainability is crucially important to the collective health of our planet; secondly, figuring out how to be successfully sustainable requires a lot of thought and no small amount of patience and whimsy.” This first issue focuses on home – “no attempts at the grand statement, but rather, close observations of the particulars that sustain us.” Continue reading “Hawk & Handsaw – 2008”
Okay, maybe it’s not an issue for most, but I’m a sucker for fonts. Ever picked up a lit mag and thought, “Good content, but it looks awful on the page”? A good lit mag isn’t just about content, it’s about presentation. And Mississippi State’s Jabberwock Review is a brilliant example of just how much quality production can do for a magazine: the cover photo is austere, the pages are nice and thick, and, yes, the font is nice. Continue reading “Jabberwock Review – Winter 2009”
Whether or not it’s deliberate or simply a happy accident, the Table of Contents is, in and of itself, simply fabulous. Listen to these titles: “The poem I’m obsessed with,” “Have you ever noticed how many bugs,” “The Simple Life Reveals its Complications,” “Marriage, it turned out, was a disappointment,” “Swee’ Dadday’s Big Sanyo,” Going to Jail Free,” “Triptych of My Aunt Linda, Poet in Her Own Right, Frightened of Bicycles,” “The Wrong Thing, the Bad Thing the Untrue Thing.” A welcome and true sign of the originality to come. Continue reading “The MacGuffin – Winter 2009”
Laurence Goldstein, Michigan Quarterly Review’s editor for 32 years, is stepping down. His last issue is a doozey. But, let me back up and start at the beginning. Not with his brief and poignant farewell, but with the journal’s cover. A stunning photograph of Orson Welles in a 1947 production of Macbeth introducing the portfolio of letters and memos from the Orson Welles Collections at the University of Michigan, curated and introduced here by Catherine L. Benamou. But, let me back up even further and start “above the fold,” for the photo is the bottom half of the cover. The top half is a glorious and amusing juxtaposition of the extremes of academe: “On the Originals of American Modernist Poetry,” an essay by Frank Lentricchia and “The Dirty Little Secret of Sabbatical,” an essay by Susannah B Mintz. Okay, I might as well admit it. I went straight for Mintz’s essay. “The Adored Long Ago: Poets on their Long-Lost Loves,” by Mark Halliday (also announced on the cover) competed, but only briefly, for my attention. Mintz’s dirty secret won out. Continue reading “Michigan Quarterly Review – Spring 2009”
I love guest editor Eleanor Wilner’s work, so it is terrific to have a chance to read her picks for the magazine. Some of her choices surprised me; almost all interested and satisfied me for they are unpredictable and wildly engaging in their use of language. Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Make Believe” merges language that can border on the ordinary with syntax, line breaks, and images that magnify and elevate it: “We will eventually be archaeology, but now in America / I tell my young daughter the new headlights are a bluish-white / instead of the smoky yellow / of my upbringing.” and “It’s that time when I’m alone in America with my young / daughter that she startles / herself realizing the woodpile beneath the black oak is itself / formerly a tree, / and she wants to know whether these trees have feelings.” Continue reading “Ploughshares – Spring 2009”
“[T]he way you can feel his intelligence moving on the page in the choices and turns he makes.” This is Cornelius Eady describing the work of Gregory Pardlo, the poet whose work he has chosen for “Poets Introducing Poets,” always one of this magazine’s finest features. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a better description of that elusive and spectacular quality that makes great poetry so hard to define and so easy to love. And Eady – who praises Pardlo’s line and his ear, as well as his poetic intelligence – couldn’t be more right about Pardlo. His work is “dense, but it’s never a burden to navigate” (“Kite / strings tensing the load of a saddle- / backed wind”). Continue reading “Poet Lore – Spring/Summer 2009”
You can hold Sentence in one hand. It’s fat, but also squat, and just the right size for a one-fisted read, so you can hold a cup of coffee, or a glass of wine, in one hand and hold up the journal in the other. But, wait – you won’t need the caffeine or the booze. Sentence provides its own special and particular high. I have loved it from the first issue, and this one is easy to love, too. Continue reading “Sentence – 2008”
Only three writers have ever published plays in The Sewanee Review, including William Hoffman, whose drama in this issue, “The Spirit in Me,” based on a story of the same title, appeared in the Review twenty-five years ago. The play takes place in a southern West Virginia coal town (Hoffman’s father, incidentally, owned a coal mine) in the sweltering summer of 1936 and is an exploration of race and class issues which unfold inside the framework of a love story, shaped by the strong arm of the law and the church. The dialogue is fast-paced, despite the sluggish, heavy heat, and the voices clear and true and particular. It’s easy to imagine a production of this short play, with its spicy, clipped dialogue, finely etched characters, enormous imaginative opportunities for a set, and historical importance. Continue reading “The Sewanee Review – Winter 2009”
South Loop Review is the creative nonfiction and art annual published by the English Department of Columbia College Chicago, and though said to “give greater emphasis to non-linear narratives and blended genres,” I would say the publication as a whole is fairly balanced in its variety. It might be more accurate to say the non-linear and blended genres are the stronger and more lasting pieces in this issue. Continue reading “South Loop Review – 2008”
It’s the range – and, in some cases, the combination – of tones, voices, and diction that make this issue of West Branch exciting. Poems from Christopher Weese’s series “Marvels” will help me illustrate my point about diction. Here is an excerpt from XXII: Continue reading “West Branch – Spring/Summer 2009”
The Raleigh Quarterly is a new hybrid online/print publication of stories, essays and poetry. Selections from the ongoing web posts are compiled in a print quarterly, the first issue of which includes works by Christy Thom, Graham Misenheimer, Lauren Turner, Anna Podris, Nick Pironio, Benjamin Fennell, Caroline Depalma, Yvonne Garrett, Dorianne Laux, Alice Osborn, and Michael Fischer. The web posts allow readers to register as community members to comment on the works.
Also included on the site is a video of RQ publishers, Greg Behr and Billy Warden on the program The Artist’s Craft hosted by Stacey Cochran in a discussion of the future of literature, publishing on the Web.
In his June 8 New Yorker article “Show or Tell:
Should creative writing be taught?” Louis Menand takes on the creative writing program through a thorough response to Mark McGurl’s The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Coming to the comment, “For, in spite of all the reasons that they shouldn’t, workshops work,” how Menand gets there is worth the read.
According to Turkey’s Today’s Zaman, a Nobel Prize, the European Union, and İstanbul named as a European Capital of Culture for 2010 are a few of the reasons why we might be seeing more Turkish works in translations. Of course, money helps: “…the project called The Introduction of Turkish Culture, Art and Literature (TEDA) has served as a turning point. As part of the project which is led by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, close to 600 publications have been translated into different languages since 2005, giving foreign readers the opportunity to get to know 150 Turkish authors. The number of books translated within the context of the project in the last four years is almost six times as many as the number of books translated in the history of Turkey…TEDA is a translation subvention project running in developed countries such as England, Germany and the US. Foreign publishers that want to translate Turkish works into their own language apply to TEDA; publishers who receive subsidies from the project can then pay for translation and copyright expenses. Publishers report the sale figures of translated books to TEDA every six months. Owing to the project, the works of many Turkish authors and poets are being read in foreign countries.”
Read more here.
I just can’t bang the drum enough for the folks at Writers Beware! If you still don’t know about them, go, now, and read their blog. At the very least, here’s two, super-cool articles that should be required reading of anyone who says they are interested in publishing their writing:
Writer Beware by Victoria Strauss
Excuse Me, How Much Did It Cost You? by A.C. Crispin
Independent since 1980, Shaman Drum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will close at the end of June: “Earlier this year, [owner Karl] Pohrt announced the store was struggling financially from a ‘perfect storm’ created by the ailing state economy, large drops in the store’s textbook business and overall technological shifts that have affected the entire book industry.”
Palgrave Macmillan is currently seeking an Assistant Editor who will report to the Publisher.
Chronicle Books announces openings for a Children’s Marketing Manager, an Editor of Art and Design, as well as ongoing internships and biannual design fellowships.
Oxford University Press Acquisition Editor, Journals.
Simon & Schuster Associate Editor for The Atheneum Books for Young Readers & Margaret K. McElderry Books.
New additions to the NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines:
Labletter – fiction, poetry, text and image, photography, criticism, interviews
Puffin Circus – poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, artwork, cartoons
Mayday Magazine – nonfiction, microfiction, poetry, political/cultural commentary, translation, and visual art
The Writer’s Block – poetry, fiction, flash fiction, reviews, photography, and artwork
322 Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art
AND
New additions to the NewPages List of Writing Conferences, Workshops, Retreats & Book & Literary Festivals:
Rosemont Writers Retreat
DePaul Summer Writing Conference
Words Alive Literary Festival
Hay Festival
Wordstock Festival
Roaming Writers Workshop
If you have suggestions for additions to any of our guides, please drop us a line: denisehill[at]newpages[dot]com
In honor of the playoffs, and rootin’ for the Red Wings to take the cup, a brief highlight on Randall Magg’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, “a saga written in the character of Terry Sawchuk, one of hockey’s greatest goalies”:
Denied the leap and dash up the ice,
what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk
and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere
as they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing,
which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apart
in bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities.
But it’s their saving sense of irony that further
isolates them as it saves.
– from “One of You”
Published by Brick Books: “In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs’s poems. They range from meditations on ancient/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony.”
Editors John Schoen, Jackie Cassidy, Steven Harbold, David Brennan, Jonathan Perrotto, John Schoen, Chris Vicari, Mark Buckalew, Sean Piverger, and readers Jamie Elfrank, George Ganigan, Shannon Spillman are the powerhouse behind 322 Review‘s impressive debut. The online journal includes and accepts submissions of of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and mixed media, as well as plans to include podcasts and video.
In addition to and interview with and featured writing by Thaddeus Rutkowski, issue one includes fiction by Douglas Bruton, Kristopher Jansma, Douglas Bruton, and George Ganigan; creative nonfiction by Kaysie Norman; poetry by Richard Fein, Howie Good, Jill Jones, Niels Hav, Robert K. Omura, Charles Musser, Ray Succre, Leslie Tate, and Rachel Bellamy.
The site also features an online gallery of works by artists Boz Schurr, Danni Tsuboi, Lauren Taylor Tedeschi, Peter Schwartz, John Berry, Sean Jewell, Christopher Woods, and Adriana Brattelli.
322 Review will publish online quarterly and run its “most exemplary” submissions in print twice a year. Full submission information and deadlines can be found under Writer’s Guidelines.
[Image: jaco2 by Danni Tsuboi]
What book got you hooked? First Book wants to know: “This summer we are all about celebrating the stories that no child should grow up without – the classics, bestsellers and quirky favorites that got you reading and reading and reading some more. To introduce children to great stories, we need your support and we’ve set a goal to raise $100,000 by the end of August. Tell us What Book Got You Hooked and make a donation so that all children have access to great books!”
First Book will also be bringing back their “vote for a state” campaign to give the state which receives the most votes 50,000 new books. Past winners include Oklahoma and Kentucky.
Edward Champion interviews Sherman Alexie regarding his “controversial remarks” made at the BEA about his position on the Kindle as “elitist.” The topic wanders to related issues, such as the rights of authors in a world of varying forms of publishing technology and reading.
This is indeed sad news for me, since it was only after reading Isotope that I believed English and science could really get along in the same mind of appreciation and learning. Something countless years of education failed to convince me of.
From the Terrain.org blog, posted by Simmons B. Butin:
I have very sad news to share — news I learned yesterday but wasn’t prepared to share until today (and I do have permission). As many of you know, Christopher Cokinos founded and has served as the editor of the outstanding journal Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing for more than a decade now. Many of you also know that state university funding has been drastically cut nearly everywhere. Combine those two, and we learn that Utah State University will no longer be publishing Isotope.
Folks, Isotope is one of the three or four best environmental literary journals, and its closure is a huge blow not only to the good folks working on the journal at USU, but to environmental and science literature readers and writers everywhere. But what to do? We need to find a large endowment to sustain the journal, under Chris’s excellent editorial skills, and find it now. So ante up!
There is a possibility that Isotope will move to another university or other editing team, but unless it stays at USU, as far as I know Chris will no longer be the editor. That is sad, indeed.
Founded by poet A. Minetta Gould, The Lonesome Fowl joins the online ranks of ars poetica and beyond. Accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and non-ficiton, the first issue features works by Tim Lantz, Kim Chinquee, Greg Gerke, Grove Koger, Kristin Ravel, Forrest Roth, and Amber Nelson.
Two cool exhibits at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Vivid Lines in Graphic Times
May 21 to July 26, 2009
This selection of works, specifically paintings and works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection, shares a graphic quality. Whether these artists appropriated images from consumerist culture, took influence from comic books, or simply utilized graphic techniques in their creative process, their works illustrate how meaning and feeling can be conveyed differently through the graphic line. While clearly referencing the Pop Art movement, these works from the 1970s through the late 1990s incorporate the movement’s vibrant color and readymade images but deliver a more serious message. [Image: David Wojnarowicz]
Grand Text Auto
April 14 through July 26, 2009
Many blogs have spawned books over the last few years, but grandtextauto.org is the first to become an art exhibition. This blog about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms—including net.art, hypertext fiction, and computer games—is collaboratively written by Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Andrew Stern, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. In this exhibition, the bloggers put their ideas into practice by displaying a variety of cutting edge works of digital art of their own creation.
The Faculty of Letters of the University of Lausanne invites applications for Full or Associate Professor in English Literature, starting January 2010.
Judy Lucas is gathering 1000 Pieces of Peace – or more! Modeled after the story of Sadako and the 1000 origami cranes, Judy is “gathering poems, quotes, and prose pictures about peace from writers around the world, of all ages and backgrounds, published or not. They will be arranged in a book, the proceeds of which will go exclusively toward building in West Virginia the worlds first silly hospital, a proto-typical model of health care delivery” – this based on the medical philosophy of Patch Adams. Visit the Patch for Peace page or the Gesundheit! Institute site for more information.
To participate in the 1000 Pieces of Peace, visit this page for submission information. Though the website says the deadline has passed, Judy has assured me she will accept submission until June 30. Don’t delay your piece of peace!
From Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP):
The Survey Lab is collaborating with the National Opinion Research Center to carry out the first large scale survey of teaching artists. They are currently in the phase of locating teaching artists to participate in a web survey they expect to field in Spring 2009.
If you are a teaching artist, or if you manage a program that hires teaching artists – you can register for the survey on the site. They will send a link to the survey itself as soon as it “goes live” in your community.
If you are someone who hires teaching artists, you can help the project to develop a more complete list. Contact info available on the site.
Learn more about the Teaching Artist Research Project here.
The Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center combines a one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center with a $5,000 prize. It is awarded annually to a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice. The award was established in honor of Richard J. Margolis, a journalist, essayist and poet who gave eloquent voice to the hardships of the rural poor, migrant farm workers, the elderly, Native Americans and others whose voices are seldom heard. He was also the author of a number of books for children. Deadline July 1, 2009
Marilyn Robinson wins the UK 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her book Home. The Orange Prize for Fiction was established in 1992 to recognize outstanding women authors whose works might otherwise be overlooked by other awards.
In response to my previous post about the passing of David Bromige, his family has asked that those who would like may visit Remembering David to post reactions to David’s death and reflections on his life.
From The Gawker: “In a move that sort of reeks of desperation more than it does slick PR, Newsweek‘s Jon Meacham announced that Stephen Colbert will be the magazine’s guest editor for the issue hitting newsstands on June 8.” As if the last issue with “Crazy Oprah” on the cover wasn’t enough…
From The Stranger: John Marshall, the owner of Open Books up in Wallingford (WA), informs us that local poet William Witherup died yesterday of leukemia. Here is what Marshall has to say about him: “Bill was, to various degrees, very sweet and very crusty. He spent much of his life, politically and through poetry, focused on the plight of Downwinders, of which he was one—people who grew up and lived downwind of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.”
From West End Press: Bill Witherup was born in 1935. He grew up in eastern Washington, around Hanford from the time his father took a job there.
After graduating from the University of Washington, he moved to San Francisco in 1960, later dividing his time among rural retreats near Monterey and Big Sur in California and a ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
His poetry darkened following the death of his father in 1983. While Witherup has endured periods of breakdown and hospitalization during his adult life, his dedication to poetry has remained unrelenting.
From the Press Democrat:
David Bromige’s bold and experimental poetry won him multiple literary honors and the respect of readers around the world. But the retired Sonoma State University professor and former Sonoma County Poet Laureate, who died June 3 at home in Sebastopol at the age of 75, will be remembered by those who knew and loved him for his rapier wit and generous support of other writers.
“I am happy to say that in the last week of his life his family was reading to him my new memoir and he was laughing at my jokes. He never missed a joke,” said former SSU colleague and novelist Jerry Rosen.
Bromige, he praised, “knew as much about contemporary poetry as any person in the world” and managed to communicate his love for poetry to his students during 25 years at SSU.
Read the rest here.
It makes it really difficult to have conversations with students about plagiarism when we know about incidents such as this one in which Jacksonville State University President William Meehan’s dissertation was found to have the highlighted passages copied directly from Carl Boening’s dissertation (and supposedly more that was not verbatim). Both received their doctoral degrees from University of Alabama, and to date, investigations of this were dropped when JSU spokesperson said “there was no substance to the accusations.” Apparently, someone else thinks there is substance to the charge and posted the What Plagiarism Looks Like website, which includes this image as well as the full text of both Meehan’s and Boeing’s dissertations as pdf files. To think I was giving students zero grades on papers for plagiarizing while Meehan was given a PhD and a presidency.
For more on the issue, see also The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog and Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art.
Alimentum: The Literature of Food has a special offer for new and renewing subscribers: “Tell us your Secret Food and receive one free issue! Your Secret Food is the food you love but tell no one about. Tell us and we’ll not only gift you an extra issue but broadcast your Secret Food on our website this Fall. Your chance for Food Fame!”
All you have to do is place a regular subscription order online (or by mail) then send Alimentum an email with your secret to secretfood[at]alimentumjournal[dot]com. You’ll get three issues for the price of two.
The Splinter Generation, a one-time-only publication received so much positive attention, the editors have decided to re-launch the journal as an ongoing publication featuring short fiction, poetry and nonfiction from writers born between 1973 and 1993. They’ve also given the site a new look, added some great new editors and are now accepting submissions.
The Splinter Generation is looking for the best poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. In particular, they’re looking for work that captures what it is to be a member of this generation. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, but the reading period will end on November 1.
The newest issue of Newport Review online includes the winners of their Flash Fiction Contest:
First Prize
“Company of Heaven” by Marc Harshman
Second Prize
“Mirror” by F. J. Bergmann
Third Prize
“Real Self” by Suzanne Lamb
Honorable Mention
“Take Me Away, Spank Junkies” by Penni Jones
“Loose” by Tammy Delatorre
I love Green Porno.
Alain de Botton in his Boston Globe article Portrait of the Artist as a Young Data-Entry Supervisor says, “It’s time for an ambitious new literature of the office[. . .]many contemporary writers are notably silent about a key area of our lives: our work. If a proverbial alien landed on earth and tried to figure out what human beings did with their time simply on the evidence of the literature sections of a typical bookstore, he or she would come away thinking that we devote ourselves almost exclusively to leading complex relationships, squabbling with our parents, and occasionally murdering people. What is too often missing is what we really get up to outside of catching up on sleep, which is going to work at the office, store, or factory.”
Though we readers of literary magazines and small press publications know that these stories are being written and published, you just may not find them on the chain bookstore best seller shelf or paid-for-promotional-space tables.
Two such examples of these pockets of publication include two upcoming collections:
Anthology. On the Clock: Contemporary Short Fiction of People and Their Work. Working Lives Series from Bottom Dog Press Inc. Oct 1
Anthology: Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (a working title), edited by Tracy Nectoux and published by Library Juice Press as part of the series Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship. Dec 31
Hosted by poet Michael C. Watson, Wordslingers is live radio for poetry and the conversations and culture it ignites, with a particular emphasis on Chicago. Twice each month, poets and writers convene in WLUW’s studios to read their work aloud, and explore how poetry interacts with Chicago’s broader literary culture.
Redivider Quickie Contest 2009 Winners & Finalists
Prose
Judged by George Singleton
Winner: “Confession” by John Stadler
Finalists: J. Bowers, Ashley Luster, Roberta Hartling Gates, James Tadd Adcox
Poetry
Judged by Rane Arroyo
Winner: “Tinnitus Valentine” by Erin Keane
Finalists: Judy Halebsky, T.A. Noonan, Sean Keck, Donna Vorreyer
Two teachers in Eugene, Oregon combine literature and outdoor adventure for a true experience in exploring writing.
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their March Fiction Open.
First place: Justin Torres of New York, NY, wins $2000 for “Surrender Unto Us”. His story will be published in the Summer 2010 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in May 2010.
Second place: Vauhini Vara of Iowa City, IA, wins $1000 for “We’ll Rise Above the Sky”. Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
Third place: Keith Meatto of New York, NY, wins $600 for “Tierra Santa”.
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
And beginning June 1, Glimmer Train opens a brand new category! Guidelines here: Best Start.
The first four recipients of Dalkey Archive Press’s Applied Translation fellowship program have been announced.
The new program, which is the first of its kind in the world, was created in response to the need on a national and international level for providing practical experience to young literary translators. Although only in its first year, the program received over 130 applications from 35 countries.
The four recipients are Rhett Warren McNeil (USA), Ursula Meany Scott (Ireland), Jamie Richards (USA) and Kerri Pierce (USA).
Read more about the fellows here.
