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Valentine’s Special :: Calyx Books

Pick from four books of poetry published by Calyx Press and add a box of handmade Bursts’s Chocolates to send to your sweetie for Valentine’s Day and get a 20% discount on the books. Order by February 8 to assure delivery by February 14. Titles for 20% discount include: Idleness is the Root of all Love by Christa Reinig; Femme’s Dictionary by Carol Guess; The White Junk of Love, Again by Sybil James; The Country of Women by Sandra Kohler. Nothing says love like poetry and chocolate! (Okay, well, maybe beer and poetry…)

Submissions :: Prairie Margins Undergrad Lit Mag 2.11.08

Prairie Margins, the national undergraduate literary journal of Bowling Green State University, is accepting submissions for its 2008 issue. Work by undergraduate students from any accredited institution is eligible for consideration. Work that is not by a current student will not be considered. Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art submissions may be e-mailed to the editors by Monday, February 11.

Isotope Authors Recognized

Isotope
A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing

Alison Hawthorne Deming’s scientific meditation “The Rabbit On Mars” (Isotope 4.1) is now included in the 2007 edition of the annual collection, Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton Mifflin) edited by Richard Preston.

Sunshine O’Donnell’s essay “Consumption” (Isotope 3.1, and winner of Isotope’s 2005 Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction) has been reprinted in the first volume of The Best Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind.

Donna Steiner’s essay “Cold,” (Isotope 4.1) has been listed as a Notable Essay of 2006 in the 2007 edition of Best American Essays, edited by David Foster Wallace.

Sharon White’s essay “Bamboo” (Isotope 4.2) recently won the AWP 2007 Award Series Prize in Creative Nonfiction for her book Gardens, which will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2008. “Bamboo” is featured as a chapter in the book.

Isotope has received several favorable reviews on NewPages, one from yours truly who found the publication a surprisingly delightful blend of science and nature and literature. An unassuming publication that has never disappointed; the kind of writing you didn’t know existed until you read it, and then you wonder why you never knew of it before. Check it out.

Submissions :: Valley Voices 3.1.08

**I posted this a few weeks back, and a reader let me know there is no e-mail address here. It does sound like a great publication, but I have tried several times to call the school and speak with someone in the English Department. No one answers the phone, and I tried several different extensions. The school website is a horrific mess to navigate, and has endless unused template pages, so either it’s new or they just don’t have anyone to maintain it. If ANYONE out there can provide more info on this sitaution, please post a reply.**

Valley Voices: A Literary Review (ISSN: 1553-7668) now seeks submissions on two special issues to be published in 2008: Landscape and Literature (Spring issue) and Richard Wright (Fall issue). Critical essays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir or photographs on the Mississippi landscape, Mississippi Delta history, literature, art, music, civil rights movement, and folklore studies are always welcome.

Poetry: Maximum of 5 poems that must be typed and single-spaced Critical essays, fiction, nonfiction: one manuscript (5,000 words) that must be typed and double-spaced

Photographs: B/W

Please email your work by attachment with a cover letter before March 1, 2008 for the spring issue and June 30, 2008 for the fall issue to

Valley Voices, The Editors
Mississippi Valley State University
14000 Highway 82 W., #7242
Itta Bena, MS 38941-1400

Submissions :: Malahat Review CNF

Creative Non-fiction wanted all year, all the time!
The Malahat Review is pleased to announce that, starting with its Summer 2008 issue, it will publish at least one work of creative non-fiction in every issue. Submit previously unpublished works of creative nonfiction for the consideration of the Creative Non-fiction Board. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. For example, a submission may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. Seeking highly original submissions that range in length from between 1,000 to 3,500 words.

Afghan Reporter Senetenced to Death

Dear friends and colleagues:

This was posted on the Reporters Without Borders web site:

“Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a 23-year-old journalist, was arrested in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern province of Balkh, on 27 October 2007 on charges of blasphemy and ‘disseminating defamatory comments about Islam.’ Under repeated pressure from the Council of Mullahs and local officials, a Mazar-i-Sharif court sentenced him to death on 22 January 2008 at the end of a trial held behind closed doors in which he was not defended by a lawyer.”

The short version of the story is that Kambakhsh downloaded an article off the internet that discussed what the Koran says about women, and distributed a few printed copies. For this “crime” he has been sentenced to death. In another article in The Independent, Jean Mackenzie of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting is quoted saying, “We feel very strongly that this is designed to put pressure on Pervez’s brother, Yaqub, who has done some of the hardest-hitting pieces outlining abuses by some very powerful commanders.”

Please consider joining the international campaign to stop this sentence from being carried out.

Link to the full story and link to petition on the Reporters Without
Borders site is here.

A petition launched by The Independent (UK Publication) can be found
here.

Full story in The Independent is here.

Many thanks for your attention to this. Please pass it on.

Sincerely,

Paula Lerner
Artist of AFGHAN STORIES: Giving Women A Voice
Photographs from Kabul and Kandahar.

Poetry Podcasts :: PBS NewsHour Poetry Series

NewsHour Poetry Series is a special NewsHour series that couples profiles of contemporary poets with reports on news and trends in the world of poetry (Updated periodically). Archives include: John Ashbery, Virginia Bennett, Lucille Clifton, Eliaz Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Gregory Djanikian, Claudia Emerson, Donald Hall, Joy Harjo, Paul Hunter, Galway Kinnell, Brad Leithauser, Agi Mishol, Wallace McRae, Taha Muhammad Ali, Jack Prelutsky, Wyatt Prunty, Samih al-Qasim, Alberto Rios, Kay Ryan, Mary Jo Salter, Aharon Shabtai, Charles Simic, Brian Turner, Natasha Trethewey, Robert Wrigley, Kevin Young, Ghassan Zaqtan, Paul Zarzyski. Funded by the Poetry Foundation. Site includes bios, selected works, a transcript of the program, related links, free program podcasts, and student and teacher resources. (Photo: Kevin Young, featured poet)

Submissions :: Rougarou 3.31.08

Rougarou the new online literary magazine edited by graduate students of the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is currently seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and book reviews for their Spring issue, due to launch in May 2008. Their first issue features new work by Stephen-Paul Martin, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Carolyn Mikulencak, William Greenway, Larissa Szporluk, Robert Vivian and others. Sim/subs accepted. Reading period: December 1 – March 31.

Lit Fest :: Saints and Sinners 5.8-11.08

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival
May 8 – 11, 2008
New Orleans

This event was a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the GLBT community. It was also formed to bring the GLBT literary community together to celebrate the literary arts.

The “Saints and Sinners” LGBT literary festival presents panel discussions and master classes around literary topics to provide a forum for authors and editors to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBT literature.

For 2008, Dorothy Allison, Mark Doty, Jewelle Gomez, Jim Grimsley, Aaron Hamburger, Stephen McCauley, Val McDermid, Tim Miller, Michelle Tea, and Elizabeth Whitney will join participants in the French Quarter for a weekend of literary revelry.

AWP 2008 :: Some First Notes

AWP was a blast, and I’m exhausted. My *poor* students had to put up with my slacking coherence and lagging memory of what I had assigned last week and what was due today, so class lectures started with the outcome of the Superbowl, the bowl ads, and the cost of burgers and beer in New York.

As for AWP – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love it.

I know – trust me I know – it has its faults, for exhibitors working the bookfair as well as for attendees. That said, I am absolutely supercharged from my weekend of contact with some of the nicest, most generous and brilliant people in the publishing industry, education, and writing community. A bit gushing? Maybe. Heartfelt? Yes.

Four years ago, when Casey and I hit the floor at AWP, hardly anyone we talked with knew about NewPages, and those who did had to roll their eyes upward and search their mental files first. There are some folks who have supported us from start to now, and those who have jumped on board along the way. We couldn’t be what we are now without their supportive encouragement and guidance.

This year, our third year of having a table presence at the bookfair, and my first year presenting on a panel, NewPages “got alotta love” from the constant stream of people passing by. “Oh, I love you guys!” “NewPages is great!” “You’re my homepage!” (The web equivalent to being the main “homie,” I think.) What a great connection it is for us to meet our fans and supporters, whose comments about what they like and what they’d like to see made better really do help guide our work here. And, still, there were just as many folks who didn’t know us who got schooled at AWP. I hope they will follow through and stop by for visit after visit.

My favorite part of AWP was being able to walk the floor and finally meet Face2Face with all of the people I know online and via e-mail – some for the first time, some renewing connections from AWPs past. We meet and in the frenzy that is the book fair floor, we bemoan the exhibitor situation, console one another on the state of reading and publishing in this day and age, shake fists at the postal hikes that are killing the small publications, and then make plans to meet again online to work on changing the literary world. And, as we have, so we will continue. There is so much to be done on the backs of those that have gone before us, we will continue, and I can only hope the new generation of writers, so timid about claiming themselves “writers,” will join with us in our efforts and sally forth – in whatever form that may mean for us and them and the next generation while still respecting those that have passed the torch – the rolled publication lit afire.

There’s much more to be reported on our attendance at AWP – and as soon as our missing luggage makes its way here, I will sort through all the wonderful materials and magazines, books and photos I gathered. Stay posted, and I will do the same!

Film :: Global Documentary Series

Human Stories. Global Issues. Wide Angle.

WIDE ANGLE was created in 2001 as a response to the lack of in-depth international news coverage in the United States. Six years later, WIDE ANGLE is the only program exclusively dedicated to international current affairs documentaries. For each broadcast, producers and journalists from around the globe report on an event, issue or trend through the eyes of the people who are living it day to day. In its first six seasons, WIDE ANGLE traveled to more than 50 countries to explore the forces that are shaping the world today, presenting global stories on a human scale and offering Americans uncommon and invaluable insight into today’s interconnected world.

WIDE ANGLE is anchored by former CNN International, ITN and BBC journalist Daljit Dhaliwal. Dhaliwal introduces the featured documentary by putting it in the context of the news of the day, and follows up with a hard-hitting one-on-one interview with a foreign policy expert, administration official, legislative leader, author or journalist who provides context and critical perspective on how global issues connect to American concerns and U.S. foreign policy.

WIDE ANGLE is a production of WNET/Thirteen and airs Tuesdays from July through September at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations nationwide. Check our TV Schedule to find out when WIDE ANGLE is broadcasting in your area.

AWP Report Friday

NewPages is fully enjoying AWP 2008! It’s absolutely crazy here from the moment we hit the floor until the moment our heads hit the pillows at night. We are basking in all the favorable comments the site receives from readers, and we also appreciate hearing how we can make NewPages better, better, better.

My special thanks to those who say they appreciate the blog. I am working the floor here to get an even more steady stream of news and events to post, so keep visiting the site and let others know about us.

A few fans stopping by even said they wanted to know how they could “support” NewPaqes. Well, while here at AWP, we’ve found our beer fund dwindling. If you like what you find on NewPages, and you appreciate the site, we don’t holler out alert colors to scare you into donating. Bottom line: We like beer. It really keeps us going. So, click the pint link in the upper right corner, and let us know how much you love us. No amount of beer-fund love is too small, since our tastes range from Stroh’s to Chimay.

And I haven’t heard yet, but I’m still hoping “Michael” is going to be ponying up soon!

Submissions :: Barrelhouse 3.17.08

Never a boring submission period at Barrelhouse, that’s for sure. This time around? Roller Derby.

“That’s right: roller derby! Send fiction, essays, poems, whatever you got. Barrelhouse will select one winner who will receive original art created by Cory Oberndorfer, a genuine roller derby artist. Finalists will be published in our Very Special Roller Derby Section, which will be included in our next print issue.”

But that’s not all! Barrelhouse will select one work to be the inspiration for the cover art: “The one we like best (aka, “The Winner”) will recieve original artwork from Cory Oberndorfer, who creates (among other things) roller derby related art. Cory’s piece will take it’s inspiration from your work. This essentially means that you will become immortalized in two formats: your roller derby writing will appear in the pages of Barrelhouse, and will also be celebrated in or serve as inspiration for Cory’s work. Which will also be the cover of the next issue of Barrelhouse.”

What are you waiting for? Deadline is March 17, 2008.

Submissions :: DMQ Review

The Disquieting Muses Quarterly Review, an online journal of poetry and art since 1999 welcomes email submissions of poetry and art to our quarterly review for our winter issue. We seek work that represents the diversity of contemporary poetry and demonstrates literary excellence. Check out current and past issues and read & follow submission guidelines closely.

The Autumn 2007 issue features the poetry of R.S. Armstrong, Michael Baker, Chris Crittenden, Andrew Demcak, Brent Goodman, Melissa Holm, Kim Mahler, Rodney Nelson, Larry Rapant, Amy Bracken Sparks, Susan Varnot, Donna Vorreyer, Christine Walsh, and Cyril Wong with artwork by Bob Dornberg. Also appearing in this issue, essays by Noah Eli Gordon, Marge Piercy, and Reginald Shepherd from Poet’s Bookshelf 2, edited by Peter Davis.

Submissions :: Slipstream Anthology 2.29.08

Subtle Edens
The Elastic Book of Slipstream

This book will be a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, to be edited by Allen Ashley and published as an original paperback by Elastic Press (UK) in Autumn 2008.

For fiction submissions, Allen Ashley has made the following provocative statements: “Slipstream is essentially a 1990s and noughties extension and subtle reconfiguration of New Wave science fiction. How do I define science fiction? Somewhere between 1967 and 1974.” A few non-fiction articles will be published within the body of the book, but all of these have been commissioned.

Deadline: February 29, 2008

Jail or Read :: Changing Lives Through Literature

The History of Changing Lives Through Literature
An Alternative Sentencing Program

“Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) is a program that began in Massachusetts in response to a growing need within our criminal justice system to find alternatives to incarceration. Burdened by expense and repeat offenders, our prisons can rarely give adequate attention to the needs of inmates and, thus, do little else than warehouse our criminals. Disturbed by the lack of real success by prisons to reform offenders and affect their patterns of behavior, Professor Robert Waxler and Judge Robert Kane discussed using literature as a way of reaching hardened criminals.

“In the fall of 1991, Robert Waxler, Robert Kane, and Wayne St. Pierre, a New Bedford District Court probation officer (PO), initiated the first program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where Waxler is a professor in the English Department. Eight men were sentenced to probation instead of prison, with an important stipulation: they had to complete a Modern American Literature seminar run by Professor Waxler. The seminar was held on the university campus and included Judge Kane and PO St. Pierre. For 12 weeks, the men, many of whom had not graduated from high school and who had among them 148 convictions for crimes such as armed robbery and theft, met in a seminar room at the university. By discussing books, such as James Dickey’s Deliverance and Jack London’s Sea Wolf, the men began to investigate and explore aspects of themselves, to listen to their peers, to increase their ability to communicate ideas and feelings to men of authority who they thought would never listen to them, and to engage in dialogue in a democratic classroom where all ideas were valid. Instead of seeing their world from one angle, they began opening up to new perspectives and started realizing that they had choices in life. Thus, literature became a road to insight (see the New Bedford paradigm).”

Read more about the program here, including information on how to start a CLTL program in your own community.

Submissions :: STORYGLOSSIA 5.01.08

STORYGLOSSIA Breaks the Law

“Breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law…” Okay, maybe not quite like Judas Priest.

“STORYGLOSSIA has enlisted Anthony Neil Smith as guest editor to help deliver a STORYGLOSSIA crime wave in Issue 28 (May 2008). Neil is the author of Psychosomatic, The Drummer, and Yellow Medicine and the editor of the re-emergent online noire-zine Plots With Guns, as well as a few kick-ass crime/noir issues for the Mississippi Review. He’s currently a professor of Creative Writing at Southwest Minnesota State University. Loves Louisiana Hot Sauce and Mexican beer. He’s already warned you once, which means next time you won’t see it coming. The guidelines for Issue 28 are simple: We’re shining our flashlights into the darkness to find what’s hiding there. We want hard-hitting crime and noir stories that walk the line between the worlds of literary fiction and genre. Push the envelope, see what pushes back. Word count max: 4000 words (no exceptions). Neil is reading submissions from January 15th until March 15th with the issue publishing May 1, 2008. See the complete guidelines for submission details and send in your best work.”

AWP :: FC2 Sweeps the Events!


FC2 Reception!
Clinton Suite
Hilton, 2nd Floor
7:00 p.m.

A Reading & Reception Hosted by FC2. Join us for drinks and a reading with Debra Di Blasi, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Diane Williams, Alexandra Chasin, Jeffrey DeShell and Pamela Ryder.

Signings at the FC2 table #278:

Thursday
Yuriy Tarnawsky 2:30 p.m.
Alexandra Chasin 3:30 p.m.
Jeffrey DeShell 4:30 p.m.

Friday
Pamela Ryder 2:30 p.m.
Diane Williams 4:30 p.m.

Saturday
Debra Di Blasi 12 noon

PLUS: FC2 is crazy wild on the session schedule! Stop by the FC2 table for a full listing, and check your AWP Program!

*NewPages Loves Brenda*

AWP :: Luna Park Partay

Luna Park
Premiere Issue Party
Brooklyn
January 31, 2008

The premiere issue party of Luna Park, a review of the carnival world of literary magazines, will be January 31st, in Brooklyn (coinciding with the AWP conference). Guest hosts are Mississippi Review and Juked . Special readings by: Angela Ball (AWP award winner), Tao Lin, Marie Helene-Bertino, and Claudia Smith. Music by Tin Pan Blues Band. Art by Steven Summer and Ken Weathersby. The fun begins at 9:00pm.

Where: Noo Na, 565 Vanderbilt Ave (corner of Pacific St.), Prospect Heights,Brooklyn, NY. Just a 10-15 minute subway ride from Manhattan. Getting there from AWP Hilton: Walk north on 6th Ave. to 57th. Turn left andwalk to the 57th St & 7th Ave. Q stop. Head to Brooklyn. Exit Train at 7thAve and leave terminal at right. Head down Park Place to Vanderbilt Ave.Turn left and walk 4 1/2 blocks…you’re there. More details at: www.lunaparkreview.com

AWP :: Milkweed and Tameme

Saturday February 2nd
10:30-11:00 am @ the Milkweed Editions booth
AWP Bookfair New York City
C.M. Mayo Book Signing
Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California the Other Mexico.

“A luminous exploration of Baja California, from its southern tip at Cabo an Lucas to its ‘lost city’ of Tijuana… [Mayo] takes the fiction writer’s impulse and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth” ~Los Angeles Times Book Review

—>Though the AWP conference in New York City is sold out, the bookfair is free and open to the public for this one day only.

And come by Tameme (table #85) for “Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles” the beautiful new chapbook by Mexican poet Jorge Fernandez Granados, translated by John Oliver Simon. Also on hand: previous issues of Tameme, Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, and more….

Submissions :: Segue

Segue, the online literary journal of Miami University-Middletown, is accepting creative and scholarly work for its fall 2008 issue.

Segue‘s dual mission is to serve as a high quality literary publication and an educational venue for writing instructors and students of writing. In addition to publishing an eclectic blend of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from around the globe, each issue features a well-established author who publishes a small body of new/forthcoming work along with an essay that explores the writing process behind their submission. Past Featured Authors include Brenda Miller, Terese Svoboda, Lex Williford, Diane Glancy, Denise Duhamel, and others. Further, our peer-reviewed Writing on Writing (WoW) page publishes nonfiction on a wide range of creative writing-related issues for educational use, and our Author Q&A page posts email interviews conducted by writing students with selected authors published in Segue.

Submissions are open to anyone outside of Miami University. The WoW page is an especially valuable resource for instructors (including graduate students) to use and/or publish in. Possible topics for the WoW page include, but are not limited to:
Creative writing pedagogy (we’re especially interested in this)
The state of creative writing in academia
Creative writing in academia v. the alleged “real world”
The craft/process of writing fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction
Creative writing exercises (with explanations of their origin,
purpose, and if possible, examples of completed exercises)
Close readings of the literary works of established authors, with
an eye toward illuminating something interesting in the work
Interviews with established authors
The business side of creative writing
The writing life

Complete details on all the above, submission guidelines, and past issues are freely available on Segue‘s web site.

Submissions :: damselfly press 3.15.08

“damselfly press, an innovative online literary journal for women, is seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers slated for online publication in April 2008. For our third issue, we welcome submissions focusing on peregrinations ranging from actual travel to spiritual or inner journeys that transform you or your characters in some significant way. As always, we welcome a myriad of women’s voices from new and experienced writers. The deadline to submit for the third issue is March 15th, 2008.”

Books :: StoryQuarterly Annual

18 Lies and 3 Truths
2007 Story Quarterly Annual
Edited by Tom Jenks with Carol Edgarian and M. M. M. Hayes

Includes eighteen great stories and three essays on the art of writing by today’s master storytellers: Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Hoffman, Charles Johnson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as by some of today’s important up-and-coming authors.

New Online Issue :: Spindle Magazine

From Spindle Magazine Editor & Publisher Guy LeCharles Gonzalez:

“Spindle Magazine‘s official launch continues this week with the ‘Love, New York Style’ issue, featuring poetry and fiction by Jai Chakrabarti, Panika M. C. Dillon, John Rodriguez, Amanda Nazario, Lisa Marie Kelleher and many others. Plus, a new Coffee & Brooklyn column from Mahogany Browne.

“Spindle Magazine is an online literary magazine with a twist, featuring creative non-fiction, poetry and short fiction by, for and about New Yorkers – literal and spiritual. Showcasing emerging writers, artists, musicians and other notable New Yorkers, it offers a multi-faceted look at New York City and the world beyond through the eyes of both those who love it and hate it, and in many cases, a peek inside the minds of the people themselves. Log on today!”

Positions :: The Pedestal Magazine

The Pedestal Magazine is currently seeking to fill three positions:

1. Poetry Editor. Applicants should have prior publication in Pedestal, as well as other prominent journals, and previous editing experience. Applicants should have at least one published full-length collection currently available. Applicant would be asked to edit the poetry in 1-2 issues per year. Please send resume to [email protected].

2. Reviewer. Applicants should have prior experience reviewing for various publications. Pedestal currently publishes 850-1000 word reviews. Reviewer would be asked to undertake 1-3 assigned reviews per issue, primarily poetry collections but possibly short fiction as well. Send resume and 2-3 sample reviews to [email protected].

3. Administrative Assistant. Applicants should be thoroughly familiar with MySpace.com: how to send friend requests, post bulletins, set up a blog, send event invitations, tailor/program a page aesthetically; i.e., all the ins and outs of setting up a compelling and effective MySpace page. Send resume, along with a link to a MySpace page you’ve designed, to [email protected].

Submissions :: Kicked Out Anthology 3.1.08

Kicked Out
Wdited by Sassafras Lowrey
Published by Homofactus Press

“Kicked Out is a new anthology, which uniquely seeks to tell the tales of former queer youth and current queer youth who were forced to leave home because of their sexuality and/or gender identity. This anthology will tell our collective stories of survival, weaving together descriptions of abuse, and homelessness with poignant accounts of the ways in which queer community centers offered sanctuary, and the power and importance of creating our own chosen families in the face of loosing everything we have ever known. Kicked Out offers advice and wisdom to the queer youth of today from those who have been in their shoes. Additionally, it provides the opportunity for readers to get a glimpse into the world of those queer youth who as a result of circumstance have to leave home, while simultaneously shattering the stereotypes of who queer youth are, and what they have the potential to become.”

Deadline: March 1, 2008
www.myspace.com/kickedoutanthology

Submissions :: Alehouse Press

Alehouse Press is now considering queries for short essays and book reviews for the next issue of Alehouse. Essay topics focus on the current state of poetry, the work of particular poets, plus other appropriate topics of interest. The 2009 issue will feature essays on African-American poets and poetry.

Book reviews focus on work published in the past few years, but may also include older, under-appreciated work that reviewers may want to promote to readers. Again, for our 2009 issue, special interest will be on reviews of books by or about African-American poets.

Alehouse essays run approximately 500-2000 words, book reviews approximately 500-1000 words per title. Please contact Alehouse for book review guidelines: editor(at)alehousepress.com

Jobs :: Various

The English Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a two-year appointment, with the possibility of renewal, in Creative Writing, specializing in poetry. Professor Naomi Guttman. February 15, 2008.

Assistant Professor/Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University, tenure track. Writing Search Committee, English Department. February 29, 2008.

University of Mississippi welcomes applications for the Summer Poet in Residence (SPiR). Director Beth Ann Fennelly. February 1, 2008.

Alt Mag Mailbag :: January 27

For information about these and many other quality alternative magazines, click the links or visit The NewPages Guide to Alternative Magazines.

Against the Current
“After Forty Year: The Memphis Strike”
January/February 2008
Bimonthly

American Book Review
Volume 29 Number 2
January/February 2008
Bimonthly

Geist
Ideas and Culture :: Made in Canada
Volume 16 Number 67
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Guild Practitioner
A journal of legal theory and practice: “…to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests.”
Volume 64 Number 2
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Humor Times
Issue Number 193
January 2008
Monthly

In These Times
Lights! Camera! Collective Action!
Volume 32 Number 1
January 2008
Monthly

Labor Notes
Number 346
January 2008
Monthly

Lilith
Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist
Volume 32 Number 4
Winter 2007-08
Quarterly

Planet Drum Pulse
A Voice for Bioregional Sustainability, Education, and Culture
Winter 2007

Science & Society
Volume 72 Number
January 2008
Quarterly

Shambhala Sun
Buddhism/Culture/Meditation/Life
Volume 16 Number 4
March 2008
Bimonthly

Sing Out!
Folk Music Folk Songs
Volume 51 Number 4
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Turning the Tide
Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education
Volume 21 Number 1
Jan-Feb 2008
Bimonthly

Voices from the Earth
Southwest Research and Information Center, Albuquerque, NM
Volume 8 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Z Magazine
20 Year Anniversary Issue
January 2008
Monthly

In Memoriam :: Celeste West

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Celeste West’s spirit released her body to go exuberantly adventure in other realms, on January 3rd. She was 65. Celeste is survived by her partner and co-vivante of six years Tina Perricone and their orange tabby cat, Sienna Pumphrey Gabor; sisters, Sue Ann Johnson and Katherine Karr of Portland, OR; many loving nieces and nephews, grandnieces and nephews, and many many friends across the country. Celeste received her BA in journalism from Portland State U, later entering the ranks of professional librarians, having graduated from Rutgers in 1968. She headed to San Francisco in 1968. Celeste worked in the Bay Area Reference Center (BARC) 1968-1973 where she helped publish Synergy, a library periodical which won at least two awards. With Elizabeth Katz, Celeste edited Revolting Librarians, which they then published with Sue Critchfield as Booklegger Press in 1972. A bestseller in the library world, it continues to inspire librarians today. In 1973 the final issue of Synergy was published and Celeste initiated Booklegger Magazine, “built to begin where Synergy leaves off,” which was published until 1976. Celeste also wrote or edited and published through Booklegger Press, the following books: Women’s Films in Print (1975); Positive Images, Non-Sexist Films for Young People (1976); Booklegger’s Guide to the Passionate Perils of Publishing (1978); Words in Our Pockets: The Feminist Writers Guild Handbook on How to Gain Power, Get Published and Get Paid (1985); Elsa: I Come With My Songs (a biography of Else Gidlow, 1986), Lesbian Love Advisor (her bestseller, 1989) and her “most controversial book, the one which every feminist publisher and even a printer rejected,” Lesbian Polyfidelity: How to Keep Nonmonogamy Safe, Sane, Honest, and Laughing, You Rogue! (1996). On April Fool’s Day 1989 Celeste began work as the library director at the San Francisco Zen Center until her retirement in Autumn 2006. Celeste was a devout anarchist, feminist and Buddeo-Pagan. She is most often compared to a shooting star. Donations in Celeste’s memory can be made to: KPFA radio, Recovery Inc., the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, or plant a tree in her memory at Arbor Day Foundation. If you cannot donate, no worries, you can creatively agitate for peace and justice, and follow your bliss. As Celeste would say, “Oh yez. oh yes, oh yez.”

AWP :: Dinty Moore Book Signing

Between Panic and Desire
by Dinty Moore
AWP Bookfair

Brevity editor Dinty W. Moore will be signing copies of his new memoir Between Panic and Desire, part of Nebraska’s American Lives Series, at the Nebraska AWP Bookfair Booth (B25-B26) on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 10 am. Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents, the book documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Publisher’s Weekly kindly describes the book as a “quirky, entertaining joyride.” Drop by and join the festivities.

AWP :: Kore Press Events

Women’s Presses, Activism, & Gender Inequities in the Literary World
Panel Sponsored by Kore Press
Friday, February 1, 12pm
Gibson Suite, Hilton 2nd floor
Moderated by Lisa Bowden. Guerrilla girls look at gender inequity and the literary world: why are there far fewer women getting published than men when MFA programs and residencies are filled with women writers? Through the lens of Third Wave Feminism, we will consider what the perception of feminist publishing is and if the women’s press is an effective activist project or a remarginalization of the already marginalized. Writers, editors, and activists comment on the historic need for and complexities inherent in the “affirmative action” of publishing women only.

Chocolate & Merlot Booksigning
Saturday, February 2, 4:30 pm
Kore Press Bookfair Table #451
Nibble truffles & sip red wine with Kore authors Spring Ulmer and Tiphanie Yanique as they sign their award-winning books at the Kore table.

Call to Action :: PEN American Center

From PEN American Center:

Our colleagues in China need your help.

Last month, in cooperation with the courageous members of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, PEN launched We Are Ready for Freedom of Expression, a campaign aimed at freeing all writers and journalists imprisoned in China before the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Noted Chinese authors Liu Xiaobo and Zheng Yi were among those joining international counterparts Margaret Atwood, Francine Prose, and Salman Rushdie in launching this important campaign. The support and participation of PEN Members in the United States is vital to our collective success.

Take action today by adding your name to two PEN petitions:

• Petition to the Chinese government

• Petition to the U.S. Congress to ban U.S. involvement in internet censorship in China

This is a historic moment in which the international community has the opportunity to pressure the Chinese government to improve its human rights record. Take time now to sign the petitions, and join us in our advocacy work in the weeks ahead.

Help us win the release of our colleagues in Chinese prisons and expand freedom of expression in China in this crucial year.

Many thanks,

Francine Prose
President

Larry Siems
Director, Freedom to Write and International Programs

Summer Fellowships :: Fishtrap 2.4.08

“Each year, Fishtrap, Inc. awards up to five Fellowships for Summer Fishtrap, held every July at Wallowa Lake, Oregon. Awards are made on the basis of writing submission only, and are not limited to or made because of the genre. In a given year, awards might all go to poets, or to fiction writers, or to non-fiction writers; in fact they go out in different combinations each year, based on the judge’s selection of best writing. Fellowships cover the cost of a workshop, registration for the Gathering, and food and lodging for the week. Previous Fellows include fiction writers Kathleen Tyau and Geronimo Tagatac, poets Charles Goodrich and Marilyn Johnston, and non-fiction writer Ellie Waterston.”

Deadline: Postmark February 4, 2008

Residency :: Stadler Center for Poetry 2.23.08

Philip Roth Residence
Stadler Center for Poetry

To be eligible, an applicant must be more than 21 years of age, must reside in the United States, and must not be enrolled as a student in a college or university. (Persons enrolled in a college or university at the time of application are eligible). Some record of publication is desirable. Please note that the 2008-09 Roth Residence will be awarded to a poet. Prose writers may apply in spring 2009 for the 2009-10 Residence.

To apply, submit the following items by postal mail to the address shown below:

1. A letter of application.
2. A curriculum vitae.
3. Three letters of recommendation.
4. A writing sample of no more than 12 typed pages of poetry.

No materials will be returned; please do not send originals. We strongly recommend that you include letters of recommendation with your other application materials. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that letters of recommendation are sent by the postmark deadline.

Application deadline (for 2008-09 residence, open to a poet): postmarked by Saturday, February 23, 2008.

Notification: late spring 2008.

Send application materials to:

Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
The Stadler Center for Poetry
Bucknell Hall
Bucknell University
Lewisburg PA 17837

Submissions :: Knock 6.15.08

Knock will read for issue #10 (due out fall 2008) through June 15, 2008. Accepting prose, poetry, plays, art and cartoons, interviews. See website for full details. Also accepting entries for the 4th annual Ecolit & Green Art contest. Deadline May 1, 2008.

Sad to See You Go :: Small Sprial Notebook

From Small Sprial Notebook: “After six years of publication, articles in major newspapers and magazines, and solicitations from top agents and publishers, which have helped our writers score agents and book deals, I’m sad to announce that SSN will cease publication on 12.31.07. We are not reviewing or publishing any new work, so please do not submit work for consideration. Thank you for supporting Small Spiral Notebook! If you have any queries, please email them to: editor – at – smallspiralnotebook -dot- com.”

AWP :: Alimentum Events

Look for ALIMENTUM at
Table #261
Americas Hall I
3rd Floor
Come Meet the Editors

Alimentum Publisher Paulette Licitra reads for AWP panel: “Writers at the Table,” Jan 31st 4:30

Alimentum Editor Peter Selgin reads for AWP panel: “Our Roots are Deep with Passion,” Jan 31st 1:30
Plus 2 book signings for his book
By Cunning and Craft
Feb 1st & 2nd at 11
Writer’s Digest table (right next to Alimentum‘s)

See you there!

AWP Off Site :: Micropress Poetry

Micropress Poetry Pageant
Friday February 1, 2008
8:00 PM
Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Take the L TRAIN to Grand Street, 1 block West

Free! Public! Prizes!
No AWP badge required.

Featuring: Bloof Books * Coconut Books * No Tell Books

Authors: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jenna Cardinale, Shanna Compton, Bruce Covey, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Shafer Hall, Jennifer L. Knox, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Reb Livingston, Danielle Pafunda, PF Potvin, Ravi Shankar

New Issue Online :: The Adirondack Review

The Adirondack Review pleased to announce that the Winter Issue is now live. Inside you will find a carefully selected sampling of poetry, fiction, and criticism. The new issue features the artwork of Michael Usyk and celebrates the winner and finalists of The Fiddlehead Poetry Prize. Also, the Fulton Prize for Short Fiction is currently open. Top prize is $400 and publication in The Adirondack Review.

Fellowship :: Brown University 2.1.08

The Brown International Writers Project is currently seeking nominations and applications for its one-year fellowship with residency. The Fellowship, supported by a grant from the William H. Donner Foundation, is designed to provide sanctuary and support for established creative writers–fiction writers, playwrights, and poets-who are persecuted in their home countries or are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their literary art. Deadline: February 1, 2008.

Submissions :: pacificReview 2.14.08

pacificREVIEW
2008-2009

“…a literary journal featuring original poetry, fiction, photography, art, translations, essays, non-fiction and other provocative treats. new, famous, and infamous writers welcome. no previously published works please! simultaneous submissions alright by us. Send us your best, and we’ll give it our undivided attention.”

Deadline: February 14, 2008.

NY Bookstore :: Housing Works

Soho’s Best Kept Secret
While you’re in New York for AWP, check out Housing Works Bookstore:

“450,000 new, used, and rare book and records in a classic library setting with twenty-foot ceilings, a mahogany paneled interior, spiral staircases, and a friendly, knowledgeable staff. Our cafe features sandwhiches, wraps, soups, salads, great coffee, tea, beer, wine and desserts. Special event, live music, and readings make the UBC a great place to meet friends, relax and shop the best used book selection in NYC. 100% of the profits go to housing works, a non-profit organization that provides housing, health care, job training, advocacy, and many other services for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.”

Donate Books
Not only that, but for those of you with exhibit tables who don’t want to haul your books/magazines back across the country, consider donating them to HWB:

“100% of our books, records, and CDs are donated. Publishers and reviewers often donate new books, but we also depend heavily on customer donations. Donations can be brought into the bookstore during regular hours. All donations are tax deductible and we will provide you with the proper tax form. We occasionally schedule pickups for large donations. If you are interested in scheduling a pick-up, please send us an email with the basic information on your books (location, size of donation, type of books) and we’ll get back to you promptly. Please note, we are no longer able to reimburse for taxi receipts.”

Beloit Poetry Journal & Split this Rock

Of special note is the most recent issue of Beloit Poetry Journal, Volume 58 Number 3, Spring 2008. This issue is titled, “Split this Rock Chapbook,” in recognition of the Split this Rock Poetry Festival.

Split this Rock Poetry Festival
A Celebration of our Tradition of Poetry of Witness and Resistance
March 20 – 23, 2008
Washington, D.C.

“Split this Rock calls poets to a greater role in public life and fosters a national community of activist poets. The festival will feature readings, workshops, panel discussions on poetry and social change, youth programming, films, parties, walking tours, and activism, while we debate and assess the public role of the poet and the poem in this time of crisis.”

Split this Rock will also be at AWP in New York. Visit their website for more information about their activities.

Photo: Digital photography by Lee Sharkey, from Eyes Wide Open series, Chicago, 2007.