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| Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. |
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| DREAMS OF STEAM III GADGETS, an anthology published by Kerlak Enterprises includes JODI ADAMSON's narrative poem, "Steampunk Alchemy," which basically is a coming-of-age and finding yourself tale against the backdrop of the alternate history of the Victorian era if the Industrial Revolution had occurred during this period. If you are not familiar, think Victorian era corset dress with steam, gears, and airship technology. The anthology is available online on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Books A Million, and other sites. |
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| Congratulations to Mark Belair on the release of his poetry collection, WHILE WE'RE WAITING. Order your copy from Amazon today!
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| Donnelle McGee is elated/honored to announce that his poetry manuscript - NAKED - has been accepted for publication by the fine independent publishing press unbound CONTENT.
Purchase his novella SHINE with the link below.
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| Congratulations to Chuck Tripi on the publication of his full-length poetry manuscript, Carlo and Sophia, which includes a forward from poet Jean LeBlanc! |
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| Three cheers for Dee Redfearn! Her essay, “Portrait of a Don,” is published in Green Hills Literary Lantern. |
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| Laury Egan’s JENNY KIDD (Vagabondage Press, 2012) is a psychological suspense story that takes place in Venice. At a masked ball at the Palazzo Barbon, Jenny Kidd, a young American artist, meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano, who entice Jenny into a world of glittering façades that cloak sexual perversion, art forgery, and murder. |
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| Louise Farmer Smith’s novel, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE, received an honorable mention from Writer's Digest!
Their evaluation of it said: "Beautifully written in a tender, funny, wise voice that recalls Eudora Welty, this wonderful novel reveals the secrets and passions and disappointments that plague four generations of married women in heartbreaking and hilarious detail...This is old-fashioned storytelling at its best." |
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| Congratulations to Tracy DeBrincat on the release of her novel, HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO. Order your copy from Amazon today! |
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| Congratulations to Kathryn Dow on the release of her novel, THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT! Order your digital copy from Foreverland Press, and check out her website. |
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| Jay Carson’s newest chapbook, Irish Coffee, has just been released by Coal Hill Review (a division of Autumn House Press). If you’re interested in purchasing, please send a money order for $10 to Jay Carson, 128 North Craig Street #915, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213. |
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| Congrats to Gary Buslik on his book Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls (Travelers' Tales/Solas House). About the book: Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat on linoleum, when each member of the gang decides to ladle out his own personal nuke soup, holy terror Akhmed is left steaming. Will his plan to destroy America float like a fly or sink like a lead dumpling? Gary says "I got my start with Writer's Relief, and I wouldn't have a career without you. I mean it." |
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| Let's give a standing ovation to Paula Bernett! Her poem, "Piano Lesson," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Schuylkill Valley Journal. |
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| Three cheers for Mary Bess Dunn! Her story, "Under A Different Sun," has been nominated by Gertrude Press for the Pushcart Prize! |
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| Tara Hall announces the release of her e-book SURRENDER TO ME, a novel about a former aristocrat turned lowly vampire who encounters another potential victim—the difference this time is he falls in love. Buy Now!
She’s also happy that “The Origin of Fear,” a story about four college friends who mount an expedition to an abandoned island estate infamous for mysterious deaths, can be found in SPELLBOUND 2011. Check It Out! |
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| Robert C. Hargreaves’ e-book, Mr. Bob the Chicken Engineer, is now available on Kindle. Few Americans have ever worked and lived at the village level in Viet Nam. Bob's ticket into the villages was chickens. |
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| Dennis Must's story QUEEN ESTHER appears in Michigan State University's recent Red Cedar Review, a retrospective that celebrates 45 years of literary and artistic contributions selected from over 244 issues, commencing with Volume 1, 1963. The piece originally ran in Volume 35 Issue 2, 2000. |
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| Congratulations to Pamela Davis for being named a finalist in The Arts & Letters Poetry Prize 2011. |
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| Tropical Depression, by Rosary Hartel O'Neill, is a romantic woman's novel that tells the story of a wealthy student/housewife who runs off with a college professor only to be caught by a hurricane in a Louisiana swamp. The book is only $2.99! |
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| Alan Meyrowitz participated in a poetry reading at the Manayunk Arts Center in Pennsylvania. The event was held to mark the publication of the Spring 2011 issue of the SCHUYLKILL VALLEY JOURNAL, which included Alan's poem, "You Are No Sentimentalist." |
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| WILD MERCY, a poetry collection by Donna Emerson (Finishing Line Press, 2011). 'WILD MERCY is nature and family' a dovetail of relationships that merge and separate: girlhood to parenthood, to the frailties of age, and hospital rooms. Emerson's poetry awakens our memories of family, experience, loss. The first horse ride, a late pregnancy, an old barn, a river and dance with I.V. in tow. Liberally sprinkled with unexpected images, these are lovely poems to savor and then read again? - CB Follett (author of And Freddie Was My Darling). Order now and reserve a copy! |
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| Robert Guard's poem,”Ghostwriter,” recently appeared in Amoskeag. Robert writes: “So here I am paging through my comp copy of Amoskeag, checking out the work, and I come across a small poem by Donald Hall. And I start to notice that there are a lot of really good poets in the book. I look in back at the contributors list and there are bios with Pushcart Prizes and National Endowments for the Arts grants. And I am truly humbled. Really. Do I belong in here with these poets? Well, I am here. And my friends at Writer's Relief keep telling me I'm good, so hey, who am I to argue?” |
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| Let's hear it for Rosalia Scalia whose poem "You'll Do Fine" has been selected by Willow Review as one of the Willow Review Award recipients for the Spring 2011 issue! |
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| The editors at Willow Review have chosen Sr. Elizabeth Wagner's poem "Goldenrod Days" as one of the Willow Review Award recipients for the Spring 2011 issue! Congratulations, Sr. Elizabeth! |
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| Tracy DeBrincat's novel Hollywood Buckaroo recently received the 2011 Big Moose Fiction Prize and will be published by Black Lawrence Press. Her story Badass was awarded the 2011 Tusculum Review Prize. Her debut story collection, Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night (Subito Press) was a finalist for a 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award. |
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| Alice Pero founded and hosts the prestigious reading, "Moonday" in Village Books, Pacific Palisades, CA, with readings on the second Monday of every month. Check out monthly features at the "Moonday" website. |
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| Andrey Gritsman has been nominated by Cervená Barva Press for the William Carlos Williams Award sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. Andre is also a featured poet in Connotation Press's Issue IV, Volume II. |
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| Anthony J. Mohr has co-authored California Paralegal Manual: Civil Trials and Evidence, which was just published by Thomson Reuters. |
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| Christy Ferrato has been nominated by Minnetonka Review for the Best New Poets (2010) anthology and was nominated for The Pushcart Prize. |
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| Don't Let Go [by Gay Baines] is a collection of poems that has a little bit of everything: the countryside, the village, and the city, particularly Buffalo, NY. Buffalo is in part urban, part pastoral, a place where one never forgets that nature invades everywhere, sometimes in glory, sometimes in turmoil. In this wonderful collection, the author questions the existence of "Peace" after four wars. Meanwhile, inhibitions run wild in "The Rapturous Grass." One day in "November 1944," tragedy strikes when least expected. Readers can find other memorable poetic pieces as they immerse in Don't Let Go. |
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| Joan Gelfand has won the Poets 11 competition for District 7. The brainchild of Jack Hirshman, the aim of Poets 11 is to collect writings which reflect San Francisco's diversity of language and culture. Three of Joan's poems will be published in the anthology, and she will receive an honorarium from SFFPL. |
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| Read a new profile of writer Joanne Weck in the NEA's This Active Life magazine. Also, her story "Hitchhiker" won first prize in the Literary Magic Online Journal Conest! Go Joanne! |
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| Loren Stephens has been selected to be a member of the Advisory Board of “Memoir and,” a northern California based literary journal. |
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| Pamela Davis was a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Award (Nimrod) for "Wallow Variations and others," a finalist for the Arts & Letters Prize ("Les Vieilles" and others), and an International Publication Prize Winner for "Nobody's Business But Ours” from the Atlanta Review. Go Pamela! |
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| Kathleen Glassburn, the managing editor of The Writer’s Workshop Review, announces the latest issue of WWR, which features work by Annie Proulx, Robin Curtiss, and more. |
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| Patricia Faith Polak’s poem "Some Irreparable Loss" (published by Southern Humanities Review in 2009) has been chosen as the opening poem for the SHR’s new podcast series. Visit the site to hear Patricia’s poem! |
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| A feature about writer Donnelle McGee appears in the Santa Clara Weekly. Go Donnelle! |
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| PRAIRIE DOG BLUES, a novel by Mark Conkling (Sunstone Press, February 2011). PRAIRIE DOG BLUES burrows into the human condition and into that misty spiritual place between animals and people, a story revealing tragedy, comedy, and drama, lighting up the struggle of living with others. Buffeted by an unseen spirit of nature, an Albuquerque family fights, suffers, grows, and transforms, as prairie dogs scamper up out of their holes and affect each one. |
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| Writer's Relief thanks George Scott for the wonderful write-up about Writer's Relief on his Web site!
He writes: "Don’t despair, for help is available. Quite capable help in the form of www.WritersRelief.com. They have excellent and affordable services. They helped me to publish the two literary short stories...that are excerpted on this blog, and I’m sure they’ll help me with my future work."
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