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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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| Rosary O'Neill's play PLANE LOVE will be performed at the Gramercy Arts Club in New York City on February 27, 2012. |
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| Huge congrats to the following Writer's Relief clients who were nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize: Carl Auerbach, Paula Bernett, Mary Bess Dunn, Kristin Lieberman, Rosemary Magee, and Suellen Wedmore.
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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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| Go 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 “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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| Robert McNally's poem "Steelheading," which appeared in Ecotone, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. |
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| Gladys Justin Carr’s poem “May Frost” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Southern Humanities Review. |
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| Naomi Ruth Lowinsky announces the publication of her new book of poems, Adagio & Lamentation. "Naomi’s words and images meander through shadows and light, between demons and angels, yet the poetry is always accessible. She often goes back in time, to the days when her family lived in (and escaped from) Hitler’s Europe. The journey helps inform who she is today, including the indelible scar worn by anyone whose family has borne witness to genocide." —Stewart Florsheim, author of The Short Fall from Grace
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| Sword fights, kicks, and falls...Tom Atha and his fellow fight choreographers staged this scene from Romeo and Juliet for East Los Angeles College. |
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| Live Landscapes, by Andrey Gritsman. Andrey’s work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was on the short list for the Joyce Osterweil/PEN American Center Prize in Poetry in 2005. "Andrey Gritsman’s poems are unwavering in their honesty, relentless in their assessment of contemporary life, and clear-eyed in their approach to human love and mortality." -Kurt Brown, poet, editor of several anthologies, founder, Aspen Writers’ Seminar. |
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| A Dreamer’s Guide To Cities and Streams (San Francisco Bay Press), by Joan Gelfand. “Passages of ethereal beauty lift Joan Gelfand’s A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams into the realm of the extraordinary. 'Transported' alone has more poetry in it than most volumes of contemporary poetry. Here, in few short lines we find evocation of all the senses, including the sixth, jumped into being by suggestions of beginning, danger, discovery, alarm, assurance, judgment, mission, death, and eternity—an archetypal transport to the holy realm of dreaming.” Robert Arthur, Publisher. Included poems appear in: Lady Jane, Miscellany, Kalliope, Poetica, and national anthologies. |
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| Kathryn A. Higgins’ blog about her foreclosure and squatting illegally in her own home was recently mentioned in The New York Times Magazine in an article about new forms of journalism. |
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| Vivian Lawry’s short story "Beautiful Bones" is forthcoming in The Connecticut Review. In addition, Dark Harbor: A Chesapeake Bay Mystery by Vivian Lawry and W. Lawrence Gulick is now available. |
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| Naomi Ruth Lowinsky has won the New Millennium Writings Obama Inauguration Contest, taking the $1,000 grand prize. Also, Naomi's memoir about being a poet, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way, has been published by Fisher King Press. |
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| Lucille Lang Day's The Curvature of Blue: Poems was released by Cervena Barva Press. "In Lucille Lang Day's poems, stunning transformations of language cross the placenta barrier between the worlds of science and human emotion. She thinks and feels in color, enabling us to inhabit the complexity of the universe—as experienced at breakfast with a lover, in the wild with caribou, or in meditations on acts of historical horror—all made radiant by her lyric gifts and wisdom." —Teresa Cader |
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| Dick Bentley's poetry book, A General Theory of Desire, is available through Patchwork Farm Press. "It's the poet's voice - inquisitive, edgy at times, tender - that gathers these poems together; a voice both innocent and lacerating," says Clare Rossini. |
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| Fred Yannantuono announces the release of his book A Boilermaker for the Lady by NYQ books. "Well! Yannantuono proudly announces that his latest book, A Boilermaker for the Lady, is banned in France, Latvia, and the Orkney Isles. And note the dedication: 'This book is affectionately dedicated to everyone in the world except for my immediate family.' Funny bone aside, a line from his 'Sonnet to Whatever It Is That Kills Porcupines' best illustrates Boilermaker: 'A porcupine’s an iffy thing to kill.' So evidently is Fred. Hey, if Hallmark fired the guy for 'writing meaningful greeting-card verse,' then he’s good enough for us. Moreover, he’s proud to announce he hasn’t been arrested in 17 months.”
—Kate Ozbirn, California State Poetry Society |
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| Suellen Wedmore's chapbook On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Maxine Kumin says of the book “Wedmore’s deeply felt and skillfully controlled poems exhibit an elegiac grace.” |
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| Dorothy Brooks' chapbook, Interstices, was released by Finishing Line Press. The cost is $14 plus shipping. |
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| Tracy DeBrincat’s prize-winning short story collection Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night has been published by Subito Press/University of Colorado. |
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