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The Freedom to Read

Liberally Dispensing Death
by Ranjit Hoskote
nthposition
“Half a decade after the overthrow of the Taliban, young Afghans can still risk their lives by pressing the copy-paste buttons on their PCs. As you read this, a 23-year-old journalist sits in prison in the northern city of Mazhar-e-Sharif, sentenced to death by a religious council. His crime? He downloaded an article on Islam and its views on women from the internet, and distributed it among fellow students with a view to promoting discussion.” [Read the rest on ntnthposition]

Proposals :: Florida Literary Arts Council 11.08

The Florida Literary Arts Coalition is Florida’s voice for independent literary magazines, publishers, & writers. Founded in 2004 by Anhinga Press, Fiction Collective 2, and the University of Tampa Press, the Florida Literary Arts Coalition works to advance new writing and independent publishing throughout the state and region.

“Other Words” a FLAC’s annual conference of literary magazines, independent publishers, and writers. This year’s conference will take place November 6-8, 2008, at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. Panel proposals relating to writing, publishing, and literary arts are being accepted now and should be sent to Jim Wilson at jmwilson@flagler.edu.

Fiction Writing Workshop VCCA

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Fiction Workshop
Getting it Down, Getting the Story

6 Nights/7 Days of fiction intensive

June16 – June 22, 2008

Instructor: Janet Fitch & Bruce Bauman

This workshop begins with the assumption that every writer has his or her own own creative DNA and leaders will work with participants to help them discover and refine their own personal paint box of tools, talents and concerns.

VCCA also hosts several other writing and painting workshops and cultural tours in France.

New Issue Online :: Paradigm

Paradigm
The Kepler Issue

The Kepler Issue, the first Paradigm of 2008, features all-new interviews with bestselling novelist Louis Bayard (Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye), singer-songwriter Liz Pappademas, renowned concept artist James Clyne (The Polar Express, Minority Report), and award-winning crop-circle designer John Lundberg. The Kepler Issue also boasts brand-new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and screenplays that continue to prove that art is everywhere. Visit our new site at www.paradigmjournal.com.

Submissions :: Homophonic Poetry

You’re going to love this, all you homophonites out there. Circumference, a journal of poetry in translation out of Columbia University, has posted several untranslated lines of poetry on their web site and is calling for translations based only on their sound for their seventh homophonic feature. Here’s a taste:

Mbas ndarjes
fjal

Book Review :: That First Amendment

Fourteen Little Words
Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Reviewed by Victor Navasky
The Nation
February 21, 2008

When I was a first-year student at the Yale Law School in 1956, I was deeply impressed when my torts professor, Fleming James Jr., to underline his point that in the old days one could be imprisoned for seditious libel (even if what one wrote was the truth), quoted I-don’t-know-who, saying:

Then up rose Lord Mansfield.
He spake like the Bible.
“The greater the truth, sir
The greater the libel!”

As Anthony Lewis makes clear in his elegant new book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, those days are gone forever. Although his approach is not legalistic, he thoroughly discusses the great libel cases, like Near v. Minnesota, which in 1925 established the principle that the First Amendment protects the press from prior governmental restraints on publication, and New York Times v. Sullivan, which in 1964 extended the principle of First Amendment protection to include subsequent-to-publication punishment (even if what one wrote was false–unless there was reckless disregard for the truth).

Read the rest on The Nation.

Student Publishers :: Apprentice House

Apprentice House is the country’s only campus-based, student-staffed publishing company. Directed by professors and industry professionals, it is a nonprofit activity of the Communication Department at Loyola College in Maryland. The Apprentice House model creates an unprecedented collaborative environment among faculty and students.

Apprentice House’s mission is, first and foremost, to educate students about the book publishing process. As a program within the Communication Department at Loyola College (www.loyola.edu/communication), it is driven by student work conducted in three courses: Introduction to Book Publishing, Book Design and Production, and Book Marketing and Promotion. Therefore, students in these courses serve as staff in Apprentice House’s acquisitions, design, and marketing departments, respectively. After students move on, AH professor-managers (and members of the AH Book Publishing Club) sustain the on-going operation of the company and market its frontlist and backlist titles.

Apprentice House also runs an annual chapbook contest (deadline March 14). Guidelines can be downloaded from their website. Katherine Cottle was the winner of their first contest with the publication of My Father’s Speech.

New Issue & Submissions :: Raving Dove

Raving Dove: A Literary Journal
Spring 2008
Issue #12

Featuring: Adina Davis, William Doreski, Ruth Goring, Dixie J-Elder, Michelle Lerner, Paul D. McGlynn, Gregg Mosson, Sheila Murdock, Robert K. Omura, Martin Ott, Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau, CC Thomas, Lily Thomas, Jon Wesick

Raving Dove is an online literary journal dedicated to sharing thought-provoking writing, photography, and art that opposes the use of violence as conflict resolution, and embraces the intrinsic themes of peace and human rights.

Published in February, June, and October, Raving Dove welcomes original poetry, nonfiction essays, fiction, photography, and art, and is now reviewing work for the summer 2008 edition, which will be online on June 21.

Raving Dove, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, also announces the first annual Evolve Beyond Violence Nonfiction Essay Award, accepting nonfiction essays between 600 to 800 words with sentiments that reflect one or more of the following themes: Anti-war, anti-violence, human rights, peace. Your essay can either depict the tragedy of violence and war, or the hope that one day we can evolve beyond it.

See Raving Dove website for more details.

Emerson + Free Speech = Suspension

Ripping into the Bible
by Maggie Ardiente
Published in The Humanist, March/April 2008

On the morning of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages of the Bible.

Earlier that week his teacher had taped aphorisms by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the blackboard. Students were to select an aphorism of their choice, explain what they thought Emerson’s words meant, and relate it to a personal experience, accompanied with a visual aid.

Campbell picked, “So far as a man thinks, he is free,” and spent the next few nights composing a rough draft in preparation for his speech…

[. . . ]

Reactions from fellow students have been mixed. “At the end of the class two students approached me,” Campbell explains. “One said, ‘You’re my hero,’ and another said, ‘Wow, you have a lot of [expletive] to do something like that.’ No negative comments at all. But a friend told me later that someone in his class said, ‘He should be beat up for his atheist [expletive].’”

Read the full story on The Humanist.

Books :: The Forgotten People of the Middle East

Tragedy in South Lebanon
The Israeli-Hezbollah War 0f 2006
by Cathy Sultan
Published by Scarletta Press

“Cathy Sultan combines compelling history and vivid personal interviews to relate the lives of the oft-ignored civilians of southern Lebanon and northern Israel during the July war of 2006. Throughout the book, these narratives of mothers, soldiers, activists, de-miners and ambulance drivers on both sides are memorable for their detail, honesty, and deep sense of tragedy. Sultan also addresses media treatment of the war and policy decisions, both historical and contemporary, made by Lebanon, Israel and the US.”

Iowa Summer Writing Festival

University of Iowa
Summer Writing Festival
June 8 – July 25, 2008

A short-term, noncredit writing program for adults, the festival offers 130 workshops across the genres, including novel, short fiction, poetry, essay, memoir, humor, travel, playwriting, writing for children, and more. All levels. There are no requirements beyond the desire to write. Open to writers 21 and over. Week-long and weekend workshop options available.

storySouth Million Writers Award 2008

From Jason Sanford, editor of storySouth:

The 2008 Million Writers Award for best online short story is now open for nominations from editors and readers. Once again, the Edit Red Writing Community is sponsoring the contest, which means there is a $300 prize for the overall winner.

For those who don’t feel like wading through the rules, here’s the award process in a nutshell:

Any story published during 2007 in an online magazine journal is eligible. The caveats are that said online mag or journal must have an editorial process – meaning no self-published stories – and the story must be at least a 1,000 words in length. Readers may nominate one story for the award. Editors of online publications may nominate up to three stories from their publication. All nominations are due by March 31.

A group of volunteer preliminary editors will go through the nominated stories – along with other stories that catch their interest – and select their favorites. These will become the Million Writers Award notable stories of the year. I will then go through all the notable stories and pick the top ten stories of the year. The general public will then vote on those ten stories, with the overall winner receiving the award and cash prize.

Complete information on all this, along with links to where people can nominate stories, is available on the award website. I will also be regularly publishing comments and information on my blog and website as the award process as it unfolds.

City’s Gay Bookstore Closing After 24 Years

After 24 years, Baltimore’s Lambda Rising bookstore is closing
By Rona Marech | Sun reporter
February 29, 2008

When John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray first came out on video, a staff member at Lambda Rising bookstore bought a passel of aerosol hairspray cans at the drugstore across the street and asked the filmmaker to sign them. As a promotion, the shop gave an autographed can to every customer who purchased a video.

Such antics helped spur loyalty among customers at the store, which sells gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender books as well as digital video discs, music, magazines, greeting cards and gifts. But a core group of devotees was not enough to save the store in the face of declining sales: The owner announced last week that after more than two decades in business, he will close the Baltimore shop, believed to be the only gay and lesbian bookstore in Maryland.

“You don’t like to have to close something that’s such a central part of your life and the community’s life. But you have to be realistic,” said Deacon Maccubbin, who once owned five gay bookstores but soon will be down to two, in Washington and in Rehoboth Beach, Del. “This is the history of independent bookselling in the last 10 years.”

Read the rest on The Baltimore Sun.

Noam Chomsky :: Words on Terrorism

The Most Wanted List
Commentary: International terrorism: Entering the theater of the absurd.
By Noam Chomsky
Mother Jones
February 26, 2008

On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. “The world is a better place without this man in it,” State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said: “one way or the other he was brought to justice.” Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell added that Moughniyeh has been “responsible for more deaths of Americans and Israelis than any other terrorist with the exception of Osama bin Laden.”

Joy was unconstrained in Israel too, as “one of the U.S. and Israel’s most wanted men” was brought to justice, the London Financial Times reported. Under the heading, “A militant wanted the world over,” an accompanying story reported that he was “superseded on the most-wanted list by Osama bin Laden” after 9/11 and so ranked only second among “the most wanted militants in the world.”

The terminology is accurate enough, according to the rules of Anglo-American discourse, which defines “the world” as the political class in Washington and London (and whoever happens to agree with them on specific matters). It is common, for example, to read that “the world” fully supported George Bush when he ordered the bombing of Afghanistan. That may be true of “the world,” but hardly of the world, as revealed in an international Gallup Poll after the bombing was announced. Global support was slight. In Latin America, which has some experience with U.S. behavior, support ranged from 2% in Mexico to 16% in Panama, and that support was conditional upon the culprits being identified (they still weren’t eight months later, the FBI reported), and civilian targets being spared (they were attacked at once). There was an overwhelming preference in the world for diplomatic/judicial measures, rejected out of hand by “the world.”

Read the rest on Mother Jones.

Book :: Rattle Conversations

New from Rattle magazine:

RATTLE
Conversations
Edited by Alan Fox
Published by Red Hen Press, 2008

“Fourteen selected RATTLE Conversations offer rare insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most notable American poets of our time. Informative and intimate, the conversations look beyond the academic minutia and into the heart of what we love – the passion that compels poetry, and the process that completes it. These poets explore not what they wrote, but why they had to write it, and how it came to be. As such, the RATTLE Conversations serve as an indispensable guide and companion to anyone who appreciates the art and experience of writing.”

Includes conversations with Daniel Berrigan, Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, Sam Hamill, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jack Kornfield, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Gregory Orr, Luis J. Rodriguez, Alan Shapiro, and Diane Wakoski.

An excerpt from the interview with Gregory Orr:

Fox: You talk about the impulse to write and the importance of that. What happens to you after the poem is out there in the world? Is the response meaningful?

Orr: It certainly is now. I love reading my poems to audiences now. I love the idea of communicating with people in the sense that what I really enjoy is that if I read my poems to people, we somehow start talking after the reading. Those things where they say, will you take any questions after the reading? They’re terrified to even ask you that. And I’m thinking, the hell with the reading, let’s just have the questions, let’s just have a conversation. So, I’ve gone from this person who was in terror of other people and, again, I’m describing the first several books and stuff. I had no pride, no pleasure in sharing, in confiding. I was still so far inside myself, working out my own self-absorbed, anguished story.

Dissent :: What’s Wrong with Academic Boycotts?

Scholastic Disobedience
By Martha Nussbaum, Mohammed Abed, and Murray Hausknecht
From Dissent Magazine

“Last spring, Britain’s 120,000-strong University and College Union voted to endorse a motion to boycott Israeli universities, calling on British academics to condemn the ‘complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation.’ Martha Nussbaum, Mohammed Abed, and Murray Hausknecht debate the legitimacy–and political utility–of academic boycotts.”

Read the debate here.

Mountain Heritage Literary Festival 5.25

The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
June 13-15, 2008

“We are now in our third year of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. This year we welcome Appalachia’s reigning master, Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, Oral History, and many other classics. She is joined by Sheila Kay Adams, beloved banjo-player, ballad-singer, and storyteller. Our Master Classes will be led by such great contemporary talents as Kate Larken (songwriting), George Ella Lyon (nonfiction), Maurice Manning (poetry), and Mark Powell (fiction) and we’ll be treated to Barbara Bates Smith’s one woman show of Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill and many other writers who will come to share their knowledge.”

Scholarships, fellowship and writing contest are also available.

Deadline for registration: May 25, 2008

Writers Conference :: Gettysburg Review 6.08

Gettysburg Review
2nd Annual Conference for Writers
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
June 4-9, 2008

“Please join us in creating a community of writers in bucolic, convivial, and historic setting. Small workshops (maximum of ten people each) will be led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. Four three-hour, single-genre workshops will focus on the critique and revision of participant writing. Panel presentations by conference faculty and Review staff will provide opportunities for conference participants to talk with working writers and editors about craft, genre, and publishing topics. Author readings and book signings will be offered in the evenings, with one evening reserved for an open-mic conference participant reading.”

Distinguished Faculty: Lee K. Abbott (fiction), Joan Connor (fiction), Terrance Hayes (poetry), Suzannah Lessard (nonfiction), Rebecca McClanahan (nonfiction), Peggy Shumaker (poetry)

Application Deadlines: Applications must be received by May 12, 2008. Scholarship applications must be postmarked by March 17, 2008.

Submissions :: Essay Press

griffin Essay Press is a new imprint dedicated to publishing innovative, explorative, and culturally relevant essays in book form. Initial title releases include: Griffin by Albert Goldbarth; I, Afterlife: An Essay in Mourning Time by Kristin Prevallet; The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully. Forthcoming titles include Letters from Abu Ghraib by Joshua Casteel and Adorno’s Noise by Carla Harryman

“We are currently accepting submissions of essays ranging from roughly 40 to 80 pages. We will be reading from June to September. We are interested in publishing single essays that are too long to be easily published in journals or magazines, but too short to be considered book-length by most publishers. We are looking for essays that have something to say – essays that both demand and deserve to stand alone. We particularly welcome work that extends or challenges the formal protocols of the nonfiction essay–including, but not limited to, lyric essays or prose poems, experimental biography and autobiography, innovative approaches to journalism, and experimental historiography.”

Brick – Winter 2007

When a literary journal opens by recognizing the greatness of Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov, it aims not just to entertain but to endure. Issue 80 of Toronto-based Brick embraces the world of words with arms more expansive than most literary journals. The giants of Russian literature are further celebrated in two memoir/biographies: the acrimony of Chekov’s wife and his beloved sister is recalled by Gregory Altschuller, the deceased (1983) son of Chekov’s doctor; Viktor Nekrasov journeys through post-Bulgakov Kiev to the house of Bulgakov’s youth and place of his characters. Continue reading “Brick – Winter 2007”

Creative Nonfiction – 2007

Devoted to the theme “Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives,” this issue proves editor Lee Gutkind’s premise that “less literary” topics also lend themselves to artful writing as well as the detailed reporting associated with journalism. I agree wholeheartedly. In these essays, the authors recount their often frustrating – sometimes edifying – experiences with the health care system using a variety of narrative styles and tones, but all of a very high caliber. The authors treat such varied topics as blindness, overmedication, kidney dialysis, hepatitis, a gastrointestinal disorder; and all of the authors slip in enough medical information so that non-specialists can easily understand. Yet the overarching topic is communication – or lack thereof – and the implications this process has on the quality of patient care. Continue reading “Creative Nonfiction – 2007”

Drash – Spring/Summer 2007

The editors of Drash wanted their first issue to contain poetry, pictures and essays that “reflect joy, to find one’s way to it and to acknowledge its absence.” They succeeded. While the writing reflects all cultures, it heavily represents the Jewish culture in a very positive way, displaying the kindness, the depth and soul that made it continue for centuries with no homeland. Continue reading “Drash – Spring/Summer 2007”

Field – Fall 2007

If as I do, you like to not only read poetry but read about poetry (appreciations, explications, close textual analyses), then you’ll certainly want to delve into the 80-page symposium on Adrienne Rich that begins this volume and the two new poems by Rich that conclude it. In addition to those of Rich, this issue of Field largely favors works by established poets, including Carl Phillips, Marilyn Hacker, David Hernandez, Pattiann Rogers, and David Wojahn. Yet a few emerging poets, such as Megan Synder-Camp and Amit Majmudar, the later a writer of ghazals, have also been given a welcome voice, and translations of poems by Li Qingzhao, Uwe Kolbe, and Amina Saïd give the issue an international flavor as well. Continue reading “Field – Fall 2007”

Freefall – Winter/ Spring 2007-8

Freefall: Canada’s Magazine of Exquisite Writing features selections from both Canadian and American authors, although the vast majority is Canadian. This journal is the first Canadian journal I’ve read, and I found the poems and stories clear, concise, and engaging. Continue reading “Freefall – Winter/ Spring 2007-8”

Green Mountains Review – 2007

“American Apocalypse” – the theme of the twentieth anniversary double issue of Green Mountains Review. The editor discusses the differences between “dread” and “apocalypse”: “‘dread’ implies profound fear, even terror of some impending event” while “apocalyptic thinkers are more actively engaged…and sometimes actively embracing the apocalyptic event.” The editor wants to add “imaginative perspective” to reflecting on the end of the world. Continue reading “Green Mountains Review – 2007”

Knockout Literary Magazine – Spring 2008

This handsome inaugural issue of Knockout Literary Magazine starts with a poem by Marvin Bell that could serve as a mission statement. “Knockout Poem” is a lament for the state of contemporary poetry: “I was like them. Even before the appetite for self-promotion / and glamour overtook our literature, back when books were books.” It is also a call to arms: “Poetry should have punch.” (A knockout, one assumes.) Continue reading “Knockout Literary Magazine – Spring 2008”

Other Voices – Fall/Winter 2007

My most vivid memory of Chicago is talking to an old, toothless bag lady near a bus station toting her shopping cart, about 1980. She looked at me with great conviction, and said, “The lord is coming!” She seemed intelligent, most striking, and was definitely listening to a different drummer, predicting the end of all things. Other Voices has come to its end, and is equally striking, colorful, even mesmerizing. The last issue is a special “all-Chicago issue,” consisting of twenty-two short stories by both established and new Chicago writers, plus two interviews and a splash of reviews. Continue reading “Other Voices – Fall/Winter 2007”

Pindeldyboz – Spring 2007

An all-poetry issue. No short fiction, excerpts, or memoirs to help shake off the feeling of confusion or understanding that follows a two-page long poem. That is why this magazine should be taken in doses, not inhaled nonstop from beginning to end. The formats are adventurous, and the language is crisp and new. The topics range from playful to thought provoking, yet it all seems to melt together perfectly. Continue reading “Pindeldyboz – Spring 2007”

Rattle – Winter 2007

This edition of Rattle includes a tribute to nurses that makes this issue worthwhile on its own. The nursing section has personal essays from poet-nurses, such as Courtney Davis, T.S. Davis, Anne Webster and Christine Wideman, describing how they became both writers and nurses, which role was dominate at what point in their lives, and how nursing feeds into their writing. They talk of the sensuousness of nursing, the essential selflessness and empathy nurses experience, and how that “otherness” affects their poetry. Courtney Davis wrote movingly about her favorite patient: “A few weeks after my patient died, not knowing what else to do, I dug out my old poetry notebook…” “Writing about her death, I felt a sudden, inexplicable joy…” “I had also, in the writing, let her go.” Continue reading “Rattle – Winter 2007”

Thereby Hangs a Tale – Summer 2007

The debut of a journal brings tentative excitement to the entrenched literary scene. Can a newbie survive a crowded marketplace funded largely by ego? What distinctive editorial vision will buoy the perils of distribution, promotion, and un(der)appreciation? Some sink, some sail, but the masthead of the second issue of Thereby Hangs a Tale includes the crew’s superpowers, which can only help. Based out of Portland, Oregon, the slender, black-and-white journal runs regular sections, like Tales Told (nonfiction), Tall Tales (fiction), Rants, a closing We ♥ Libraries, and a journal-entry-like sprinkling of revelations. The editors call it an art project; the content, like the contributors who range from novelists to retirees, is free of literary pretensions and silly snobbery. Continue reading “Thereby Hangs a Tale – Summer 2007”

Tuesday; An Art Project – Fall 2007

Tuesday; An Art Project may technically be a literary journal; however, ‘art project’ describes it so much better. It arrives as a series of postcard-like cards, printed on one or both sides, with poems, photographs or prints, well wrapped in sturdy, folded, thick, almost cardboard-like paper. The title and subtitle are neatly printed on one side of the wrapper, the names of the authors and artists on the other, plus the subscription price. It unfolds to display a table of contents inside, plus a list of editors, advisory board, detailed background description of the artists and authors, a featured poem, and, the cards themselves. There are eighteen sturdy, pure-white, five-by-seven-inch cards; fourteen contain poems, four display photographs. Continue reading “Tuesday; An Art Project – Fall 2007”

AlterNet :: Best Progressive Books of 2007

2007 was a banner year for progressive books, but two stand out as true groundbreakers: Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater, published by Nation Books. They are co-winners in AlterNet’s 10 Best Books of 2007 contest.

Visit AlterNet list of Best Progressives Books of 2007, which include short summaries of the top 10 books and a list of “honorable mention” titles, with links to all.

By Don Hazen, AlterNet
Posted January 31, 2008

Submissions :: Malahat Review 6.1.08


In 2008, to mark British Columbia’s sesquicentennial, The Malahat Review will devote its Winter issue to the Green Imagination. Focusing on creative approaches rather than on polemics and manifestos, this special issue aspires to place British Columbia—and the idea of British Columbia—at the ecological centre of the debate to showcase a variety of literary responses to questions such as:

“What is wilderness?”
“What is nature?”
“Is the natural world our adversary to be conquered and tamed, as Georgius Agricola argued in his 1556 “Defense of Mining the Earth’”
“Are we stewards of it, as P.K. Page suggests in her 1994 poem ‘Planet Earth’?”
“Are we an integral part of the natural world,” as Don McKay and Chief Dan George contend?
“What is the relationship between language and nature?”
“What is nature writing?”

Writers — B.C. residents and non-residents alike (i.e. true residents of the B.C. of the mind) — may widely interpret the theme of “B.C. and the Green Imagination.”

No restrictions as to form or approach apply: submissions of poetry, fiction, personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, literary journalism, and book reviews of relevant texts are welcome.

An honorarium of $40 per page will be paid for all accepted work.

Deadline: June 1, 2008 (postmark date)

Submissions :: Voices 6.15.08

Voices of Illness, Suffering, and Healing Magazine

Premiering Spring 2008

Call for Submissions for Second Issue

Providing a voice to those who might otherwise not be heard, especially those who are vulnerable and scared in illness. Honoring the caregivers who work tirelessly in service to those who are sick. Join with us in recognizing and celebrating these voices as they declare a part of our shared human experience. Seeking: Poetry, First-Person Narratives, Visual Art, Essays, Humor. Send submissions electronically and inquire about guidelines to managing editor, Belinda Jamison, at bjamison@saint-lukes.org or at 816-932-5767. Deadline is June 15, 2008.

Taos Summer Writer’s Conference 6.12.08

10th Annual Taos Summer Writer’s Conference
University of New Mexico
July 12-20, 2008
Weekend and Weeklong/Master Class Workshops

“Though the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference is young in comparison to events like Bread Loaf, the inspiration behind it is deeply rooted in New Mexico’s literary history and predates the existence of even its most well-established national predecessors. English-born writer D.H. Lawrence first traveled to Taos in 1922 at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Luhan. In the 11 months he spent there, over the course of three separate visits, he arrived at a keen understanding of the compelling nature of this landscape. Now, years after Lawrence first set eyes on the dramatic sweep of northern New Mexico, it continues to be a powerful draw for countless artists and writers.”

Perguia Press Prize Winners

Two Minutes of Light by Nancy K. Pearson has been selected for the 2008 Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. Two Minutes of Light is due to be released in September 2008.

Finalists: Shannon Amidon for Coming Out of the Roar , and Stacey Waite for Butch Geography

Semi-Finalists: M. L. Brown, It’s Love That Pushes the Stockings Down;
Kristen Case, The Ice Fishermen; Tiffany M. De Vos, The Dimestore World; Karen Zaborowski Duffy, Nuclear Pregnancy; Kate Lynn Hibbard, Sweet Weight; Emily Johnston, Walks with Her Hands; Anna Leahy, In the Circle of the Familiar; Diane Kirsten Martin, Conjugated Visits; Leslie McGrath, Opulent Hungers, Opulent Rage; Regina O’Melveny, The Shape of Emptiness; Joan I. Siegel, Talking to the Blind & Deaf Dog at Night; Stephanie Walker, Dishwater Oracle; Holly Welker, Christian Art

New Online Lit Mag :: Arch

Housed within the English Department of Washington University in St. Louis, Arch Journal promotes collaboration within Washington University’s Arts and Sciences community for the purpose of producing an annual journal. Arch publishes interviews, translations, poetry, fiction, essays, and other materials.

Issue #1 Winter 2008 includes:

Poetry by Jennifer Atkinson, Walter Bargen, Thomas Cook, John Gallaher, Robert Lietz

Fiction by Andrew Coburn

Translation: V

Author Interview :: Richard Peabody

Author! Author! is the WETA blog featuring author interviews and book reviews by Bethanne Patrick. Richard Peabody, editor/publisher of numerous anthologies with Paycock Press and editor of Gargoyle annual, was interviewed in January, 2008.

“When I asked Richard Peabody how he found writers to contribute to his anthologies, one of the things he brought up (as you’ll see in our interview) is the fact that he and his co-editor Lucinda Ebersole allow the women to write anything and any way they want to — which is not necessarily what working authors are allowed to do for publication in our culture. Peabody is speaking specifically about the divide between realistic and experimental fiction, but his observations hold true for other fictional divides as well.”

Click here to see the video.

Submissions :: Swarthmore Review 4.1

The Swarthmore Review is a new poetry journal being founded by students at Swartmore College. The review has no special requirements as to form or genre; however, all work must be previously unpublished. The first issue will appear in June 2008, and it will continue to publish annually. Please email submissions to swarthmorereview (at) sccs.swarthmore.edu as a PDF document. Deadline: April 1, 2008.

New Lit Mag :: A cappella Zoo

“A cappella Zoo is an independent literary magazine open to all works that are worthy of a good, thorough read, while particularly emphasizing fiction that experiments with technique, form, language, and thought. We make a hobby of shaking up traditional ideas and assumptions about truth and language, whether to challenge our intellects or just to play, but always to contribute to an on-going universal discussion on humanity.”

Some favorite authors of the publishers includ: Gabriel García Márquez, Tim O’Brien, Flannery O’Connor, Annie Proulx, George Saunders, Sylvia Plath, Octavia Bulter, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Ernest Hemingway, Angela Carter, Orson Scott Card.

Submissions Open in May
A cappella Zoo invites submissions of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, plays, photography, and art. See site for requirements and pay.

Bilingual Submissions Sought
A cappella Zoo also seeks bilingual submissions, or two versions of the same work in two different languages, one in English and the other in Spanish or French (for other languages, send an email query first). Both versions need to be the original work of the author.

Contest
To celebrate the beginning of a new magazine, A cappella Zoo is hosting a short story contest with a theme of “origins.”

In Memoriam :: Johnnie Rebecca Carr

Civil Rights Leader Johnnie Carr Dies at 97
by Debbie Elliott
From NPR.org

Johnnie Rebecca Carr, one of the lesser-known leaders of the civil rights movement, died Friday in Montgomery, Ala.

For decades, Carr led the Montgomery Improvement Association, an organization formed in 1955 when Carr’s childhood friend Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. The moment sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, and drew national attention to the fight against segregation and a local minister named Martin Luther King Jr.

King was the first president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. Carr first helped organize carpools during the boycott. She became the group’s president in the ’60s and continued to fight for equal rights for African Americans, including enrolling her son in the all-white Montgomery public schools in a legal test case.

Carr died in a Montgomery hospital after suffering a stroke earlier this month. She was 97 years old.

Read more about Johnnie Carr and listen to the All Things Considered audio after 7:00pm Sunday on NPR.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Feb 24

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Columbia Poetry Review
Number 20
Spring 2007
Annual

Forge
“little people opening things”
Volume 1 Issue 2
Winter 2007
Biannual

Greensboro Review
Number 83
Spring 2008
Biannual

Harpur Palate
Volume 7 Issue 2
Winter 2008
Biannual

International Poetry Review
Volume 33 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Manoa
A Pacific Journal of International Writing
“Maps of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination”
Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez
Volume 19 Number 2
Winter 2007
Biannual

The Missouri Review
“Fractured”
Volume 30 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

New South
(Formerly GSU Review)
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

Notre Dame Review
Number 25
Winter/Spring 2008
Biannual

One Story
“Beanball” by Ron Carlson
Issue Number 99 & 100
2007
Monthly

Pleiades
Volume 28 Number 1
2008
Biannual

Quick Fiction
Issue 12
Fall 2007
Biannual

Rock and Sling
A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith
Volume 4 Issue 2
Winter 2008
Biannual

Salmagundi
Number 157
Winter 2008
Quarterly

Spinning Jenny
Number 10
2007

Sport Literate
Volume 5 Issue 1
2007
Biannual

Western Humanities Review
Volume 62 Number 1
Winter 2008
Biannual

Witness
“The Modern Writer as Witness”
Volume 21
2007
Annual

Zahir
A Journal of Speculative Fiction
Issue 15
Spring 2008
Triannual

Alt Mag Mailbag :: Feb 24

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Buddhadharma
The Practioner’s Quarterly
“Does Buddhism make you happier?”
Volume 6 Number 3
Spring 2008
Quarterly

Conscience
The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion
“Church and State at the Crossroads”
Volume 28 Number 4
Winter 2007-2008
Quarterly

Free Inquiry
Celebrating Reason and Humanity
“Science and the Islamic World”
Volume 28 Number 2
February/March 2008
Bimonthly

fRoots
The Essential Worldwide Roots Music Guide
Number 297
March 2008
Monthly

In These Times
“Killer Credit! Attack of the $915 Billion Consumer Debt MONSTER!”
Volume 32 Number 2
February 2008
Monthly

Korean Quarterly
“Mu Performing Arts”
Volume 11 Number 2
Winter 2007-2008
Quarterly

Kyoto Journal
Perspectives from Asia
Number 68
2007
Quarterly

Labor Notes
Number 347
February 2008
Monthly

Lilipoh
The Spirit in Life
Issue 50 Volume 12
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Mother Jones
Smart, Fearless Journalism
“Torture Hits Home”
Volume 33 Number 2
March/April 2008
Bimonthly

Our Times
Canada’s Independent Labour Magazine
December 2007-January 2008
Bimonthly

Sierra
Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet
“Wild Rides”
Volume 93 Number 2
March/April 2008
Bimonthly

Space and Culture
Volume 11 Number 1
February 2008
Quarterly
International Journal of Social Spaces

Verbatim
The Language Quarterly
Volume 31 Number 3
Autumn 2006
Volume 31 Number 4
Winter 2006
Quarterly

Whispering Winds
American Indians: Past & Present
Volume 37 Number 2 Issue 259
January/February 2008
Bimonthly

White Crane
Gay Wisdom and Culture
“The Bearable Rightness of Being”
Number 75
Winter 2007/2008
Quarterly

Z Magazine
February 2008
Monthly

Submissions :: Passager 9.15.08

Passager
Pass It On: Firsts
Submit work: January 1 – September 15 (postmarked date)
Results announced (projected date): November, 2008

This section of the journal is devoted to personal stories on the current topic: FIRSTS. Send 250 words or less of informal prose about some “first” in your life. No poems or fiction.

Passager
Open Issue For Writers over 50
Submit work: June 1 – September 15 (postmarked date)
Poetry, Short Fiction, Memoir
Sim/sub ok
Results announced (projected date): November, 2008
No reading fee for Open Issue submissions

Workshop :: Manhattanville College 6.08

Manhattanville College
Summer Writers Week
June 23-27, 2008

Manhattanville’s Writers’ Week program offers the opportunity to spend an intensive week of writing and working closely with some of the country’s finest writers and teachers of writing. Participants at all stages of development, novice to experienced, sign up for one of six workshops that meet all morning. Participants also have private conferences with their workshop leaders (see Workshops).

The program also features a keynote address, a session with editors and agents, readings by the distinguished authors, and craft workshops on various aspects of writing and editing. The final reading is reserved for students.

Submissions :: New Madrid 11.1.08

New Madrid
Winter 2009
Theme Issue
Submission dates August 15 — November 1, 2008

“In keeping with its location in the Bible Belt, New Madrid will dedicate its Winter 2009 issue to the theme of “Intelligent Design.” We’reinterested in receiving submissions that address the legacy of Darwin, the impact of the evolution-vs.-creationism debate on the public schools, the cosmological argument, etc., provided they are literary in form and intent. The staff is also interested in receiving submissions of works that let their structures show for example, poems in received forms or nonce forms, and fiction and non-fiction utilizing unorthodox narrative devices (for example, frames within frames)—as well as in works that consider design issues from the perspective of other disciplines (for example, architecture, quilting, graphic arts, the natural sciences, etc.). Our hope is to reinvigorate the phrase “intelligent design” by approaching it from a multiplicity of angles.”