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Contributor News: Monica Macansantos
Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4) has a new short story,“Maricel,” in The Fictioneer’s Winter 2015 issue.The Fictioneer is published by Unsolicited Press.Readers can order copies of the Winter 2015 issue or subscriptions from their...
Contributor News: Colin Dodds
Colin Dodds (Issue 6, “Spill-O’s Fender Bender,” “Spill-O, After the Picadors,” Spill-O’s Hilton Revelation”)has a new ebook collection, Wisdom’s Real Opposite—101 Poems about an Odyssey on a Stool,currently available for purchase at Smashwords and Amazon.The book...
2015 Your Impossible Voice Pushcart Nominations
We at Your Impossible Voice are thrilled to announce this year's nominations for the Pushcart Prize. A Coherent Desire by Francisco García González, translated by Mary G. BergEquisa by David BajoThe Elephant by Marianne VillanuevaFreezer Theater. 1981 by Laura...
Contributor News: Marianne Villanueva
Marianne Villanueva (“The Elephant,” Issue 5) will beMendocino Art Center’s first Writer-in-Residence for January & February 2015.She has also collaborated on an opera, Marife,based on the true story of a Filipina mail-order bride who married Oklahoma City-bomber...
Contributor News: Monica Macansantos
Congratulations to Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4),who was recently awarded a Victoria Doctoral Scholarshipby the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand,where she will be starting a PhD in Creative Writingat their International...
Contributor News: Peter Burzynski
Peter Burzynski (“Emeralds and Olives,” Issue 4) has poems appearing in or forthcoming fromPrick of the Spindle (“Order Operatic”)The MackinacSouvenir Lit JournalWhite Stag JournalThe Portland ReviewandForklift Ohio.
Contributor News: Nels Hanson
Nels Hanson (“Two Rivers,” “Orchid and Butterfly,” Issue 5) has work published or forthcoming atSharkpack Review AnnualThe StraddlerFour Chambers PressStoneboatMeat for TeaSqualorlyHamilton Stone ReviewSedimentsBlotteratureCarbon Culture ReviewWorks & DaysandThe...
Contributor News: Kent Monroe
Artwork by Amira FarooqKent Monroe’s (“Karla,” Issue 5) essay,“Gender Equilibrium or Bust"is now up atThe Missing Slate.
Contributor News: Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1) has two new stories you can read online:“Happy Birthday Kenny C.”at Paragraphitiand“Conference-Center Romance”at The Stranger.She will also be readingat Reed Collegeon Thursday, October 30, 6:30 p.m.Performing Arts...
Contributor News: Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock (“To Throw, Fling, Hurl, or Toss,” Issue 4)has a new book of poetry outfrom the University of Pittsburgh Press titledThe Dotterywhich won The Donald Hall Prize for Poetryfrom the Association of Writers and Writing Programs last year.She will also be...
Contributor News: Heather Mackey
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina)will be reading from her debut novel DreamwoodThursday October 16, 6 p.m.at Lit on the Lake as part of LitquakeLake ChaletGondola Room1520 Lakeside DriveOakland, CA
Contributor News: Mary Burger
Trafficking, screenprint on paper (2014)Mary Burger (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2) has a couple of new art shows coming up.Root Division's 13th Annual Art AuctionFundraiser for the nonprofit San Francisco arts organizationOpening reception Saturday, October...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Congratulations to Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) whose short story collectionBetter Than War has won the Flannery O’Connor Award.It will be published by the University of Georgia Press in Fall 2015.Flannery O’Connor series editor Nancy Zafris on...
Contributor News: Alvin Lu
Alvin Lu (“Early Spring,” Issue 1) will be readingat the Bazaar Writers Salon, in San Francisco’s Richmond District.Sunday, October 5, 6 p.m.Bazaar Café5927 California Street, San Franciscoreading with Kim Addonizio and Solmaz Sharifhosted by Peter Kline
Contributor News: Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio (“The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe,” “Epistle Presley,” Issue 3) has published two new poems:“Tangled Plaster”was published in the most recent issue of Stone Highway Review.Another poem, “The Patroness Offers You a Drink,”was published in the third issue of...
Contributor News: Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch (“Production for Use,” Issue 3) has a new story,“Into Your Life It Will Creep,”forthcoming in Issue #19 of Black Clock.
Contributor News: Elise Glassman
Elise Glassman will be reading from her story “The Junk,” which appeared in Issue 3 of Your Impossible Voice,
along with other work at Lit Crawl Seattle.
Contributor News: Mara Naselli
Congratulations to Mara Naselli ("My Brief Suspension of Judgment in the World of Bad Art," Issue 5), recipient of a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award! The program – the only national literary awards program of its kind devoted exclusively to women – was...
Your Impossible Voice #5 Launch Party
Your Impossible Voice is turning one year old! To celebrate this most momentous milestone of literary longevity we are having a reading at Alley Cat Books. On hand will be a cavalcade of contributors to the just released Your Impossible Voice #5.[gallery link="none"...
Contributor News: Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee (“Though,” Issue 2) has a new book,Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, just published by Graywolf Press.Early readers have said:“ … an important and humane perspective on what happens to us as individuals as we engage in education.”Insider...
Contributor News: Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1), along with many other women writers*,will be in a new anthology called The Lineup, edited by Richard Thomas,forthcoming in October from Black Lawrence Press.*Stories by: Paula Bomer, Karen Brown, Shannon Cain, Kim...
Contributor News: Laurie Blauner
Laurie Blauner (“Guide for the Perplexed,” Issue 2) has a new book of poetry,It Looks Worse Than I Am, forthcoming in October from What Books Press.It was the first selection from their new open-submission period.
Contributor News: Arielle Greenberg
Image by Letha Wilson, Easter Appalachian Trail, 2010. C-print, paper, and paint.Arielle Greenberg (“Afterschool Special,” “Swallow for Saturday,” Issue 2) has several new poems published online:“Pastoral: Commons,” “The Girl Dropped into the Homespace,” and “I Do Not...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) is going to be readingthis weekend as a part of the Beast Crawl festival in Oakland:July 12th, 8 p.m. SHARPOakstop1721 Broadway @ 17th StreetOakland, CaliforniaFirst 100 people get a copy of sparkle +...
Contributor News: Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio (“The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe,” “Epistle Presley,” Issue 3) has two new published poems:“Rent Boy at Street Fair,”in the latest online issue of Petrichor Reviewand“The Mood Room,”in the second print issue of Small Po[r]tions.
Contributor News: Racquel Goodison
Racquel Goodison (“Night Music,” Issue 4) will be reading at the 8th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival on August 5th at Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue Brooklyn, New York Listen to Racquel read "Night Music" appearing in Issue 4.
Contributor News: Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski (“Guess and Check,” Issue 2) has stories in the recent issues of Faultline and Sou’wester magazines.He will also be reading in Philadelphia, as part of The Fox Chase Reading SeriesSunday, June 29, 2 p.m.Ryerss Museum and Library7370 Central...
Contributor News: Mary Burger
Mary Burger’s (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2) project Razzle Dazzle Melanism will be opening at Compound Gallery and Studios1167 65th StreetOakland, CA 94608 Opening reception Saturday, June 28 from 6 to 9pmRegular hours Wed through Sun, 12-7pmThe show is on...
Contributor News: Heather Mackey
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina) will be reading from her debut novel at the Berkeley launch party for Dreamwood. Saturday, June 14, 4 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, California...