Anthologies and journals:
This Is Not Chick Lit, featuring Dika Lam
Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives
and Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends featuring Sarah Shey and Erin Torneo
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006, Tin God and The Apocalypse Reader, featuring Terese Svoboda
The Best American Sports Writing 2006, featuring Steve Friedman
The Reading Room, featuring Lauren Gonzalez
Girls: An Antology, featuring Greta Herensztat
Alimentum: The Literature of Food, published by Paukette Licitra. The Summer 2007 issue features Robin Hirsch
The Mom Egg, edited by Alana Ruben Free
Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Plays and Playwrights 2007, featuring Stan Richardson
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage and Divorce, featuring Anne Landsman and Patricia McCormick
An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family, featuring Anne Landsman
Confrontation, featuring Rollie Hochstein (Fall 2006/Winter 2007)
Rosebud, The Magazine for People Who Enjoy Good Writing, featuring Freema Gottlieb (Issue 39, Summer 2007)
Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love, featuring Robin Westen
Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, featuring John Maney Jr. (Issue 5)
La dulce hiel de la seducción, featuring Iván Ríos Gascón
RiverSedge, Volume XX, No. 1, Spring 2007 and Old Red Kimono, Volume XXXV, Spring 2007, featuring Karol Nielsen
Epiphany, Third annual edition, Fall 2007, featuring Karol Nielsen (nonfiction editor) and Douglas Rogers (contributor)
Pleiades, Issue 27:1 and Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2007, featuring Manjula Menon
The Hamilton Stone Review, Fall 2007, featuring Helen Duberstein
Charles Graeber has recently published the following
articles (among others):
Whose Wedding? in The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/08/06/070806ta_talk_graeber
A Jedi Order Establishes New Temple — in Lower Manhattan and
The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for
Glory, in Wired: www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-10/ps_jedi
and www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun
ep;phany cordially invites you to a reading
to celebrate the Summer/Fall 2008 issue.
Monday June 9th at 6 pm
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street, NYC
Featuring Nick Admussen, Roxana Robinson and Vijay Seshadri
To submit to the magazine see the website: www.epiphanyzine.com
Writers Room member Karol Nielsen is looking for creative nonfiction--memoir, essays, etc...-- for
the magazine. (Seek her out in the kitchen if you have something you'd
like to submit.) The magazine also publishes fiction, poetry, and artwork.
Have your hopes of playing Badminton in Beijing been dashed, and bashed
like a birdy?
Traumatic memories of childhood Pong games stop you from
trying out for the Olympic Table Tennis team?
Meant to train for Beach
Volleyball, but every time you thought of it it seemed too…
McConaughey-like?
Well, pull up your tube socks and put your excuses aside: you've still
got time to sign up for
THE 2008 WRITING OLYMPICS!
Saturday June 7, 2008
10:30 am to 4:00 pm
West 43rd and 10th Ave location
Small Team, Big Dream.
With Writing Coach (and 1988 Dead Man's Float Gold Medalist) Jill Dearman.
Come for the writing marathon, stay for the cheese doodles.
Three Events:
1. CHARACTER. During the first leg we will delve deeply into character
motivation and action. You will discover your characters like never
before.
2. STRUCTURE. In the second leg we will use elegant and eternal methods
to create a narrative skeleton that your work can hang on, and fill
in any plot holes that need repair.
3. THE "SO WHAT" FACTOR: In the home stretch we will tease
out the deliciousness in your story, so that it's not just …uh
…interesting … but truly riveting!
Three Levels
1. Bronze $150 - just come for the day's events.
2. Silver $200 - participate in the day's events, and receive a
personalized syllabus (with exercises, readings, and deadlines) from
writing coach Jill Dearman.
3. Gold $250 - join the day's events, receive a personalized syllabus
AND one free follow-up hour long coaching session with Jill (to be
scheduled post-wkshp).
Contact info: JillDearman@gmail.com or 212.841.0177
Leslie Garis is teaching a memoir workshop in Assisi, Italy, August 7th through the 20th. It's a program for writers, painters, and those who wish to learn Italian. A good hotel and transportation are part of the package. Michael Cunningham and Frank McCourt are former teachers there. If you or anyone you know is interested, please use the following link for information: www.artworkshopintl.com
Ben Gibberd's new site is currently hosted on the
.Mac link below. (It should be transferred to my domain name, www.bgibberd.com
shortly.)
Comments, criticisms, barbs, praise, etc, all welcome.
web.mac.com/bengibberd/web_site/Home.html
Alana Ruben Free was interviewed in Canada's The Daily Gleaner about her annual poetry and lyrics anthology The Mom Egg. Thank you, Alana, for the nice WR mention! To read the interview go to dailygleaner.canadaeast.com.
Thad Rutkowski's upcoming events:
April 27, Sunday, 7 p.m. Hosting ABC No Rio's NYSCA series in celebration of Hanging Loose Press. Readers are Robert Hershon, Jocelyn Lieu and Chuck Wachtel. 156 Rivington Street (between Suffolk and Clinton, one block above Delancey), Manhattan. $5.
June 21, Saturday, 6-8 p.m. Reading at Cornelia Street Cafe with Sharon Olinka, others. Hosted by Dean Kostos. $7. www.corneliastreetcafe.com
August 15, Friday, 8 p.m. Reading for George Wallace in Huntington, L.I. Info: poetrybay@aol.com
Astrology 101 - The Ground Hog's Day Extravaganza!
In this workshop, celebrated astrologer Jill Dearman will provide you with a foundation for understanding the basics of astrology: the signs, the planets, the houses… Since 2008 is a year of monumental astrological transformation (which will begin in late January), she will teach you how to work with the major changes in the stars, and in your own life. You will also do exercises to open up your own intuitive channels so that you can provide readings for yourself and others. This one-day workshop will take place in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, February 2nd (yes, literally Ground Hog's Day) and will cost $200; the fee includes a private mini-consult with the instructor to discuss your own chart. Intimate group. Expansive breakthroughs. Deal with your shadow now, while the stars are aligned…
CONTACT INFO: JillDearman@gmail.com or 212.841.0177
Douglas Light's novel East Fifth Bliss received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. For upcoming readings and events, please visit www.douglaslight.com
Colin Beavan's new online journal of his most recent project, No Impact Man, is finally launching. It will feature the daily trials and tribulations of his family as they try to live a no net ecological impact lifestyle in the middle of New York City. The book about the project will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2009, and the documentary film will come out the same year.
But for now, this is your official invitation to read about and comment on what they're going through as they go through it. Just visit www.noimpactman.com, and please, please, please, leave comments on the blog and start a discussion.
Susanna Horng's short story, The Birthday Party, was published this spring in the literary journal 580 Split, Issue 9 and is currently available at www.barnesandnoble.com
Production is just concluding on two one-hour documentaries based on Tom Shachtman's book Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold. They will be broadcast on BBC in March, with a PBS airdate expected in the fall of '07. Tom also wrote the narration for the documentaries.
Jill Dearman's short story, In Their Cups,
will be published in North Atlantic Review in winter, 2007.
Her essays, The Rehearsal Man and Pigeon Anguish will
be published in Lilith and Thereby Hangs A Tale (respectively)
in spring, 2007.
As a journalist, Jill's stories have appeared in New York Daily
News, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Nextbook
and other publications. Her short stories and essays have been published
in North Atlantic Review, Lilith, New York Stories,
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, HLLQ, Thereby Hangs
A Tale and other literary magazines. She is the winner the Vera
List Center for Art and Politics' 2006 First Place Prize for Fiction.
Jill is also the author of two books: Queer Astrology for Men
and Queer Astrology for Women (St. Martins) and a portion of
her novel, The Great Bravura, has been anthologized by Cleis
Press. She writes a regular column for Redbook.
For more information, visit
www.jilldearman.com
Who chooses life with a self-destructive genius?
Mina Samuels' novel, The Queen of Cups, is the story of Juliette, the enigmatic wife of the brilliant nineteenth century philosopher, Charles Peirce, a man plagued by drug addiction and manic depression. From the gypsy camps of Russia, to the glittering high society of Paris and New York, to her final exile in obscurity, Juliette’s journey, based on real historical events, traces the life of an independent woman who, betrayed by those she loves, never loses her belief in the possibility of redemption and in the power of love and loyalty. Publication date: December 2006.
For more information go to: www.thequeenofcups.com
