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Alumni News
October 26, 2009
Carol Berg's poem, "Abu Ghraib" is up at www.protestpoems.org
Kathy Briccetti (CNF/07) has published poems at Switched-On Gutenberg: http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/current/briccetti.htm and protestpoems.org: http://protestpoemsdotorg.blogspot.com/2009/10/kathy-briccetti.html.
Meghan Cadwallader's creative nonfiction piece, "Stranger Language," will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of Oyez Review.
Jackie Ernst's short story "Killing Fish" will appear in the autumn issue of The Hamilton Stone Review. http://www.hamiltonstone.org/
Hannah Strom-Martin's piece, "Protesting in the Age of Obesity," will appear in the 10/21-10/28 issue of The North Bay Bohemian (http://www.bohemian.com/). Her cover story: "Why the Apocalypse Just Isn't Funny Anymore" is set to appear during the week of 11/4-11/11. She continues to pound away at the rewrites of her novel and to score regular reviews on Strange Horizons (http://strangehorizons.com). She recently reviewed Alison Sinclair's novel Darkborn for that site (http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/10/darkborn_by_ali.shtml) and will soon post her review of Ken Scholes’ Lamentation and Canticle from the new Psalms of Isaak series.
October 13, 2009
Tanya Eby's (Fiction, 2005) novel Blunder Woman will be published by Champagne Books in the summer of 2010. She is also writing and producing 12 radio dramas (full casts and sound effects) that are broadcast on Public Reality Radio. You can hear them on her website: www.heyblunderwoman.com. And in another dream come true, she was booked to narrate Philip Roth's early novel When She Was Good.
Christopher Fisher (08) will this coming winter become Editor-in-Chief of Relief: A Christian Literary Expression, where he has served for almost a year as Fiction Editor. Relief is a quality biannual print journal whose authors have received special mention in Pushcart, Best American Spiritual Writing, and Best American Essays. Though not a bit interested in propaganda, Relief is constantly searching for the best in spiritual/religious fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. You can read their submission guidelines at www.reliefjournal.com. Fisher also has a new horror/humor story titled "On the Origin of Sounds" up at the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. You can listen to the story for free online at http://dunesteef.com.
Henry Garfield’s (Fiction '04) Wicked Maine Limericks is out! This handsome, 56-page book of Maine poetry, collected and curated by Garfield is now available through The Maine Limerick Project at http://www.mainelimerick.com and at selected bookstores. For just $16.95 plus tax and postage, this is an ideal holiday gift for any lover of literature on your list.
Jeanette Lynes' (2005) novel, The Factory Voice (published in 2009) has been long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada's preeminent literary awards. There's more info on the prize website.
Kerrie L. Miller has been selected as the featured writer at the 7th Annual Evening of the Macabre “where ACC’s most disturbed students, staff, and faculty present original works of a macabre nature” (huh, imagine that...) She’ll be reading selections from her thesis (which has morphed into a book on style rather than a true crime book) including but not limited to “Aside (of Murder)”—the true tale of one family that had three of its nine siblings murdered in three different decades; creepy.
Autumn Newman leads a workshop on meter and form, offered by Calypso Muse Friday, October 16, 2009 at 7:00 P.M. at: Urban WordNYC, 242 W. 27th Street, Suite 3b, New York, NY 10001, (212) 352 – 3495 (between 7th & 8th Avenue).
Michaela Roessner's short story "Pie in the Sky" has sold to Electric Velocipede. It will be published sometime in 2010.
Lisa Romeo is now an instructor in the Rutgers University Writing Program Extension, teaching memoir and creative nonfiction. She is also available as a mentor through the Dzanc Books Creative Writing Sessions.
Sharon Ross' (Summer '07) essay "The State of Sunshine" was accepted by The Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts at Penn State Erie (http://www.erie.psu.edu/academic/hss/lakeeffect/index.html) for their next issue, Spring 2010. The essay was workshopped with Suzanne Strempek Shea and Joyce Maynard in the Summer of '07 and polished with the help of Leslea Newman.
Colin Sargent's novel Museum of Human Beings is going paperback (McBooks, $16.95) for release on November 1, 2009. Readings include: 29 November, noon to 3 p.m., Reading and Book Signing, L.L. Bean Retail Store, Main Street, Freeport, ME 04032, www.llbean.com; 5 December, 2 p.m., Reading & Book Signing, Borders, 430 Gorham Road, Maine Mall, South Portland, Maine 04106, 207-775-6110; 13 December, noon to 3 p.m., Encore Reading and Book Signing, L.L Bean Retail Store, Maine Street, Freeport, ME 04032, www.llbean.com.
Penelope Schwartz Robinson’s (CNF '04) essay "Killing Lambchop" has been recognized as a Notable Essay of 2008 by the editors of Best American Essays 2009. It originally appeared in Alimentum, 6.
Linda K. Sienkiewicz had her first piece of crime fiction published. Her short story, "Family Secrets" appears on A Twist of Noir online at
http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/search/label/Linda%20K.%20Sienkiewicz.
Gina Troisi's creative nonfiction piece, "Safety," has been accepted by Room Magazine, and will be published in their 2009 fall issue.
Kayenta Williams's CNF piece called "Remembering to Breathe" was accepted for an anthology (currently untitled) of motherhood memoirs scheduled for publication in 2010.
September 28 , 2009
Ken Markee's poem "Bog Confession" currently appears in Manorborn: http://www.harfordpoetrysociety.org/callfor.htm.
Jacob Strunk’s film This is the Place will meet the world Friday, November 13th as part of the Olympia Film Festival in Olympia, Washington. Details and future screenings at: www.sevenmileswest.com.
Kayenta Williams’ co-authored book, Telling Stories with Photo Essays is being published in late September 2009 by Corwin Press. It is a great resource book for teachers or anyone else who works with young children!
September 14 , 2009
Kathy Briccetti (CNF '07) will be reading an essay from the anthology, Who’s Your Mama? on September 20, 2009 at 3:00 at Diesel Bookstore www.dieselbookstore.com in Oakland, California. The essay is excerpted from her memoir Blood Strangers (Heyday Books/May 2010). She will also be participating in a blog talk radio show (even though she has no idea what that is yet) at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/anjuellefloyd/2009/09/19/The-Unsung-Voices-of-Woman-and-Motherson September 19 at 12 pm Pacific time. kathybriccetti@comcast.net
Jeff Kass performed his one-man show "Wrestle the Great Fear" for 1500 teachers to kick off Staff Development meetings for Ann Arbor Public Schools for the new school year. He is also now writing a new Education Blog for Annarbor.com, the web site formerly known as The Ann Arbor News, called "From the Front of the Room." New entries will appear every Tuesday and Thursday morning throughout the school year.
Ken Markee's poetry has been included in Singing to the Bears: An Anthology from the Frost Place Conference on Teaching and Poetry and is available on Lulu.com. kmarke91@maine.edu
David Page has just become involved with other faculty in developing a new course for Tufts 3rd year medical students entitled, Point of View—Readings in Literature and Medicine. David.Page@baystatehealth.org
James Siegel will be giving a virtual reading of a poem for a Troy, NY audience comprised of poets and grief counselors from the book Beloved on Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, where his poem, “Black and White Photograph,” is alongside the poetry of such notables as Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Basho, Rumi, etc... It is his understanding that actors will read for the poets who cannot make it in person or virtually. The reading will take place at The Arts Center of the Capital Region (www.artscenteronline.org) on Wednesday, September 16, in Troy, New York (near Albany), and will include both live readings by several contributors in the area and several others participating by way of recorded readings. They will be performing in a 99-seat black box theatre and expect an audience composed of not only the usual poetry aficionados, but also a significant contingent of grief counselors and people using their services/programs. jamess@maine.rr.com
Gina Troisi's creative nonfiction piece, "Radiation" has been accepted for publication in the anthology, Hope Whispers, which will be released in September of 2009. ginatroisi@yahoo.com
August 31, 2009
Jessica Bane Robert’s (jbanerob@msn.com) chapbook of poems Scarred Seasons is out. Finishing Line Press is waiving the shipping cost if they have your check or on-line payment by September 4th. The number of copies sold by this date determines the size of the pressrun, which explains this "gentle reminder" or additional bit of pesky self-promotion. If you've ordered a copy already, Jessica thanks you and hopes you enjoy it. (The book can double as coaster, doorstop, fire starter, etc...) The books will be shipped around October 23rd. You can send a check for $14.00 or go to the website--at new releases--scroll down to Jessica Bane Robert. http://www.finishinglinepress.com/
Florence Grende's (CNF '07) story, “Learning to Fly,” an excerpt from Legacies, her memoir in progress, is in the Summer/Autumn issue of Babel Fruit, www.babelfruit.org. She has also been awarded a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. florence.grende@gmail.com
Stonecoast Alumni Association Update
In July 2009, the Stonecoast Alumni Association welcomed 20 new members to its community who are already helping to achieve this year’s exciting new projects. Also, the SCAA Board held its elections, filling several open spaces and is seeking volunteers for some committees. This year's projects will explore ways to improve our part of the Stonecoast web site, promote community events, and raise money to support better programs. We’ve got some big goals and some great volunteers.
The SCAA Board Members for fiscal year 2010 are:
Board Officers:
President: Erin Underwood - (term expires July 2011)
Vice President: Christin Geall - (term expires July 2010)
Treasurer: Nancy Brown - (term expires July 2011)
Secretary: Michael Smith - (term expires July 2010)
Board Directors (5):
Jen Hodsdon - (term expires July 2011)
Christopher Watkins - (term expires July 2011)
Susan Lilley - (term expires July 2011)
Kathy Briccetti - (term expires July 2010)
OPEN POSITION - (term expires July 2010)
As Associate Members of the SCAA, students are welcome to volunteer to join any of our committees. However, your student work must come first. So, please volunteer only if you have the extra time. The three committees that are forming will address: 1) the alumni web site and communications, 2) community events and promotion, and 3) fundraising. If you’re interested in volunteering for any of these committees, please contact Erin Underwood at erin_underwood@hotmail.com
We’re currently working on setting up an Events page that will promote alumni, student, and faculty events. This is still in the planning stage. So, we’re feeling our way through the process of receiving information and getting it posted on the web site. If you have any events that you’d like to list, please contact Erin Underwood and she’ll make sure your info gets to the right person.
August 18, 2009
Bridget Gage-Dixon's poem " Fortune" will appear in the Fall issue of Ghoti Magazine.
David Hewitt's story "The Canticle of Chak Chel" is slated to appear in the soon-to-be-released horror anthology 2012 AD.
Ken Markee's poem "Common Ground" appears in the most recent issue of the Naugatuck River Review http://naugatuckriverreview.wordpress.com/ His poems "The Lobstyr" and "My Ideal Reader" appear in the Summer 2009 edition of Off The Coast. http://off-the-coast.com/index.html Ken's Limerick "Gritty's" will be included in a 56-page paperback book titled Wicked Maine Limericks. Expected release date is September 24, 2009. The book will be available in selected stores, and through a web site currently in development: www.mainelimerick.com
Bruce Pratt’s “Dates and Avocados” will be posted on Staccato Magazine (www.staccatofiction.com) on August 17 2009. They are looking for new work for the online version.
Jessica Bane Robert’s chapbook of poems, Scarred Seasons, will be published by Finishing Line Press this October 23rd. Presale is ongoing until September 4th and the presale will determine the press run. You can order this title and see others by visiting finishinglinepress.com and clicking on "New Releases" or by using the direct link:: www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm. She also has a poem, "Resgnation" in the Summer 2009 volume of Naugatuck River Review.
Michael Smith’s short story, "Last Pay Phone in America," will be published in the upcoming issue of the Portland Review.
Gina Troisi's creative nonfiction piece, "Radiation" has been accepted for publication in the anthology, Hope Whispers, which will be released this fall.
August 03, 2009
Carol Berg's poem "Ophelia Unraveling" has been accepted at Fifth Wednesday Journal. Also, her poem cycle, "Ophelia Again" was accepted for the inaugural issue of Artifice Magazine www.artificemag.com. Her poem "Love Poem To October" was accepted for the inaugural issue of Assisi: An Online journal of Arts and Letters.
Patricia Budd's poem "Artful Dodgers" will be published in the anthology Meowin early fall this year. Also, her poem "Overpass" will be published in Chickenpinata, a Journal of Poetry" in an issue devoted to the theme of Bridges.
The story Linda Daly read at her grad reading, "The Second Conquest of Earth," has sold! The magazine is Strange Horizons. It's currently slated to appear in November. orogeny@comcast.net
Ruth Foley's poem "What I Knew" is in the latest edition of The Naugatuck River Review.
Kerry Herlihy's essay about Facebook and her birthmother has been accepted for publication in the New York Times' column “Modern Love”. It is scheduled to appear on Sunday, August 9th.
Susan Lilley’s poem “Advent” received Honorable Mention in the 2009 Passager Poetry Contest. She also has new poems forthcoming in CALYX and Minnetonka Review.
Ken Markee’s poems “My Ideal Reader” and “The Lobstyr” have been selected from over 700 poems submitted for the summer issue of Off the Coast. kmarke91@maine.edu
Bruce Pratt has short stories appearing in two Canadian Literary Journals this month. "Baby Pictures" in The Dalhousie Review and "Whiskey and Roses" in Existere. Obdriveway@aol.com
Jo Solfrian (Summer '04) has won the Wick Poetry Prize out of Kent State Press for a first full-length collection (Naomi Shihab Nye, judge). The book is due out in the fall of 2010. solfrian@yahoo.com
Gina Troisi's creative nonfiction piece, "Indulgence," is a short list finalist for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for prose. The essay will appear in Best New Writing 2009, an anthology due to be released in October. ginatroisi@yahoo.com
June 30 , 2009
Russ Aborn has a short story in Boston Noir, an anthology published by Akashic Books, NY, NY. The book is due out October 24th. The collection contains original noir stories set in Boston and vicinity. Among the contributors to the collection are Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, John Dufresne and Lynne Heitman.
Kathy Briccetti (CNF '07) has had an excerpt from her second memoir manuscript accepted for publication in Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts. And her poem "The Strawberry" will be published in Switched-on Gutenberg in August. She'll be at the Vermont Studio Center from July 4-18.
Patricia Budd's poem "Water World" will be published in Volume 2 of Manorborn Review this summer.
Kenneth Markee's poem "Bog Confession" will be published in Manorborn, an annual print journal published by the Harford Poetry and Literary Society (MD). http://www.harfordpoetrysociety.org/callfor.htm
Lisa Romeo's personal narrative, "It Always Happens One Summer," will be included in the essay collection, Women and Horses, forthcoming from Seal Press. Another piece, "76 Lies About My Child," is scheduled for an anthology tentatively titled, Mothers and Sons.
Christopher Watkins' debut volume of poems Short House With Wide Porches (Shady Lane Press, 2008) has been reviewed by Hayden's Ferry Review. The review can be found here: http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/2009/06/review-of-short-houses-with-wide.html
June 15 , 2009
Jay Libby's The Not So Right Way to Survive Cancer Part II is finally in print! Currently available at Amazon.com for $10.00!
Susan Lilley’s review of The Poetry Life by Baron Wormser appears in the summer 09 issue of The Florida Review. (Hope you like it, Baron!)
Ken Markee's poem "Set Over" will be published in Volume 11 of Cider Press Review. Volume 11 will be published in the spring of 2010. Ken's poems "Cell Phones", "The Ragged Edge", "Awaken" and "The Order" have also been selected for publication in Cider Press Review.
Christopher Watkins is currently working for Ridge Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and has very recently been selected to host their new blog. Given that Ridge is probably, even inarguably, one of the most legendary wine producers in Californian viticultural history, Mr. Watkins is rather pleased about this. For the oenophiles amongst you, Mr. Watkins' wine-related musings may now be followed at www.ridgewine.com/blog.
June 01 , 2009
Jessica Bane Robert has had work published in an anthology entitled Fearsome Fascinations which features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction from across the nation, Canada, and Panama. This anthology of writings on high risk sports, the allure of bad boys and other forbidden fruit, plus an assortment of vampires, werewolves, zombies and renegade vegetables is cover priced at $18.95 Detailed information about Outrider Press and the TallGrass Writers Guild may be had by calling 219-322-7270 or by emailing outriderpress@sbcglobal.net. Her poem "Resignation" will appear in Naugatuck River Review's Summer 2009 issue.
Ken Markee has been awarded the Murray Alboher scholarship and will attend the Frost Place Poetry and Teaching conference this summer. Murray Alboher was dedicated to both teaching and poetry. This is the second scholarship awarded under his namesake.
Michaela Roessner's Flash Fiction piece "Ç'Lale" received an honorable mention in the recent New Millennium Writings Short-Short Fiction Awards competition.
Also Roessner, as 1/3 of the speculative fiction literary promo-group "The Brazen Hussies," will be appearing at a reading event with her associate "Brazens," award-winning authors Lisa Goldstein and Pat Murphy, at the monthly literary event "SF in SF" (Science Fiction in San Francisco), on Saturday, June 20th. The event is sponsored by Tachyon Press. It's held in The Variety Preview Room Theatre in The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor, at 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery (in San Francisco, obviously). The doors and cash bar open at 6:00 p.m. and the event starts at 7:00 p.m.
Stonecoast alumni Lisa C. Taylor (2004)-was selected to receive at $5,500 Surdna Foundation Arts Teacher Fellowship to travel to Ireland and work on a collection of poetry with Irish fiction writer and poet Geraldine Mills. Lisa will be going mid July to mid August 2009. Her school will also receive funds that will be used to bring Geraldine Mills in as a visiting writer next October. Lisa will attend a convocation in New York City of other Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship winners from around the country next fall.
May 18 , 2009
Kathy Briccetti (CNF/07) has essays in three new anthologies: Motif: Writing by Ear, My Baby Rides the Short Bus; and Who's Your Mama: The Unsung Voices of Women.
Kathleen Clancy's poem "After Great Pain" appears in the current issue of Apalachee Review (59).
Susan Lilley has been selected as the 2009 winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Award for her poem “Hegemony.” The judge was Molly Peacock. Link to Salem College International Literary Awards: http://www.salem.edu/cww/ila2009 “Hegemony” and “Palm Court” have been accepted by The Southern Review for their fall issue. She also has two poems forthcoming in the summer issue of New Madrid.
Ken Markee's poem "Common Ground" has been accepted for publication in Naugatuck River Review's Summer 2009 issue.
Lisa Romeo's essay, "Tip Not Included," second place winner in the 2008 Charles Simic Contest, appears in the current issue of Barnstorm Journal: http://tinyurl.com/ppqjyw. A shorter piece, "Depression Era Quilt," appears in the current print and online issue of Skirt Magazine: http://www.skirt.com/node/36344. Along with fellow contributors to the essay collection, Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Weight & Body Image, Lisa was interviewed on the Northeast Public Radio program, "51% - A Woman's Perspective."
Ann Rosenquist Fee’s “Annunciation of the Baby Jesus One Block North of Riverfront Drive” won the fiction category of the 2009 Missouri Review Audio & Video Competition.
Jacob Strunk’s short story "Bats" was a finalist for the SLS fiction prize. jacob@sevenmileswest.com
May 04 , 2009
Hank Garfield's interview with Habib Dagher, co-founder and dirctor of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center at the University of Maine, appears in the May issue of Bangor Metro magazine. He's also continuing to accept poems for THE MAINE LIMERICK PROJECT at http://hwgarfield.com
Teresa Scollon’s chapbook, "Friday Nights the Whole Town Goes to the Basketball Game," winner of the Michigan Writers Chapbook competition, was published in April. Here's a link for more information: www.michwriters.org. She has also published a few poems: "Grief in the Morning.” Damselfly Press at www.damselflypress.net. Jan 15, 2009, “Battel’s Story.” Second place in the Dunes Review's 2008 Poetry competition. Published Winter 2008, and “How My Mother Loves Flowers” and “Pigeon Lady.” 2008 International Publication Prize Winner in the Atlanta Review.
April 21 , 2009
Patricia Budd was a finalist for the Gorsline Prize for her manuscript Slubs in the Tapestry. Also she won third place in the Illinois State Poetry Society's Free Verse contest for her poem "Cradle Song" as well as third place in the Formal Verse contest for her sonnet "Caesura." PBudd@Maine.RR.COM
Jeanette Lynes' first novel, The Factory Voice, just appeared from Coteau Books. Portions of the novel were mentored at Stonecoast. Her fifth collection of poems, The New Blue Distance, has also just been published by Wolsak and Wynn. Some of these poems were mentored at Stonecoast. jlynes@stfx.ca
Sandra McDonald's story "The Monsters of Morgan Island" appears in the June 2009 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, along with James Patrick Kelly's story "Going Deep." This issue marks Jim's silver anniversary at Asimov's, with a story appearing every summer for the last 25 years. samcdonald@mac.com
ForeWord Magazine, May/June 2009 issue, page 26
"Different Worlds: First Time Novelists Transport Readers"
How many novels by first-time authors are published each year? Do not seek to know the answers, Grasshopper, but to understand the questions. What does "published" mean these days, or even "author"? Is James Patterson an author? Is Ron Blagojevich? Ah, let’s not dwell. Here, we’ve collected a bookshelf of literary fiction by writers who can now, in all seriousness, call themselves authors.
Museum of Human Beings
History buffs and elementary-aged children
alike are enthralled with the Corps
of Discovery’s 1803 transcontinental
crossing undertaken by Meriwether
Lewis, William Clark, and crew. Scholars have increasingly
recognized the young Shoshone woman Sacajawea
as a pivotal leader in this expedition. Here, Jean-
Baptiste Charbonneau, the infant on Sacajawea’s back,
takes his own personal voyage of self-discovery as he is
fostered by Clark in St. Louis, supported by Duke Paul
of Württemberg in Europe, and haunted by his mother’s
spirit in the American wilderness.
Playwright and poet Colin Sargent resides in
Portland, Maine, where he founded Portland magazine.
His sophisticated use of language permeates this
tale. For example, the color blue is used to create a
path and stimulate memory: From the descriptions
of the first sighting of the Pacific Ocean to the final
viewing of an arrowhead around a baby’s neck, the
color travels alongside Baptiste. "[Sacajawea’s] rib
cage, so like a bird’s, bore the blue stigmata of your
father’s most recent attentions," Clark tells Baptiste.
Sacajawea’s blue Lemhi beaded belt indicates her
descent from a royal family, and Baptiste’s baby sister
Lizette is wrapped in the same blue cloth that had
originally warmed him.
Sargent explores language in another way at the
opening of each chapter by displaying a Plains Indian
sign language word along with its description. For
example, to indicate "alone," a person should "…hold
right hand palm up in front of neck. Move outward in
sinuous motion."
As Baptiste roams figuratively and literally, his
two father-figures torment him: the distant William
Clark, whom he initially strives to emulate, and the
alcoholic Toussaint Charbonneau, whom he cannot
escape. The age-old struggle to find true identity by
testing different worlds becomes unique in this debut
novel that belongs with the best of historical fiction.
–Beth Hemke Shapiro
portlandmagazine@hotmail.com
Christopher Watkins' poem "Troutman Street Juxtaposed" has been accepted for publication by Euphony, the literary journal of The University of Chicago. His poem "A Wild Flaw Amongst Us" will be included in the new issue of The Line Up: Poems on Crime, which is co-edited by Stonecoast's own Patrick Shawn Bagley. The new issue of The Southampton Review has just been published; it features a portfolio of six collaborative poetry & visual art works by Scott Sandell and Christopher Watkins, from their new book Adult Life Jackets. The issue also features work by Billy Collins, Frank McCourt, and more ... writing@preacherboy.com
Rick Wile's essay, "The Advent of Pastor Eddie," will appear in Issue 3.1 of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression due out in May. wiles2@gwi.net
April 07 , 2009
Kathy Briccetti's Blood Strangers: A Memoir will be published by Heyday Books in Spring, 2010. Many thanks to her Stonecoast buddies and mentors who helped along the way. (It took ten years!) (CNF/'07)
Meghan Cadwallader’s poem “Yield” will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of The Fourth River.
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “First Communion” is currently included in Innisfree. Her poem, “Calling John Murphy After Twenty Years” will appear in the upcoming issue of Santa Clara Review. She will have three poems, “Untitled, 1973”, “The Mechanics of His Loyalty”, and “ The Nature of Attrition” in the May issue of Oak Bend Review.
Karen Kowalski Singer’s poem "O Body" will appear in the April 09 issue of White Pelican Review. Also, Karen wrote a review of Prageeta Sharma's latest poetry collection, which will appear in Poetry Project Newsletter.
Down East magazine will be running Ken Markee's sonnett "The Blind" next November or December in the magazine's "North by East" section.
Gina Troisi's essay, "The Red House," will appear in the 2009 issue of PMS poemmemoirstory Literary Journal, which will be released in September.
Jennifer Van Orman (Winter 07) was named one of three runners up for the annual Ellen Laforge Poetry Foundation Prize, for her poems “Ally Hanging” and “Holy Night”. Her work will be included in this year's Annual.
March 23, 2009
Jessica Bane Robert has a poem up at the Ghazal Page, "Ghazal for Desert Hands", March 2009: http://www.ghazalpage.net. jbanerob@msn.com
On March 13, Kathleen Clancy was the guest on "Accents," a radio program for arts, literature, and culture broadcasting from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, http://wrfl.fm/home. She discussed "the cringe factor" and crafting poems, the subject of her Stonecoast grad talk. A link to an archive of the show can be found here: http://katerinaklemer.com/radio.html. kathleenclancy11@gmail.com
Bonnie Naradzay’s (Poetry, January 2008) poem “Papaya Morning” will appear in the second issue of the DelMarVa Review in June 2009. Naradzay.Bonnie@dol.gov
Michaela Roessner has now sold her other talking fishes story, "The Fisherman's Wife" (also workshopped at Stonecoast), to the Canadian women's literary journal Room Magazine. It will be published in the magazine's 32.2. issue. mroessner@bnis.net
Penelope Schwartz Robinson (CNF '04)'s essay collection Slippery Men has received Honorable Mention in the Maine Literary Awards sponsored by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Award winners and honorable mention recipients will be showcased at an Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at the Glickman Library on the campus of USM at 7:00 p.m. The public is invited. probins2@maine.rr.com.
Debbie Smith Daughetee has been contracted to write an hour audio drama for Dark Shadows, the 60' classic television show. She's thrilled down to her toes!dls3001@msn.com
March 09, 2009
Ruth Foley's poem "Constellations" is online in the current issue ofApple Valley Review. http://www.applevalleyreview.com
Jennifer Van Orman (Winter 07)- Panhandler Quarterly accepted the poem "Is a Dragon, Is a Weed" for their next issue.
February 23, 2009
Meghan Cadwallader’s essay, “In the Beginning”, was published in the feminist journal So To Speak. It was a finalist in their Winter/Spring 2009 contest issue. cadwallader@susqu.edu
Henry Garfield's short story, "Stratosphere," appears in the April/May issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, available on newsstands nationwide in March. Hank is still soliciting Limericks for THE MAINE LIMERICK PROJECT. http://hwgarfield.com hankwgarfield@yahoo.com
Susan Lilley’s poem “The Champagne Road” will appear in the spring issue of Poet Lore. Slilley@cfl.rr.com
Bruce Pratt'spoems "Fat Folks" and "Pigeons in Bergamo Citta Alta," will appear in the next Stolen island Review. His poem Salt Breeze will appear in the spring 2009 edition of Pinyon. obdriveway@aol.com
Jacob Strunk’sessay, "Five Reasons Your STAR TREK Tattoo Will (Predictably*) Not Get You Laid" appears at nerdist.com http://www.nerdist.com/2009/02/five-reasons-your-star-trek-tattoo-will-predictably-not-get-you-laid.html. jacob@sevenmileswest.com
February 10, 2009
Carol Berg's essay "Consciousness And Encounter in Two Poems by Tomas Transtromer" is up at PublicRepublic, an on-line webzine. Public Republic http://www.public-republic.net/consciousness-and-encounter-in-two-poems-by-tomas-transtromer-2.php BergCaro@pmc.edu
Ruth Foley is the new Associate Poetry Editor at Cider Press Review. Submissions open on April 1. See the website: http://www.ciderpressreview.com. Then submit! ruthfoley@gmail.com
Michelle Metcalf's essay, "Among the Irreverent" will appear in the anthology, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (Volume 8), a collection of essays, poetry, and lyrics from writers born from 1960-1982. gypsymetcalf@aol.com
Kerrie L. Miller 's ('07, cnf) essay "Home ...again" will appear in an upcoming edition of The Rambler Magazine. Another essay, "Uninvited, but Welcome Guest" , was chosen for inclusion an anthology of lessons from the sea tentatively titled Coastal Inspirations. klmiller@charter.ne
Glenn Morazzini won first prize in the Paumanok Poetry Awards for 2008 for a group of poems. The prize included $1,000 and traveling expenses to a give a reading at Farmington State University, part of NYU, on Long Island, this fall. gmoraz4@maine.rr.com
Renee Olander's ('05) interview of Baron Wormser will appear in the March/April 2009 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. rolander@odu.edu
Bruce Pratt'sshort story "Whiskey and Roses" will appear in the 2009 Spring/Summer of the Canadian Journal Existere. obdriveway@aol.com
Mary Rose Webster (NF '06) has a prose villanelle entitled "Villanelle for Daddy" in the latest issue of the Paterson Literary Review. mwebster@lightlink.com
January 26, 2009
Christopher Fisher received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best of the Small Presses, 2009. The mention was for a short story titled, "The Priest of Exit 53," published in Issue 1.2 of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression.wordman1984@yahoo.com
Bridget Gage-Dixon’spoems “Shame” and “Recipe for Forgiveness” will appear in the Spring issue of Town Creek and her poems “Birth” and “Around the Wreckage” will appear in New York Quarterly.
Florence Grende's (CNF'07) prose poem “Bubbe” is in the November issue of Poetica. florence.grende@gmail.com
Cindy Williams Gutierrez will perform her Aztec-styled poems accompanied by musician Gerardo Calderon at the 2009 AWP Conference in Chicago on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 3 pm in Room Wiliford B of the Chicago Hilton. The event, titled Political Poets of Portland Reading, will also feature Portland poets Frances Payne Adler, author of The Making of a Matriot, and Willa Schneberg, author of Storytelling in Cambodia. (cindy@grito-poetry.com)
Kim Dana Kupperman (NF, 04) was awarded a 2009 Literature Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The fellowship, awarded in the area of creative nonfiction, supports creative work and artistic development. kimdana@comcast.net
Ken Markee's poems "Common Ground", "Talking Shop" and "Outside the
ER" have been published in Harbor Journal Vol. II A Literary Sampler
from over 50 Maine Writers and Artists. His poems "Still Life" and "War Child" will be published in the winter issue of Off the Coast. kmarke91@maine.edu
Michaela Roessner-Herman’s (writing under the pen name of M. Roessner) short story "The Fishes Speak," received an honorable mention in the Ocean View Publications short fiction contest. The story has subsequently sold to England's Postscripts Magazine. Projected publication date will be in Postscripts' 2009-2010 Winter Issue.mroessner@bnis.net
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Lisa Romeo'sshort essay on writing, "How Do You Get Started?" is featured at Tiny Lights -- http://tinyurl.com/9rz6mm ( http://tinyurl.com/9rz6mm ). Her essay, "Plus What?" appears in the new anthology, FEED ME! Writers Dish on Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image (Ballantine Books) http://tinyurl.com/9zcow9. She is participating in a reading with other contributors to the book at Inquiring Minds Book Store in New Paltz, NY, on Jan. 31. LCRPR@aol.com
Sean Ulman has two poems, "Blue Diamond" and "Blue Diamonds", forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the The Main Street Journal at the University of Delaware, a short fiction piece "Leaf Death" forthcoming in the webzine Tuesday Shorts, and another short fiction piece "Walk to the Water" was posted January 13 on the webzine Six Sentences. swulman33@hotmail.com
Elisabeth Wilkins (F/05) has been named the "Pen New England Fiction Discovery of 2009". Beth will be introduced by Suzanne Strumpek Shea, and will read from her novel-in-progress, Obon, which she began at Stonecoast. The Pen New England Discovery Night is being held on Monday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Amphitheatre at Lesley University (1815 Mass. Ave., near Porter Square). For more information: http://www.pen-ne.org/events/discovery_evening.html
elisabethwilkins@yahoo.com
December 22, 2008
Kathy Briccetti(CNF '07) has a piece of creative nonfiction on literarymama.com.
http://www.literarymama.com/creativenonfiction/archives/002296.html. Kathy is also posting pieces of her new memoir manuscript on an autism website:
http://www.autismhangout.com/myhangout/blog.asp?id=373&blogid=70lovereadwrite@comcast.net
"Northern Brights," Hank Garfield's (Fiction '04) story on the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, was named Best Feature of 2008 by Bangor Metro magazine. It's the second year in a row he's won the award. He won in 2007 for a story on the legacy of E.B. White. http://www.hwgarfield.com
Corrie Kentner’s poem, "The Dress" will appear in the May 2009 edition of Compass Rose. All the best for an enjoyable and successful winter residency. corriekentner@gmail.com
Colin Sargent’s book, Museumof Human Beings, received the following review from Library Journal:
.Sargent, Colin. Museum of Human Beings. McBooks Pr. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-1-59013-167-1. $23.95. In 1805, Lewis and Clark embarked on one of the most fantastic journeys in American history. Even today their expedition of discovery continues to captivate our imagination as well as our fascination with the mysterious Shoshone guide, Sacagawea. For approximately two years, Sacagawea, traveling with her infant son Jean-Baptiste, endured the harsh challenges of the American wilderness as she led the expedition forward. This debut novel, based on historical facts, focuses on Jean-Baptiste and his struggle to find his identity. The boy's education (sponsored by Clark), his travels with European nobility, and his return to his own roots as a guide and explorer are vividly brought to life. From the beginning to the novel's spellbinding conclusion, playwright and poet Sargent allows us an intimate glimpse into what could have been the heart of Jean-Baptiste. This memorable novel will captivate all who read it. Highly recommended for all public library historical fiction collections.-Melody Ballard, Pima City. P.L., AZ
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December 08, 2008
David Healey's essay "Vacation Dreaming" -- improved upon during a Stonecoast workshop -- was published in the winter issue of Delmarva Quarterly.
Reza Jalali(F) has written the Foreword to a book on refugees and immigrants living in Maine, New Mainers, to be published by Tilbury House in February 2009. The book includes photographs by Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest and interviews by Pat Nyhan.
Ken Markee's poem "The Lobstermen of Boothbay Harbor" has been accepted into the Planetary Stories web site: http://www.blackearthinstitute.org/PS_Guidelines.html
Bruce Pratt'spoem “The Worst Wasn't That” will appear in the next Iguana Review.
Jacob Strunk’sstory "Fireglass" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
November 24, 2008
Hank Garfield (Fiction '04) reports that submissions to The Maine Limerick Project are piling up, but more are needed! Please visit hwgarfield.com and click on the “POETRY” link to view guidelines and sample Maine Limericks, like this one:
"A well-hung young stud from Wiscasset
was proud of his number-one asset
He stood in the street
in front of Red's Eats
and waved it at oncoming traffic."
Limericks that are used on the site earn five bucks and inclusion in a forthcoming volume of similar highbrow poetry.
Ken Markee's poems "The Blind" and "Late November" will appear in a forthcoming edition of Yankee Magazine's New England Memories Project.
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/memories/three-days-at-yale
Lisa Romeo's narrative essay, "When the Bee Stings" http://ozoneparkjournal.org/Creative_Nonfiction.html appears in the first issue of the literary journal, OzonePark. She read recently at the journal's launch party at Queens College http://tiny.cc/beest. Lisa's essay, "NPR vs. NASCAR," http://www.yourtango.com/20085122/nascar-vs-novatktk appears on the Tango website http://tiny.cc/nprna.
Brenda Sparks Prescott's short story, "This Month's Rent," is in the November 2008 issue of Portland Magazine.
Cindy Williams Gutierrez’s poem “On First Discovering Olmec Writing” was published in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
November 10, 2008
Anne Britting Oleson (poetry, winter '05) has a poem, "Upside-Down Cat," in Agreeable Friends, a new animal-themed anthology from Moon Pie Press. All profits from the sales of the anthology will go to the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals.
Susan Lilley (Poetry, summer ’08) has been named as a recipient of a 2009 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship by the Florida Arts Council. Only five were chosen in the literature category, and the grant amount is for $5,000.
Jeanette Lynes (Poetry/Fiction '05) has just published a new poetry collection, It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems (Freehand Books/Broadview Press).
PJ Piccirillo’s (Fiction, '04) novel Heartwood is being released in early December by Middleton Books. Jack Driscoll says of Heartwood: “If Eudora Welty is right that fiction depends for its life on place, then make room for PJ Piccirillo, whose wonderful debut novel captures with great sensitivity logging town life at the turn of the last century. Elegiac in nature, and epic in proportion, Heartwood deserves a large and grateful readership.” Clint McCown calls it: “Smooth and lyrical--a pleasure to read.”
Heartwood has already attracted hundreds of pre-release sales; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts has awarded $5,000 for books to be used in public programming built around Heartwood, which interprets northern Appalachian history and culture.
Penelope Schwartz Robinson, CNF '04, winner of the Stonecoast Book Award, was the featured author at the Portland Public Library's Brown Bag Lunch Series, Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 12-1:00 p.m. Reading and book signing.
Excerpts from Christopher Watkin’s collaboration, Adult Life Jackets: A Collaborative Work of Poetry and Visual Art by Scott Sandell and Christopher Watkins (forthcoming from Deepwater Editions), will be published in The Southampton Review.
October 27, 2008
Patrick Shawn Bagley's short story "Welcome to Wal-Mart, Motherfucker" will appear in the anthology Uncaged (Bleak House Books, Spring 2009).
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” will be appearing in an upcoming issue Gargoyle. Her poem “Coming to My Garden This Morning” will appear in 13th Warrior and “At Forty I Address the Future” will appear in US 1 Worksheets.
Glenn Morazzini(poetry'06) is teaching a class in American Poetry at the University of New England. His poem "Therapy From the Garden" will be appearing this December's issue of Poetry.
Peggy Moss '04, author of award-winning children's books Say Something and Our Friendship Rules, will be doing a reading and conversation with Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Girl Fighting and Packaging Girlhood at the Augusta Barnes and Noble on Monday, November 10 at 2pm. All welcome. For more information, see Peggy's Website: http://www.saysomethingnow.com.
Lisa Romeohas received an artist grant from the Vermont Studio Center and will spend two weeks there in January 2009. Her article, "Lisa R's Diet Diary," which ran in a 2007 issue of O-The Oprah Magazine, was included in O's Big Book of Happiness: The Best of O Magazine, just published by Oxmoor House. A poem, "Little Bottles," will appear in the South Mountain Poets 2008 Anthology, and an essay, "Shoelaces and Chips" is in the fall issue of MotherWords magazine. On her blog, Lisa recently interviewed fellow Stonecoast alum Penelope Schwartz Robinson. http://www.lisaromeo.blogspot.com.
James Siegel’s poem, “Black and White Photograph,” slated for Argestes this winter, will be in the anthology, Poems of Grief and Gratitude, due out Spring, 2009.
Patricia Smith's book Blood Dazzler is a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.
October 14, 2008
Marcia F. Brown,Michelle Lewis, Robin Merrill, PJ Piccirillo, Ann Rosenquist Fee
Marcia F. Brown (P'04), Michelle Lewis (P'04) andRobin Merrill (P'05) all contributed poems to AGREEABLE FRIENDS, a newly released animal-themed poetry anthology from Moon Pie Press, Edited by Alice Persons.
Featuring the work of 46 poets from all over the country, all profits from book sales sale will go to the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals, a non-profit equine and other animal rescue/rehab. organization based in Windham, Maine.
The book has a retail price of $10.00 and makes a great holiday gift for animal-lovers. It is available from the Moon Pie Press website at www.moonpiepress.com (http://www.moonpiepress.com/), and from the MSSPA's website at www.msspa.org (http://www.msspa.org/), in their online store. It will also be for sale at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine.
PJ Piccirillo, Fiction '04, and Laurie, announce the birth of Antonio Michael Piccirillo on August 2. He was 7 pounds, 20 inches.
Two of Ann Rosenquist Fee’s pieces appear in the new Cleis Press anthology FRENZY: 60 STORIES OF SUDDEN SEX. Both of Ann’s pieces, “Seconds” and “Cock Lobster,” were honed at Stonecoast. Linda Sienkiewicz’s story is titled “Take Note, Please.” Her prose poem “Cock Lobster” appears in the new Cleis Press guide NEVER HAVE THE SAME SEX TWICE.
September 15, 2008
Ruth Foley has two poems, "Monterosso" and "For My Husband, Before I Was Born," up at La Fovea: http://www.lafovea.org/ruth_foley.html
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” will be appearing in an upcoming issue Gargoyle. Her poem “Coming to My Garden This Morning” will appear in 13th Warrior and “At Forty I Address the Future” will appear in US 1 Worksheets.
Jacob Strunk’s short story "Fireglass" has been nominated for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008 print anthology.
September 2, 2008
Patrick Shawn Bagley has signed with the Renee Zuckerbrot Literary Agency.
Kim Dana Kupperman (NF, 04) has been awarded a fellowship to attend a ten-day residency in November at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Ken Markee's poem "A Cold September" will be published in the next online journal of Sea Stories due out at the end of the month. www.seastories.org Ken's limerick "Gritty's" will be the Limerick of the Week for the The Maine Limerick Project, http://hwgarfield.com.
Here is a review of Colin Sargent’s (Summer ’04) new novel, from Publisher’s Weekly
Museum of Human Beings Colin Sargent. McBooks (IPG, dist.), $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59013-167-1
Playwright Sargent's debut novel is a stylish look at the fate of Sacagawea's baby son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the first Native American to tour Europe—as a curiosity and entertainment, of course. Twenty-four-year-old Sacagawea, though married, becomes William Clark's lover while helping guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition; after she dies on the trail, Clark adopts her son, Baptiste. Soon, Clark establishes his home in St. Louis, as well as a garish museum dedicated to his expedition, and sets to educating his new son. Soon, Baptiste is traveling Europe under the protection of Duke Paul, a cruel man who, when he isn't exhibiting the boy to royal courts, repeatedly rapes young Baptiste. Six years later, Baptiste returns to America (astonishingly, still accompanied by Paul), where he confronts Clark over his mother's mysterious death; unsatisfied and restless, Baptiste heads west and finds work as a fur trapper, an Army scout and gold prospector. Increasingly haunted by his mother, Baptiste revisits her in memories and visions that lend themselves nicely to Sargent's lyrical prose. With historical cameos (Beethoven, Kit Carson, Washington Irving) and an impressively rounded portrait of the laid-back, introspective, nomadic Baptiste, this novel will satisfy fans of American history. (Nov.)
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August 15, 2008
Patrick Shawn Bagley has signed with the Renee Zuckerbrot Literary Agency.
Kim Dana Kupperman (NF, 04) has been awarded a fellowship to attend a ten-day residency in November at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Ken Markee's poem "A Cold September" will be published in the next online journal of Sea Stories due out at the end of the month. www.seastories.org Ken's limerick "Gritty's" will be the Limerick of the Week for the The Maine Limerick Project, http://hwgarfield.com.
August 4, 2008
Patricia Budd's haiku "Roadside wildflowers" was selected by Dorothy McLaughlin for River Poets Journal, Lilly Press to be published in a chapbook titled "The Leaf Gatherers" in September, 2008.
Ann Rosenquist Fee is profiled in the August issue of Minneapolis-St. Paul METRO magazine. Online at www.metromag.com (search on "The Anti-Bodice Ripper"), or on the Gallery page at www.annrosenquistfee.com.
James Siegel's poem, "Teaching Sophomore English" was recently reprinted by The Clocktower and his poem, "Reading," is in print and online in the Summer 2008 edition of the Cherry Blossom Review. Additionally, James was recently inducted into The Beachcombers, located in Provincetown, Cape Cod, founded in 1916 by painters Wyeth and Hawthorne as a place for artists to informally gather and further the fine arts.
An essay by Christopher Watkins (Winter '08, Poetry) has been published as a "Contributor Spotlight" on the newly-launched Hayden's Ferry Review Blog. (Elizabeth Searle was also recently featured!) The essay is entitled "I Want You -or- On Influence & Inspiration: The Ache To Write -or- How A Musicianer Came To Love And Need The Word" and it can be found by visiting the Hayden's Ferry Review website at the following locations:
http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/
http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/contributor-spotlight-christopher.html
July 21, 2008
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “Missing Girl” appears in the current issue of Main Channel Voices and her poem “Coming to My Garden this Morning” is forthcoming in The 13th Warrior Review.
Ken Markee’s poem "Watch" will be published in the fall issue of "from east to west". http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights/
Bruce Pratt's poem "December Morning" will appear in the next Off the Coast.
June 23, 2008
Debbie Daughetee, writing under Dl. Lynn Smith, has sold her short story Bone Whisperer to the Dark Distortions anthology.
The photograph and poetry of part-time Lewiston-Auburn College instructor Lillian Baker Kennedy was the subject of a May 20 Lewiston Sun Journal story.
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/266323-3/Entertainment/Auburn_artist_explores_silence_and_light/
Penelope Schwartz Robinson's essay "Killing Lambchop" is in the June (Summer) issue of Alimentum, the Literature of Food. She also had an essay, "Star Light, Star Bright," in Raye Tibbett's final print issue of the Bad Mother Chronicles, published in May. Her essay "Burrowing" was recently a finalist for the Brenda Usland Prose Prize at the Water-Stone Review.
June 9, 2008
Pat Budd won the Balticon Poetry Contest with her poem Wind Up. Balticon is the Baltimore Science Fiction Society and they sponsor a convention each year with writing contests and much merrymaking.
James Patrick Kelly, are you amused?
Also, she was a semi-finalist for the Hudson Prize for her book manuscript Hindsights. Hudson Prize is given by The Adirondack Review and published by Black Lawrence Press each year.
Ruth Foley's poem "Blues Before It Happens" is in the new issue of Umbrella at http://www.umbrellajournal.com . Her poem "Summer Poem for a Sailor" is in the newest issue of Cider Press Review.
Kim Dana Kupperman’s essay “Two Tea Cups” will appear in the June issue of Alimentum. In August, she will be participating in a panel at Nightsun’s writer’s conference in Frostburg, MD.
K. A. Markee's poems "It's Only the Wind" and "The Watch" have been published in SNReview (SNR, www.snreview.org) Spring/Summer 08 online edition.
Dave Morrison (of Camden, Maine) has a radio show called Have Poems Will Travel. He read work by Robin Merrill on Wed. June 3rd from 5 to 6 PM. WRFR FM, Radio Free Rockland, 93.3 Rockland, 99.3 Camden. The station has a website and you can listen online.
Bruce Pratt's short story "Test Results" will appear in the next issue of Apocalypse. His opinion piece "Full Speed Behind" appears in the current Bangor Metro.
Colin Sargent's novel Museum of Human Beings is forthcoming at McBooks this November.
May 12, 2008
Patrick Shawn Bagley's story "Bank Job" appears in the Spring issue of Spinetingler Magazine. Another short story, "Pandora," has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Thrilling Detective. The Lineup: Poems on Crime, an anthology of which Patrick is one of the co-editors, will be released this summer.
Marcia F. Brown’s (Poetry '04) poems have appeared in recent issues of Off the Coast, Cafe Review, Wolf Moon Journal, Bangor Metro and an upcoming issue of Alimentum. In February, Marcia joined Maine poets Robert Chute, Martin Steingesser and Herb Coursen to read at the Curtis Library, Brunswick in celebration of Longfellow Days; and in April at the Smith College Poetry Center, Northampton, MA in an alumnae celebration of the Poetry Center's 10th anniversary. Marcia teamed with Belfast artist, Archie Barnes in 2007 to publish Home to Roost, Paintings and Poems of Belfast, Maine featuring their collaborative work from previous Belfast Poetry Festivals (available from Phoenix Row Gallery, 157 High St, Belfast, ME 04915).
Kim Dana Kupperman’s essay “See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother” was featured on Agni online as a Web exclusive, in celebration of National Poetry Month. Visit http://www.bu.edu/agni/ to read the essay.
Bruce Pratt's Poem Night Wind will be featured in the next Bangor Metro.
April 28, 2008
Jaed Coffin just found out that his memoir A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants has been bought by a Romanian publisher in a minor bidding war and will be translated and distributed later this year.
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez has written a play, For:Give, in collaboration with an ensemble. Inspired by The Tempest, the play explores the social theme of forgiveness. For:Give opens on May 2nd in Portland, Oregon. It is presented by Insight Out Theatre Collective, whose vision is to inspire social change. For more details, see http://iotcpdx.com/.
Kim Dana Kupperman has an essay, "Eight," in the current issue of NIGHTSUN, published at Frostburg State University and guest edited by Dinty W. Moore. Her essay, "Paved with Good Intentions," will appear in the next issue of HOTEL AMERIKA. And, watch AGNI online for "See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother," a forthcoming Web exclusive. In March, Kim presented at a panel and taught a workshop at the Rehoboth Beach Writer's at the Beach Conference.
Bruce Pratt's play Electrolysis will be featured as part of the Second Annual Northern Writes New Play Festival at the Penobscot Theater Company in Bangor from May 27-June 8 2008. His essay Fishing With Ralph, which first appeared in The Yale Angler's Journal, will be reprinted in the next Vermont Literary Review.
April 14, 2008
Bunny Goodjohn (Poetry, 2007) launched her debut novel, Sticklebacks and Snow Globes, in October 2006 through New York publisher Permanent Press. Australian publisher Scribe (Best Small Press 2006) acquired English language rights in 2007 and launched in April 2008. In the meantime, Permanent Press sold Russian rights to Centrepolygraph, a Moscow-based publisher, and anticipates a 2008 launch. In the USA, Sticklebacks sold out in hard cover and reprinted in paperback. On the back of the book’s success, Goodjohn takes up a full time position with her Alma Mater, Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia as Director of the Writing Center.
Cindy Williams Gutierrez’s review of the 2007 Pulitzer Finalist The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada was published in the Spring 2008 Online Edition of Rain Taxi http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2008spring/espada.shtml.
Karen Jersild's short story "Perfectly Aligned" will appear in the Fifth Anniversary issue of Perigee. You can read it at www.perigee-art.com.
Bruce Pratt's short story "Mildred" will appear in the next Vermont Literary Review. On April 24th he will give the final lecture of the year at the honors college at The University of Maine. The lecture will be related to the honors college book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, and is tentatively entitled, "The Why of History or Zen and the Art of Divining Truth from Fiction." His story Maestro Silvestri’s Cello” will appear in the Cooweescoowee Literary Journal in the fall. He has articles forthcoming in Bangor Metro and Portland Magazine
Sharon Ross has been blogging about single-parenting life for the Portland Press Herald's Raising Maine web site since it was launched in Feb. of this year. She also writes a monthly feature for the print version of Raising Maine, which premiered April 4, about notable Maine moms. Check out her blog here: www.raisingmaine.com/bootstraps
Christopher Watkins' debut volume of poetry "Short Houses With Wide Porches" will be released May 2nd by Shady Lane Press. Titled after a chapbook of the same name, the collection draws primarily upon work begun while Watkins was Writer-In-Residence at The Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida. "Short Houses With Wide Porches" is the third title in Shady Lane Press' Kerouac Writers Series. Watkins will celebrate the release with a reading and book signing at Urban Think Bookstore in Orlando, Florida on Friday, May 2nd. For more information, please visit www.shadylanepress.com.
March 31, 2008
Jaed Coffin was interviewed recently on 207, a local television show. Here is a link to the video clip: httpwww.wcsh6.com/life/lifestyle/207/video/article.aspx?storyid=83479://
Christopher Fisher's short story "Tattletale" received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007, co-edited by our very own Kelly Link.
Mary Harwood has a review of Mary Gaitskill’s novel, Veronica, on the Her Circle Ezine website, http://www.hercircleezine.com/books/ The review will go into the archives at the end of March, when a new review will appear. In April, she’s reviewing Elizabeth Nunez’s novel Bruised Hibiscus.
Renee Olander ('05 poetry) has these poems in press: "Sestina: To My Sisters" (13th Moon, Spring 2008); "For Gram: The Morning after the Dream" (South Loop Review, Sept. 2008); and "Ten Things I'd Tell My Mother If I Could" in an anthology Things I'd Never Tell My Mother. In addition, her full-length mansucript, American Dangerous, was an "Honorable Mention" in The DeNovo Contest held by C&R Press.
Kathleen Sullivan, 2006 poetry alum, will read from her work at the Freeport Community Library's National Poetry Month event on Wednesday, April 16, at 6:30. Also featured are Annie Finch and Nathan Nye. The library is located at 10 Library Drive.
Rick Wile's essay"Requiem in Stones" appears in the 2008 Spring Equinox issue of Cezanne’s Carrot: http://www.cezannescarrot.org/vol3iss2/index.html
March 17, 2008
Ruth Foley's poem "Skylark" is included in the recently-published anthology Sinatra: . . . but buddy, I'm a kind of poem.
Tanya Eby Sirois (Fiction '05) won the 2007 Kalliope Literary Journal fiction contest. Her piece “What I Want To Know About My Mother” will be published in the spring.
Lisa C. Taylor’s poem “Enclosure” is upcoming in Pacific Review. She is also reading at Eastern Connecticut State University CCSU Faculty Research Conference on March 29, at the University of Connecticut Coop on Monday March 31 at 7:00; at the Jonathan Trumbull Library in Lebanon, CT on April 10 at 7 (with Still River Writers), at the Chaplin Library, Chaplin, Ct on April 30th at 7, at the Prosser Library in Bloomfield, Ct on June 10 at 7:00, and at the Out of the Blue Gallery Open Bark Reading/106 Prospect Street/Cambridge, MA on June 21st at 8:15 pm.
Raye Tibbitts's Bad Mother Chronicles has recently gone online as a blog for the Portland Press Herald's Raising Maine, where a BBC producer read it and invited her to appear on the radio show World Have Your Say. Hear her podcast and check out other motherhood musings at www.raisingmaine.mainetodaycom/badmotherchronicles Her story “Milk & Cookies” appeared in January in the inaugural issue of MotherWords, and she has more work forthcoming in the next issue due out in March. Recently invited to present her third semester thesis on mama zines and underground publishing at the Association for Research on Mothering Conference in May, Raye is still at work on a memoir and as always, busy raising her boys.
March 3, 2008
Jaed Coffin is reading from A CHANT TO SOOTHE WILD ELEPHANTS on Thursday, March 6 at 7 pm Newtonville Books 296 Walnut St. Newtonville, MA. It's a "Books and Brew" event. Call the bookstore, or go online, for directions and details: 617-244-6619 http://www.newtonvillebooks.com/
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “The Art of Camouflage” will appear in the forthcoming issue of Inkwell. crash3391@optonline.net
Did you know that you can save nearly $7,000 per year by giving up car ownership? Buses, bicycles and car rental agencies offer low-cost alternatives to the enslavement of the car culture. In a feature article entitled "Busing It" in the March issue of Bangor Metro magazine, Henry Garfield (fiction 2004) explains how this can be done even in one of the most car-dependent regions of the country. hwgarfied.com, hankwgarfield@yahoo.com
Cindy Williams Gutierrez has had two book reviews published in the winter 2008 issue of CALYX. The reviews are of SOLTANDO AMARRAS/CASTING OFF by Claribel Alegria (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden) and of CALENDARS by Annie Finch. (Thanks to Carol Moldaw for her great seminar, The Short Literary Review!) cindy@grito-poetry.com
Kim Dana Kupperman has an essay, "Eight," in the current issue of Nightsun, published at Frostburg State University and guest edited by Dinty Moore. Kim will be presenting at a panel and teaching a workshop at the Rehobeth Beach Writer's Conference, scheduled for March 13-16; for more information, visit www.writersatthebeach.com. kimdana@comcast.net
Kristin Latour’s poem "The Night of the Fire" will be out in the 5th Wednesday Jounral in May. poemgirl@comcast.net
Bruce Pratt's story "Dawning of the Day" will appear in the next issue of Hawk and Handsaw.
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Penelope Schwartz Robinson (CNF '04) will read from Slippery Men, her Stonecoast Book Prize-winning manuscript at the North Star Cafe, 227 Congress Street, Portland, Maine, on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. For further information, call Nathan at 207-450-1815. probins2@maine.rr.com
A chapter from Rick Wile's (still) unpublished memoir will appear in the Summer Issue of Under The Sun. wiles2@gwi.net
February 18, 2008
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January 22, 2008
Kim Dana Kupperman will be participating on a panel at AWP, “Women Essayists You’ve (Likely) Never Read.” She will also be teaching a nonfiction workshop and participating on a panel at the 2008 Writers at the Beach Conference, held in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. For more information about Writers at the Beach, please visit www.writersatthebeach.com.
Kristin Latour’s poem, "Filter" has been posted at The New Verse News. The website is http://www.newversenews.com
Ken Markee’s poem "Hauling" is in print at Cider Press Review for Volume 9, due out in the spring of 2008. His sonnet "Talking Shop" currently appears in the online issue of 14 by 14.com. His poem "Summer 1973" appears in Mettle: a literary zine of Stonecoast. His sonnet "Pinky" will appear in the spring '08 quarter poetry journal, "from east to west: bicoastal verse" http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights/submissions.html. He will also be a judge for the 2008 Adult Poetry Contest at the Baxter Memorial Library.
Anne Britting Oleson and Bruce Pratt read from their work as part of Bangor, Maine's New Year's Eve celebration at Lippincott Books.
Bruce Pratt's poem "The Good Friday Raven" will appear this month in the Irish journal, Revival.
Lisa C. Taylor’s collection of poetry “Talking to Trees” was nominated for an L.L. Winship PEN New England Award.
Jennifer Van Orman (Winter 07)- The Orange Room Review accepted the poem "Like an Astronauts Ashes" for their 10th issue, out February 1st.
Rick Wile's 1000-word condensation of his critical thesis will appear as a Capsule Review in the next issue of Fourth Genre.
Anne Britting Oleson (poetry winter 05) has a poem, "After Rehearsal Blues," in the fall/winter issue of The Aurorean. She will also be a featured reader, with Ed Rielly, on Tuesday, November 27th at 7 at the North Star Cafe, 227 Congress St. Portland. Come on down! babowman@uninets.net
"Until It Dances" a poem by Patricia Budd is one of 6 finalists for the 2007 Anderbo Prize. It will be published on the Poetry Page of anderbo.com. pbudd@maine.rr.com
Kim Dana Kupperman has had an essay, “The Road to Hell (Anatomy of My Father)” accepted for publication in Hotel Amerika. She was also recently selected to participate in the New York Center for the Book Arts seminar on letterpress printing and fine publishing. kimdana@comcast.net
Carolyn Matthews' poem "Shiv'ah (seven days of mourning)" will appear in the Winter 2008 issue of The Laurel Review. elespada@msn.com
Bruce Pratt's story "The Colonel's Mistress" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Diner. His short story "Lunacy" will appear in the upcoming issue of Potomac Review. He has also been selected to read from his poetry collection as part of the New Year's Eve festival in Bangor. obdriveway@aol.com
Lisa C. Taylor’s poem “Little Girls in Trees” will be in an upcoming issue of Wavelength. An audio CD of her chapbook, Talking to Trees, is available on her website www.lisactaylor.com
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