It’s been a busy publishing
season! Take a look below for a list of our members’ recent
writing successes. From book deals to magazine publications online and in print, here’s a glimpse of the richness of our community’s literary activity.
Recent & Forthcoming Books
J.K Daniel’s poetry manuscript Wedding Pulls was selected by C.D. Wright for Hub City Press’s New
Southern Voice Book Prize. It will be her first book, due out late next
summer.
Ginny Fite’s first novel Cromwell's Folly was published by Black Opal Books this fall (September 2015). Her second book was also acquired by Black Opal Books, and she’s currently working on a third novel in The Writer's Center Novel Year class!
Larry Hodge’s tenth book, a sci-fi novel entitled Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions, was accepted for publication by World Weaver Press (October 2015)—and is forthcoming in January. He will attend the Writing Staycation at the Center to start writing the sequel next week.
Charlotte A. Irion is in the process of having a book, Case Not Closed - Diary of a Court Reporter,
which contains short essay-like reflections based on cases and happenings drawn
from her ten years as a court reporter, published by Touchpoint Press.
Linda Pastan’s poetry collection Insomnia
has just been published by W.W. Norton & Company (October 2015).
Recent & Forthcoming Publications in Journals and Anthologies
Jerri Bell’s flash story “Her Husband’s Stars” is forthcoming this winter from
Consequence Magazine.
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| Sarah Awan, Twins in Yellow Hats Studio Art, Intima, Spring 2015 |
Andrea Hansell had two short memoir pieces published this fall—"November 1969" in Skirt Quarterly and "Taming the Wild Tummy, or How I Dropped my Spanx in a Flower Bed" in If and Only If (Fall 2015). She also had “The Dragonslayer” published this past spring in Intima, Columbia University's journal of narrative medicine, a memoir piece developed in Ellen Herbert's "Writing from Life" workshop.
Elisabeth Murawski’s poem, “Iconic Photo: Lee Miller in Munich, 1945,” won first prize in the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Prize competition and was published in the 2015 Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize Anthology eBook (September 2015).
Bronwen B. Newcott published “Creed
in the Santa Ana Winds,” “A
Prayer for Home,” and “On
Lazarus, Weeks before Her Death” in the current issue of Image.
Ann Quinn recently published her poems “All Soul’s Eve” and “Mother’s Day
2014,” which originated in her class with Nan Fry, in Anima (May 2015), “Ma” in Beechwood Review (Pushcart Prize nomination, Summer 2015), and “So Much” in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing
(Fall 2015). Her poem “Early Morning Mind” will appear in a forthcoming issue
of Haibun
Today (December 2015).
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| Vanessa Mallory Kotz, Self-portrait |
Sahar Siddiqui had "May 8, 2015," an ultra short personal narrative,
published by Telling Our Stories
Press in a collection called Reflections
(August 2015).
Sally Zakariya published “Watermelon
Pickle” in Silver Birch Press’s
My Sweet Word series (October 2015), “Note
to My Younger Self” in Heron Tree (September 2015), “Emily
Dickinson’s Pencil” and “Maine Ghosts, 1952” in The Federal Poet (Fall 2015), and “In Such a House” in the Hartskill Review (Summer 2015).
Recent Awards
C.M.
Mayo's book Metaphysical
Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and his Secret Book,
Spiritist Manual won the National Indie Excellence Award for History
(May 2015).
Eileen Stephenson self-published a collection of historical
fiction short stories entitled Tales
of Byzantium: A Selection of Short Stories on CreateSpace
(May 2015), which was recently awarded a medallion from B.R.A.G. (Book Readers Appreciation Group).
Congratulations, members! We’ll make periodic calls for your recent writing milestones, so be sure to keep us in mind when you receive publishing and award news. To learn more about membership with The Writer's Center, visit writer.org/get-involved/become-a-member.
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