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The Antigone Poems by Marie Slaight
“Surreal and wild… written in ecstasy and the madness of genius…”
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Creative ideas for pre-publication buzz
Subscriber News: December 2015
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Where is the custom of raising a glass
By David Kherdian
Advice from Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Advice for poetry contestants from Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing
The University of Michigan publishes this journal of writing by prisoners in the state
Jim DuBois
Jim DuBois assists with the judging of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and previously with our North Street Book Prize. He studied writing and computers at Hampshire college. Now he spends his time inventing games, writing poetry and making art.
Love Me Tender in Midlife by Ellaraine Lockie
Buy IDES, a collection of poetry chapbooks including Love Me Tender in Midlife by Ellaraine Lockie
NEA Military Healing Arts Partnership
Art therapy for wounded and traumatized US veterans
A Violence I Can Sing
By Lucia Galloway
Autumn Fire
By Linda Principe
Arrow
By Maureen Sherbondy
Side Trip
By James K. Zimmerman
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Subscriber News: November 2015
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The Audacity of Prose
An essay against literary minimalism
Catch the Moon, Mary
By Wendy Waters
Apocalyptic Swing
By Gabrielle Calvocoressi
For Your Own Good
By Leah Horlick
Safekeeping
By Jessamyn Hope
Laura Fanning and Madeline Baars Win the 23rd Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Laura Fanning of Alameda, California won first prize in fiction and $1,500 for her story, “The Brick”. Madeline Baars of Portland, Oregon won first prize in nonfiction and $1,500 for her essay, “Trayvon”. 927 authors from around the world submitted 1,195 entries. Arthur Powers judged with assistance from Lauren Singer.…
Laura Fanning and Madeline Baars Win the 23rd Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 23rd annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Maple Tree Literary Supplement
Online journal of Canadian literature and culture
Trayvon
It's strange in the mornings, quiet and fresh, but not clean. No, never clean. Not even in the early light of a new day. The clinic lights go on and mostly stay that way, flickering, vaguely threatening. The buzzing of the lights intermixes with the scuttling of roaches. They know…
Subscriber News: October 2015
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Emerge-Surface-Be: The Poetry Project’s Fellowship Program
Grants and mentoring for emerging poets in NYC
Las Meninas: The Alchemy of a Life
Anne stared at the miniaturized “Las Meninas” in her hand. Velasquez' vast painting reduced to postcard size. She could wallpaper her kitchen with cards like these. Ones her students—current and former—mailed her from summer vacation spots. Anne steadied herself for another one. She put on her reading glasses and turned…
The Brick
There is a photograph of my mother standing in front of the chain link fence around the Chevron Oil Plant in Richmond, several minutes before she is hit. It is a beautiful spring morning, sunny and bright. A stiff breeze blowing over the San Francisco Bay brings a lock of…
Secrets of the Wire
November 14, 1971 Nguyen watched the American column labor along the trail toward a banana tree grove bordering the swamp. Oppressed by the pre-monsoon heat, he took a warm soda from the case and sipped it, while squatting at the water's edge. He'd been shadowing this American patrol all morning,…
A Small Fortune
“Behind every great fortune is a great crime.” —Balzac I was always afraid of meeting a dog on the long walks up to those fancy houses or a maid after I rang the bell, but you'd be surprised how many of those big beautiful homes on White Oaks Drive stood…
The Taste of Cedars
In a cool, sweet-smelling forest of cedars, Ellen seeks a place that's no more than a traveller's jottings. She pauses to look back, pleased with her progress. The track ahead is barely visible. Curving its way up the slope like a vein, it weakens and fades, only to revive a…
Aunt Edie
Standing eye level with the ragged hem of Aunt Edie's black dress did not raise my confidence. Swollen feet on matchstick legs gained no sympathy from me or expectation of it from her. A swarm of flies following her wooden school desk dove into the chamber pot on the bookshelf…
Family, Edited
This essay is featured in Best of the Net 2016! With every turn of the tires, the highway delivered a tha-thump to my rear end, nestled as it was on the floor under the dashboard. I was curled into a ball at my mom's feet, the backs of my legs…
The Colonel Catches a Catfish
Right now as you read these words, two people who have fallen in love online are about to meet for the first time in person. They have been exchanging intimate thoughts and personal histories by email and text multiple times an hour for as long as several years. He hopes…
Death Fairies
I discovered the death fairies one cold February evening. Dusk was looming, but the day had been gray enough that the coming of night was hardly noticeable, except for the deepening dampness that gnawed more fiercely into my fingertips and joints. Fresh black soil was spilled carelessly over the aggregate…
Bone Memory
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Definitions of Bravery
You've been on the road for six hours already. The Bureau wouldn't pay for airfare, so you and your partner are driving. More specifically, he is driving. You're in the passenger seat calculating cost of plane tickets versus cost of gasoline and, after factoring in fuel efficiency and time, you're…
Bailey Williams
Brett William Scott is an environmentalist and writer. On the scenic route there, she has been a Mormon, US Marine, dancer, nomad, horse wrangler, and nuclear weapons researcher. She lives between Montevideo, Uruguay, and San Francisco, and she is gravely relieved she is no longer any of these things. She…
Jane St. Clair
Jane St. Clair finally made it to Emily Dickinson's house last summer. She was so moved by Emily's room with its little window and little desk that she cried, causing the tour to wait until she composed herself. Jane's first novel, Walk Me to Midnight, was published by a small…
Jocelyn Pihlaja
Jocelyn has been teaching English at the college level since 1991. She has a husband who cooks dinner every night, kids who hold up hands requesting “Silence!” when their reading is interrupted, and a blog, O Mighty Crisis. In addition to writing for online publications, she also is a regular…
Jo-Ann Allan-Forbes
After the enlightenment visited upon her as a result of the planting that took place in this essay, Jo-Ann Allan-Forbes (Jo) decided to try her hand at some actual gardening. When avoiding certain homemaker responsibilities such as housework and homeschooling, she can often be found in her yard nurturing berries…
George Buelow
Born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, George Buelow has two well-received psychotherapy textbooks, and is working on a literary thriller set in post-Katrina south Mississippi and on a book of poetry. He has done anthropological research in Alaska and Liberia, practiced psychotherapy, taught at the Universities of Oregon, South Carolina,…
Madeline Baars
Madeline Baars has her Master's Degree in Public Health, and works for a non-profit which serves incarcerated women and their daughters in the Pacific Northwest. Until recently, Madeline lived, worked, and played in the wild wards of New Orleans, Louisiana. The world is more orderly now, with numbered streets, deadlines,…
Nina Vaag
A voracious reader and aspiring author from northern Arkansas, Nina Vaag turned to writing when she realized that any other career choice would almost certainly drive her bonkers. When she's not at home drawing, knitting, or arguing with the characters in her head about whose story should be written next,…
Janet Schneider
Janet received her MFA in Fiction writing from Spalding University in 2013 and since then has won Harpur Palate's 2014 John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, appeared as an Editor's Pick in Pooled Ink: Celebrating the 2014 Northern Colorado Writers Contest Winners, and third place in the 2015 Stoneslide Corrective's…
Anne Hotta
Anne Hotta has published nonfiction in journals, newspapers, and in book form in Australia, Japan, and the USA. As a recent but devoted writer of short stories, she revels in this demanding but highly rewarding genre. She writes stories showing people—women, men, eastern, and western—living imperfect, ordinary lives but at…
Robert Goswitz
Robert Goswitz is a retired, dog-walking novelist who believes his best qualities will soon be discovered. He was a special education teacher for thirty-three years working with cognitively disabled, emotionally disturbed, and at-risk youth. Before that he was awarded a Bronze Star and the Combat Infantry Badge for his service…
Roberta George
Roberta George was born in Bisbee, Arizona, and also lived in California and Texas, where she went to Catholic girls' schools. Almost every summer of her life was spent with her German grandmother on a 20-acre farm in the South, which left her with an overwhelming desire to pick blackberries…
Laura Fanning
Laura Fanning is a former actress who earns her living as a Special Education teacher in Moraga, California. Work of hers has appeared in Flash Fiction World, Scholars & Rogues, Cylamens and Swords, and in the Zimbell House Anthology Pagan. Her short play, Somewhere Close to Texas, was produced by…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
