Subscriber News: August 2022
Recent Honors
Congratulations to Carol D. Marsh. Her chapbook Border/Between: A Symphony in Essays was published in June by Bamboo Dart Press. Visit her website for more of her award-winning nonfiction, including her memoir Nowhere Else I Want to Be, about her work with homeless women with AIDS in Washington, DC.
Congratulations to Jill Dearman. Her historical true-crime novel Jazzed was published in July by Vine Leaves Press. This gender-swapped Bonnie and Clyde tale tells the story of two Barnard students in the 1920s who go on a crime spree fueled by their erotic obsession with one another. Visit her website to learn more.
Congratulations to Meg Eden Kuyatt. Scholastic will publish her middle-grade novel in verse, Good Different, in March 2023. Currently available for pre-order, this book features a neurodivergent girl who is learning to manage her overwhelming emotions. Visit her website for more of her writing for youth and adults.
Congratulations to Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé. A Given Grace, the online anthology of Christian poetry that he co-edited with Eric Tinsay Valles, won the gold medal in the Book Website category of the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Congratulations to Gary Beck. Cyberwit published Collected Plays of Gary Beck, Volume III in May. This anthology includes four comedies that the author produced and directed Off Broadway. Cyberwit also released Beck's poetry collection Purpose in June.
Congratulations to Barbara de la Cuesta. Her novel My Name Is Henrietta Rose was a finalist in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In this story, a once-celebrated international hostess is living in subsidized housing in Waltham, MA while trying to get sober.
Recent Publications
Katherine Arnup's essay "Writing in Bars" was published in Brevity in June. Visit Dr. Arnup's website for her books about parenting and elder care.
Alan Perry's poem "Humidity" was published online in June by Third Wednesday and will appear in their print issue this fall. Visit his website to read about his poetry collection Clerk of the Dead (Main Street Rag, 2020). Alan is co-editor of the online lit mag RockPaperPoem.
Shobana Gomes' novel The Goddess of the Himavan is available from Amazon. In this romance set in India, a peasant falls in love with the princess of a hidden mountain kingdom and must prove his worth by making the barren land prosper.
Valerie Dimino recently published her first book, The Man Behind the Curtain, a memoir she coauthored for a survivor of sexual abuse whose family and church community tried to silence her when the truth came out.
The Poet Spiel a/k/a the artist Tom W. Taylor's visual artwork is the subject of a retrospective exhibit open now through November 19 at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Ave, Pueblo, CO, in the Hoag Gallery on the first floor. This major show will include examples from eight decades of his work, going back to 1948. Watch a 3-minute slideshow of his art with a voice-over of Spiel reading his poem "Birdchild". In other news, his poem "Hot Blood" was published in the Summer 2022 issue of Wicked Gay Ways.
John Ollom will launch his third book, Rocks in the River, on Friday, Sept. 9, at 7:00 pm at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division bookstore in the LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY. Based on two decades' experience teaching movement art, Ollom has written a guide to finding peace and vision during times of fear and upheaval. Visit his website to learn more about his books and method.
Samantha Terrell's poetry book Things Worth Repeating?, a collection of poems in her invented form, the Trinitas, is now available on Amazon. She describes the form thus: "A reader may read each page (or, sometimes, a small group of pages) in three ways: first, in a zig-zag manner, scanning back and forth while moving down the page; second, from the top, but reading only the stanzas on the left side of the page; and third, from the top, but reading only the stanzas on the right."
Eva Tortora's editorial "Enjoy your summer" was published in the New York Daily News on July 21.
Beverley Chalmers' book Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion is now available on Amazon. Visit her website for more of her scholarly works on child protection, perinatal and obstetric care, and parenthood.
Published: August 9, 2022
