Subscriber News: December 2024
Recent Honors
Congratulations to William Luvaas. His story collection The Three Devils will be published in January by Cornerstone Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and is available for pre-order. Award-winning short story author Jacob Appel says of this collection, "No American writer has as dark and vivid an imagination as William Luvaas, and his third collection of stories, The Three Devils, displays his gifts for mordant insight and wry prophesy at their ominous best. In the vein of Camus' The Plague and Saramago's Blindness, this modern-day Jeremiah paints a vision of a future in which the hapless and benighted struggle against epidemics of wrinkled air, mad crows, museum lootings, mountain survivalists and the roar of a vengeful planet." Visit William's website for his other novels and story collections.
Congratulations to Kayleb Rae Candrilli. Their fourth poetry collection, Winter of Worship, is forthcoming in January from Copper Canyon Press and is available for pre-order. Read a sample poem on the publisher's website.
Congratulations to Jed Myers. His poetry chapbook Anyone's Dust was the runner-up in the 2024 Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest and will be published as an e-book next year. The most recent submission period for this contest, with prizes up to $200, was March 1-May 31. See all currently open Sundress contests and submission calls here.
Congratulations to Geoffrey Heptonstall. His poetry collection What We Do Well was recently published by Cyberwit. "You may find something delightfully theatrical and classically elegant about Geoffrey's verse, while also acknowledging his admiration for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Berryman," writes Jeff Kaliss in Mill Valley Review.
Recent Publications
Stacy Alderman's story "Comet Is Cupid" was published in LoveNotes!, an anthology from Heather Christie Books. LoveNotes! is a storytelling show and podcast that shares true-life love stories.
R.T. Castleberry's poem "A Vanity Sequence" was published in November in Children, Churches and Daddies, "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine". "Fear Is Here to Stay" was published in Dissident Voice.
Alexandra Burack's poem "Need" (written in a workshop with the late Jack Gilbert) and 11 other poems will comprise a feature of her work in the June 2025 issue of the noted online literary magazine ucity review. Her essay "What Stands Against Obscurity", written in response to this forthcoming publication, was published on October 28 on her website. In addition, her poem "With Wormwood at the Craps Table" was published on November 8 in Bulb Culture Collective, and she will be the subject of BCC's Shine A Light feature in March 2025.
Geoffrey K. Graves's story "The Ride to Oblivion" was selected as a Spotlight Story by WestWord.
R. Bremner was selected as the Guest Poet for the 2024 Brownstone Poets Anthology. This Brooklyn-based reading series was launched in 2005. His poems "Like Mosquitos on a Damp Summer Night" and "At the 14th Street Subway Station" were accepted for Paterson Literary Review, Issue #53 (2025), and his poems "Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020)" and "Body of Evidence" were accepted for Sensation Magazine's "Law" issue. He says, "These are two of the longest-running continuously-published poetry journals in the USA, one starting in the 1970s and the other in the 1980s."
Shobana Gomes's book Christmas Tales & Wishes was recommended on author Ellwyn Autumn's website.
Don Mitchell's story "The Bad Things Happened at Night", an excerpt from his novel-in-progress Mauka, was published in Hawai'i's leading literary journal, Bamboo Ridge, Issue #126. The story is about the 1960 tsunami in Hilo.
Published: December 8, 2024
