Subscriber News: November 2024
Recent Honors
Congratulations to Joan Gelfand. Her memoir Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution (Post Hill Press, 2024) won the New Nonfiction category of the 2024 NYC Big Book Award and was a Distinguished Favorite in the Women's Studies category. The next deadline is December 30.
Congratulations to Lesléa Newman. Her picture book Hanukkah, illustrated by Rotem Teplow, is now out from Quarto Books in their Celebrations and Festivals series, which introduces children to different religious and cultural holidays from around the world. Lesléa will also be on a panel with Jane Yolen and Richard Michelson on "Beyond the Holidays: Writing Jewish Children's Books" at the Jewish Book Council Writers' Conference, which will be held online on Sunday, November 17. Read "My Wife's Lovers", her self-described "childfree cat lady poem" based on a painting by Carl Kahler, in The Ekphrastic Review.
Congratulations to Matthew E. Henry. His poetry collection said the Frog to the scorpion was published this year by Harbor Editions. Read sample poems on his website and listen to him read at the DMQ Review Virtual Salon (live through November). Poet Joan Kwon Glass describes this book as "the searing testimony of a Black public school teacher in a mostly white, American school...These are poems that challenge us to build a new world from the bars of broken cages."
Congratulations to Noah Berlatsky. His humor poetry chapbook Blurb Deals Now was published by LJMcD Communications and is available as a free download. These found-poems are fake book advertisements collaged from the Early Birds e-deal book marketing email list.
Recent Publications
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter's poems "Portrait of a Marriage" and "These Characters and Themes Cannot Exist" were published in The Garlic Press, Issue #3 (Fall 2024).
Carol D. Marsh's essay "Tableaux Vivants: Witness" was published in the Los Angeles Review. Carol says, "Thanks for your Winning Writers newsletter. I always get something good out of it."
Cheryl J. Fish will be teaching a free online workshop on writing haibun, a Japanese poetic form combining prose-poem and haiku, through the organization Art in the Basin. It will be held December 4 and 11 at 7:00 pm Eastern time. Sign up here.
Remi Recchia was interviewed by Nic Job at the Sundress Publications blog about editing the anthology Transmasculine Poetics, a free-to-download e-book from Sundress. Remi says, "Art is, by its very nature of representing the collective pain and joy of humanity, always activism."
Ruth Thompson's poem "Reversing the Spell" was featured on Verse Daily on October 31. She will be the featured reader at the Black Dog Poetry Open Mic on Tuesday, November 19, at 7:00 pm Central time. Join via Zoom here (passcode 565656).
Eva Tortora read her poetry in the show "That Paradise Place", a multimedia production about the love lives of artists with disabilities, at the Abrons Art Center in New York City, on November 1-2. Her photo of autumn foliage was featured in the Queens Chronicle with the story "Honor and aid trees Oct. 26" about the annual City of Forest Day, a celebration of urban forest conservation.
Annie Dawid's novel Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (Inkspot Publishing) was the subject of a feature article on the website of Dialogue Ireland, an independent trust that promotes education about cults and religious issues in Ireland. Dialogue Ireland director Mike Garde and his colleague Peter Johnson discussed the importance of shifting the focus to the victims' stories and how smart and independent people can still fall victim to brainwashing.
Published: November 12, 2024
