Closings :: Rainy Faye Bookstore (CT)

Rainy Faye Bookstore in Bridgeport, CT has announced it will be closing August 1. Owner Georgia Day cites a number of contributing factors, including lack of support for small/independent businesses in the area as well as "the Great Recession." As journalist Keila Torres Ocasio comments in her article on the closing: "I've written it here before. Downtown businesses can't succeed without help

The Chautauqua Institution Prize Winners

Chautauqua's newest issue acknowledges and features the writing of The Chautauqua Institution Poetry Contest and The Hauser Prize Prose Contest winners. The contests are sponsored by the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends.

2011 Mary Jean Irion Poetry Prize
Sophie Klahr, Houston, Texas
"May"

2011 Charles Hauser Prose Prize
Kathryn Hoffman, Arlington, Virginia
"What I Know About Elections"

The

Visual Poetry :: Andrea Baker

Add some art to your day! Omnidawn Publishing has posted a series of images Visual Poetry: Andrea Baker. The work is excerpted from The Incredibly True Adventures of Me, Baker's 150-page manuscript made from cutouts and paper packing tape.

Screen Reading: Online Lit Mag Review

Time to catch up with Screen Reading - reviews of online literary magazines. Editor Kirsten McIlvenna takes a critical look at Hippocampus Magazine, Mixed Fruit, Sixth Finch, Memorious, Eclectica Magazine, and SmokeLong Quarterly. This is a weekly column, so be sure to check back for more insightful commentary on the newest in online writing and literary publishing.

Our Stories Announces Changes to the Magazine

In the most recent issue of Our Stories, an online magazine that gives personalized feedback for each submission received, Editor-in-Chief Alexix E. Santi announces big changes in the way the magazine is run. He said that they will no longer publish "a finite cache of authors on a quarterly basis after the summer 2012 issue." He said that the last issue will be the one for the already collected

Letters of Note

Curated by Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience is a blog-based archive of letters, notes, postcards, telegrams, faxes, memos, etc. from/to people 'of note.' Usher includes full text as well as scans of the originals.

Some recent posts include a letter from James Thurber - "delivered, quite brilliantly, a playful jab to his attorney and friend, Morris Ernst

NewPages Reviewer Justin Brouckaert Publishes First Fiction Piece

Justin Brouckaert, one of the newer magazine reviewers for NewPages, just had his first piece of fiction published in Thrice Magazine--which can be purchased as a print copy or downloaded as a PDF, e-book, or Kindle file for free--titled "What is Hell, if not a Hard Candy." He also had a one-sentence story called "She Gets Starry Eyed When We Make Love" published on MonkeyBicycle in June. You

New Lit on the Block :: Dark Matter

From the University of Houston and the Downtown Natural Science Creative Writing Club comes a new biannual online magazine--available in PDF, EPUB, or Kindle formats--Dark Matter: a journal for speculative literature. The magazine features poetry, fiction, essays, and "musings." Managing Editor Bradley Earle Hoge says that readers can expect to find "an eclectic mix of provocative, insightful,

5x5 magazine: "Under Construction"

The newest issue of 5x5 announces upcoming changes to the magazine. Poetry Editor Jory Mickelson writes, "Perhaps it would be best to say that our next theme for 5x5 is 'Under Construction.' While this isn't the actual theme, it's definitely a signpost for the changes we are making to our literary magazine."

The founder and Editor-in-Chief Bradley Wonder will be resigning and "handing off the

2012 August Poetry Postcard Festival

The annual August Poetry Postcard Fest is just around the corner, and NOW is the time to sign up!

APP was started in 2007 by Paul Nelson along with Lana Hechtman Ayers; this year Brendan McBreen is coordinating the project. I have personally been participating in this project for the past several years and look forward to it each year. [Check out Peace, Love, Unity blog where Jessica posted a

Cream City Review's Annual Literary Prize Winners

Cream City Review's latest issue features the magazine's Annual Literary Award winners. The fiction prize was judged by Vanessa Hua, the creative nonfiction prize by Margaret MacInnis, and the poetry prize by Esther Lee.

Fiction Prize
Caroline Wilkinson: "The Half-Glass Bed"

Creative Nonfiction Prize
Debra Marquart: "Ephemera"

Poetry Prize
Don Judson: "Appalachia"

Ninth Letter's Special Edition

Ninth Letter has put out their first special edition fiction chapbook, guest edited by Scott Geiger. Man-Made Lands includes stories from: Joe Alterio, Seth Fried, Luther Magnussen, Micaela Morrissette, Ben Stroud, and Will Wiles; and proposals from Bjarke Ingels Group, Family with Office of Playlab, Steven Holl, and Keita Takahashi. "A Tale of Disapperance" is a commissioned collaboration

NewPages Reviewer Sean Stewart Publishes New Work

NewPages reviewer Sean Stewart's short story "The Boat" was recently published on Subtle Fiction. Four of his prose poems appeared in the most recent issue of Avatar Review, and two of his prose poems appeared in the new issue of Umbrella Factory.

New Lit on the Block :: The Liner

The Liner is a new annual print publication that publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and visaul art from both established and emerging artists and writers. Since The Liner is a transatlantic collaboration," says Co-Editor Gloria Kim, "we were envisioning crossing water when thinking of possible names. The Liner was a good fit." Kim says that she and Co-Editor Emma Silverthorn threw around the

Interview :: Keorapetse Kgositsile

The online magazine Sampsonia Way features the interview "This is Who I Am" in which former poet laureate of South Africa Keorapetse Kgositsile and K. Mensah Wali, artistic director of Kente Arts Alliance, discuss South Africa's progress since the end of apartheid, the effects of exile on family, and the relationship between poetry and jazz.

Podcasts :: The Virtual Memory Show

Newly added to the NewPages Guide to Podcasts, Video, Audio: Gil Roth is the host of the monthly podcast The Virtual Memories Show, which features interviews with authors about the books that helped shape their lives as well as discussions about books and literature. The newest program features interview/conversations with Paul Di Filippo, a long-time science fiction writer/critic and unofficial

New Lit on the Block :: BLACKBERRY

BLACKBERRY is a new quarterly magazine available in print and as digital copy that "aims to be a premier literary magazine featuring black women writers and artists. Its goal is to expose readers to the diversity of the black woman’s experience and strengthen the black female voice in both the mainstream and independent markets." The magazine features non-fiction, fiction, all forms of poetry,

Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize

Arnold Rampersad, award-winning biographer, literary critic, and professor emeritus at Stanford University, has been named winner of the 77th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is the country's only juried literary competition devoted to recognizing books that have made an important contribution to society's understanding of racism

Job :: Marketing & Circulation

From Managing Editor Hattie Fletcher: "The Creative Nonfiction Foundation, publisher of the quarterly literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and In Fact Books, seeks a part-time Marketing and Circulation Associate for its Pittsburgh office. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, detail-oriented, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced nonprofit environment. Reports to the editor, but works

Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal

Project Gutenberg has opened their new online, self-publishing portal, through which they "encourage the creation and access of copyright protected eBooks. In general, this center is focused on the author's who wish to share their works with readers."

Moreover, the portal will allow self-publishing for books presumed NOT to be in the public domain, but whose copyright holder is willing to allow

Poets in Federal Government

The Summer 2012 (13:3) issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly is themed "Poets in Federal Government" and features 25 poets, all current or former employees of the U.S. Government, writing about their work experience.

This special issue is co-edited by Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue. As Michael Gushue writes in his introduction, "These poems address the niches and pockets of civil service...and the

Modern Haiku 2012 Award Winners

Modern Haiku publishes the winners of The Robert Spiess Memorial 2012 Haiku Awards in the most recent issue. The judges, Melissa Allen and Carlos Colón, say "As a memorial to Editor Bob Spiess, who died on March 13, 2002, Modern Haiku sponsors The Robert Spiess Memorial Award Haiku Competition. We are grateful to Modern Haiku for allowing us to judge this year’s entries for the Robert Spiess

Screen Reading: Online Lit Mag Reviews

Newly reviewed on Screen Reading, Editor Kirsten McIlvenna takes a look at Cigale Literary, pif Magazine, elimae, Carve Magazine, Defunct, and The 2River View. This is a weekly column, so be sure to check back for more insightful commentary on the newest in online writing and literary publishing.

New Lit on the Block :: Mixitini Matrix

Mixitini Matrix is a new "multigenre, multidisciplinary journal of creative collaboration." Published twice a year online only, they feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short plays, and visual art that has been created by two or more people. Editor Leslie LaChance describes the name of the name of the magazine as the following:

Mixitini – noun. 1. a portmanteau word intended to suggest

Paterson Literary Review Poetry Award Winners

The most recent issue of Paterson Literary Review features the winners of the 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards:

First Prize
Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA “Olive Oil”
Kathleen Spivack, Watertown, MA “Their Tranquil Lives”

Second Prize
Joyce Madelon Winslow, Washington, DC “The”
Francine Witte, New York, NY “In My Poems, Sometimes I Have Children”

Third Prize
Kim Farrar, Astoria, NY “The

Editorial Position: Crazyhorse Literary Journal

The English Department at the College of Charleston seeks strong applicants for the position of Managing Editor of Crazyhorse literary journal and instructor in English. Contracts are for a three-year renewable term starting for Fall 2012. Postmark deadline for application is July 15, 2012.

New Lit on the Block :: Paper Nautilus

Paper Nautilus, a new annual print magazine, is named after the tiny species of octopus with the same name. "They're born by hatching out of very delicate eggs that look like nautilus sea shells," says Editor-in-Chief Lisa Mangini. "It's said to be rare to find one of these shells intact, since they're so fragile. When I learned about this animal, it just seemed like the perfect fit for what I

Arc's 2012 Poems of the Year

In the most recent issue, Arc Poetry Magazine announces and publishes the 2012 Poems of the Year. Editors say, "Our winner's craft is sound, its music strong, its voice and subject matter compelling. And we think you'll agree, it couldn't have happened to a nicer poet."

Grand Prize: $5,000
Jacob McArthur Mooney: "The Fever Dreamer"

Readers' Choice
Michael Fraser: "Going to Cape"

Editors'

The Nassau Review 2011 and 2012 Writer Awards

After being on hiatus, The Nassau Review has published their 2012 issue, featuring the work of the 2011 and 2012 writer awards. In the editor's note, Christina M. Rau says, "Coming back into the lively, chaotic literary scene after a hiatus was tricky, but reading through so many pieces that sparked lively discussions made us believe not only that we could put this journal out, but that this

Residency: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Applications can now be submitted by visual artists, writers, and composers from across the country and around the world to be considered for a residency in the first half of 2013 at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Apply online by September 1, 2012. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week, free housing, and a separate

World Literature Today Winners of Readers' Choice Poll

World Literature Today, in honor of their 350th issue, chose a shortlist of the staff's favorite pieces that have appeared in the pages of WLT over the past ten years and then gave it over to its readers to vote on the very best. The editors say, "Over 700 readers voted in our online poll, so we extend a hearty "thanks" to all of you for participating and reading!" The work from the winners and

subTerrain Supplement

subTerrain's new issue, number 61, comes with a supplement--"Okanagan: Spotlight Folio"--which showcases student writing from University of British Columbia Okanagan campus. Professor Michael V. Smith says, "There is no unified sense of style or thematic resonance in these pages. Writing in the Okanagan is hard to sum up." The folio features four undergrad and three grad students: Kirsten

New Lit on the Block :: The New Poet

Editor David Svenson says that within the pages of The New Poet, a new online magazine, readers will find "strong, vivid poems that utilize imagistic and narrative styles."

"As a poet," says Svenson, "I read to not only discover new work and trends, but also for inspiration. I started The New Poet to witness exciting developments in poetry firsthand and to share these discoveries with others. I

Ruminate Magazine Contest Winners

The most recent issue of Ruminate Magazine announces the winners of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize sponsored by Dr. Randall J. Vandermey and judged by Leslie Leyland Fields.

First Place
Jessica Wilbanks: "Father of Disorder"

Second Place
Lili Wright: "Shopping for Virgins"

Honorable Mentions
Colleen Clayton: "Mud Fork Holler"
Bryan Parys: "Shape of a Ghost"

Finalists
Emily Brown: "Seeing

Bookstore Closings & Relocations

The Reader's Cove in Fort Collins, CO will be closing July 6. The website notice provides a list of reasons why the dream of owning a bookstore did not work out in reality (good insight for anyone who also 'dreams' of bookstore ownership: Be careful what you wish for, TRC's owners say).

Hue Man Bookstore is Harlem (NY) is closing shop in its current location on July 31 and working to determine a

How Much Editing Can an Editor Do?

How much can an editor edit your work for publication? It all depends on what you agree to in the contract, so read carefully before you sign - if you sign at all. Victoria Straus at Writer Beware Blogs! takes a thorough look at this issue in her post Editing Clauses in Publishing Contracts: How to Protect Yourself. She provides numerous examples of bad contract language and suggestions for

Room 2011 Writing Contest Winners

In Volume 35 Issue 2, Room announces its 2011 Writing Contest winners:

"Fiction judge Amber Dawn selected Rhonda Douglas's 'God Explains the Collapse of the Cod Fishery' for first place. In second place we have a tie: Solveig Mardon's 'Deep-Tail Dancer' and Julie Eill's 'There's Nothing Like that Here." In the poetry category, judge Elizabeth Bachinsky chose Patricia Young's 'Morning Class' for