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New Releases
Jersey Devil Press (Issue Nineteen, April 2011)
http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=1228
Henry Sane, Autumn Hayes, Steven Gumeny, Matt Rowan, Andrew S. Williams
In Between Altered States (Episode #11)
http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/
Flash fiction by Tim Murray, K. Bond, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., Ed Go, Ramona
Black, Jeffrey Miller, Garrett Socal and Nathaniel Towers.
decomP Magazine (April 2011)
http://www.decompmagazine.com/
Photography, flash prose, short prose, poetry, and book reviews.
Contributors include Skinner, Nick Kimbro, Nelson Lloyd, Faith Gardner,
Jason M. Jones, Eric Burke, Jim Davis, Karen Holman, Robert Aquinas McNally,
Mangesh Naik, Tara Nicole, Matt Ryan, Lauren Schmidt, Susie Swanton, J. A.
Tyler and Spencer Dew.
Blue Lake Review (April 2011)
http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/
Lexie Benedict, Jeanpaul Ferro, Phyllis Green, Benjamin Imamovic, Robert S.
King, Lyn Lifshin, Kelsey Ottman, Andrew F. Popper, Michelle Primeau, Cathy
Rosoff, Tom Sheehan, John Tustin
Negative Suck (April 2011)
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
Featured Author Amanda Deo, Justin Hyde, Howie Good, A.J. Huffman, Eryk
Wenziak, James Valvis, Roberta Lawson, Mike Meraz, Zoe Alexandra, Nicole
Monaghan, Karen Eileen Sikola, Cameron Mount, Angela Lutz
Underground Voices (April 2011)
http://www.undergroundvoices.com/
Joy Baglio, Michael Brownstein, JJ Campbell, Steve Castro, Jenn Gutierrez,
Justin Hyde, Marian Kamensky, Alexey Kurbatov, Mitchell Lay, Cynthia Ruth
Lews, J.E. Reich, Steven Schutzman, J.D. Smith, Patrick Witherell
StepAway Magazine (Issue 1, Spring 2011)
http://stepawaymagazine.com/
StepAway Magazine is a quarterly collection of urban prose and poetry, with
an emphasis on the walking narrative. Our inaugural issue includes a short
story by the distinguished New York novelist, Sarah Schulman, flash fiction
by Gem Andrews, David Gaffney, Kyle Hemmings, and Tom Sheehan and poetry by
Jaydn DeWald, Matthew Hittinger, P.A. Levy, Joan McNerney and Changming
Yuan.
Hobo Camp Review (Issue 9)
http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/
It’s our two-year anniversary issue, and includes work by:
Alan Britt (our “Big Rock Candy Mountain” Award winner), Geordie de Boer,
Nicole Yarcuba, W.I. Stoneberger, Jim Davis, Isabel Kestner, Lark Beltran,
Dylan Mitchell, Dena Rash Guzman, Maureen Kingston, plus an interview with
Aleathia Drehmer and reviews of Kami’s “Subterranean Redneck Blues” and
Jeffrey Alfier’s “Before the Troubadour Exits.”
The Comics Decoder (Issue 2, Spring 2011)
http://sites.google.com/site/nocturnalirispublicationssite/Home
The accent is heavy on literary matters this time, with Lorraine Schein’s
thesis on ‘Poetry & Comics’, 4 poems based on comics subjects, and a chapter
from Watkins’s nonlinear novel-in-progress, Continued After Next Page.
New Book!
The Other Side of Ourselves by Rob Taylor, Cormorant Books
http://www.cormorantbooks.com/titles/theothersideofourselves.shtml
The Other Side of Ourselves, Rob Taylor’s award-winning debut collection
of poems, explores the real and imagined worlds of our everyday lives. These
poems are united in their consideration of what it means to be human, to
shape lives for ourselves and attempt to live them well. Taylor inhabits his
moment, brings it to life on the page with a remarkable economy of words,
and finds the enigma at its heart. Mysterious without denying clear images,
plain spoken without being plain, his poems promote a middle path where
complexity does not trump simple pleasure, and pleasure gives way willingly
to moments of reflection and insight.
New Book!
Everything Reminds Me of Me
by Howie Good
Desperanto
http://www.desperanto.com/everything.html
Everything Reminds Me of Me includes an eclectic mix of free verse and
prose poetry. Many of the poems were written during a particularly
difficult period in Good’s life and bear witness to the hazards of human
relationships and the treachery of human consciousness. But while often
dealing with dark subjects, the poems aren’t without exuberance or humor.
Good’s poems shoot off images that surprise, provoke, and delight. In
Everything Reminds Me of Me, readers will find a poet whose flashing little
poems lure them into poignant contemplation of the beautiful and the damned.
Have News for the Newsletter?
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Call for Submissions-
Fezmissions
Red Fez Publications seeks short fiction, poetry, audio, short videos,
illustrated fiction, photography and comics for Issue #34 to be published
online May 13, 2011.
Deadline is May 1.
http://redfez.net
Calls for Submission
WomenArts Quarterly Journal seeks essays and poetry for Summer 2011
issue. WAQ provides readers with contemporary examples of the work of women
creators and, therefore, seeks submissions by women only. Deadline: May 1,
2011
http://www.vivacepress.com/waq.html
Inertia Magazine online poetry, short fiction, critical prose, personal
essays, art, and music. June 30
http://www.inertiamagazine.com
Pear Noir! fiction, nonfiction, & poetry up to 5000 words. April 30
http://www.pearnoir.com/index.htm
The Pedestal guest editors Bruce Boston and Marge Simon for special
speculative poetry section April 28-June 14
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com
Whistling Fire fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Guest Editor David Crawford.
Theme: Humor. Apr 23
http://whistlingfire.com
eChap!
Roman Meal
by J.D. Nelson
now available at
Ten Pages Press
http://tenpagespress.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/roman-meal-by-j-d-nelson
New Book!
Stranger Will
by Caleb J. Ross
Otherworld Publications
http://www.calebjross.com/works/booklength/strangerwill
In this novel of impending fatherhood, an idealistic teacher recruits a
pliant protege to join her group of Strangers – a devout collection of
kindred minds who have dedicated their lives to cultivating a unique idea of
perfection.
But joining is easier than leaving.
Mission
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Clutching At Straws
http://clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com/
Everyday Genius
http://www.everyday-genius.com/
Gloom Cupboard
http://gloomcupboard.com/
Calliope Nerve
http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/
Rusty Truck
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
Horror, Sleaze, Trash
http://www.horrorsleazetrash.com/
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