IWW Members Published and in Print

Nice crop this week! Publications everywhere, and great work, too.


Jeannette Cezanne

This weekend saw the world premiere of my first play at the
Universal Theatre's first annual winter play festival in
Provincetown, MA. I am still blown away by the experience -- and
by the new way of putting words to paper which then go into
people's mouths and out on a stage.

J. Stephen Brantley, an accomplished NY playwright, whose work
was also featured, was impressed with my one-act play, "Tokens of
Affection," and has encouraged me to continue to put work on stage.

I'm still not sure if I'll do it--this was largely a fluke--but the
reinforcement is nice, and the weekend has been a tremendous
ongoing high, with ten complete plays being produced and staged all
at once, and people from all over the place coming here to put on
their work. We formed a temporary but intense community, and
there is no drug--trust me--that can do this to a writer.

Any of you who have ever considered branching out, if you have a
feel for dialogue and timing, consider try drama. There is nothing
like hearing/seeing your words and thoughts given flesh by actors in
front of an appreciative audience.

And I'm also at the Dead Mule this week. Icing on the cake. A
number of other IWW'ers are there too, or have been.



Alice Folkart

Hello Writer friends, This week's Here and Now - 7 Beats has a
prose poem I wrote a couple of weeks ago called "When the Moon
Hits Your Eye." It's near the top of the issue.

But don't stop there. There are some really wonderful photos and
super writing in this issue.

Be sure to check out a poem by Julia Vinograd - a self-published
Berkeley poet who I knew on the streets of Berkeley in the late 60's.

Hope you enjoy.


Peg Frey

I'm happy to report my CNF entitled "White Sails on the Delaware"
has been accepted at the Trillium Literary Journal. TLJ is a relatively
new literary quarterly, peer reviewed.


I'm joining IWW members Peggy Duffy and Louisa Howerow, both
of whom appeared in TLJ's inaugural issue. So I'm in very good company!

Editor of the journal is Coleman Myron. Submission details can be
found at the website above, but TLJ accepts poetry, fiction, creative
nonfiction, new media writing (hypertext and flash), as well as art and
photography. Pop up the website's submission link for detailed guidelines.

Thanks to community members for the ongoing help.


Ann Hite


There's a review of The Painted Door in the Feminist Review!

Thanks to Bob Sanchez for helping me get the above link fixed, and
once again Yahoo to all the writers in The Painted Door!


Charles Hightower

I've just received word that I've won first place the
ElectricDragonCafe snowbound writing competition. It'll probably
be a few weeks before the story goes up.


Kristen Howe

Yahoo! Apollo's Lyre has accepted one of my poems, "Stormy
Weather," for their next issue, which is in February. This comes
after inquiring them for the third time, since I haven't heard back.

One of my poems, "Rain on my Parade," has been accepted by
Write on! Poetry Magazette for the March, 2008, issue. The other
was rejected. I just sent this submission out yesterday, and heard
this morning. There's no pay and it's $4 for a copy. No website. either!

Katherine Kay

My Underdog piece, "Helping People Help Themselves," is here in
the local San Antonio nSide business magazine.

This is a first for an article in a professional public magazine for me!
I have a sales letter/promo piece on a doctor's web site -- and I'm
published in San Antonio College's Journalism's magazine called
The Fourth Write; I have features in SAC's award-winning daily
school paper The Ranger. I've edited others articles that have been
published, had an opinion piece or two published, a poem in a
national youth magazine when I was a kid, and wrote many a
headline for articles in The Kaimin at the University of Montana in
Missoula. But this is a first for independent professional article
writing--the first of many I hope!

This magazine also has a book review on My Country by Abraham
Verghese, a San Antonio doctor, and the profile on the electrophysiologist
cardiologists that IWW people helped me on, to be in nSide Medical in
February.

Thank you to Mona Vanek, Paul Fein, Gary Presley and everyone
who has contributed and helped me get this far -- including
professors and teachers at my schools (who won't be reading this
probably -- but I thank them anyway, and my greatest fan, my
partner in life and IWW writer/critter Mark Robinson!


Randy Radic

My jail memoir has just been accepted for publication by ECW
Press of Canada. Again, thanks for all the indirect encouragement --
never give up.

Right now, the title is Snitch. Publication is set for Spring, 2009.
They are planning a publicity campaign, but how extensive it will be,
I'm not sure. I'm supposed to be thinking of ideas for the cover,
although the final choice is up to the publisher, which, it was
explained to me, means it's up to the salespeople, who solicit
feedback from the bookstores, which, in reality, means it's up to the
bookstores. To me, that makes sense. Essentially, that's all I know at
the present juncture.


Anita Saran

I got my contract today--seems very fair. I get 45% royalty on net
proceeds and one year after my novel appears as an ebook (in
various digital formats), it will be in print, too. And of course
copyright remains mine.

I offered to write a fresh chapter which will replace the one that will
be deleted - Pasiphae's Perversion. It's going to be about
Chocolate--Xochtil--in the time of the Maya. My protag, a very
wicked, sexy and fun character, will travel to Uxmal or elsewhere to
check out chocolate--a substitute for sex. She definitely needs it!

If anyone wants to see my query,which the Chief Editor at Mojocastle
Press called extremely impressive, intrigiing and professional, let me know.
Amazing--I have only sent out my Circe query to four publishers,
and I've already nailed it. I'm celebrating with chocolate and my Muse,
Gordon, is so very proud of me. He loves the book, too.


Wayne Scheer

I've been away for an extended weekend, but I just got back to some
good news: My flash, "Pig Roast," originally written for Practice, is
up at Dead Mule. Thanks to the group for the suggested revisions.

The extended version of the Browbridge Brothers story originally
written as a flash for Practice, (published in Muzzle Flash) and then
critiqued at Fiction as "Doing God's Work," has been bought by Big
Pulp. At a penny a word, I'll be making over $22 big ones! It's good
to know my family will be eating again when the story is up.
Sometime in June.

Thanks to all.


Jack Shakely

The New York Times is going to print my commentary tentatively
titled "Lamentations of the Sorta Rich" in a special nonprofit
section next month. That's the good news--the other news is they are
paying $200 for exclusive, eternal, unlimited rights. "It'll look great
on your resume," they said. True, but I'm 68. *Sigh.*


Gisela von Brunn

My short story "The Warrior" has been published in the
E-Magazine Tanjah Aladabia.