IWW Members Published and in Print

How about this! Another week of triumphs for IWW members. We just keep on succeeding!


Ruth Douillette

Good thing I check the IWW blog. Gary posted a link to Cup of Comfort's
last call for essays for A Cup of Comfort For Military Families.

For this book, they want positive stories about how military life
affects the personal lives of service men and women (enlisted and
officers), how family affects soldiers on the job, and how military life
affects family members.

They accepted the two I sent: "Alone in a Crowd" and "One Veteran's
Story."

Check the Cup of Comfort website to see the latest essays they are seeking.


Dawn Goldsmith

My essay is up at The Washington Post --from the April 14 issue. And my other two came out this month. One at Christian Science Monitor, the second at Notre Dame Magazine. Great month!


Charles Hightower

I've just received word I won the competition again at Electric Dragon Cafe with my piece entitled "Unnatural Causes." That makes 3 out of their last 4 competitions that I've won. Which is why there's now talk about limiting participation by past winners. Sigh.

Unless I hear objections, I'll let you know when the story is posted. Those of you on the exercise list may notice a couple of the scenes as being at least vaguely familiar.


Ann Hite

The Dead Mule has published a teaser for my Black Mountain
stories. Enjoy!

I promise not to make everyone insane with my yahoos, but I just found
out my appearance as The Dead Mule's feature writer has made it onto a
blog and I don't know the blogger. In other words, they are not doing it
to give a writing friend exposure. I googled The Dead Mule just to see
what I would get. This was one of the hits.

It looks like she is a fan of The Dead Mule and copied the whole teaser
from the Mule. And the assistant editor also has a blog--with a very nice plug for my stories.


Mel Jacob

A review of Kate Mosse's Labyrinth, sort of Cathar history and a Holy Grail saga with reincarnation, will appear in Gumshoe Review in May, and Evernight, book one of Claudia Gray's new teenage vampire/vampire hunter saga, will appear in the June SFRevu. At times, Mosse verges on overkill and too much detail, but she picks up speed for a page-turning climax. Gray's is an example of withholding information the POV character knows, but doesn't reveal to the reader until midway through the novel.


Anita Saran

My short story "Panic" is finally available for download on Sniplits.com. You can also hear a sample.

Personally I love the way the reader, an actress from Chicago, has captured the nuances of the story.


Wayne Scheer

I want to pick up on Anita's recent Yahoo and brag about my six stories available for downloading at Sniplits, for 44 cents and 88 cents a piece. Free samples are also available, by the way. It's a real kick sitting back and listening to my stories being read by good readers. I particularly enjoyed hearing "A Life Story."

Sniplits also pays fairly well and accepts reprints. What more could a writer ask for?

Also, my homage to Bob Dylan, "Look Out, Kid," recently reviewed in Fiction,
is up at Shaking Like a Mountain.

And, finally, an old flash memoir, "The Essex Street Garden," was accepted by
The Sigurd Journal, a print journal focusing on memoirs, travel, and stories of American life.

Thanks to all.


Michael Wright

My story "An Outpost of Fiction" appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Writers
on the Edge. WOE is a semi-annual print-only journal produced by the
University of California (Davis) Department of English. It publishes mostly
articles and interviews about writing and the teaching of writing, but
occasionally accepts poems and fiction.

Thanks to everyone on the fiction list who gave me criticism and suggestions
when I subbed it last year.

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