IWW Members Published and in Print

Everybody's doing it! Why not you? At the Internet Writing Workshop, we help each other write, critique, and learn--and then we get published. It's not an accident.


Barry Basden

Along with many other 55-worders from IWW folks, "War Bride" has been published by Pen Pricks.

That's two months in a row. Hmmmmm. Keep it up and I'll have 660 words in a year.

No, not really prolific, I guess.

Still...

Thanks to all.


Karna Converse

My essay "Grandpa's Letters" is in the May/June issue of Nebraska Life. Though the essay itself is not online, you can learn a little about the publication here. NF critters may remember this piece from a couple of years ago -- it took me awhile to find the right market, but this one is perfect. I grew up in Nebraska; my mom is still there and many readers have already called her to reminisce about my grandfather and my father. I guess you could say it's my early Mother's Day gift to her :)


Peggy Duffy

I am pleased to Yahoo and add mine to the great company I am in. Wild Violet is a great venue--I've had work appear numerous times before, as have some other fine writers on this list. There is generally a theme. This quarter's is "Passion. I see next quarter is "Journey."


Alice Folkart

My very short story "So Near, So Far" appears in the current issue of Wild Violet (Cuttings - shorter pieces.) The story began on Practice a couple of months ago. Thanks to all you critters for your good suggestions to improve it.

Peggy Duffy and Joanna Weston are also in this issue. A fair showing for IWW!

Wow! I was astonished when I finally was able to get into Pen Pricks. (You have to use the Internet Explorer browser--I use Firefox, and wouldn't have thought of that without the discussion on the IWW forum).

Anyway, there we all are--at least half of the stories in this issue are by people from IWW, myself proudly included.

Check out the stories--mine and Wayne's, and Roger Poppen's, and Kortney's, and Barry Basden's, and Carol Hicks'. Roger's got at least three, Kortney at least two. There are also stories by Heather and Rebecca.

SO A VERY BIG YAHOO FOR ALL OF US!

And I have the honor to be included by the Editor of 7Beats a Second/Here and Now in the current issue, called, "Summer Sun Rising." My poem "Quintet," really a collection of five micro poems, not Haiku, is towards the end of the issue, sandwiched between a photo of a
cityscape seen from across a body of water and a photo of a desert canyon in all shades of orange, red and yellow.

What I liked about this issue, besides being in it myself, was the eclectic collection of other poets and work--I met some poets that amazed and delighted me, among them Jane Hirshfield, a guy named Hoagland, another, Mark White - I highly recommend his poem - Seven Defenses.... AND a really nice love poem written by ex-president Jimmy Carter about his wife Roselyn. Generally I don't like love poetry, but his is so humbly and honestly stated that it shines with truth. The poems by lesser knowns such as Thane Zander, a New Zealand poet, and Marie Gail Stratford, and Allen Itz, the editor, round out the experience.


Charles Hightower

Earlier I announced my tale "Unnatural Causes" had won the Electric Dragon Cafe competition. The link is now operational.

Also, received word today that my tale "The Tinker" won the competition at Flashing Swords.


Ann Hite

My second story in the selected Black Mountain stories has been published by The Dead Mule.

Also, the biggest yahoo of all! I finished my novel today! Beautiful Wreck. After three years of working on it. Ah, but it must be polished, so I am really not completely through, but I did type the words "The End" on the last page of the hundred-thousand-word book.

And here's my latest book review with the Feminist Review. It's about the Harper Perennial edition of Gabriel Garcia Lopez's Collected Novellas.


Heather Moore

Since y'all introduced me to Pen Pricks, I threw in my own offering a few weeks ago. They accepted the piece "Shopaholic." If nothing else, these Yahoos are great for finding new outlets! =)


Rebecca Kellogg

Congrats, Alice. Yahoo for me, too, in Pen Pricks.


Roger Poppen

Inspired by fellow IWW members, I tried my hand at 55-word stories. I join them with three stories in this month's Pen Pricks: "First Kings 17:8-16," "Premature Capitulation," and "Rush Hour."

Unfortunately, Pen Pricks apparently has changed their system so that it is no longer accessible by Firefox or Safari browsers. Crank up your Internet Explorer.


Jayne Pupek

Issue Seventeen of The Concelebratory Shoehorn Review is now live, and as always, Maurice Oliver has put together an amazing collection of art, photography, and poetry. I'm thrilled to have five poems featured:

"Options While En route"
"For Jared"
"Conversation"
"Outer Banks, 1987"
"Night Driving"


Wayne Scheer

I'm happy to report that Espresso Fiction has bought two fairly new stories of mine: "Doing God's Work" and "The Long Drive Home." Thanks to the folks on the Fiction List for their valuable critiques.

Espresso sends out a story a week to their paying subscribers, so they need a lot of stories. They pay $30 a story, and they've accepted about twenty of mine during the years. They accept fiction ranging from literary to children's stories, science fiction to romance. As a market, it's worth looking into.

Thanks to all.


Joanna M. Weston

Many thanks, Alice, for pointing me to Wild Violet and my poem "The Urgent Gardener." It's in the poetry section. Delighted to see it up as the daffodils are fading and I put some seeds in the garden yesterday!

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