IWW Members' Publishing Successes

Starting the New Year off with a bang!`

Carter


Barry Basden

Hoo-boy. In an amazing acceptance, my 55-word rant, "Six Sentences," is up at http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/ It's basically a head-butt against the concept of that site.

I can't remember exactly when I wrote it, but it must have been when I was roaming the house in a funk late one night around New Year's Eve. Had to be. It's undoubtedly the subliminal reason I made a resolution to be kinder this year.

Sheesh.


Sue Ellis

Yahoo! A piece of microfiction on Barry's new blogspot. Gary suggested the title be changed and it was a change for the better. Check out his new site, if you haven't already.

And I'm still in shock this morning. Got an email from Flash Me Magazine saying that my story that they published last summer, "Suspended Belief," has been nominated by them for the Pushcart Prize. I can die happy now, just being nominated. I wrote the story for an assignment here on the Ptactice list a couple of years ago. Thanks to all who critiqued that story.


Alice Folkart

Two poems, "Hawaiian Chicken--Not a Recipe" and "What Stirs That Bird?" are up at the lovely journal, Ink Sweat and Tears, the poetry and prose webzine. Scroll down a little.

The editor is looking for poetry and prose (flash) submissions. They seem particularly interested in haiku and haibun, and have just put together a chapbook.

And a little bouquet of haiku has been published by 7Beats. If you want to see them, scroll down, down, down until you come to the large portrait of a cat--hard to miss in yellows and blacks. My poems are right above that.

But while you are scrolling, take a look at some of the other work--the photos are especially nice in this issue. Also, this issue introduced me to some poets I hadn't known before, whose work I found both interesting and inspiring--a few: W.S. Mervin, Alarcon, Golden.


Dawn Goldsmith

Another thank you to the nonfiction list for their crits of my piece written for the Christian Science Monitor's request for Martin Luther King related essays. It was readily accepted and will run on or about Martin Luther King Day this month.


Mel Jacob

Two more reviews up: in SFRevu, Cecilia Holland's The High City, a fantasy set in old Constantinople-- heavy on history as the Emperor Basil struggles to defeat rivals and in Gumshoe Review, Alison Bruce's Cambridge Blue, a modern English mystery.

I did more reviews, but they'll be up next month so I'll yahoo them then. The reviewing offers a great opportunity to see new books and get some inkling into what is hitting the market. Too, Gayle Surrette, the editor, is a dream to work with.


Carter Jefferson

Sue Ellis beat me to it, but my very short memoir "Writing Class" was published on January 5 in Barry Basden's new blog-zine Camroc Press.

Barry asked for 250-word pieces that will move the readers, and then moved the count up to 550. Pay will be a book the press will publish when enough good stuff comes in, free to authors included. Please hurry up! I want my copy soon if I mine gets in.

Thanks to my one and only critter on this one.


Rebecca Kellogg

I've a new article up at stretcher.com this week, for your entertainment: "Start Next Year's Holiday Shopping Now."


Paul Pekin

My short story, "The Song of the Llifient," is up at the Oregon Literary Review.


This story was critiqued on the fiction list a few years ago. Thanks to all.


Anand SaiRam Rainman

Happy New Year.

Some good news to share. Big Pulp will publish my short mystery “The Water Grave“ in their February 2009 issue. I subbed it to the Fiction List in January 2008, and thanks to all who critiqued it.


Anita Saran

Pleasant surprise! I posted an essay, "Roses for Father," on Author Nation and have won 12th place among 49 contestants in their first quarterly Short Story and Essay Contest. The entry will be included in an anthology published in the near future by Infinity Publishing, sponsor of AuthorNation.com. And I also get 2 complimentary copies of the fall anthology.

My my!

Season's Greetings!



Wayne Scheer

Just got back from a short vacation to good news amidst hundreds of emails. Mo: Writing from the River, the print literary journal of Montana State University, has accepted my short story "Demons."


Mona Vanek

North Palouse Journal, January 1, 2009, published "Staying Alert For Methamphetamine Dangers," the article many critters helped improve. I'm ever so grateful to you, and what a wonderful way to begin 2009 ~~ in good company here on IWW.
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