IWW Members' Publishing Successes

A bountiful crop this week! And since one of them is a first-timer, I'll take the liberty of doing violence to the alphabet and putting hers first.

Carter


Heidi Kenyon

(Gulp). . . My poem "Kneeling" was accepted by the kind editor at Camroc PressReview and is posted there today. This is my first poetry publication of any kind, and my first publication of anything since I had a column in my college newspaper some decades ago. I am delighted! I'm finding that writing good work, and now publishing it, is extremely euphoric and addictive.

On a related note: The aforementioned poem being very personal and revealing, as is other work I've been doing, I'm struggling with whether to share my publication yahoo with friends. I want to brag it from the rooftops, but I'm not sure all my friends and family should be reading what I've written. I'd love to hear from others who've faced this dilemma.

Barry, thanks for being such a patient editor! The folks over at CPR really *are* swell to work with!

Happy-dancingly-yours!


Barry Basden

At the Camroc Press Review, near Jayne Pupek's remarkable poem "Red Glove," you will find my 55er "War Bride." An earlier version appeared in the late, lamented Pen Pricks. I hope other 55ers from IWW members can also be saved from oblivion.


Mark Budman

My novel My Life at First Try was featured today at Page 69. No, it's not a porn website. Happy New Year.


Jeannette Cezanne

So next week is the Universal Theatre winter play festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Twelve ten-minute plays ($12 admission, a buck a play!)

My short play, Flygirls, was among those selected for the festival and the rehearsals have been grand. It's a conversation in the afterlife between Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to hold a pilot's license, and Amelia Earhart, and the two actresses are stunning. I'm very excited.

I have to say that there's something unique and very different about writing for the stage. One of the things I do is scripts for video productions, and I've always thought how cool it is to hear my words coming out of someone else's mouth. But the stage is even more amazing, because it's a collaboration: playwright, director, actors all contribute something to the finished event, and I'm consistently surprised and humbled by the things that directors can pull from my work that I never even knew to be there.

Anyway, there it is. Check out the Universal Theatre if you have a moment. I'm in the company of some extremely talented playwrights, in particular J. Stephen Brantley, who never fails to amaze and inspire me.


Dawn Goldsmith

A few weeks ago the nonfiction list once again took red pencil to my submission,"What Martin Luther King Jr. taught me," and made it better. I subbed it to the Christian Science Monitor and they purchased it. Even said unsolicited nice things about it.

Gary Presley sent an email to tell me that my story was one of the top three on Google News on that day. Wooooo hoooo! Then it went to number one and within fifteen minutes it was relegated to top local news. But still -- there it was on Google News with 900 plus similar stories only listed as a headline or spot to click on. :)

Thanks everyone for your help and forgive my crowing. I can't stop grinning. :) I don't care how many articles and essays I publish, each brings a moment of joy when I see their faces in print. :)


Kristen Howe

Hooray! I got my first acceptable today from Snow Monkey ( my third attempt at it), who liked my American cinquain "Dip Deep" enough to pair it with another poem for next month's issue. I sent it out last fall.

My first acceptance of the year, while I'm setting up my revised poems for this year. When up, I'll let you know. There's no pay, though.


Peter N. Jones

Just got a very nice check in the mail yesterday for my "Comparative Indigenous Peoples Policy" entry that I wrote this summer for CQ Press and their forthcoming encyclopedia.

Sure made my afternoon . . . . Now I just have to wait until I get the multi-volume set in the mail and thumb through my entry.


Sheri McGregor

I have a several yahoos to share.

One is the sale of an academic paper I wrote during my undergraduate studies--"Cinderella and the Narcissist." It was for a literature class, which I took as one of my upper division electives during my program to get my BA in psychology (graduated 2007 magna cum laude with honors! Yeah!--now working on an MA in human behavior). Anyway, I mention this because I used every class, no matter what the subject, to strengthen my studies of psychology...which you will see in this piece.

A few months ago, The Raven Chronicles published a personal essay, A Taste of Family History, that has been re-sold 5 or 6 times now (this is the first time I gave it for free).

Also, the 2d edition of one of my hiking guides, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Diego, was just released.

And finally, I signed a new book contract a week ago. Barnes & Noble has cut a deal with my hiking guide publisher to do a smaller book, tentatively titled Easy Hikes Close to Home: San Diego. B&N will promote this as an impulse buy, featured in their check-out area, and my publisher plans to expand this impulse buy book to other stores as well. Best part is that they are culling a small sample of the easy hikes from my existing books, so no
work for me (other than collecting royalty checks!). :-)

Thanks for helping me celebrate!


Sarah Morgan

My flash memoir piece, "Learning to Listen," is up at The Camroc Press Review.


This piece evolved from the Practice List last year, and I thank everyone who critiqued it. You made it better. I particularly want to thank Wayne Scheer, who suggested I shop it around. It's found a home, Wayne.

If you write flash (anything under 550 words) consider The Camroc Press Review . The editor over there is wonderful to work with!


Gary Presley

Here's an op/ed I wrote today for the local Gannett publication, the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader--"Public attitude toward disabilities took many years to transform." But even though I pointed out that it spoke to the dynamic of my book, the editor trimmed that information out of the byline.


Wayne Scheer

My little successes are nothing compared to Dawn's recent Yahoo about her Christian Science Monitor article, but I'll share anyway.

Flash Me Magazine bought my flash memoir, "Unspoken Words." Despite its being (mostly) nonfiction, the good people at Fiction offered excellent advice to improve it. The essay will appear in their next issue.

Also, Camroc Press accepted "Talkin' about My Generation," which I began in Practice and paired down to 55 words.