IWW Members' Publishing Successes

Not so many last week, but those that came in are impressive.

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Peter Bernhardt

On the basis of critiques from fellow writers, my new thriller The Stasi File was a Top-5 Novel for July on www.youwriteon.com, earning two professional reviews and a permanent spot on the site's Best Seller Chart. It has now been published and may be purchased on the Amazon or Barnes and Noble websites.


Alice Folkart

The editor of 7Beats/Here and Now requested the use of my poem "We Are National Treasures." It is up now.

If you scroll down four of the black and white images you'll find my poem, but you might want to read some of the good stuff that comes before it.


Ann Hite

I received the best rejection today. I never thought I'd write that. A year and a half ago I sent a story to a rather large magazine, knowing or thinking I would never hear from them. I'm not giving the name only because I don't want to jinx any of this. It's one of those magazines that has a story in each New Stories From The South anthology. It is a tough magazine get into.

This morning I received an email about the story from so long ago. First they told me how sorry they were that their response took so long. It seems my story went into the hands of every editor and was debated. They loved the voice and style of writing, but felt the story content wasn't right for the magazine. Then--this is the good part--they went on to say that they were so "impressed" with my writing that they wanted me to take this email as an encouragement to send them more stories soon.

Whoa, this is a magazine I never thought I'd hear from. It was one shot in the dark when I was feeling confident. This is a magazine that publishes the likes of Louise Erdrich, Ellen Gilchrist, and Amy Bloom.

So, now I just have to decide what stories to send. Wish me luck. Yes, the story was a Black Mountain story.


Julie McGuire

I'm thrilled to announce that the final galleys for the My Dad Is My Hero anthology have been approved, and my story The Shadow, about my husband's relationship with our boys made the final cut. The books will be available in stores (how cool is that!!!) sometime in May, in time for Father's Day. To see a sneak preview of the cover, see the Amazon listing: http://tinyurl.com/dmkrd3


Wayne Scheer

My story "The Morning After" is up at Camroc Press Review (Scroll down to March 5). The story began as a Practice exercise, so thanks for your critiques. Special thanks to Barry Basden for cleaning up the last line--good editors are hard to find.


Rebeca Schiller

My article on pets and germs appeared in the February/March issue of the NY regional magazine The Pet Gazette. They misspelled my name, but since I got paid a whopping $150.00 for the piece, I'm not complaining.


Pat St. Pierre

Three of my poems have been published in the March issue of Ya Sou.

Great photos and poems there.

One of my photos, "December Snowfall," was published in the March 3 issue of Flutter Poetry Journal.
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