IWW Members' Publishing Successes

Another good week for IWW authors!

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Norman Cooper

Last week, I submitted my flash fiction story "The Way of the Rose" to The Shine Journal for consideration. Yesterday I received a very polite and supportive rejection notice, but the editor asked if I would like the story published on their sister site joyful! "Make a joyful! Noise..." Why would I say no?

I'm not sure when the story will be up. I will update details when new information becomes available. By the way, the story began with a Practice-W exercise and continued on the Prose-P list. Thank you to all on both lists for your comments and suggestions. I am grateful to have such a resource at my finger tips.


Ruth Douillette

I'm pleased to say that a poem of mine called "The Same Path" has been published by Camroc Press. (Scroll down a little.) Thankfully, at present my mother is not at the point of my imagination.

The editor is looking for short pieces that touch him. Reading the other poems and essays at Camroc, I was touched, too.


June Gallant

A nine-minute speech I ghosted for a competition won the first round of judging last week. Then last Saturday afternoon it took Atlantic Canada with its second performance. It's off to the Nationals in June.


Sally Kamerling

Thanks to the recommendation of others on the list who have been published in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, specifically Ruth, I think, I submitted a piece called "Against all Odds" and it was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul-Twins and More, out this month. It's the story of my grandmother coping with triplets in the early 1900's, before triplets were common and before any of the modern conveniences we take for granted today.

I found these people wonderful to work with and cooperative in every way. I want to thank all those who made suggestions on this piece when I was a member of the non-fiction list several years ago.


Laurel Lamperd

My long short story "Coming of Age"has been accepted by L&L Dreamspell to be published in their short story anthology Romance of my Dreams.


Ellen Lindquist

I published two flash fiction pieces, "Egyptian Mourning" and "The Elephant of Few Words," thanks to the incomparable editor Craig Snyder, in one of my favorite e-zines: Rumble.

She had three micro-fictions, "How the Shark Survived the Cretaceous Period," "Bowled Over: A Tragedy in the Lanes" and my meditation on 9/11, "Shirt Grief," accepted by Flashshot: Daily Genre Flash Fiction. Flashshot editor G.W. Thomas also mentioned me on his twitter page (thanks, G.W.!)

I was invited to a Mr. Beller's Neighborhood reading in NYC on the basis of my essay "Washington Square Park Massacre."


Frances Mackay

Have had an article of mine, "Ashes bash a success," printed in The Northern Miner, the newspaper in Townsville, Australia, on Friday. I wrote it for my Newsletter and thought the cricket day had been such fun it deserved recognition from further afield.


Wayne Scheer

My flash "Meat Hooks and Rice Paper" is up at Fiction at Work. They also
accepted "Office Routine" for a future issue.

My story "A Change of Heart" has been accepted by Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), and is up now. I've published enough with them for a T-shirt or a beer if I'm ever in Ann Arbor or San Francisco. (Hey, that's better pay than most.) FYI, I've already opted for the T-shirt.


Mona Vanek

Saturday evening, I pumped out (in my usual wordy fashion) the who, how, why, where and what-for, of a grass roots survey to gather input that will guide development of an official town website. The article requested by the editor also explains partnerships, distribution constraints and where and when to return completed surveys.

Here's the Yahoo part. For two hours I tweaked and polished to shape it into just 199 words. Whew! What an exercise! The article will be published on April 2 in North Palouse Journal, which is mass mailed to everyone in the zip codes of five small towns. Doesn't sound like much of an achievement, I know, but it's undoubtedly the tightest writing I've ever accomplished, so I'm humbly proud of the pro-bono community service writing.
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