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Contributor Updates — Somlo, Donahoo, Powers

07/20/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hello everybody. With the temperatures spiking, the word for the day is: languorous. But I know even in this heat  you can manage to read a story, and if you read any story today, check out Patty Somlo's "Resistors" in the latest issue Hamilton Stone Review. It is a stunner.  And you won't go to a dinner party again without thinking about it.  (BTW, Patty wrote "Starting to Breathe" in Solace in So Many Words.) H\s T H E   H A M I L T O N   S T O N E    R E V I E W     … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arthur Powers, Contributors, Hamilton Stone Review, Jackson Hole Review, Kathleene Donahoo, Kevin Morgan Watson, New Pages, Patty Somlo, Press 53, Solace in So Many Words

Kudos to contributors: Calderwood, Desilets, Kirk, McConnell, Somlo

06/24/2011 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

As I write this I am thinking of Brent Calderwood -- tonight is his big night. Brent's poem, "The Golden Hour," has been selected by judge Mark Doty as winner of the Atlanta Queer Lit Broadside Contest. Brent will be accepting his award and reading his poem at annual festival's opening ceremony in Atlanta tonight (Friday, June 25) A broadside of the poem will be published by the festival and made available for sale.   Here is what Mark Doty had to say: "This beautiful poem … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Adonna, Anthology, AQLF, Atlanta queer Literary Festival, Brent Calderwood, Cirque Journal, Contributors, Curbside Splendor, E. Michael Desilets, Erika Dreifus, Kathleen Kirk, Mark Doty, Michael Constantine, Patty Somlo, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The Jakeys, Weighed Words

Short story collection giveaway–you could win!

05/20/2011 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

I will get better at posting every day. Lately the blog has been taking a backseat to my other duties as publisher, like working on the e-book and planning the launch and readings of Solace in So Many Words. But I can be remiss no longer, and I will now update the information on The Collection Giveaway contest, and since I missed about twenty posts, I will give you twenty reasons that show short stories are the bomb. Here's the skinny: Weighed Words is celebrating May as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alice Munro, Amy Hempel, Another Chicago Magazine, Anthology, Bernard Malamud, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir, Chicago Works, Contributors, Dan Wickett, Daniel Chacon, Emerging Writers Netweok, Erika Dreifus, Fiction Writers Review, Frank O'Connor, Hourglass, J. D. Salinger, Jim Shepard, Joan Corwin, Joe Meno, John Updike, Katrina Kenison, Kerry Langan, laurie Levy, Mavis Gallant, Melanie Rae Thon, Michael Constantine McConnell, Patty Somlo, Paula W. Peterson, Roald Dahl, Rochelle Distelheim, Ron Hansen, Solace, Stuart Dybeck, T. C. Boyle, Weighed Words

More news from contributors

04/11/2011 By Ellen Beals

Susan O'Donnell Mahan is the featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the American Association of University Women, Hingham (MA) branch on April 12. The subject is:  Healing Words:  A Journey With Poetry. She’ll be reading a selection of her poems that chronicle her journey since her in husband died in 1997. Patty Somlo's book From Here to There and Other Stories is available from Paraguas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: American Association of University Women, Anthology, Contributors, From Here to There and Other Stories, Healing Words, Paraguas Books, Patty Somlo, Poetry, publication, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan O'Donnell Mahan

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