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News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number

01/03/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number

How's 2016 treating you so far?  Maybe this news and info will be useful. Tom Fiffer who has contributed a number of essays to this site has a new book, Why It Can't Work: Detaching from Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love. He is Senior Editor, Ethics,  for The Good Men Project, which you should check out--it's "The conversation no one is having." If reading the thought-provoking stuff there inspires you to write about an issue, recently the site had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Clutching at Straws, Donna Vorreyer, Ellen Wade Beals, Escape into Life, Good Men Project, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Rodley, Nancy Drew, Poetry, Prime Number Magazine, Pushcart Prize, Red Bird Chapbooks, Resurrection, Shawn Misener, Silver Birch, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, submission info, submission information, Taking Off, The ABCs of Women's Work, The New Verse News, Thomas G. Fiffer, Tom Fiffer, Weighed Words, Why It Can't Work, writing

Summer reading (or what contributors are up to)

05/30/2012 By Ellen Beals

Summer reading (or what contributors are up to)

Looking for something to read this summer? Everyone--Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist-- is excited about Solace in So Many Words contributor Joe Meno's new novel Office Girl. Published by Akashic Books, it is due out July 3. Ann McNeal ("Faith") has a new book too. Published by Nuthatch Press, it is called The Spaces Between.  BTW, if you have attended a reading of Solace in So Many Words, chances are you have heard me read "Faith." The poem sums up a lot of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Nasty Stuff", Akashic Books, Ann McNeal, Anthology, Contributors, Crack the Spine, E. Michael Desilets, Ellen Wade Beals, Faith, J. Scott Smith, Joe Meno, Kattywompus Press, Midwestern Gothic, Office Girl, Patty Somlo, Penduline Press, Poetry, Pushcart Prize, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The Spaces Between, Weighed Words

Wrap up the old and unwrap the new

01/03/2012 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

Wrap up the old and unwrap the new

I've been putting off writing this blog, concentrating instead on the holidays and goofing off. But I wanted to tell you what the contributors have been up to because they have been busy.  And, I wanted to tell you the latest about Solace in So Many Words even though I haven't been busy, exactly. First to tell you about my busy  contributors. Arthur Powers ("Jardim Zological") emailed me back in November to say his short story "Thom" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by … [Read more...]

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