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...]
Kudos to contributors: Calderwood, Desilets, Kirk, McConnell, Somlo
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...]
Short story collection giveaway–you could win!
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...]
More news from contributors
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...]
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