Poet Peter Campion (author of Other People) will be reading at Wor-Wic Community College on Thursday, March 20th at 5 p.m. in Guerrieri Hall Auditorium. The reading will be followed by a book sale and signing. For a preview of Campion’s work, check the links below. For more information, you can also check Wor-Wic’s official press release: http://www.worwic.edu/News/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?NewsArticleId=774. Hope to see you there!
http://www.newhampshirereview.com/campion.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2097969/
http://www.slate.com/id/2080643/
http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2003/58-campion.html
I’ve update the submissions page to reflect our deadline for the spring/summer issue, which should be out in mid-June ’08. You know what to do!
Adam tipped me off to this - one of our recent contributing authors, Martin Willitts, has a fine couple of pieces in the latest issue of Segue, Miami University-Middletown’s online lit journal. Have a look, won’tcha , and of course don’t miss his poem ”Beethoven Searches for the Lost Chord” in our latest issue of Conte as well.
The good folks at The Potomac Review, one of Maryland’s leading literary journals, have extended the submission period for their annual poetry contest through March 1st, in addition to increasing the first place prize (three hundred bones!). The reading fee is a bit stiff at $20, but this includes a year’s subscription to the magazine, so what’s not to like? Read all the details at http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/pcsubmissionguidelines.html.
And while I have your attention, Robert and I are slowly yet steadily expanding our “between the issues” material. We hope the coming weeks and months will yield more FYIs, links, and interviews of interest to our fellow writers. Two new links of interest are Allison Joseph’s outstanding “opportunities list” for creative writers hosted by Yahoo, and the Modern American Poetry project at the University of Illinois. Happy reading, and check back again soon!
Howdy folks,
Today we have the first in what will, hopefully, be a long line of fun and productive (scratch that, let’s just go with “fun”) interviews. We are doing our best to say hello to, and to shamelessly ride on the coattails of, fledgling web journals and web-literary luminaries alike. It’s our way of saying “Happy MLK day!” to all of you, completely by accident but sincerely nonetheless. Those of you with gub’mint or university gigs, enjoy your slack.
Our honored guests this evening are Angie Palsak and Scott Topping, editors of the journal uglycousin. Their main thing is publishing good work that was, for reasons often inexplicable after reading, rejected from other journals. They have two issues online at the moment, both of which you should read if you’re into things like “enjoying yourself” and tossing your head-noodle a bit. Definitely check out the Frankenpoem at the beginning of Issue 3. Some of the stories frankly shocked me when I remembered that someone else had originally passed on them first - no accounting for taste, I suppose. Anyhow, give our illustrious uglycousins a look-see, and read on to the end of this blurb for the interview link.
By the way, uglycousin’s current deadline for submissions is April 7th, 2008, so if you have a rejected gem sitting around, why not have a gander at their submissions page while you’re at it?
On to the interview!
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Dear Friends and Fellow Writers,
It gives me great pleasure to announce our Winter 2007 issue of Conte! This issue (as always) has been many months in the making, so we hope you enjoy this round of poetry and prose, as well as our new look; simply click the “current issue” link to your upper-right. Happy reading, happy holidays, and from all of us here at Conte, thanks for your support!
Tavel.
Dear Friends of Conte–
We have made the final editorial selections for our winter installment, 3.2, and are excited to announce that we are still on schedule for our original release date of December 22nd. (If I just jinxed us, then we promise to get it done by Christmas.) Thanks to all who submitted for this issue, and know that we are both humbled and energized by our journal’s growth. So stay well, enjoy the holidays, and know that our new issue is only days away!
Tavel.
Yeah, so, new digs. Sort of an interim look - we mainly wanted to get our blog online and start all the fun that implies.
December is a busy month for us - the new issue is slated for 12/22, and Adam and I are most pleased with the way everything is shaping up this time around. We’re just now finishing up the last round of readings, so all those who submitted can expect something in the e-mail in short order if they haven’t already heard back. Thanks to everyone who sent us their work on the downside of 2007!
We’re also happy to be preparing an interview with the superb journal for the rejected, uglycousin - they are some kind of geniuses at finding diamonds where lesser editors saw only coal, rocks, or other less sparkly items. Too cool.
Stay tuned!
