Writer’s Relief Client News
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Notes from our April – June cycle:
In this two-month cycle alone, we’ve had 137 acceptances for clients, with work appearing in 95 different literary journals!
EIGHT of our book writers received requests from literary agents who wanted to read their entire manuscripts, and one client signed with the Michael Larsen/Elizabeth Pomada Agency!
Client Announcements:
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| Pamela Davis was a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Award (Nimrod) for "Wallow Variations and others," a finalist for the Arts & Letters Prize ("Les Vieilles" and others), and an International Publication Prize Winner for "Nobody's Business But Ours” from the Atlanta Review. Go Pamela! |
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| Alice Pero founded and hosts the prestigious reading, "Moonday" in Village Books, Pacific Palisades, CA, with readings on the second Monday of every month. Check out monthly features at the "Moonday" website.
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| Congratulations to Elisabeth de Moreau d'Andoy for partnering with Larson-Pomada Literary Agents for her book Charlemagne, The Stolen History. She writes, "My nonfiction book about Charlemagne is a shocking exposé that rewrites history. Proof of an enormous hoax is revealed in eleven meticulously researched and well-documented chapters." |
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| Naomi Ruth Lowinsky announces the publication of her new book of poems, Adagio & Lamentation. "Naomi’s words and images meander through shadows and light, between demons and angels, yet the poetry is always accessible. She often goes back in time, to the days when her family lived in (and escaped from) Hitler’s Europe. The journey helps inform who she is today, including the indelible scar worn by anyone whose family has borne witness to genocide." —Stewart Florsheim, author of The Short Fall from Grace
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| Gary McLouth announces the launch of TodaysAuthors.com, which features the authors, creators, and originators of ideas and those among us who compose, write, paint, dance and innovate. |
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| Robert Lesman's manuscript, A Few Forms of Love, is among sixteen finalists in the Sow's Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest. |
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| Sword fights, kicks, and falls...Tom Atha and his fellow fight choreographers staged this scene from Romeo and Juliet for East Los Angeles College. |
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| Live Landscapes, by Andrey Gritsman. Andrey’s work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was on the short list for the Joyce Osterweil/PEN American Center Prize in Poetry in 2005. "Andrey Gritsman’s poems are unwavering in their honesty, relentless in their assessment of contemporary life, and clear-eyed in their approach to human love and mortality." -Kurt Brown, poet, editor of several anthologies, founder, Aspen Writers’ Seminar. |
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| Paul Watsky's debut poetry collection Telling The Difference was published this spring by Fisher King Press. |
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| A Dreamer’s Guide To Cities and Streams (San Francisco Bay Press), by Joan Gelfand. “Passages of ethereal beauty lift Joan Gelfand’s A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams into the realm of the extraordinary. 'Transported' alone has more poetry in it than most volumes of contemporary poetry. Here, in few short lines we find evocation of all the senses, including the sixth, jumped into being by suggestions of beginning, danger, discovery, alarm, assurance, judgment, mission, death, and eternity—an archetypal transport to the holy realm of dreaming.” Robert Arthur, Publisher. Included poems appear in: Lady Jane, Miscellany, Kalliope, Poetica, and national anthologies. |
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| Kathryn A. Higgins’ blog about her foreclosure and squatting illegally in her own home was recently mentioned in The New York Times Magazine in an article about new forms of journalism. |
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| Vivian Lawry’s short story "Beautiful Bones" is forthcoming in The Connecticut Review. In addition, Dark Harbor: A Chesapeake Bay Mystery by Vivian Lawry and W. Lawrence Gulick is now available. |
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| Bitter Oleander has nominated Lara Gularte to Best New Poet's 2010. |
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| Stephanie K. Cohen announces the launch of her site. Visit to learn more about In My Mother's House (published by Woodley Press), her memoir about Long Beach, Long Island. She recently signed a contract with Plainview Press for a book of poems. |
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| Doris Ferleger, Ph.D, was recently named the Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in a competition judged by Tony Hoagland. Her book, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, was published by FootHills Publishing. |
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| Finishing Line Press poet Susanna Rich (Television Daddy and The Drive Home) and Emmy-Award winning documentarist Craig Lindvahl have been nominated for 2009 Mid-America Emmy Awards in the category "Writer/Program" for the film Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark. A winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Lindvahl found Susanna's poem "Squeeze Play" in Spitball: The Baseball Literary Magazine and commissioned her to write and voice-over poetry for Cobb Field. |
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| Eli Langner was one of three finalists for the Creekwalker Poetry Prize. |
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| The World's Smallest Bible, by Dennis Must, has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA. Also, his novel, Hush Now, Don't Explain, was a finalist in both the recent William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the Michigan Literary Fiction Award, University of Michigan Press. |
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| Anthony J. Mohr's essay, "The Doberman Dates," has been accepted by Chicken Soup for the Soul (True Love). |
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| Lisa Alexander was nominated for and won UCLA's James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing (first place!). |
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| A blog post on James Harmon's blog was a finalist for 3QuarksDaily's Political Post of the Year. |
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| Jeffrey Kingman was recently a finalist in the 2009 Cutthroat Magazine contest. |
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| Lori Kagan was nominated for The Pushcart Prize! |
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| Keith Buie has secured representation for Resistance, his moody contemporary novel about a disenchanted pharmacist, with McIntosh & Otis. A chapter excerpt from this novel is a finalist for publication in an anthology edited by best-selling author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke). Keith's work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Metal Scratches, Quiddity International Literary Journal, Rio Grande Review, and Willard & Maple. Go Keith!
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| Rosalia Scalia's short story "Unchartered Steps" earned her a Maryland State Art Council Grant for $1,000. Woo-hoo, Rosalia! |
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| R.M. Hora's story, “Sita's Eyes,” is part of the anthology Ask Me About My Divorce (Seal Press). The book is a spicy, fun, riveting collection of essays by women from all walks of life. With the unifying thread “I got divorced, and the world came into view,” the words within will make readers laugh, cry, nod their heads, and feel inspired to do what they need to for themselves. These aren't stories from women tiptoeing around a difficult subject—they're about the ways divorce can be, in fact, a new lease on life. |
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| Naomi Ruth Lowinsky has won the New Millennium Writings Obama Inauguration Contest, taking the $1,000 grand prize. Also, Naomi's memoir about being a poet, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way, has been published by Fisher King Press. |
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| Lucille Lang Day's The Curvature of Blue: Poems was released by Cervena Barva Press. "In Lucille Lang Day's poems, stunning transformations of language cross the placenta barrier between the worlds of science and human emotion. She thinks and feels in color, enabling us to inhabit the complexity of the universe—as experienced at breakfast with a lover, in the wild with caribou, or in meditations on acts of historical horror—all made radiant by her lyric gifts and wisdom." —Teresa Cader |
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| Donna L. Emerson’s book of poetry, Body Rhymes, is now available from Finishing Line Press. The book is available for purchase through Amazon or directly from the publisher. Donna and her editors always appreciate readers who post reviews! "Donna Emerson is a poet who speaks eloquently and elegantly about the body, focusing on sexuality as well as on love and loss. Writing with a righteous anger yet with a tenderness toward the world, she conveys a sense that the words and actions of one person can make a difference, can be redemptive." —Susan Terris, author of Contrariwise |
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| Dick Bentley's poetry book, A General Theory of Desire, is available through Patchwork Farm Press. "It's the poet's voice - inquisitive, edgy at times, tender - that gathers these poems together; a voice both innocent and lacerating," says Clare Rossini. |
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| Fred Yannantuono announces the release of his book A Boilermaker for the Lady by NYQ books. "Well! Yannantuono proudly announces that his latest book, A Boilermaker for the Lady, is banned in France, Latvia, and the Orkney Isles. And note the dedication: 'This book is affectionately dedicated to everyone in the world except for my immediate family.' Funny bone aside, a line from his 'Sonnet to Whatever It Is That Kills Porcupines' best illustrates Boilermaker: 'A porcupine’s an iffy thing to kill.' So evidently is Fred. Hey, if Hallmark fired the guy for 'writing meaningful greeting-card verse,' then he’s good enough for us. Moreover, he’s proud to announce he hasn’t been arrested in 17 months.”
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| Suellen Wedmore's chapbook On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Maxine Kumin says of the book “Wedmore’s deeply felt and skillfully controlled poems exhibit an elegiac grace.” |
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| Dorothy Brooks' chapbook, Interstices, was released by Finishing Line Press. The cost is $14 plus shipping. |
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| Tracy DeBrincat’s prize-winning short story collection Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night has been published by Subito Press/University of Colorado. |
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