Happy
Small Press Month! Here at New Issues we're very proud of our writers, and our writers have all been very busy lately. Here are just a few examples of the awards and attention our writers have received recently:
Jennifer Perrine, author of
The Body is No Machine (New Issues, 2007) won the 2008 Ledge Poetry Award for “A Transparent Man Is Hard to Find.” She received $1,000, and her poem will be published in the
Ledge.
Marc Sheehan of Grand Haven, MI, author of
Greatest Hits (New Issues, 1998) won the 2008 Richard Snyder Publication Prize for his poetry collection
Field Guide to the Native Emotions of Michigan. He received $1,000 and publication of his book by
Ashland Poetry Press. Elton Glaser judged.
Katie Peterson, author of
This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), and Jericho Brown, author of
Please (New Issues, 2008), have both received a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Sandra Beasley's memoir
Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life was taken by Crown. Poet and
American Scholar editor Beasley is the author of the poetry collection
Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008). Crown's pub date is late 2010.
Lewis Horton, a contributor to the
Art of the One-Act anthology, just released his novel,
The Writing Class, published by Aberdeen Bay Books.
Elaine Sexton's
Causeway (New Issues, 2008) has been named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Jericho Brown's
Please (New Issues, 2008) has been named a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The
Publishing Triangle hands out both awards.
Celebrate the release of Agriculture Reader's 3rd Issue with readings from Sharon Mesmer, Justin Marks (A Million in Prizes, New Issues), Mark Doten, and (the indomitable) Mike McDonough.
Patty Seyburn’s third book of poems, Hilarity, won the 2008 Green Rose Prize given by New Issues Press. She has published two books of poems: Mechanical Cluster and Diasporadic, which won the 1997 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award for 2000. Seyburn grew up in Detroit, earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach and co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry, based in Los Angeles.
Jericho Brown is the author of Please, selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry as well as the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University, and he has served as poetry editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. The recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego where he teaches creative writing.
Jericho Brown's debut poetry collection Please has been named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.
Happy Small Press Month! Here at New Issues we're very proud of our writers, and our writers have all been very busy lately. Here are just a few examples of the awards and attention our writers have received recently:
Sunday, March 29th, 6 pm
McNally Jackson Features New Issues in their Indie Press Series: