New Issues Poetry & Prose
November 2011
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New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.
 
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Spring 2012
the body | of space| in the shape of the human
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Andrew Allport
The Radio Tree
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Corey Marks
Two-Headed Nightingale
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Shara Lessley
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Dear Friends,
Will you be at AWP? The annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference will be in Chicago, February 29-March 3, 2012.
If you plan on attending, please let us know! We'll keep you informed
of any off-site readings that may take place, and if you've published
with New Issues we'd love to schedule a time for you to sign books at
our booth. For your signing to be listed in the conference brochure,
please contact me immediately.
Sincerely,
Kimberly Kolbe
New Issues Poetry & Prose
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We Agreed to Meet Just Here
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Congratulations, Scott Blackwood!
From The Austin Chronicle:
Scott Blackwood Wins Whiting Writer's Award
"We loved Scott Blackwood's 2009 novel We Agreed to Meet Just Here
... and we weren't the only ones. Last week, Blackwood received a
$50,000 Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to emerging writers. The
Whiting Selection Committee singled Blackwood's novel out for "its
marvelous compression, and the elegiac, ominous yearning, the fugue of
loss and love and death that pervades the book." The former Austinite
received his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State; he now directs
the Creative Writing Program at Chicago's Roosevelt University.
Blackwood was one of four fiction writers recognized by the foundation
this year; ten writers from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting
are recognized annually for their "exceptional talent and promise."
Previous recipients include Denis Johnson, David Foster Wallace, Deborah
Eisenberg and Padgett Powell - not too shabby company to be keeping."
Whiting
Writers' Awards are "awarded annually to ten emerging writers in
fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. Since 1985, the Foundation has
supported creative writing through the Whiting Writers Awards which are
given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry
and plays. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on accomplishment and
promise. Candidates are proposed by nominators from across the country
whose experience and vocations bring them in contact with individuals of
extraordinary talent. Winners are chosen by a selection committee, a
small group of recognized writers, literary scholars, and editors,
appointed annually by the Foundation."
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Coming Soon...
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Flea Circus
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Mandy Keifetz's Flea Circus
will be released in January 2012. Look for a review in the upcoming issue of Library Journal.
Pascal's
Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an
old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner.
A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young
mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover's
suicide. Narrow margins, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a
broken-hearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous
twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn.
Blink and you'll miss it.
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