WMU's Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Fall 2008

The Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Fall 2008 Schedule:

September 25 :: Don Lee, author of the novel Wrack and Ruin, new faculty member of Western Michigan University's graduate creative writing program.

October 9 :: Poet Steve Orlen, author of The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems 1978—2005.

October 21 :: Fiction writers Sarah Bynum and Salvatore Scibona.

October 28 :: Czech writer Arnost Lustig, author of the novel Lovely Green Eyes.

November 6 or 13 :: Playwright Erik Ramsey.

December 11 :: WMU Faculty/Alumni reading in poetry with Daneen Wardrop, author of The Odds of Being, and Lisa Fishman, author of The Deep Heart's Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues, 1998).

All readings begin at 8 p.m. and are held at WMU's Little Theater, Oliver St. at Oakland Dr.
Readings are free and open to the public.

The 2009 Green Rose Prize

New Issues is now taking submissions for the 2009 Green Rose Prize, an award given to a manuscript by a poet who has already published at least one previous collection of poetry (first books should be sent to the New Issues Poetry Prize). The contest is judged by the editors of the press, who often choose additional manuscripts to publish.

Previous winners of the Green Rose Prize include Patty Seyburn, Jon Pineda, Noah Eli Gordon, Joan Houlihan, Hugh Seidman, and Christine Hume.

Visit our website for complete guidelines.

Winner of the 2008 AWP Award Series in the Novel

Goldie Goldbloom of Chicago, Illinois, has won the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel for her manuscript titled Invaded. Joanna Scott, author of Everybody Loves Somebody and The Manikin, judged the contest for AWP. AWP is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving American letters, writers, and programs of writing. Visit the 2008 AWP Award Series page for more information on the contest and to view the winners of the other categories.

Judge's Statement: "Invaded is a strange, mesmerizing tale about characters uncomfortably defined by superficial eccentricities. It is also a wrenching love story."

Goldie Goldbloom's stories have appeared in StoryQuarterly and Narrative Magazine. She lives in Chicago and has eight children.

Myronn Hardy Poetry Readings

Myronn Hardy, author of Approaching the Center and Headless Saints, will be reading from his work at the following locations:

August 9, 2008. 3 p.m.
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Lincoln Center, South Plaza
New York City

September 12, 2008. 1:40 p.m.
SUNY Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Library Science Building, G-20
Albany, NY

Pineda's Author Page at Forewordmagazine.com

Jon Pineda answers a few questions for ForeWord Magazine on their new author page feature. To read the questions and Jon's answers, visit his page. ForeWord Magazine :: Author Pages

Rybicki Readings this Summer in Michigan

John Rybicki will be reading on July 15 at Peter White Public Library at 7 p.m. Northern Michigan University's English Department is sponsoring the event. Snowbound Books of Marquette, Michigan, will provide the books. Snowbound is a wonderful independent bookstore in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Visit their website: www.snowboundbooks.com.

Bacchus and The "Bards": John Rybicki will be reading with Jack Ridl at the Fenn Valley Vineyard on Sunday, August 3. The event begins at 2:30 and goes until 4:30. Poetry readings will take place around 3. Address: Fenn Valley Vineyards, 6130 122nd Avenue, Fennville, MI. No reservations needed. Visit their website: www.fennvalley.com.

John Rybicki the author of Traveling at High Speeds(New Issues) and a chapbook, Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider. His second book of poems, We Bed Down into Water, was published by Northwestern / TriQuarterly in the fall of 2007.

New Review of Beasley's Theories of Falling

Visit Ron Slate's website to read his review of Sandra Beasley's Theories of Falling: www.ronslate.com

Just a taste: "Displaying a large, feisty ambition as well as the talent to realize it, Sandra Beasley’s first book, Theories of Falling, reminds me of something Robert Frost wrote to B.F. Skinner in 1926: "All that makes a writer is the ability to write strongly and directly from some unaccountable and almost invincible personal prejudice." Beasley is so equipped. Her persona cultivates a precocious apprehension of the nature of intimacy. She's the one who cuts through conventional perception to reveal the deeper dynamic."