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The Rose & Thorn October 2008 Newsletter
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barbara quinn
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Oct 01, 2008 09:27 PDT
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THE ROSE & THORN NEWSLETTER
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From: The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine
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October 2008
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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and
we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo
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SPONSOR SPOT
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TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID SHORT STORY CONTEST –
NOW OPEN
Postmark Deadline: March 31, 2009
17th year. Prizes of $2,000, $1,000, $500 and $250 will be awarded, plus
five High Distinction awards of $200 each and five Most Highly Commended
Awards of $100 each. Submit any type of short story, essay or other work
of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published
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encouraged. Winning Writers is assisting with entry handling for this
contest. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete
guidelines and past winners:
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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
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* From the Newsletter Editor's Pen
* From the Co-Managing Editor’s Pen
* Special Announcements
* Of Literary Note
* Markets & Contests
* Author Interviews
* Book Reviews
* The Readers' Mailbag
* What We Are Up To
* Masthead
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FROM THE NEWSLETTER EDITOR'S PEN
Kathryn Magendie
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Dear Readers,
Fall is nipping at my feet. As I sit in my leather chair writing to you
all, said bare feet are tucked like puppies nudging underneath their
mother for warmth and a nap. The leaves are beginning to turn and soon
my mountain world will burst golden, red, orange, yellow. Tourists will
swarm to our Smokies, capturing views in photos, riding along the
Parkway, inhaling deep our snappy bright shining air. I have an enviable
life here, and in fact, the Me who was Me years back would have envied
me my mountain life. The quiet, the beauty, the ancient quality of these
mountains, the nature, the people, the music, the language, all of it is
conducive to a writer’s life and imagination.
Each time I pull together the newsletter, I think about all of you, with
the hope that you not only enjoy The Rose & Thorn’s offerings, but take
advantage of them. I invite you to email us and let us know what you
think, what captures your attention, what you’d like more of, or what
you would like to see changed. Along with our news, announcements, and
links, I try to include a variety of markets, contests, and literary
news.
The Rose & Thorn has re-opened prose submissions (fiction and
nonfiction/essay), so polish up your work and send us your very best. We
publish a wide variety of styles and voices in science fiction, romance,
mainstream/literary, flash, fantasy, horror, humor, and experimental.
Our poetry submissions are open year-round, and just as with prose, we
are open to many voices and styles. Please check our submission
guidelines before you do submit. Yes, this is important!
The next time you hear from me it will be December, can you imagine it?
The leaves will be gone; snow and ice will blanket my cove. Time warps
and stretches and morphs—it is never really as linear as it seems. But
for now, enjoy the coming fall and what the season brings to you. And
for you readers far from me who are headed into spring; I send you the
same advice: Enjoy the moments of nature.
Kat
Co-Managing Editor/Senior Newsletter Editor
http://www.kathrynmagendie.com
Feel free to email me: kmtr-@hotmail.com
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FROM THE CO-MANAGING EDITOR’S PEN
Angie Ledbetter
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Dear Readers,
Reading the answers to a questionnaire sent to editors for a Roses &
Thorns blog series, it was interesting to note many of them think the
"worst" aspect of being an editor is having to reject material from
writers. If you submit poetry or prose to journals, e-zines or other
publications as I do, that news should make you feel good. There really
are generous and kind editors out there, many of whom also write. They
are toiling away behind the scenes, wishing they only had to send out
acceptance notices.
Researching your targeted market, reading submission guidelines closely
and being very familiar with publications' preferred style and tone
should decrease the number of rejections filling our inboxes or
mailboxes. Reading, reading, reading, also suggested by many of the
polled editors, also helps writers hone their craft.
Armed with renewed confidence and research, let's send our best works
around. We hope you'll consider The Rose & Thorn when you make your
list, because we look forward to reading and accepting your words.
Angie
http://angie-ledbetter.blogspot.com/
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NOMINEES
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2008 Best of the Net
Best of the Net Prose Nominations:
“Back to Normal” by Thomas Head
http://tinyurl.com/52ftou
“February” by Bruce Holland Rogers
http://tinyurl.com/3hy36b
Best of the Net Poetry Nominations:
"Letter to Steven, From a Blizzard" by Kaitlyn Gallagher
http://tinyurl.com/4ye2rp
"A Stone-Age Man Confronts His Son (or, Ug's Sonnet)" by Carl Olsen
http://tinyurl.com/4wwck5
"Killers" by Shayla Mollohan
http://tinyurl.com/4z5lcd
"The Obituaries" by Tim Mayo
http://tinyurl.com/4wso89
"Owl" by Chris Crittenden
http://tinyurl.com/54o72v
"Cruise Control Memory on I-65" by Megan Roth
http://tinyurl.com/3ruqmt
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2009 Dzanc Best of the Web
Dzanc Best of the Web Poetry Nomination:
"M&M’s" by Kelley White
http://tinyurl.com/5nfw4z
Dzanc Best of the Web Essay/Non-Fiction Nomination:
"Golden Sparkled Dancer's Cap" by Kathryn Magendie
http://tinyurl.com/5sxgtj
Dzanc Best of the Web Fiction Nomination:
"Three Abundance" by Kathryn Magendie
http://tinyurl.com/675ng8
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TWITTER—WHAT ARE WE DOING?
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CHANGES AND NEW CONTENT ON THE COMMUNITY
FORUM
Dear Readers,
Keep your eye on the Community Forum. Changes and new content will be
forthcoming.
For both readers and writers interested in sharing work and interactive
commentary, be sure to visit our updated Community Forums. There, you
will discover folders for all forms of fiction, personal experiences,
poetry, and more. For those students bogged down with creative or essay
writing, this is the place to ask for help. Of course, the emphasis is
on interactive so, while you are not required to provide commentary, it
is welcomed and encouraged.
Access is available by clicking on the Community Forum hyperlink located
on the Rose & Thorn entry page (and below).
Please note that the site depends on individual action to make it work.
Every explosion of applause begins with the first pair of hands serving
as a catalyst.
http://forum.uponfurtherreview.com/
Wil Hough
Senior Editor & Community Forum Manager
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PROSE SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
Send us your very best!
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OF LITERARY NOTE
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE BRAINS OF LIT MAG EDITORS
Visit the Roses & Thorns for the series: “Editorial Brain-Picking;”
interviews with editors of Literary magazines/zines from:
John Amen, The Pedestal Magazine
Timothy Green, Rattle
G.S. Evans, Cafe Irreal
Cesar Garza, The Rose & Thorn
Cooper Renner, elimae
Susan Burmeister-Brown, Glimmertrain
Beth Staples, Hayden's Ferry Review
Steven Seighman, Monkey Bicycle
J.W. Wang, Juked
Reb Livingston, No Tell Motel
http://roseandthornreviews.blogspot.com/
(Under the “Tips & Tidbits” label)
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NETWEST MOUNTAIN WRITERS AND POETS BLOG
Netwest Mountain Writers and Poets Mountain Writers of North Carolina,
North Georgia, East Tennessee, and Western South Carolina continue to
publish, teach, promote, read, and network together as members of
Netwest. Here we facilitate their efforts and publish their work. We
post work from our favorite poets, writers, playwrights, teachers, and
readers, as well as work from our NCWN West members. We love to hear
from you. Please leave comments or email.
http://www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com/
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THE OTHER VOICES INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
The Other Voices International Project, a UNESCO endorsed web site, is a
cyber-anthology that erases the boundaries of nations, ethnicities,
religions, cultures, and age to bring you some of the world's finest
poetry. No poetry or art is used in this project unless permission has
been granted by the artist or his/her estate.
Roger Humes, Director
The Other Voices International Project
http://www.othervoicespoetry.org
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THE BUZZ
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AUTHOR & ARTIST: F*R*E*E ART LESSONS!
Ruth Silnes has been an artist since her early years. Her life has been
full and varied. At ninety-three-years-old she keeps learning, and is
active doing what she loves to do. At fifty she became a yachtswoman,
and twenty years later, a writer. At eighty-eight she published “KEEPING
AHEAD OF WINTER 4100 Nautical Miles Inside America,” a nonfiction for
adults. Now thirteen years later, under the pseudonym of Grama Gogo, she
has illustrated and written ”NAPTIME SECRETS”, a color book for two- to
six-year-olds. Her next book “WHY THE ARTS? Understanding Their Power”
will be published soon.
“Check out the F*R*E*E drawing lessons I’m offering on the Internet.”
http://www.ruthsilnes.com/
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MATRIMONY BY JOSHUA HENKIN
Joshua Henkin's novel MATRIMONY, which has just been released in
paperback (Vintage), was a 2007 New York Times Notable Book, a Book
Sense Highlight Pick of the Year, and a Borders Original Voices
Selection. It's the story of a couple who meet at a New England college
and, spurred on by a family tragedy, marry much sooner than they
expected. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the
new millennium, MATRIMONY is a stunning novel of love and friendship,
money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It's a richly
detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone--to do
it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle
age. http://www.joshuahenkin.com/
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THE HALLOWEEN STORY THAT ISN'T: ABOUT A MORTAL
GHOST WHO ISN'T QUITE WHAT HE SEEMS, EVEN TO
HIMSELF
Mortal Ghost is an online YA fantasy novel for older readers.
Sixteen-year-old Jesse is hungry, homeless, and on the run. Hoping to
escape his haunted past, he accepts the hospitality of a concerned,
caring family after a chance meeting with Sarah. But Jesse is not the
usual teen, and Sarah's family has darkness in its own past.
Links:
Read Mortal Ghost online or download: http://mortalghost.blogspot.com
Listen to the podcasts: http://lleelowe.com
Multiple e-book formats (Kindle-compatible):
http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/120
All are available for free.
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NEW RELEASE - UNDERLYING NOTES – EVA PASCO
Eva Pasco stirs a fragrant breeze with her debut Romance/Women's Fiction
novel. She navigates the reader past Rhode Island's affluent coastal
communities, prominent landmarks, cherished institutions, and olive oil
spills of the underworld in a postmenopausal plot that is more than a
cocktail for hot flashes and fluctuating libido. Littered with debris
from the Sixties and strewn with crumbs of callousness, blame,
self-sacrifice, repression, and restlessness along the unmarked journey
in one's Second Act, Carla Matteo seeks to extract meaning from her
life. Undergoing a midlife renaissance, fragrance addiction offers
incentive for Carla to find her own niche, while the ominous rose note
in Paloma Picasso forces her to confront a troubled past.
UNDERLYING NOTES (276 pgs) retails for $15.95 and may be purchased from
http://www.charlesriverpress.com
or http://www.amazon.com
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MARKETS AND CONTESTS
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Readers should make sure to check sources carefully and to inquire about
references when appropriate. The Rose & Thorn cannot assume
responsibility for the sites and services mentioned below.
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ART&PROSE MAGAZINE
Art&Prose Magazine was founded on the idea of helping writers and
artists perfect their craft by offering helpful articles, reviews, and
tutorials. We also feel that showcasing the works of other writers and
artists can give inspiration to our readers. If you would like to
contribute to Art&Prose Magazine, feel free to send us a message. A link
to some of your artwork or writing would be helpful. We want to give our
readers a broad spectrum of work to look at and appreciate.
Submission Guidelines: All stories should be 3000 words or fewer. Longer
stories will be considered on a case by case basis. Send your FINAL
DRAFT stories in *.doc or *.rtf format to our
editor-@artandprose.com
We will pay $10 (USD) for each story or article we print by way of
PayPal. Guidelines can be found at: http://www.artandprose.com/blog/
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HOLIDAY SHORT STORY CELEBRATION
The Writing Show is looking for two holiday-themed short stories to
feature as podcasts in December. The stories will be read by the authors
or readers of the authors' choosing. Here are the submission criteria:
The December holidays must play a significant role in the story. The
story doesn't have to be about the holidays per se, but there must be
some connection with them. Having one character say "Jeeminy Christmas"
somewhere in the story is not a significant connection, but featuring a
department store Santa Claus as a major character is. You can write
about Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice, New Year's Eve,
or Boxing Day.
The story must be no longer than 4000 words. You'll be reading it aloud,
so it shouldn't be too long. The story must be in English. Any genre is
okay, including children's and young adults. Your ability to tell a
compelling story is the most important criterion. Be sure to hook the
reader!
Hurry! Deadline is October 15.
For more information and guidelines, visit: http://tinyurl.com/6ygtqj
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THE QUARTERLY CONVERSATION
Best of the Web-honored magazine The Quarterly Conversation is reading
for its fall issue, #13. We focus almost exclusively on literary
fiction: book reviews, essays, and interviews. We also cover some
literary nonfiction.
We pay: $25/review, $30/interview, $40/essay.
Please read our submission guidelines before sending material or
querying: We are looking for well-written, in-depth reviews, between
1,000 and 1,500 words. Essays typically run between 3,000 and 5,000
words. For essays, we are open to literature from all periods provided
that the essayist has something fresh and interesting to say.
http://quarterlyconversation.com/
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AMY LOWELL TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP
The American poet Amy Lowell died in 1925. Her will established an
annual scholarship to support travel abroad for gifted American-born
poets. The scholarship is administered by the Trustees under her will at
the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship award for the 2009-2010
Scholarship year should be in the area of $50,000. The recipient must
agree to spend the year abroad, as the will requires. For further
information and instructions: http://www.amylowell.org/
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ST. MARTINS MINOTAUR/MALICE DOMESTIC COMPETITION
The contest is open to any professional or non-professional writer,
regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published
traditional mystery, as defined by the guidelines, and is not under
contract with a publisher for publication of a traditional mystery.
Only one manuscript entry is permitted per writer.
All manuscripts submitted: a) must be original works of book length (no
less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written
in the English language by the contestants; b) must not violate the
rights of any third party, and c) must generally follow the
guidelines—---
For a listing of guidelines, go St. Martins Minotaur at:
http://tinyurl.com/449kqa
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SUMMERSET REVIEW FREE FIFTY-FOR-FIFTY CONTEST
Readers are invited to submit comments on stories and essays (excluding
photo essays) appearing in the current issue of The Summerset Review. We
award at least fifty dollars and a copy of Volume One to the person
contributing the best entry over fifty words, and will include the
comment in our next issue, along with the reader’s name and hometown.
(For the exact amount we pay each quarter, see the Fifty-for-Fifty
Contest for Readers page. (We will withhold publishing the writer's name
/ home town if requested.)
Reader comments can be in any form and there is no fee. Only one entry
is allowed per person, per quarter, and the entry must pertain to a
piece appearing in the current issue. We are particularly interested in
how the story or essay affected you; what impact it had, what memory it
stirred, what idea it precipitated. Be honest and lucid. Writing style
is not critically important. For more guidelines, go to:
http://www.summersetreview.org/guidelines.htm
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AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
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SUSAN BREEN, AUTHOR OF THE FICTION CLASS
Interviewed by: Deborah Laws
Susan Breen teaches fiction classes for Gotham Writers' Workshop in
Manhattan. Her short stories have been published by a number of literary
magazines, among them American Literary Review and North Dakota
Quarterly. She is also a contributor to The Writer and Writer's Digest.
She has an M.A. from Columbia University and has worked as a reporter
for Fortune magazine and an editor for the Foreign Policy Association.
She lives in Irvington, New York with her family, two dogs, and one cat.
For the two-part interview, go to the Roses & Thorns site:
Interview Part I: http://tinyurl.com/4xb5tx
Interview Part II: http://tinyurl.com/3kocrr
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DANIELLE YOUNGE-ULLMAN, AUTHOR OF FALLING UNDER
Interviewed by: Kathryn Magendie
Danielle Younge-Ullman has completed two novels and three plays. Her
one-act play, 7 Acts of Intercourse, debuted at Toronto’s SummerWorks
Festival in 2005 and her debut novel, FALLING UNDER, newly released, is
published by Plume/Penguin. Danielle lives in Toronto with her husband,
daughter, and their dog. Whenever she is not feeding, chasing after
and/or entertaining the little beings, she is at work on her next novel.
For the interview, go to the Roses & Thorns site:
http://tinyurl.com/3ouwh7
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BOOK REVIEWS
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THE FICTION CLASS BY SUSAN BREEN
Penguin Group, 2008
Reviewed by Deborah Laws
The Fiction Class, Susan Breen's first novel, follows a ten-week-long
fiction workshop taught by Arabella Hicks, the main character. Arabella
is a middle-aged spinster, slightly disillusioned, who teaches fiction
but lacks confidence that she is qualified to do so, never having been
published and unable to come up with an ending for her own novel. Her
students are vivid characters, slightly offbeat and unexpected; they
challenge, inspire, and at times frustrate Arabella.
For more, click: http://tinyurl.com/4qnukq
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THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS BY SANDRA KRING
Bantam Discovery, October 2008
Reviewed by Kathryn Magendie
Sandra Kring’s third novel, “Thank You For All Things,” holds within its
pages themes and voices I love to read about: family, sacrifice, love,
surprise, forgiveness, home, belonging, and relationships—particularly
between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. Kring’s newest
novel also has themes that are painful: family violence, human death and
death of a dream, and betrayal. Kring doesn’t whitewash the secret dark
side of family; however, she doesn’t grab readers by the throat with it,
screaming at them to Listen! I have a point to make here. The focus of
Kring’s novel more heavily relies on the characters and their quirks,
their hopes, fears, and ideals, and the power of Family to shape who and
what we become—whether it is to embrace, deny, or accept our pasts. With
humor and love, even in the dark places, Kring doesn’t exhaust the
reader, but instead delights. For more, click: http://tinyurl.com/3paqre
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HOTTER THAN HELL BY JACKIE KESSLER
Zebra Books, 2008
Kensington Publishing
Reviewed by Maggie Grinnell
If you're looking for a romantic novel with a classic struggle between
good and evil presented in a seductively new way, try Jackie Kessler's
newest paranormal romance, Hotter than Hell, the latest novel in the
ʽHell on Earthʼ series—and readers won’t be disappointed, as
Kessler delivers more of what readers have come to expect and love. For
more, click: http://tinyurl.com/3rtcmc
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More reviews by your favorite staffers are available
http://www.roseandthornreviews.blogspot.com/
(Under the label: Book Reviews/Author Interviews)
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THE READER'S MAIL BAG
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Your feedback is welcome. Letters to the editor should be sent by
clicking "Reply" to this newsletter.
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Dear Editors of The Rose & Thorn,
The Finishing Line Press is publishing my chapbook “The Hanging of the
Wind.” And since I've published my story with you, I've been accosted by
other editors and publishers asking for me to publish with them
(individual poems) - which I have done so. I've also won third place in
the Perigee Poetry 2007 contest, and an Honorable Mention in the same
contest for a second poem, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by
DMQ Review.
Dr. Shurooq Amin, PhD.
Head of the English Language Unit,
Kuwait University
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Dear Editors of The Rose & Thorn,
You have one of the most elegant layouts on the web...
Roger Humes, Director
The Other Voices International Project
http://www.othervoicespoetry.org
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WHAT WE'RE UP TO
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When the staff of The Rose & Thorn isn't slaving away over prose and
poetry, or at their day jobs, they're scribbling their own musings and
submitting to other worthy publications.
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PUBLISHING SUCCESSES
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Yu-Han (Eugenia) Chao's first poetry book, “We Grow Old,” was published
by the Backwaters Press September 15th, 2008. It is available on
Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and from the Backwaters Press. For
excerpts, visit http://www.yuhanchao.com
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Maggie Grinnell’s short children's story 'Up Up and Away' was accepted
for publication by http://www.readingwriters.com and will be out in the
March 2009 issue online.
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Barbara Quinn has two new audio stories at Sniplits.com: The
Solar-Powered Dancing Hamburgers, and The Last Barbecue.
You can hear a number of her stories in audio version at Sniplits.
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SPRING AROUND THE ROSY
Wil Houghʼs SphereMadness creation, Spring Around the Rosy, after
spending the summer grazing the streets of downtown Racine Wisconsin
along with 74 others, went to auction September 2008 where it went for a
bid of $800 -- just $100 less than Scrambled Egg, which was awarded
first prize. All the amazing creations can be viewed at:
http://racinedowntown.com/SphereMadness.html
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WRITER’S BLOG
Angie Ledbetter, Gumbo Writer, is now blogging at
http://angie-ledbetter.blogspot.com/
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Kat Magendie’s short story “Nerissa” is in the fall issue of OCEAN
Magazine (along with her photography).
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DREAM QUEST ONE WRITING COMPETITION NOW OPEN!
Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject or write a short
story, five pages maximum, single or double line spacing, on any subject
or theme, fiction or non-fiction. Multiple entries are accepted.
Postmark Deadline: December 31, 2008. Awards: Writing Contest First
Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize:
$250; Second: $125; Third: $50. All contest winners will be published
online in the Dare to Dream pages, on January 31, 2009. Entry fees:
Writing Contest: $10 per short story. Poetry Contest: $5 per poem. Info:
Include title of poem or story, name, address, phone#, email, brief
biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself) on the coversheet.
Entry fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”- Mail to: Dream Quest One
Poetry & Writing Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654. Visit
http://www.dreamquestone.com for details and to enter!
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STAFF
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B.A. Quinn, Managing Editor and Publisher
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