Post by moira on Jan 23, 2014 9:57:39 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Lesley Wheeler blogs
3. MadHat Lit announces
4. From Blue Light Press...
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- World Within World, by Stephen Spender
2. Lesley Wheeler blogs about teaching the poetry of Hurricane Katrina--and the impossibility, and irresistibility, of ranking literary works.
lesleywheeler.org/2014/01/20/skidding-on-the-banana-peel-of-literary-judgment/
3. MadHat Lit announces that submissions are open year round. We welcome poems, flash fictions, short interviews, audio works, visuals, multimedia pieces and reviews. See our guidelines at madhatlit.com/
New at MadHat Lit:
Two poems by Kelly Fordon
"Monophobia" and "Riding the Bus Downtown"
Direct link:
madhatlit.com/two-poems-by-kelly-fordon/
4. From Blue Light Press...
- We've extended the deadline to submit a full-length ms. to February 28, 2014. Guidelines are at this link:
bluelightpress.com/contestsFull.php. Or if you wish, send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com for guidelines.
- Chapbook submissions are now open. You will find guidelines are at this link:
bluelightpress.com/contests.php. Or send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com.
- Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry... We have a new contest for authors of flash fiction and prose poems. For guidelines, see
www.bluelightpress.com/contestsFlash.php. Or send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com. We have recently published flash fiction by Tom Hazuka and Robert Scotellaro.
- Workshops... The next Blue Light Press On-Line Poetry Workshop starts in April. Information is available here:
bluelightpress.com/workshops.php. Let me know if you want to be put on the notify list. We have a wonderful group of writers here!
- Congratulations to Lisa Cihlar, winner of the 2013 Blue Light Poetry Prize, for her chapbook, When I Pick Up My Wings from the Dry Cleaners. Her book will go into production in the spring. In 2013, we selected three poets for the Blue Light Book Award: KB Ballentine, What Comes of Waiting; Rustin Larson, Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & the Collected Discography of Morning; and Constance Rowell Mastores, A Deep but Dazzling Darkness. Their books are available from Amazon.com. A list of all contest winners is available here:
bluelightpress.com/contestWinners.php.
- Facebook... Blue Light Press has a Facebook page! It's:
www.facebook.com/BlueLightPress. If you go to our page and "like" it, you can check in for news about guidelines, publications and workshops.
- If you've just published a book... you will find a crash course in shameless book promotion on the website at this link:
bluelightpress.com/promo.php.
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1. Downton Abbey: Pts 1&2: defense of grieving undermined
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/downton-abbey-2014-parts-1-2whatiismadevisible/
5.2. Downton Abbey, Pts 3&4: House Party; or the singers, the card-cheats, the stalker and the rapist
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/downton-abbey-parts-3-4-housepartyorthe-singer-card-cheat-stalker-and-rapist/
5.3. Austen's letters leaving London: Henry gone bankrupt; adieu to Haden
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/132-33111421dec1815stanierclarkehaden/
5.4. Reverting back: what happens when you are widowed:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/reverting-back/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Lesley Wheeler blogs
3. MadHat Lit announces
4. From Blue Light Press...
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- World Within World, by Stephen Spender
2. Lesley Wheeler blogs about teaching the poetry of Hurricane Katrina--and the impossibility, and irresistibility, of ranking literary works.
lesleywheeler.org/2014/01/20/skidding-on-the-banana-peel-of-literary-judgment/
3. MadHat Lit announces that submissions are open year round. We welcome poems, flash fictions, short interviews, audio works, visuals, multimedia pieces and reviews. See our guidelines at madhatlit.com/
New at MadHat Lit:
Two poems by Kelly Fordon
"Monophobia" and "Riding the Bus Downtown"
Direct link:
madhatlit.com/two-poems-by-kelly-fordon/
4. From Blue Light Press...
- We've extended the deadline to submit a full-length ms. to February 28, 2014. Guidelines are at this link:
bluelightpress.com/contestsFull.php. Or if you wish, send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com for guidelines.
- Chapbook submissions are now open. You will find guidelines are at this link:
bluelightpress.com/contests.php. Or send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com.
- Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry... We have a new contest for authors of flash fiction and prose poems. For guidelines, see
www.bluelightpress.com/contestsFlash.php. Or send an E-mail to bluelightpress@aol.com. We have recently published flash fiction by Tom Hazuka and Robert Scotellaro.
- Workshops... The next Blue Light Press On-Line Poetry Workshop starts in April. Information is available here:
bluelightpress.com/workshops.php. Let me know if you want to be put on the notify list. We have a wonderful group of writers here!
- Congratulations to Lisa Cihlar, winner of the 2013 Blue Light Poetry Prize, for her chapbook, When I Pick Up My Wings from the Dry Cleaners. Her book will go into production in the spring. In 2013, we selected three poets for the Blue Light Book Award: KB Ballentine, What Comes of Waiting; Rustin Larson, Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & the Collected Discography of Morning; and Constance Rowell Mastores, A Deep but Dazzling Darkness. Their books are available from Amazon.com. A list of all contest winners is available here:
bluelightpress.com/contestWinners.php.
- Facebook... Blue Light Press has a Facebook page! It's:
www.facebook.com/BlueLightPress. If you go to our page and "like" it, you can check in for news about guidelines, publications and workshops.
- If you've just published a book... you will find a crash course in shameless book promotion on the website at this link:
bluelightpress.com/promo.php.
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1. Downton Abbey: Pts 1&2: defense of grieving undermined
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/downton-abbey-2014-parts-1-2whatiismadevisible/
5.2. Downton Abbey, Pts 3&4: House Party; or the singers, the card-cheats, the stalker and the rapist
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/downton-abbey-parts-3-4-housepartyorthe-singer-card-cheat-stalker-and-rapist/
5.3. Austen's letters leaving London: Henry gone bankrupt; adieu to Haden
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/132-33111421dec1815stanierclarkehaden/
5.4. Reverting back: what happens when you are widowed:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/reverting-back/