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30 March 2014

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted contributor news, since I’ve been pretty busy with our new projects, like the Floodgate Poetry Series, the Soles Series of Stories, our forthcoming 2015 anthology, How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens, and another anthology still being formed, co-edited by H. L. Nelson and me, Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good. I’m pretty psyched about all of these projects.

 

…on to the news!

Lyn Lifshin, whose Marilyn Monroe: Poems we put back into circulation in December, has a new book of poems, Malala, out from Poetic Matrix Press.

 

News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

Margaret Atwood will be reading her poetry as part of Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble’s concert The Poem/The Song on November 7 & 8, 2014; Pauline, the opera she co-wrote with Tobin Stokes, opens at City Opera Vancouver on 23 May; her MaddAddam was nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (check out the longlist here); hear her read Mavis Gallant here. Paolo Bacigalupi‘s Zombie Baseball Beatdown was reviewed at Boing Boing.

• Tina Connolly‘s Copperhead (sequel to the Nebula-nominated Ironskin) came out in November, and her story “On the Eyeball Floor”, which first appeared in Strange Horizons, came out in translation in the Argentinian magazine La Idea Fija. Her “Flash Bang Remember,” co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim, was featured in StarShipSofa 320.

David J. Daniels has a new chapbook, Indecency. It was co-winner of the 2012 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, selected by Elena Georgiou, and published in a limited edition of 200 copies—if you’re lucky, Seven Kitchens Press still has copies available. Darcie Dennigan‘s poem “The Ambidextrous” appeared at Thermos. Seth Fried‘s story “Hello Again” is in the Spring 2014 issue of Tin House (and you’ll have to buy a copy to read it).

Sharon Olds reads Rodney Jones for The New Yorker‘s Poetry Podcast. Meghan McCarron interviewed Kelly Link for Gigantic magazine about vampires as metaphors. Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum‘s poetry collection Ghost Gear, a 2013 Miller Williams Poetry Prize finalist, was released by University of Arkansas Press.

Tessa Mellas has a new book of short fiction, Lungs Full of Noise, out with University of Iowa Press. Ploughshares reviewed Joyce Carol Oates‘ On Boxing; The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The New York Times, Otago Daily Times, Roanoke Times, and The Washington Post all reviewed her Carthage; Huffington Post interviewed her. Ed Pavlić was nominated for as Georgia Author of the Year.

• Chet Weise is the co-editor, with Third Man co-founder Ben Swank, of Language Lessons: Volume 1, the debut book by Third Man Books (a new division of Nashville’s Third Man Records), which was celebrated at AWP. Contributors include Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Brian Barker, and me.

• E. Lily Yu‘s “Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel” appeared in Clarkesworld.

 

And for 140 And Counting contributors:

Elizabeth Barrette‘s poems, “Rods and Reels” and “Assumptions of Precedence” were in Polu Texni. The Poetry Storehouse has five poems, including two videopoem remixes, by Peg Duthie. The first three of these poems are also in her URB book, Measured Extravagance. She was interviewed at Moving Poems Forum about the videopoems. Duthie’s poem “Spelling ‘For Worse’” appeared in Goblin Fruit‘s Winter 2014 issue.

• Kaolin Fire‘s poem, “Future Cities,” was in Polu Texni.

• During the recent TwitterFiction Festival launch event live in NYC March 12, S. Kay‘s very short story (#vss) was one of three chosen to be featured and read aloud by the host Sara Barron (video 41:29), and a second story was featured in the TwitterFiction Festival feed.

• Deborah P Kolodji had a haiku in the March 2014 issue of A Hundred Gourds.

• David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poem, “Spark,” was in Polu Texni, and his story “A Better Place” is in the December issue of The Fifth Di….

• Lightspeed published Ken Liu‘s “Ghost Days” (which will be reprinted in our How to Live on Other Planets) and “None Owns the Air” as well as his translations of Hao Jingfang’s “Invisible Planets” and Chen Qiufan’s “The Mao Ghost,” and Clarkesworld published his “The Clockwork Soldier.”

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