Posts tagged ‘140 And Counting’
Dinosaur rodeos
140 And Counting contributor news:
Robert Borski‘s poem “At the Dinosaur Rodeo” is up at Abyss & Apex
Dawn Corrigan‘s “Snakes in the Drains” is at Best Poem: A Poetry Journal.
“Sweet Honesty,” “At a Sushi Bar on Mount Carmel,” “Every Angel Is Terrifying,” “Neither Fire Nor Water” and “Compact” by Peg Duthie are up at Escape Into Life with intriguing illustrations by Karen Miller.
Berit Ellingsen‘s flash fiction piece “Sexual Dimorphism — A Nightmare Transcribed From Sanskrit” is in elimae.
The 7th edition (“Moon Imaginings”) of Poetry Planet is live and downloadable on www.StarShipSofa.com and includes David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poetry at 1:02:15.
Ken Liu‘s short story “Real Faces” appears in the July/August Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Nora Nadjarian‘s poem “The Name” is unFold’s 2012 Poetry Garden Show winner:
Marge Simon‘s story “The Skyman’s Daughter” is up at White Cat Publications.
Finally, editor Joanne Merriam‘s poem “Auto Biographies” (from The Glaze from Breaking) is the Winner of the July 2012 Goodreads Poetry Contest—look for it in their July 2012 newsletter.
4 July 2012
Road Trips to the Moon
140 And Counting contributors:
Neil Ellman has two poems in Pyrokinection and another in featherlit.
Ken Liu has been interviewed by SF Signal.
C. Martinez‘s “Muse” has been recorded by Xe Sands.
Stella Pierides has a poem in Haiku News, and one of her haiku was one of the three Dottie Dot Awards of the June full moon viewing party of the Haiku Bandit Society. She’s also joined the The Haiku Foundation’s poet registry.
Finally, if you’re anywhere close to Santa Fe, check out Teresa Neptune and Miriam Sagan‘s collaboration “Road Trips to the Moon” at 6 pm on Friday, July 13 at the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium.
21 June 2012
metazen
140 And Counting contributors: Simon Kewin‘s flash piece “Pens” appeared Friday at Metazen, and Andrew O. Dugas has posted a video of his daily haiku postcards from May:
10 June 2012
New Sun Rising
The Locus Online Roundtable continues their very nice series of posts on speculative poetry, with articles from several 140 And Counting contributors including Marge Simon and David C. Kopaska-Merkel. URB editor Joanne Merriam‘s is here: “‘Literary’ Poetry“—they are all worth checking out.
Regular readers might recall Joanne Merriam was interviewed on flash craft by flashfiction.net after her face transplant story appeared in Pank Magazine. The interview was posted in May, and they just reprinted the story yesterday: “Facial Deficits.”
140 And Counting contributor Peg Duthie has work in a cool new feminist SF poetry anthology, The Moment of Change, which also includes work by luminaries Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodora Goss, Vandana Singh, Nisi Shawl, Sonya Taaffe, and many others; Darusha Wehm has a story in the new Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine; haiku journal The Heron’s Nest contains work by Deborah P. Kolodji and Alan Summers; Berit Ellingsen‘s “The Rain On Titan,” an excerpt from The Empty City, is up in the blog for New Sun Rising, an upcoming charity anthology for Japan’s Tohoku area, which was razed by the March 2011 earthquake.
7 June 2012
we are still dancing
140 And Counting contributors:
Aurelio Rico Lopez III has released Food For The Crows, a zombie novella for the Kindle.
Peg Duthie had 5 poems in Galatea Resurrects, and reviewed four books: PARROT ON A MOTORCYCLE: ON POETIC CRAFT / Papoušek na Motocyklu: O Remsle Básnickém by Vítĕzslav Nezval; THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF MY PAST SORROW by Jesse Millner; YES, WE ARE STILL DANCING by Susan Amstater, Connie Dillman, and Jacquelyn Stroud Spier and ENJOY HOT OR ICED: POEMS IN CONVERSATION AND A CONVVERSATION by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon.
Berit Ellingsen‘s mini-essay “Short Stories are Like Gems” is now up on the Atticus Review blog.
Chen-ou Liu‘s haiku appeared last week in Issa’s Untidy Hut.
Finally, the Nebula Award-winning Ken Liu was one of the contributors (with Zack Jernigan, David Anthony Durham, Aliette de Bodard and Adrian Tchaikovsky) to a roundtable interview on writing about race in speculative fiction at SF Signal.
3 June 2012
haiku dropped from the sky as rain
Upper Rubber Boot is still doing the free giveaway of 140 And Counting over at Goodreads. I’ll be randomly selecting up to around 50 people from the entrants and sending them a free copy. To enter, you’ll need a Goodreads account (which is free), and then just follow the instructions at the giveaway page.
140 And Counting contributor Stella Pierides took part in the Spring Poetry Rain event on the 26th of May in the divided city of Nicosia, Cyprus, where two of her haiku dropped from the sky as rain; her flash ‘The Silence in my Cell’ appeared in Tuck Magazine on the 1st of May; one of her tanka appeared in Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Anthology; and one of her haiku appeared in the 4th of May Asahi Haikuist Network, ‘From the Notebook’ section, along with Helen Buckingham.
Finally, the Locus Online Roundtable is doing a series of posts on including, most recently, Marge Simon‘s “Speculative Poetry” (URB editor Joanne Merriam also got a call-out in F.J. Bergmann’s “The Invisible Prominence of SF Poetry“).
27 May 2012
Report from the field, flashfiction.net and some 140 And Counting contributor news.
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Editor Joanne Merriam was interviewed by Cathy Colborn for flashfiction.net—it went up on Monday.
As well, her “Report from the Field,” originally published in the March/April 2012 Eastword, the print newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, is now available on their website in PDF (go to page 19). |
In other news, Upper Rubber Boot is doing a free giveaway of 140 And Counting over at Goodreads! I’ll be randomly selecting up to around 50 people from the entrants and sending them a free copy. To enter, you’ll need a Goodreads account (which is free), and then just follow the instructions at the giveaway page.
140 And Counting contributor news:
Berit Ellingsen‘s “Crane Legs” is one of the stories in FlashFlood.
Chen-ou Liu had a tanka at Every Day Poets on Sunday.
David Kopaska-Merkel has been interviewed by Shelly Bryant, and his poem “Not the Home World” appeared recently at Strange Horizons.
Jim Kacian has haiku in see haiku here.
And finally, announced today: Cee Martinez‘s “Little Wooden Hands” won the 1st Annual Stella Link #FlashFiction Contest at The League of Extraordinary Authors!
23 May 2012
Poison Ore Heart
140 And Counting contributor news:
Neal Whitman‘s poetry—including a number of haiku—was featured yesterday at The Sound Of Poetry Review: An International Poetry Site for Contemporary Poets.
Contemporary Literary Review India published three ekphrastic poems by Neil Ellman last Sunday.
Everyday Genius published Berit Ellingsen‘s story “Poison Ore Heart” last Monday.
12 May 2012
Written in fire
The Tennessee Women’s Theater Project‘s sixth annual Women’s Work features 140 And Counting contributor Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz‘s The Story of my Life (So Far?) at the Looby Theatre in Nashville on May 17th at 7:30 pm.
Other 140 And Counting contributor news:
| Miriam Sagan‘s poetry has been given wings by artist Christy Hengst — their show Wendover Landing opens at 516 Gallery, 516 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. See a preview at Miriam’s Well.
Neil Ellman‘s poetry appeared with an interview in The South Townsville micro poetry journal on May 1st. Chen-ou Liu‘s haiku appeared on May 2nd in Issa’s Untidy Hut: the poetry blog for Lilliput Review. |
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And one we missed when it came out: Ken Liu‘s touching short story “Memories of My Mother,” from the March 19th Daily Science Fiction.
6 May 2012
The mind’s eye searches
140 And Counting contributors news:
David M. Harris‘ poem “Olive Alive” appeared in Pirene’s Fountain.
Kaolin Fire‘s poem “Deconstructing the Mind’s Eye” appeared Tuesday at Every Day Poets.
Jonathan Pinnock was interviewed in Flash Fiction Chronicles.
29 April 2012