Posts tagged ‘140 And Counting’
bullfrog choruses
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140 And Counting contributors…
Francis W. Alexander has a story in The Drabbler 19. L.K. Below‘s Stalking Shade, which looks to be a delicious horror tale with madmen, fake vampires and secret societies that save the world, is available from Lyrical Press. David M. Harris‘ poem “Ever After” is in issue 57 of Gargoyle. |
A reprint from Nursery Rhyme Noir, David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s short story “Hot Cross Buns” is in the Fall 2011 issue of Breath & Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature. He also has scifaiku in Scifaikuest.
Chen-ou Liu‘s senryu “bullfrog chorus” won Third Prize in the 2011 Senryu Contest and his haiku “crowded” won third prize in the Haiku Section of the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2011 International Poetry Competition.
Editor Joanne Merriam has a fantasy novella featuring flying oppressors, bloody revolution and an afterworld staffed by therapists available at Amazon.
| Christina Nguyen has haiku in the new issue (34:3) of Frogpond, the Haiku Society of America’s journal.
Shelley Ontis has a short piece in right hand pointing. Steven Saus‘ short story “Hard Lesson” is in Three Lobed Burning Eye. Garden of Unearthly Delights, a fantastic illustrated dark poetry collection by Marge Simon, is now out from Sam’s Dot publishing (sampler). |
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Deborah Walker placed second in the British Fantasy Society 2011 short story competition with “The Sea is in my Blood,” and her story “Eldritch Restoration” took first place in the David Farland/Liquid Imagination competition.
Celia White has co-authored an academic paper, “Cigarette Smoke Radioactivity and Lung Cancer Risk” for Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
16 October 2011
serendipity
140 And Counting contributors…
Francis “Wes” Alexander has just had two haibun published in Modern Haiku, “Ohio Veteran’s Home” and “Grave Yard Memories.”
Richard Baldasty‘s poem “Ancestors” is in Feile-Festa, and his flash fiction piece “Serendipity” is in AntipodeanSF.
| Ken Liu‘s “Real Artists” is part of TRSF, a special publication of MIT’s Technology Review.
Other authors in the collection include: Elizabeth Bear, Ma Boyong, Tobias Buckell, Pat Cadigan, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Geoffrey Landis, and Vandana Singh! (Oh, and Ken translated the Ma Boyong story, too.) Those interested can preorder here. |
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Berit Ellingsen‘s “Winter Story” is now up in the Fall 2011 Staccato Fiction.
Kaolin Fire‘s “Undercurrents: A Credencium story” is up at The Edge of Propinquity.
Julie Bloss Kelsey has an article on apples and pesticides in Germantown Patch.
George McKim has a wonderful portrait in Drunken Boat #14.
Finally, an interview with Richard Stevenson with some conversation about what attracts him to haiku, and readings of poetry for children and adults.
24 September 2011
faint strains of songs
140 And Counting contributors…
Terry Ingram‘s “A Short Con” is included in the Atlas Poetica special feature 25 Tanka Prose edited by Bob Lucky. Ingram is also published in Atlas Poetica #9 (Summer 2011), along with Chen-ou Liu and Christina Nguyen.
Peg Duthie‘s poem “Goose Goose Duck” appears in the latest Uphook Press anthology, -gape-seed-, and her poem “Prayer for Perspective” is included in Say a Little Prayer: A Journal, published by Chronicle Books.
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Simon Kewin‘s short story “KeyQuest” appears in the September 2011 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.
Finally, the multi-talented Lisa Tang Liu‘s digital photography is on display at 13FOREST Gallery. The detail to the left is from her “Green Paniolo.” |
18 September 2011
Mom still buys in lots of six
140 And Counting contributors…
Julie Bloss Kelsey has a new article up at GermantownPatch on making kids’ crafts from household waste.
Ken Liu won 3rd place in an On The Premises mini contest for a very short story written entirely without the letter E.
Christina Murphy has a new poem up at quantum poetry magazine.
15 September 2011
in the possible making
| 140 And Counting contributor Nathalie Boisard-Beudin has a piece called “Stories in the possible making” in the ALMOST issue of We Still Like magazine.
Tess Almendarez Lojacono‘s book The Book Of Zane has a new website. |
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The Kickstarter appeal for 140 And Counting closes at midnight (Central Standard Time) on the 15th.
9 September 2011
Tin men and more
The Tin Men, SF poetry by 140 And Counting contributor David Kopaska-Merkel and poet Kendall Evans, signed by both of them, is available $8 postpaid from David at jopnquog@gmail.com.
Steven Saus is also the owner of Alliteration Ink, a small print and digital publisher which also provides publishing services to authors. He has published volumes one and two of The Crimson Pact anthologies, Donald Bingle’s spy thriller Net Impact, and will be running the charity and contest Spec The Halls come winter. Saus is also currently serializing the self-promotion guide Sans Spam.
7 September 2011
More new writing
140 And Counting contributor Christina Murphy‘s story “Light as a Feather” appeared in Used Furniture Review on August 30, 2011.
6 September 2011
Some new writing by 140 And Counting Contributors
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz had a very short story appear in Camroc Press Review last week.
Dawn Corrigan has a short story just posted at Unlikely 2.0.
Berit Ellingsen‘s novel The Empty City (available as an ebook here) will be available in print very soon.
| Jonathan Pinnock is spending the month of September on a blog tour to promote his forthcoming Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens.
He’s already appeared at Salt Publishing’s excellent blog and If Shakespeare…. He’s also just had a short story appear in The View From Here. |
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And finally, Julie Bloss Kelsey has a piece on green living for Labor Day at GermantownPatch.
The Kickstarter appeal for 140 And Counting is still going strong! A donation of $5 is effectively a pre-order for the ebook, and a donation of $10 gets you editor Joanne Merriam‘s The Glaze from Breaking and 140 And Counting contributor Heather Kamins‘ chapbook Blueshifting.
4 September 2011
Kickstarter appeal for 140 And Counting
The fundraising appeal for the Seven by Twenty anthology, 140 And Counting, went live today over at Kickstarter, which hooks donors up with worthy artistic projects to fund. The rewards for pledging are:
$5 OR MORE: We’ll send you a free mobi copy of the ebook (or a gift code for same) when it is released – or a pdf if you prefer.
$10 OR MORE: The above, as well as our next two upcoming releases (poetry chapbook Blueshifting by Heather Kamins and a re-release of editor Joanne Merriam’s poetry collection The Glaze from Breaking).
$25 OR MORE: All of the above, PLUS we’ll thank you in a sponsor listing in the book and on the website of Upper Rubber Boot Books for the next year.
$50 OR MORE: Limited Reward (4 of 5 remaining): All of the above, PLUS we’ll provide you with a one- to two-page manuscript evaluation by the editor (she may comment on aesthetics, word choice, setting, characterization, description, pacing, plot holes, marketability, and other things to consider when revising your work) on up to ten of your poems or a short story (under 5,000 words).
$100 OR MORE: Free copies of every book we publish for the next five years!
ETA 10:49 am on Saturday, 20 August: I am amazed and proud to say we’re *already* up to $215 of our (barebones) $300 goal, a day into the pledge drive! Extra money will be tremendously helpful in promotion/advertising for the anthology!
20 August 2011