Friends
Awards:
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Includes a description of the award, names of past winners, guidelines for submitting to the contest, and a link to the University of Georgia Press.
www.ugapress.uga.edu/FOC.html
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards
Includes information about the foundation, which awards six $25,000 grants each year to emerging women writers, and about winners past and present.
www.ronajaffefoundation.org
Some of my Favorite Literary Journals:
New England Review
http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/
The Georgia Review
www.uga.edu/garev/
The Kenyon Review
www.kenyonreview.org
Hobart
www.hobartpulp.com
Prairie Schooner
http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/
Glimmer Train
www.glimmertrain.com
One Story
www.one-story.com/
The Missouri Review
www.missourireview.org
Blue Mesa Review
Five Chapters
www.fivechapters.com
Bellingham Review
www.wwu.edu/bhreview/
Friends and Their Books:
Anne Raeff
My partner, whose first novel, Clara Mondschein's Melancholia, came out in 2002 (MacAdam/Cage). Available on Amazon.
Gonzalo Barr
His first collection of short stories, The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa, won the Bakeless Prize for Fiction in 2005.
www.gonzalobarr.com
Geoffrey Becker
Geoffrey was the other Flannery O'Connor winner in 2008 for Black Elvis.
http://pages.towson.edu/gbecker/
Nancy Zafris
Nancy is the current Flannery O'Connor series editor as well as a former winner for her collection The People I Know and a novelist.
Robin Ekiss
Her first book of poetry, The Mansion of Happiness, will be released by the University of Georgia Press in November 2009.
www.robinekiss.com
Janice N. Harrington
Janice was one of the five other Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award recipients, whom I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing read from her poetry collection Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone.
www.janiceharrington.com
Dorine Jennette
Her poetry collection Urchin to Follow won The National Poetry Review Book Prize and will be released in 2010.
www.dorinejennette.com
Alice Templeton
Her poetry chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, and while she doesn’t have a website, you can read a nice interview with her at the following link: www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/alice-templeton/
Eric Puchner
I don't know Eric, but I love his short story collection Music Through the Floor and asked him to read and blurb my collection, which he graciously agreed to do.
www.ericpuchner.com
Jennifer Lee
Jen edited the book Paris in Mind, a collection of essays by Americans writing about Paris.
www.parisinmind.com
Deb Marquart
An old writing group friend of mine who writes about rock and roll and growing up in North Dakota, among many other things.
www.debramarquart.com
Barbara Crow
Another writing group friend from twenty-five years ago, Barbara is a poet whose books include Coming Up for Light and Air. (Barbara is contemplating the notion of a website.)
Mark Vinz
My professor from years ago whose encouragement and poetry had a deep effect on me. I just discovered this link: http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/langlit/SeniorProjects/North%20Dakota%20Authors%20Pub1/page7.html
Joseph Mills
My old friend from graduate school and a poet whose books include Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, perhaps the only collection of poetry devoted exclusively to wine.
www.josephrobertmills.com