Finalists for the Cider Press Review Editor's Prize

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For the inaugural Cider Press Review Editor's Prize, eight finalists were selected in August from the hundreds of manuscripts submitted. Here is the list, alphabetically, and I'm pleased that my manuscript My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass was included:

     After Jay
     The Green Cup
     My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass
     On the Desire to Levitate
     Planetary Nights
     The Principle of Flickering
     Significant Others
     Snow White, When No One Was Looking


I'm grateful, too, that my manuscript has been a finalist in several other book contests during the three years that I've circulated it. During that time it has also been a semifinalist for The Washington Prize (Word Works) and the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for these:

     The National Poetry Series
     Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry
     Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry
     Cider Press Book Award

Circulating a manuscript is hard work, and I want to thank these presses/contests for their encouragement along the way.

Cider Press Review Editor's Prize

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I'm pleased to announce--no, actually I'm ecstatic--that my manuscript "My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass" will be published by Cider Press Review after winning their inaugural Editor's Prize. The day that Ruth Foley, managing editor of the press, called me with the news I was speechless, stunned with joy. And I'm still celebrating.

Congratulations, too, to the runner-up and honorable mentions:

      Runner-Up:
           Snow White, When No One Was Looking, Donna Prinzmetal

      Honorable Mentions:
           The Green Cup, V. P. Loggins
           The Principle of Flickering, Laura Donnelly
           Planetary Nights, Jeanne J. LeVasseur

My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass will be released in the fall of 2013.

I've followed the recent history of the press and admire so much the work that they're doing, the authors that they are publishing. I had the pleasure of hearing Landon Godfrey, author of Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Choffon Gown, read last fall; I've enjoyed reading Liz Robbins's Play Button; and I fell for the poetry of Joseph Fasano, author of Fugue for Other Hands, when he won the Rattle Poetry Prize a few years ago. Landon, Liz, and Joseph are all past winners of the Cider Press Book Award.

If you're not familiar with this press, please do check it out:

Cider Press Review website

Mark Smith-Soto has won this year's James Applewhite Poetry Prize

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Congratulations to Mark Smith-Soto, winner of the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize for his poem "Last Retreat to Topsail Beach." The winning poem and those of the finalists will be published in the North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR). Mark's poem was selected by poet James Applewhite from the work of six finalists chosen by NCLR Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin. Almost fifty poets submitted to the competition.

Here are the finalists:

• 2nd place: Laurence G. Avery’s poem “Only Yonaguska”
• Honorable mention: Grace Cloris Ocasio’s “Little Girlfriend”
• Other finalists:
• Richard Betz’s “Picking Blackberries on Yellow Mountain Road” 
• Samantha Lee Deal’s “North Carolina, This Will Be The Last Poem”
• Susan Laughter Meyers’s “Banding Hummingbirds” and “Beggar’s-Lice”

NCLR has further details at its website.

2013 Poet's Market

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At the end of last May, editor Robert Lee Brewer put out a call for submissions of unpublished poems, with plans to select 20 and publish them in the 2013 Poet's Market. In the fall he announced the 20 poems selected, and my poem "Wind Chimes, Minus the Wind" was one of them. How exciting for me to have a poem published in Poet's Market! Thank you, Robert Lee Brewer.



Here's a list of the 20 poets and their poem titles. Congratulations to all the other poets:

• Kelli Russell Agodon, "On Some Other Planet We're Newlyweds"
• Nin Andres, "Ghosts"
• Pris Campbell, "Sackcloth"
• Jessie Carty, "The Painter's Pantoum"
• Sage Cohen, "Dear Fritz Guest House"
• Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Photography Lesson, Pt. Reyes"
• Terri Kirby Erickson, "At the Bowling Alley"
• Patricia Fargnoli, "When I Re-Read His Letters"
• Jen Karetnick, "Arrival: A Love Villanelle for Haiti"
• Jeffrey H. MacLachlan, "Sea Ghost, Fire of the Sea"
• Susan Laughter Meyers, "Wind Chimes, Minus the Wind"
• Heather M. Moore Niver, "Flinging the Unsaid into the Surf or Seeing You Again . . . "
• Shann Palmer, "Occluded"
• Nancy Posey, "Follow the Leader"
• Nate Pritts, "Frost at Midmorning"
• Karen Rigby, "Echolocation"
• Rebecca Givens Rolland,
• Linda Simoni-Wastila, "Greetings from Motel 6"
• Kelli Simpson, "Hands to"
• Joannie Stangeland, "As a Beginning"

You can go to the Writer's Digest website for more information about this newly released edition of Poet's Market, as well as information for ordering a copy.

Sunday, Dec. 9: Annual Holiday Women Authors Book Signing

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Sunday, December 9
2 - 5 p.m.
Annual Lowcountry Women Authors Book Signing
Citadel Holliday Alumni House
Hagood Ave.
Charleston, SC
Free event, free gift wrapping, free parking
60 women authors with their books -- Center for Women, Charleston, SC
Readings throughout the afternoon

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Authors and Titles

Charlotte Beers - I'd Rather Be InCharge (2012)
Cindy Blackburn - Playing with Poison;Double Shot; Three Odd Balls
Avette Brown - . . . Cause I'm Me (2012)
Nina Bruhns - Shadow of the Shiek; A Kissto Kill; If Looks Could Chill; Shoot to Thrill
Archie Burkel - The Joy of Hats
Susan Hudson Chellis - The Kitchen Table(2011)
Mary Clark Coy - Charleston, from a kid'seye view (2010); The Civil War Walking History Book (2010); The                Revolutionary War Walking HistoryBook (2009); Charleston 101 (2003)
Katie Crouch - The White Glove War (2012);The Magnolia League (2012); Men and Dogs (2011); Girls in
              Trucks (2009)
Jan DiRuzzo -The Lost Mermaid~A Shem CreekMoonlight Jamboree (2009)
Sherry Dixon -Natural Destiny (2012)
Carol James Drolet - My White Cocoon (2008)
Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubert -Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking (2012); Southern Biscuits;
               Shrimp and Grits (2011); Nathalie Dupree's SouthernMemories (2004); New Southern Cooking
               (2004)
Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman - HiddenHistory of Civil War Charleston; Old Charleston Originals;
               Hidden History of Old Charleston; RememberingOld Charleston
Laura Fogarty -I’m the Boss of Me! (2011);Painted Blue (2009); I Can Do Anything! (2008); Larger Than Life
               (2007)
Lisa Foster - Janie Mitchell, Reliable Cook(2011)
Linda Grabeman -No Prissy Shoes
Nathalie Gregg -Leading in Stilettos
Jacqueline Gum -Confessions of a CorporateSlut, The Accuser's Burden
Helen R. Hammond and Martha K. Graham -StandingStraight and Tall, The Charleston Light at Sullivan's
              Island (2012)
Kathleen Hegenberger - My Mimi Has Wings
Lee Heyward - Simply Effortless Style(2011)
Lynne M. Hinkey -Marina Melee (2011)
Jane Hirsch -Art is a Powerful Language:Willard Hirsch- The Man, The Artist
Sheridan Hough - Mirror's Fathom: A Novel
Trish Hutchison - Girlology's There'sSomething New About You (2010); Girlology: Hang-Ups, Hook-Ups &
               Holding Out (2007); Girlology: A Girl'sGuide To Stuff That Matters (2005)Ann Igoe
Ann Ipock - Life is Short: I wish I was Taller;Life is Short, But It's Wide; Life is Short, So Read This Fast
Charlotte Jenkins - Gullah Cuisine: By Landand By Sea (2012 edition)
Migsie Jensen -Mommy, Where Were You?
Kate Boehm Jerome - Columbia and the State of South Carolina: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know (2011);
              Who WasAmelia Earhart?
Nadine Johnson -I Love (2011); I Am (2011);Last Night I Dreamt I was a Musician (2008); Last Night I Dreamt
              I was a Doctor (2008); Last Night IDreamt I was a Teacher (2008)
Kami Kinard - The Boy Project
Ann Kulze, MD - Eat Right for Life®; Eat Right for Life® CookbookCompanion; Eat Right for Life®: On The Go
Suzette Latsko - Brides' Advixor Charleston
Nancy Lorraine -The Butterfly Adventure(2012)
Nancy Mace - In the Company of Men (2002)
Deb Mangolt - Drink Wine and Giggle (2012)
Lynne Marie (Morgan) - The Lion's Lair(2012); The Seahawk's Sanctuary (2011)
Vikki Matsis -Inside An American Hostel: AGuidebook for Managers and Aspiring Owners (2012)Terri McCrea
Dorothy McFalls - Oak & Dagger (2013);The Scarlet Pepper (2012); Flowerbed of State (2011); as D McFalls:
               The Nude
Kim McLendon - Izzy and the Crystal ofPower (2012) Galactic Guerillas Saga, Book 1 (2012)
Harriet McLeod - Good Morning, Lowcountry!(2011)
Janna McMahan - Anonymity (01/2013); TheOcean Inside (2010); Calling Home (2008); Undertow (2002);
               Literary Dogs and their South CarolinaWriters
Amy Mercer - The Smart Woman's Guide toEating Right with Diabetes (12/2012); The Smart Woman's Guide
               to Diabetes (2011)
Susan Laughter Meyers - Keep and Give Away (2006)
Jennifer E. Michaels - What is Love? MyQuestion... God's Answer (2012)
Ashley Glenn Miller - Common Senseless(2012)
Mary Alice Monroe - Beach House Memories(2013); The Butterfly's Daughter (2012); The Beach House, 10th
             ann ed (2012); Last Light Over Carolina(2010); Time Is a River (2009); Swimming Lessons (2010);
             Turtle Summer (2007); Sweetgrass; Skyward; The FourSeasons; The Book Club; Girl in the Mirror
             (1998)
Dorothy Perrin Moore, PhD - Island in theStorm (2006); Careerpreneurs (2000); Womenpreneurs (2012)
Kathy Murphy, PhD - Your Possible Life: HowTo Build The Life Of Your Dreams (2011)
Valerie Perry Upper King Street (2011)
Sarah Renee - Enchanted Home (2012); HuntedHome (2011); Dash (2010); The Tiger Princess (2009)
Mary Caroline (Walker) Rhea - Lose Weight,Feel Great! (Even after Kids) (2011); Managing Life with Kids
             (2007)
Pattie Simone - Big Bold Business Advice(2012)
Jo Anne Simson - The God that Says I Am: AScientist's Meditations on the Nature of Spiritual Experience
Heather Solos - Home-Ec 101 (2011)
Shari Stauch - Pool Player's Edge (2ndEdition) (2010); Precision Pool (2nd Edition) (2007)
Stephanie Suell - I Speak FemalePoetically; Songs from My Soul; Hot Water Cornbread
Barbara Jean Sullivan - Born On The KitchenFloor
Megan Waldrep and Melissa Nelson - Spice& Little Sugar (2011)Marjory Wentworth - Taking a Stand, TheEvolution of Human Right (non fiction); The Endless Repetition of an             OrdinaryMiracle (poetry); Noticing Eden(poetry); Despite Gravity (poetry); Shackles (children's book)
Mary Whyte - Down Bohicket Road (11/2012);Painting Portraits and Figures in
            Watercolor (2011); Working South (2011)
Karen Spears Zacharias - A Silence ofMockingbirds: Memoir of a Murderer (2012); Will Jesus Buy Me a
            Double-Wide? (2010); Where's Your Jesus Now?(2008); After the Flag Has Been Folded (2006); Hero
           Mama (2005)

 

March 19, 2012: Ed Madden's MFA poetry workshop at USC

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Tomorrow Bryan Penberthy and I will be guest teachers in Ed Madden's MFA poetry workshop at the University of South Carolina. We're both looking forward to the experience, meeting with the students while Ed is away in Ireland. We'll read a few poems, talk about our writing process and publication experience, and teach a brief mini-lesson. My mini-lesson will be on "The Usefulness of Silence in a Poem."

Finalists for the Cider Press Review Editor's Prize

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For the inaugural Cider Press Review Editor's Prize, eight finalists were selected in August from the hundreds of manuscripts submitted. Here is the list, alphabetically, and I'm pleased that my manuscript My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass was included:

     After Jay
     The Green Cup
     My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass
     On the Desire to Levitate
     Planetary Nights
     The Principle of Flickering
     Significant Others
     Snow White, When No One Was Looking


I'm grateful, too, that my manuscript has been a finalist in several other book contests during the three years that I've circulated it. During that time it has also been a semifinalist for The Washington Prize (Word Works) and the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for these:

     The National Poetry Series
     Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry
     Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry
     Cider Press Book Award

Circulating a manuscript is hard work, and I want to thank these presses/contests for their encouragement along the way.