Outsiderish Newsesque 4/14/09

Did you celebrate the birth of modern poetry? And you call yourselves poets…who understandably have other things to do | Boooo recession! Yeah fiction! So, yeah recession! | Author web page site FiledBy.com “helps make authors discoverable.” And not just big house autors either. Quick search found OWC members Leopold McGinnis, Tim Hall, Bradley Sands, and even POD’d Nathan Tyree. | Zine/zeen enthusiasts, you may have a new bible | In Berlin, “Wit and wordplay are a native sport” – I want to go! | Strunk & White stink & bite, according to The Chronicle Review: “English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don’t-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can’t even tell when they’ve broken their own misbegotten rules.” ouch! | 6 Writers Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces - perhaps they are all just outsiders at heart…or they got lucky.

Caleb J. Ross

Caleb J. Ross has been published widely, both online and in print. He graduated with a degree in English Lit and a minor in creative writing from Emporia State University in 2005. He is the author of Charactered Pieces: stories (OW Press), Stranger Will: a novel (Otherworld Publications, 2011), As a Machine and Parts (Aqueous Books, 2011) and, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin: a novel (Black Coffee Press, 2011).

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