Archive for December, 2008

OW Weekly Calls For Submissions- featuring: Barrelhouse, Red Herrings, Toronto Quarterly, Off Beat Pulp, Wigleaf, Fissure, The Battered Suitcase, Poetry Warrior, In The Mist, Voice, Swivel, And Coffee Time Romance. Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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Dear Oprah Winfrey: For years you have been one of the best friends that the publishing industry has ever had. You championed literature at a time when so many others in the media were beginning to abandon it, using the power of your show and book club to bring attention to deserving authors. Your recommendations...
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We hear him skulking in the backyard. He lingers over the snapped branch, and I imagine his eyes brittling like ice. We don’t know when he will speak so we stand in the backyard with our fingers entwined, listening to his heavy breathing and the rain misting the treetops. Share: These icons link to social bookmarking...
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Gavin Pate’s novel, The Way to Get Here, is a rare example of literature passionately produced, enough so to imbue the reader with a sense of that creative energy. Every word feels siphoned from the author’s own personal violent well. From the distorted sense of place through to the impressive intelligence so many of...
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Cynthia Brewster’s mother always said that she had the devil in her. Cynthia started to believe there might be something to that when one of Santa’s elves began gnawing on her ankle while she was Christmas shopping at the Ithaca Mall. She had three shopping bags in her hands and dropped all of them....
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