Archive for December, 2008

Calls For Submissions 12/30/08

December 30, 2008
By CATownsend

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.
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An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey

December 29, 2008
By Tim Hall
An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey

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…
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Tin Roof by Crystal Folz

December 29, 2008
By OWCAdmin
Tin Roof by Crystal Folz

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…
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The Way to Get Here by Gavin Pate

December 28, 2008
By Caleb J Ross
The Way to Get Here by Gavin Pate

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…
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Christmas Presents by Aleathia Drehmer and Pat King

December 22, 2008
By OWCAdmin
Christmas Presents by Aleathia Drehmer and Pat King

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…
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