All Hallows

Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken.  The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises:   This is the barrenness of harvest or pestilence. And the wife leaning out of the window [...]

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Call for Submissions – Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train is currently accepting fiction submissions of up to 12,000 words in the Family Matters and Standard Story categories until midnight (PST) on October 31.  Both opportunities are open to all writers.  As always, submissions must be original, unpublished fiction.  Glimmer Train does not publish poetry, fiction for children, or novel excerpts unless they [...]

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In the Library…Again

As I have every October for the past three years, I’m spending these early fall days researching, writing essays, and frequenting the library more than I normally do.  Between the musty smell of books and the rare, exquisite moments when exhaustive research pays off and a treasure is unearthed, there are few indoor places to [...]

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Poetry Reading – Stephanie Brown

As part of the 2011 Tabula Poetica Reading Series, Chapman University’s Department of English is pleased to present poet and librarian Stephanie Brown, author of Domestic Interior (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press, 1999).  Brown was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2001 and the Margaret [...]

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Désespoir

The seasons send their ruin as they go, For in the spring the narciss shows its head Nor withers till the rose has flamed to red, And in the autumn purple violets blow, And the slim crocus stirs the winter snow; Wherefore yon leafless trees will bloom again And this grey land grow green with [...]

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The Artistic Temperament

In most families there is an “outlaw,” and the embryo author is by temperament ill-adapted to the herd discipline.  Its need for solitude is regarded as abnormal, its inability to work much less to play in company is rarely considered. […] The artistic temperament demands escape into the world of dreams.  It cannot conform to [...]

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Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Writing Contests

The 26th Annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival is pleased to announce its 2012 Fiction and One-Act Play Contests.  Each fiction submission must be one original and previously unpublished short story of up to 7,000 words.  One-act play submissions should run no more than one hour in length and require minimal technical support for [...]

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Poppies in October

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts. Nor the woman in the ambulance Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly –   A gift, a love gift Utterly unasked for By a sky   Palely and flamily Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes Dulled to a halt under bowlers.   O [...]

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2012 AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair

Early registration for one of the largest and most essential literary events in North America is now open to attendees, presenters, and exhibitors.  The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is hosting its Annual Conference & Bookfair in Chicago February 29 through March 3, 2012.  The 2012 “Big Literary Conversation” offers 400 literary readings, lectures, [...]

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Falltime

Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon, Canada-thistle blue and flimmering larkspur blue, Tomatoes shining in the October sun with red hearts, Shining five and six in a row on a wooden fence, Why do you keep wishes on your faces all day long, Wishes like women with half-forgotten lovers going [...]

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