August 2010
With Summer vacation coming to a close the editors at The Whistling Fire thought we would treat you to something completely different. This month TWF will be hosting Deanne Stillman Week. Deanne Stillman is an award winning author who’s books include Twentynine Palms and Mustang. Deanne will be sharing a new One-Act Play with us which will be published in installments Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the last week of August. So be sure to stop by and check out TWF’s first ever Play.
This month we have work from Ernest Williamson III, Steve Prusky, and Christian Wethered.
Read all about Elizabeth Crane keeping the Austin literature scene alive and well with her reading series, The Awesome! and Great! Reading Show!, in the Austin Chronicle.
Pick up Mark Haskell Smith’s new novel Baked out now.
August 13th our good friend Rick Marlatt will be answering questions over at Six Questions For…, about what he looks for as poetry editor for The Coachella Review.
July 2010
With five Thursdays in July we have lots of new work for you by Jill Breedlove, James Joseph Brown, Alex Odom, C.B. Heinemann, and Robert Demaree.
Important Announcement: We have extended our word limit to 3000 words.
Congratulations go out to our good friend and contributor Jeff Girod for winning National Humor Columnist of the Year from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
TWF is proud to announce we have added two new readers, Lindsey Lewis and Petra Whitaker, to our staff. Petra and Lindsey will be helping TWF stay on top of our submissions and provide authors with timely responses.
Be sure to pick up your copy of Dzanc Books: Best of the Web 2010 featuring fiction by Elizabeth Crane.
Check out the latest issue of Black Clock featuring work by Matthew Zapruder and Tod Goldberg. You can read Tod Goldberg’s short story “Welcome to Thousand Palms” online.
The Poetry Society of America’s Q & A: American Poetry is featuring Jill Alexander Essbaum.
June 2010
For your June reading we have J.W. Young, Petra Whitaker, Benzon Ray Barbin, and Donal Mahoney.
Read past contributor Daryn Houston’s new short story, “Basement“, at Red Fez Publications.
TWF Editors are convening in Palm Springs for 10 wonderful days of literary nerd camp. We promise to come back with new ideas and hopefully some great new work for you all to read.
May 2010
This month we have work by Samara Golabuk, Irina Sadovina, Wayne Scheer, and Christopher Mulrooney.
May 21st The UCR Palm Desert MFA Program is holding a reading in LA at the Borders in Westwood. The reading starts 7:30pm. If you are in the area check it out, you might just hear from some of TWF’s past contributors and maybe something from some of our editors.
We are happy to announce that our good friend Jeff Girod is a finalist in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual contest in the Humor category.
Be on the look out for new work by Daryn Houston in the next issue of Red Fez Publications.
Editor Bryan Burch gives the inside scoop on what our editors are looking for when we read submissions at Six Questions For…
April 2010
What to look forward to every Thursday of April? How about work by Kristen Lodge, Daniel Romo, T. M. De Vos, Steve Calamars, and Naomi Mac Millan.
Rick Marlatt has a new review up at Gently Read Literature. Find out what former TWF contributor Rick has to say about former TWF contributor Jack Henry’s collection With The Patience of Monuments.
See you in Denver! TWF editors Chera King and Lauren Cummings will both be attending AWP and handing out information on TWF along with our good friends from the UCR Palm Desert MFA Program, Hipster Book Club and The Coachella Review.
Laura Madeline Wiseman has a new chapbook out with Dancing Girl Press entitled My Imaginary. The chapbook includes some of the very popular Imaginary Cock poems Laura shared with us during our first anniversary.
Do you have a Kindle? Did you know you can now get work by Elizabeth Crane, Tod Goldberg, and Mark Haskell Smith in E Book form?
March 2010
We would like to thank everyone who helped us celebrate our first anniversary.
TWF is back to our normal Thursday schedule and this month we are bringing you work from Peter D. Goodwin, Sandra Jean-Pierre, Katrina K. Guarascio, and Dr. Prasenjit Maiti.
Read fiction by Jill Alexander Essbaum in the latest edition of Praxilla.
Check the current issue of Tin House for Matthew Zapruder’s poem “This Little Game.” You can read the poem on their website.
New work by Elizabeth Crane is featured in the new issue of The Coachella Review.
February 2010
TWF is celebrating its first anniversary this month. We will be celebrating all month long with work from Andrea Potos, Tiffany Hawk, Camerone Thorson, Lucile Barker, Louis Bourgeois, Kath Abela Wilson, Geoffrey Billetter, Gary R. Hoffman, and Laura Madeline Wiseman. All month long new work posted every Monday and Thursday.
See Daryn Houston‘s flash fiction piece “You Could’ve Made a Handsome Mate” in Issue Seven of Short, Fast, and Deadly.
January 2010
Next month marks the one year anniversary of The Whistling Fire, to celebrate we will be running themed work all month long. Click Here to find out more. We hope you will help us celebrate by submitting your work.
January the 28th we will have poetry by Jill Alexander Essbaum. Jill’s collections include Heaven, Oh Forbidden, Harlot, and her latest Necropolis.
This month we have work by Richard Ilnicki, Jeff Girod, and My Nguyen.
December 2009
Congrats to UCR Palm Desert Low Res student and Whistling Fire contributor Rick Marlatt for his Pushcart Prize nomination. Rick’s poem, “Spring Poem,” was nominated by Future Earth Magazine and his poem, “Frost,” was nominated by Seven Circle Press.
This month we have work by Deanie Rowan Blank, Simona Supekar, and new work by our first contributor David Crawford.
TWF Staff will be getting together at the UCRPDLRMFA’s December Residency to discuss updates and new things to come for The Whistling Fire, as well as round up some wonderful new submissions for you all to look forward to.
November 2009
This month poet Matthew Zapruder has graced us with a poem. Be sure to look for his upcoming collection Come On All You Ghosts due for release in 2010.
See Rick Marlatt’s review of Charles Simic’s Sixty Poems in the November issue of Gently Read Literature.
Be sure to check back for upcoming work from J. Robert Young, Mike Pancratz, and Benedict Jones.
October 2009
TWF friend and contributor Jack Henry’s new collection of poetry, With the Patience of Monuments from NeoPoiesis Press, is now available for purchase at Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
TWF joins Facebook. You can now become a fan and get up to date news on what is going on with TWF.
Jeff Girod is voted Best Writer by IE Weekly readers, you can read his weekly column the Final Word in IE Weekly.
Tod Goldberg’s newest collection of short stories Other Resort Cities is due out later this month.
You can listen to Elizabeth Crane reading her short story “Turf” on The Collagist‘s podcast.
Stay tuned for work this month by Tod Goldberg and Daryn Houston.
September 2009
See three poems by Jack Henry in 3:AM Magazine. Also be sure to check out the cover art for Jack’s upcoming poetry collection With the Patience of Monuments set to be released later this year.
