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February 2012

This month we have all of our genres represented with work by William Henderson, Jess Cording, Stephanie Dickinson, and Gary Glauber every Thursday.

In celebration of our third anniversary our Editors have selected a few of our favorite pieces from the last three years to share with you again. Checked back every Tuesday to see which piece each editor picked.

Our first Guest Editor of the new year is Orlando Ramirez. He will be accepting poetry until February 25th. Read all about his theme month and submission rules.

 

January 2012

Guest Editor Jeff Wood is kicking off 2012 with TWF’s first foray into screenplays. He has selected work by Gail Mackenzie-Smith, Dorothy Rice, and Jeff Eyres.

This month we will be featuring work by Heather Wyatt, Tara Leigh DeAngelis, Clinton Van Inman, and Marc Carver.

Our friends at The Coachella Review have their Winter issue up now. Be sure to keep an eye out for some familiar names.

KJ Hannah Greenberg has a new poetry collection available entitled, A Bank Robber’s Bad Luck with His Ex-Girlfriend.

December 2011

AE Stueve is proud to announce his picks for his Guest Editor Month are John Glass, Ray Dean, Flower Conroy, and Sarah Sarai. Read their steampunk work every Tuesday.

Every Thursday we will be featuring poetry and nonfiction by Emma Shakarshy, Emily Kagan Trenchard, Elaine Greensmith Jordan, and Carol Alexander.

For the first time ever The Whistling Fire is accepting screen plays. Our January Guest Editor Jeff Wood will be accepting shorts until December 26th. Read rules carefully here.

If you are in Southern California celebrate Christmas early with our friends at Dirty Laundry Lit. December 3rd BAD SANTA: A Seasonal Offering Of The Naughtiest Lit South Of Santa’s Pole will be held at Little Temple in Los Angeles at 7pm, the event is free and open to anyone 21 & Over.

Our reader and past Guest Editor Petra Whitaker has a new poem at the Poydras Review

Solstice Literary Magazine is featuring work by friend and past contributor Massiel Ladron De Guevara.

November 2011

Congratulations to the collaborative teams of Timothy Liu and Hansa Bergwall, Caitlin Mackenzie and Becca J.R. Lachman, Meredith Danton Camel and Diane Larson, as well as Ching-In Chen with the Collaborative Manifesto Remix Project our November Guest Editor’s selections.

Every Thursday we have new work by Page Getz, Carl Palmer, Steve Castro, and J. Lang Wood.

Be sure to submit your Steampunk fiction and poetry to our December Guest Editor before it is too late. Submissions close November 26th. And stay tuned for news about our very special January Guest Editor.

October 2011

October Guest Editor Rick Marlatt has chosen nonfiction by Jessica Barksdale, Karen Robisco, Kathryn Hutchinson, and Kimberly Dark to feature during his theme month. Check back every Tuesday to read their work.

This month we have fiction by Mary Plouffe and Patrick Moloney, as well as poetry from KJ Hannah Greenberg and Frank Possemato every Thursday.

This month’s Guest Editor Rick Marlatt also joins reader Natashia Deón in the upcoming issue of The Rattling Wall along with some very impressive company.

Tod Goldberg’s new mini collection of short fiction, Where You Lived: Stories, is available now for your Kindle.

October 23rd submissions close for our November Guest Editor, get your collaborative poetry in before then if you want to be published on TWF next month. Also we are happy to announce AE Stueve is taking the reins of Guest Editor for December and wants to read your steampunk fiction and poetry, submission deadline November 26th. Read the guidelines and rules for both editors at our Guest Editor Page.

TWF Reader Natashia Deón’s Dirty Laundry Lit Reading Series has a new home at http://www.dirtylaundrylit.com/. Check out the beautiful new site and be sure to stop by one of the readings.

September 2011

Congrats to Myra Sherman, Nils Peterson, Lani Scozzari, and Aline Soules our September Guest Editor Stacy Furrer’s picks for her theme month. Check in every Tuesday in September to read their nonfiction. The month kicks off with an introduction piece by David L. Ulin.

Every Thursday we will have poetry for you by Laura Davis, Patricia Budd, David LaBounty, and Peggy Landsmith.

For those who missed the DIRTY LAUNDRY LIT: Secrets, Indulgences & Lies with reader Natashia Deón here is a little video recap.

Mary Otis has a new story in the sixth edition of Electric Literature.

We want you to get to know one of our favorite poets Jill Alexander Essbaum.

Gold Wake Press has released a new chapbook by contributor MeLaina Elise Evans.

Our friends at The Hipster Book club are raising money for Doctors Without Boarders to help fight the Somalian famine. Donate , not only for a good cause, but also to be entered for a chance to win books signed by the authors and even advance copies.

Our November Editor is Albert Abonado and he wants to read your collaborative poetry. Submission deadline October 23rd. Read rules carefully. Our October Editor will be accepting submissions until September 25th, so get your work in if you want to be published next month on TWF.

August 2011

Congratulations to our August Guest Editor Meg Tuite’s selections for her theme month. She will have work by Sara Lippmann, Robert Vaughan, Cindy Zelman, Faye DesPres, and J.J. Steinfeld every Tuesday.

Every Thursday check out poetry from Craig Scott, Dana Collins, Sara Henning, and Marie Kane.

If you are in the Long Beach, CA area on August 4th check out reader, Natashia Deón, read at Viento y Agua Coffee House for Talk to Me: An Open Mic celebrating World Breastfeeding Week.  You can also read an interview with Natashia by past reader Cynthia Romanowski at The Coachella Review’s blog about PEN’s emerging voices fellowship.

Catch Natashia again August 27th 8pm at The Mandrake in LA where PEN Center USA and Dirty Laundry Lit will be presenting: DIRTY LAUNDRY LIT: Secrets, Indulgences & Lies hosted by the very funny Jeff Eyres.

We are happy to announce Rick Marlatt is our October Guest Editor and is now accepting submissions. Read Rick’s latest review of Gary McDowell’s book, American Amen, in this month’s issue of Gently Read Literature.  You can find out about Rick’s October theme as well as find out more about our September Guest Editor who is still accepting submissions until August 21st on our Guest Editor Page.

Listen to the sultry voice of Jill Alexander Essbaum on J.P. Dancing Bear’s radio program Out of Our Minds.

You can also listen to Susan Straight talk about her latest novel on NPR’s Critical Mention.

Read new poetry by Lindsey Lewis Smithson at This Zine Will Change Your Life.

July 2011

Congratulations to Angie Mellor, Alexis Yael, Jay Schroder, and Carol Brockfield our July Guest Editor Petra Whitaker’s picks for her theme month. Also a big thank you to Amy Miller for kicking off the month with two introduction poems.

This month we have fiction and nonfiction by Aimee Anderson, Ed Hagelstein, Phil Terrana, and Brian Ellis every Thursday.

Our August Guest Editor Meg Tuite will be accepting submissions until July 23rd. Our September Guest Editor, long time friend and our most popular contributor, Stacy Furrer, is now accepting submissions. Find out more about both Guest Editors and submission guidelines HERE.

We are happy to announce we have added three new readers to our staff. Helping us read fiction and nonfiction we have Eileen Austen and Natashia Deón. And poets will be happy to know past contributor, Simona Supekar, will be helping us improve our turn around for poetry submissions.

Congratulations to Lindsey Lewis Smithson who will be taking over as the new Managing Editor of The Coachella Review. As well as to Cynthia Romanowski who is taking over as the new Fiction Editor. We wish Cynthia a fond farewell and the best of luck as she focuses on TCR and her MFA, and are please to say Lindsey will still be reading for us.

PEN Center USA is hosting an Emerging Voices Meet & Greet at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 9 at 5 PM. New reader Natashia Deón will be giving a reading and taking part in one of the panels, and you’ll be sure to run into other friends and contributors of TWF as well.

Be on the look out for a poem by good friend and contributor Massiel Ladrón De Guevara in an upcoming issue of Solstice Quarterly Magazine.

June 2011

Congrats to Colin Farstad, Ann Stewart, Robert Moulthrop, and Monty Mickelson our June Guest Editor Debbie Graber’s picks for her theme month. Be sure to stop by every Tuesday to read their fiction.  Debbie’s theme month kicks off June 1st with work by our Guest Editor herself and an introduction by Editor Lauren Cummings.

Every Thursday read new poetry by Milton P. Ehrlich, Carter McKenzie, Zac Walsh, Katherine Gekker, and Stephanie Verni.

This month’s Guest Editor also has a brand new piece up at Knee-Jerk.

The Editors would like to wish our readers Petra Whitaker and Lindsey Lewis Smithson luck as they deliver their MFA graduate lectures this month.

June 25th is the last day to submit to our July Guest Editor. Our August Guest Editor is also accepting submissions. Please read guidelines carefully.

Matthew Zapruder has a poem up at ONandOnScreen.

Be sure to check out the latest issue of Poets/Artists featuring Jill Alexander Essbaum on the cover. You can download an electronic copy of the issue for free or listen to her poem, “Thirty-three mirrors one man” on the website.

May 2011

Congratulations to Stefanie Torres, G. Murray Thomas, Meg Harris, M. G. Stephens, and Leslie Whatley, who were all deemed funny enough to be included by our Guest Editor David Crawford in his humor theme month. Be sure to read their nonfiction, fiction, and poetry every Tuesday in May.  Daivd’s theme month starts off with work by humor columnist Jeff Girod and an introduction by our Guest Editor.

Every Thursday check out new work from P.A.Levy, Kimbel Westerson, KJ Hays, and Kristen Ravel.

Read past Guest Editor Chema Guijarro’s piece in You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens out now. Find out more about the book and where to get your copy HERE.Chema will also be doing a reading Tía Chucha’s 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival Saturday, May 21 in Sylmar, CA. He will be reading on the children/teen’s stage at 2:30 pm under the name Jose Maria Guijarro. The event will also include a panel discussion with Susan Straight.

May 21st submissions for our June Guest Editor close. Find out more about our June and July themes HERE.

Read Rick Marlatt’s poem “THE POSSIBILITY OF AIR SUPPORT” at The New Verse News.

Our friends at The Coachella Review have a new issue up. Be sure to stop by and look for some familiar names, including past contributor Changming Yuan.

April 2011

Happy National Poetry Month!

Congratulations to those selected by Guest Editor Lindsey Lewis Smithson as part of her “National Lady Poet Month” Theme. Read the selected work from Judith Terzi, Aline Soules, Nancy Scott, and Sarah Landenwich every Tuesday.

In keeping with our Guest Editor’s declaration of April as National Lady Poets Month, we will feature work by Holly Day, Kelcy Wilburn, Jessica Bieker, and Marion Deutsche Cohen every Thursday this month.

Speaking of Lady Poets, one of our favorite Lady Poet Jill Alexander Essbaum has a poem in the new issue of Think Journal. You can read her poem, “Prisoner of More,” HERE.

We are pleased to announce Debbie Graber is our June Guest Editor, she will be accepting works of fiction until May 21st. Don’t forget our May Guest Editor will be accepting work until April 23rd. Find out about both of their themes HERE.

Co-Creator and Co-Editor Chera King has a short story in the latest issue of the Santa Monica Review. You can read more about the issue and purchase it HERE.  Also if you are in the Irvine, CA area, Chera will be reading with the Santa Monica Review at UC Irvine’s bookstore April 14th at 5pm.

Actor Wendie Malick has announced plans to produce and act in an adaptation of a portion of Deanne Stillman’s epic Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West for the Hallmark Channel.

Congrats to our friend Matthew Zapruder 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Read what the New York Times has to say about Matthew’s latest collection HERE.

April 30th and May 1st USC will be hosting the La Times Festival of Books. Be sure to check out our friends Tod Goldberg, Mary Otis, Mark Haskell Smith, Matthew Zapruder, and Susan Straight who will all be doing panels and readings throughout the event.

March 2011

Congratulations to David McLean, Rebecca Hess, Frankie Metro, and April Michelle Bratton our Guest Editor Jack Henry’s selections for his theme month. Be sure to read their work every Tuesday of this month. But first, to kick things off we have word from our Guest Editor himself.

Every Thursday of this month check back for work by Tina Traster, Rebecca Gaffron, Geoff Rynex, Ray Shea, and Meg Tuite who will be breaking up all the poetry with selections of fiction and nonfiction.

We have two Guest Editors currently accepting submissions. Submissions for our April Guest Editor Lindsey Lewis Smithson close March 26th. Find out more about her theme and our May Guest Editor HERE.  Remember to read guidelines closely.

We are pleased to announce our friend Matthew Zapruder’s latest collection, Come on All You Ghosts, is a finalist for the The Believer Poetry Award.  Also read his “Poem for Wisconsin” at Poets.org.

In case you missed Debbie Graber in the last edition of Hobart, you can read her piece HERE. Deb is also going to be our June Guest Editor, we will be announcing her theme at the end of the month.

Be sure to vote for the lovely Massiel Ladron De Guevara‘s poem “Union,” at Rugby Poets Club.

Tiffany Hawk will be reading her short story, Friendly Skies, on NPR’s “All Things Considered” Sunday March 27th (usually between 4 and 6pm on your local NPR station). Or you can read her story HERE.

February 2011

It is The Whistling Fire’s second anniversary and to celebrate we will be featuring new work from our first contributors David Crawford, Rick Marlatt, Stacy Furrer, and Deborah Graber.  Be sure to stop by every Thursday to read their work and wish us a happy anniversary.

Submissions to our March Guest Editor have closed, we will be announcing the lucky four chosen by Jack Henry soon.

There is still time to submit to our April Guest Editor, Lindsey Lewis Smithson. We are also proud to announce David Crawford as our May Guest Editor; his theme is open to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  Find out about their themes HERE.

TWF staff would like to wish everyone headed to AWP this year a safe trip. Be sure to stop by the University of California, Riverside’s booth to say hello to our friends at the Palm Desert MFA Program and The Coachella Review, they will be hosting a flash fiction contest for those in attendance.

Speaking of The Coachella Review, be sure to check out their latest issue and their site’s new look done by our own editor Lauren Cummings.

January 2011

Congratulations to Stephen Page, Patrick O’Neil, Nicole Callihan, and Tracy Haught our Guest Editor Chema Guijarro’s picks for his theme month. Be sure to read their work every Tuesday in January.

To conclude our January Guest Editor’s theme, award winning author Susan Straight has graciously given us permission to publish the prologue to her 2001 novel Highwire Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award.  See it on TWF January 31st.

Our regular Thursday schedule will include new work by Thomas Lee Rhymes, R.A. Riekki, William Wagner, and Mike Berger.

Read MeLaina Elise Evans’ poem, “Goodbye Central Square,” in the first issue of The Buffalo Creek Review.

Jill Alexander Essbaum also has some poetry for you over at Poetry Foundation.

Our friends at The Coachella Review have a new issue up and some familiar names are popping up in their list of authors for this issue, as well as their new staff.

April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate our reader Lindsey Lewis Smithson is taking over as Guest Editor and has declared April, National Lady Poets Month. Submissions close March 26th. Guest Editor, Jack Henry, is still accepting poetry submission until February 19th. See submission guidelines for both Guest Editors HERE.

Next month is TWF’s second anniversary.  To celebrate we will feature new work from our very first contributors.  Without these four individuals, who graciously gave us their work when TWF was just starting, we would not be the journal we are today.

December 2010

We have a long list of new contributors for December; including Anna Donovan, Antonia Crane, William Doreski, David Kowalczyk, and David Cotrone.

How We Fall Apart, the award winning chapbook by Rick Marlatt, comes out December 16th from Seven CirclePress.

Our friend Matthew Zapruder’s collection, Come On All You Ghosts, has been named one of this year’s best poetry books by NPR.

Listen to our friend Elizabeth Crane read her story, “Hair of the Dog, Retrieved from the Floor,” HERE.

Congrats to our Editor Bryan Burch for his publication in the latest issue of Gently Read Literature.

Looking for the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for-person on your list?  Our friends at the Hipster Book Club have got you covered, check out their Holiday Gift Guide to find the perfect book for everyone on your list.

Poetry Fans:  Our Reader Lindsey has 10 Questions for… your favorite poets over at The Coachella Review.

Congrats to Tiffany Hawk for the Pushcart Prize nomination of her story, “Early Departure,” by the Potomac Review.

November 2010

Tyler Bigney, Changming Yuan, Athena Lark, and Mark Jackly will be featured this month on The Whistling Fire.

November is National Novel Writing Month, to find out more and sign up to write your own novel in a month go to http://www.nanowrimo.org/

You can pre-order Rick Marlatt’s full length award winning poetry chapbook, “How We Fell Apart” from Seven CirclePress. The chapbook is set to be released in December.

Matthew Zapruder’s book “Come on All You Ghosts” has been named one of the best poetry books for 2010 by Publishers Weekly.

Read new work by Elizabeth Crane over at Swink Magazine.

October 2010

New work by Jan-Erik Asplund, Robin Linn, Michael Lee Johnson, and Kaitlin Hulsy premieres this month on TWF.

Listen to Nic Sebastian read Jill Alexander Essbaum’s poem ‘Lament‘ at Whale Sounds.

October 6th Elizabeth Crane’s story “The Genius Meetings” is story of the day at fwriction.

Congrats to our own poetry reader Lindsey Lewis for the publication of her poem “Wishers” at The Nervous Breakdown.

Our good friends over at  The Coachella Review have a new issue out, complete with an interview with Non-Fiction sensation Dave Cullen.

September 2010

This month we have not four but five Thursdays, which means five new works of poetry and fiction for you by George Freek, James Chilar, Elizabeth Dunphey, J.M. Green, and Kenneth P. Gurney.

TWF is proud to announce our new on going Guest Editor Themed Months.  Our first Editor is Chema Guijarro.  Find out more about Chema’s Themed Month HERE.  And be sure to check back for more themed months to come.

Be sure and read Monty Mickelson’s essay “Location: The Stealth Protagonist” in this months Gently Read Literature.

Read Marie Claire‘s shout out to Jill Alexander Essbaum.

You can read Matthew Zapruder’s poem “Global Warming” in PBS’ Art Beat.

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 whose 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.

Congrats to contributor Massiel Ladrón De Guevara for her inclusion in the 2010 edition of Border Senses.

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. Read a thrilling review here.  Also check out The Hipster Book Club’s interview with Mark here.

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.

Even though Matthew Zapruder’s new collection Come On All You Ghosts isn’t out yet, you can read all about it at Publisher’s Weekly.  You can also hear Matthew read one of the poems at Slate.

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.