Winter Update 2007
Issue Two, Scotland poetry workshop, submissions, kudos, a new book, and more - here's our news:
Greetings!
- THE SECOND ISSUE: of PRACTICE: NEW WRITING + ART will be out in April. Thank you to everyone for such a rich pile of submissions. We are even now making final final decisions -- if you sent work and have not yet heard back please forgive us and know that you will soon. Very soon. PRACTICE2 includes new work by Renee Angle, Allison Cobb, Joshua Edwards, Dieter Graf, Michael Heller, Tony Lopez, J. Michael Martinez, Rusty Morrison, Danika Myers, Christian Peet, Brandon Shimoda, Ed Skoog, and Grzegorz Wroblewski, as well as an interview with Alec Finlay, and more to be announced shortly.
- CONGRATULATIONS: 1) to H.L. Hix, whose Chromatic (Etruscan Press) was named a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award (poems from the book appear in our debut issue); and 2) to our poetry editor Susan Tichy, whose third book, Bone Pagoda, is now out from Ahsahta Press.
- SCOTLAND: Through the Center for Global Education at George Mason University, Susan Tichy will be hosting a poetry workshop in Scotland this summer. This announcement is meant for you - you should sign up. Today. The workshop runs from June 14th to July 1st; starts in Edinburgh, with trips to Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, Dumfries, and elsewhere. Faculty and guests include Tom Pow, Thomas A. Clark, Kathleen Jamie, and others; there'll be Renga writing with Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn, a visit to Andy Goldsworthy's studio, walking & writing excursions on the Isles of Skye and Raasay, and much more. For more information see the Poetry Scotland web site. Apply before March 6, 2007, for a $100 discount.
- SUBMISSIONS: PRACTICE: NEW WRITING + ART is an annual magazine of writing and art, favoring work that might otherwise be cloistered because of genre, form, content, subject, or place of origin. We are open to everything but tend toward the innovative and experimental. We publish annually; this may change in the near future. We are currently only looking for new prose and art submissions, will announce our 2007 reading period shortly. For more on this, please read about PRACTICE defined here.
- SUPPORT: The magazine is published by Practice Press, Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more here. Donations are welcome, via Paypal to editor@practicejournal.com or to our mailing address. Thank you!
-ISSUE ONE: Is still available. If you asked for a freebie, you'll get one. If you ask, you will get one (via media mail). If you make a donation -- you'll get one even sooner.
Thanks for the interest and support. Please stay in touch.
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