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Tilt Press in North Carolina is looking to print three chapbooks a year and is currently open for submissions (July 1 – Sept 30, 2008). No strangers to verse, editors Rachel Mallino and Nicole Cartwright Denison have joined together in this venture to support as yet unpublished poets. For more information, visit the Tilt Press website.

From blogger Noel P. Mariano of The Acadmic Masochist: I went to school for this?

So you want to start your own magazine?

I had been kicking around the idea of starting up my own online literary journal. One of the graduates of the masters program that I’m in had started one up and it’s become very successful garnering some nominations for the Pushcart as well as other awards including Best of the Web.

I sat [and] talked to him about some of the advice and some of the things he considered when starting and here’s what Niel had to say…

Read the blog post on The Academic Masochist.

Appeal for Previously Unpublished or Unavailable Memoirs by Survivors of the Shoah
Worldwide Shoah Memoirs Collection

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has launched a worldwide appeal to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their families to submit previously unpublished or unavailable memoirs to a worldwide electronic collection.

This collection is being established in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the M

Heads up for blog readers – a day’s advance notice! Visit the NewPages Calls for Submissions page for new listings. Sponsor listings are at the top of the page; scroll down to see all others. Expired listings removed regularly. For listing consideration, please e-mail information and/or website link to: [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 17, 2008

Dear Friends …

I write to you with an update on the third issue of Cadillac Cicatrix and with news about our recent evacuation due to the encroachment of wildfires upon our office.

As some of you know, the recent spread of California wildfires has been difficult and exhausting for many communities and fire fighters. Our office has been threatened for the past two months by not only one fire but now a second, more serious fire.

On Saturday, July 12, we were persuasively evacuated from our offices because The Basin Complex Fire had come within potential striking distance of the community where we are located. The Basin Complex is the same fire that threatened Big Sur two weeks ago and has since moved northeast toward Carmel Valley through the Ventana Wilderness.

The fire is currently less than a comfortable distance from the Cadillac Cicatrix office and moving ever closer.

This being said, we are optimistic about the outcome, and we are attempting to move forward with our project (now from a satellite location) but it has been difficult – we are in a state of resolute plodding. Our intentions are to continue as we have for the past two years, but many of our files are currently in a tenuous location and it is uncertain when we might be able to access them.

Depending on the weather, the ability of thousands of fire fighters, as well as military and federal authorities, we could be back in our offices within a few weeks. If the worst does come to pass … well, I’d rather not think about it.

In the spirit of good communication, we only wish to inform you of our current situation and that the release of our third issue (in print any way) has been somewhat delayed.

The entire content of the issue – a focus on ADAPTATION – is available free online at www.CadillacCicatrix.org. We invite you to enjoy the very many talented writers and artists who have contributed to this issue, released July 1.

I look forward to sending you a more positive update soon and thank you for your continued support of our project.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Spencer
Executive Editor

CADILLACCICATRIX
www.CadillacCicatrix.org
21800 Parrot Ranch Road
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
[email protected]

More great finds added to the NewPages ranks. Welcome aboard – give ’em a click!

When viewing our guides, if you know of any links (mags, publishers, bookstores, record labels, etc.) you would like us to consider, please write to me: denisehill-at-newpages.com and send me a link.

New Online Lit Mags Listed
Parlor Journal
Shelf Life
CellA’s Round Trip
Road Runner Haiku Journal
Pregnant Moon Poetry Review

New Print Lit Mags Listed
Low Rent
Two Review
Packingtown Review
Oval
Illuminations
Ocho
MiPOesias

New Online Alt Mags Listed
Is Greater Than

New Print Alt Mags Listed
Penguin Eggs
Ode Magazine
Good Magazine
Alternatives
Whole Terrain
Our Truths/Neustras Verdades
Social Policy
The Last Straw
Permaculture Activist

New Publishers Listed
Green Candy Press
Firebrand Books

The Program in Narrative Medicine was established in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University in 1996. Its mission statement reads: “Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists to improve the effectiveness of care by developing the capacity for attention, reflection, representation, and affiliation with patients and colleagues. Our research and outreach missions are conceptualizing, evaluating, and spear-heading these ideas and practices nationally and internationally.”

Included in the program are:

Narrative Medicine Rounds
Lecture/reading series with such writers as Mark Nepo, Sue Halpren, Carol Gilligan,

Literature@Work
Discussions of literature

Narrative Medicine Workshops
Three-day intensive workshops for health care professionals and literary scholars engaged in narrative medicine practice. The next workshop will be held October 24 – 26, 2008.

Narrative Oncology
Doctors, nurses, and social workers on the oncology unit of Presbyterian Hospital gather bimonthly to read to one another what they have written about their day-to-day clinical experiences.

Student Creative Rounds and Reflexions, a student literary publication, as well as seminars for students at various levels.

In 2009 the innovative Journal of Literary Disability is moving to Liverpool University Press under the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. It will continue to focus on the literary representation of disability, but cultural studies will now be added to the multidisciplinary mix.

With an editorial board of 50 internationally renowned scholars, the journal is central to the literary disability movement that is changing the face of literary studies on a global scale.

Special issues have included Representations of Cognitive Impairment, guest edited by Dr. Lucy Burke, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University; Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency, guest edited by Dr. Michael Davidson, Vice Chair, Department of Literature, University of California; and Disability and/as Poetry, guest edited by Dr. Jim Ferris, Faculty Associate, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin.

The first issue in the new format, JLCDS 3.1: Deleuze, Disability and Difference, will be a special issue, guest edited by Dr. Petra Kuppers, Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan; and Dr. James Overboe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University. Many disability scholars have been wary of utilizing poststructuralism as a means to disrupt ableism. But there is much nuance in poststructuralist thought and its relation to representational politics, and JLCDS 3.1 hopes to push disability studies further along its journey into this territory.

Meridian, the semi-annual from the University of Virginia, celebrates its 10th Anniversary with its May 2008 issue. In it are selections from the first ten years of Meridian. One of the regular features of Meridian is the “Lost Classic” – which is exactly as it sounds.

The retrospective includes a list of the twenty classics, a brief explanation as to “why it is important,” for some “what happened to it,” and an excerpt of the text. A few listed classics: Letters from Jack London to Louis A. Augusin; Zora Neeale Hurston: Unpublished Writing from the Federal Writers’ Project and a Lost Interview; Two Uncollected Works by Robert Frost; A special Portfolio by Jane Kenyon; A Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving.

This issue of Meridian‘s “Lost Classic” is “Stephen Crane’s Deleted Chapters from Red Badge of Courage.” The introduction by Jeb Livingood as well as the chapters are available on Meridian‘s website. A number of the previous issues’ Lost Classics are also available on their site.

A wonderful feature for reconnecting and reconsidering works and their authors.

The Professional Writing Program, English Department, at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Creative Writing: Drama beginning August 2009. Dr. Heather H. Thomas, Chair, Tenure-Track Creative Writing Faculty Search Committee.

The English Department at Washburn University is seeking a poet to join a vital undergraduate writing program with colleagues in fiction and creative nonfiction writing. Howard Faulkner, Chair. September 29, 2008.

Emory University. Two-year Creative Writing Fellowship in fiction undergraduate English/Creative Writing Program, beginning fall 2009. November 14, 2008.

It’s not too late to ask your local or student newspaper to start running this column, or to add it to your own publication. There are two levels of permissible use, with publications only needing to register online (it’s easy); personal use/classroom use need not register.

“American Life in Poetry is a free weekly column for newspapers and online publications featuring a poem by a contemporary American poet and a brief introduction to the poem by Ted Kooser. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry, and we believe we can add value for newspaper and online readers by doing so. There are no costs or obligations for reprinting the columns, though we do require that the text of the column be reproduced without alteration, along with the complete copyright, permissions and credit information, exactly as supplied with each column.”

In addition so seeing so many of my favorite poets in this project, I have also discovered many new voices. I was also pleased to see two of my friends and colleagues featured: Jeff Vande Zande for his poem “Clean,” and Rick “Anhinga Rick” Campbell, of Anhinga Press, for his work “Heart.”

New Book Reviews have been posted on NewPage. Stop by and take a look at what our reviewers had to say about: Best of the Web 2008 :: Knockemstiff :: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick :: Seal Woman :: Alluvium :: Little Brother :: Clear All the Rest of the Way :: Spilling the Moon :: Girl on the Fridge

An interesting request: Anyone have a copy of Good Foot Issue #7 you would be willing to give up? I’ve got a “shot in the dark” request from someone who was published in it who never received a copy of the issue – it was the last published – and we can’t track down anyone associated with the publication. Said author now needs a copy of the mag for professional reasons. NewPages never got a copy of issue 7, so we can’t help out on this one. Anyone? If you have one and will part with it, please send it our way: NewPages, POB 1580, Bay City, MI 48706. I’m sure some good literary karma will come your way as a result…and don’t we all need more of that?

E-mail me and let me know: denisehill-at-newpages.com