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From Maisonneuve‘s Watch Your Mouth Department:

What the F___?
Film critic Matthew Hays looks at print media’s hidebound, prim, knee-jerk, paternalistic, unthinking, programmtic attitude towards the word “fuck.”

“This past April, as the final season of The Sopranos was about to unravel on HBO, I came across what seemed like a perfect Canadian angle on the iconic American series: a Quebec actor, Philippe Bergeron, had landed a small but pivotal role in the final season’s first episode. He was playing one of two petty crooks from Quebec who conduct some business with Tony Soprano. I pitched the story to the Globe and Mail and the editors bit…”

Published online by Autumn Press, Coal Hill is dedicated to publishing fine poetry by both emerging and established writers. The inageral issue features Timothy Donnelly, David Huddle, Thomas Lux, Hila Ratzabi, David Swerdlow, Jennifer Wallace and Lissa Warren. Joshua Storey, Editor and Anna Catone, Associate Editor. Reading period of September 1 to May 1.

Rain Farm Press announces the release of the fourth issue of Paradigm arts journal. Dubbed “The Vintage Issue,” this final issue of 2007 features exclusive interviews with bestselling Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt (“Will in the World”) and Emmy-winning TV personality and vintner Michael Chiarello, host of Food Network’s “Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello.”

Arch Journal is a web-based annual journal publishing poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, and translations sponsored by Washington University English department and run by the graduate students of the Arts & Sciences programs of Washington University. The first issue is expected by the January 2008.

From the blog of J.L. Powers, author of The Confessional and *hopefully* forthcoming second novel, Killing Isaac:

What You Leave in the Trash Can
By Jess | September 21, 2007

A couple of months ago, I started shredding my rough drafts before I took them out to be recycled. I’m not sure why, exactly, except for this vague uneasy totally paranoid feeling that maybe somebody might steal my latest, almost completed novel Killing Isaac and somehow manage to get it published before I do, with their name attached instead of mine.

Absurd, right?

Well, about four weeks ago…[read the rest – it’s short and funny]

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing-Fiction, San Diego State University. William A. Nericcio, Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature. November 2, 2007.

The College of Wooster Visiting Assistant Professor of English, beginning fall 2008. Three-year position. Jennifer Hayward Department of English. December 4, 2007.

Middlebury College. Established poet with Ph.D. and ability to teach introductory and advanced poetry-writing workshops, courses on the theory and history of poetic forms, and British and international authors and literatures.

Framingham State College English Department invites gifted writers & teachers to
apply for a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, to begin September 2008, to teach creative writing, literature, & first-year writing. Professor Elaine Beilin, Chair, English Department. November 30, 2007.

Wabash College Department of English invites candidates with primary specializations in fiction writing & American literature for a full-time, tenure-track position. Thomas P. Campbell, Chair, Department of English. November 16, 2007.

Nebraska Wesleyan University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction). Sarah Kelen, Chair, English Department. November 16, 2007.

Adelphi University, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Fiction. November 12, 2007.

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Cineaste
America’s leading magazine on the art of politics and the cinema
Volume 32 Number 2
Spring 2007
Quarterly

Conscience
The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion
Volume 28 Number 3
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Counterpoise
For Social Responsibilities, liberty and dissent
Volume 10 Number 3
Summer 2006
Quarterly

fRoots
The Essential Worldwide Roots Music Guide
Number 293
November 2007
Monthly

Geist
Ideas and Culture :: Made in Canada
Volume 16 Number 66
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Guild Practitioner
A journal of legal theory and practice: “…to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests.”
Volume 64 Number 1
Spring 2007
Quarterly

Korean Quarterly
Tenth Anniversary Issue
Volume 11 Number 1
Fall 22007
Quarterly

Lilipoh
The Spirit in Life
Issue 49 Volume 23
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Lilith
Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist
Volume 32 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

White Crane
Gay Wisdom and Culture
Number 74
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Quiddity Literary Journal, along with its companion public radio program, are pleased to announce a call for submissions for its inaugural print issue. Quiddity is seeking short fiction and poetry from emerging and established writers. International submissions are encouraged. Work accepted for the inaugural issue of Quiddity will be published in the spring 2008 issue of the literary journal, published by Springfield College-Benedictine University. Contributors may be asked to read their work for the companion public radio program on WUIS-WIPA.

Poet Laura Ulewicz
1930 – 2007

An excerpt from Stephen Vincent‘s blog, October 14, 2007:

“In the late fifties through the early seventies, Laura Ulewicz – a Polish-American woman from Detroit – was very present in both North Beach and the Haight-Ashbury. (In the late sixties she owned the I & Thou Coffee Shop on Haight Street, a singular venue for poetry readings during a time in which the interest in poetry had been replaced by the music, drugs, etc.) [. . .] I would say that Laura wrote some very significant poems, indeed quite fierce, probing and smart – drawing from her Polish American roots, her wanderings back and forth across the country, and her encounters in California. Romantic in its sense of quest, but definitely very smart and counter-romantic in terms of its continental yield [read the rest along with SV’s response to one of her poems].”

Chiamus Press has its very own October surprise: Interviews from the Edge. It’s a new podcast series hosted by CP’s east coast commandant, Shane Hinton, and features conversations with Chiasmus authors and artists. Episode #01 features a reading and conversation with 10: 01 author Lance Olsen. Interviews from the Edge will compliment CP’s existing podcast, and will also be released on a monthly basis. Click and enjoy this inaugural episode and stay tuned for future ones. The next show will likely be released around the first of November.

Down Dog!
True confessions of that lone guy in your yoga class
by Michael Stusser
From Concsious Choice
October 2007

“I was trying to stay focused — tame my monkey mind and concentrate on the lunge at hand. Really. But the woman in front of me was a dead-ringer for Halle Berry: honey-toned skin, sparkling teeth, hour-glass figure. Drishti! As we set up in Warrior, I noticed a tattoo at the small of her back. Focus! Then came the forward bends.

“Not to sound like a sexist yogic pig, but I’m the only guy in my yoga class, and at times I find it challenging to ignore the fact that I’m surrounded by people of the opposite sex, lunging and thrusting and breathing heavily. The ancient Hindu text Upanishads describes the mind as a chariot being dragged around by a team of wild horses that need to be reigned in hard. I think my horses are those Clydesdales on the Budweiser commercials…” [read the rest]

George Washington University. For appointment beginning in the fall of 2008, seeking a fiction writer to teach two semesters as the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington. Professor Jeffrey Cohen Chair, Dept. of English. November 15, 2007.

St. Olaf College, Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing to teach creative writing, primarily poetry, with additional teaching responsibilities in literature & first-year writing. Mary Titus, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of English. November 9, 2007.

Villanova University tenure-track assistant professorship beginning Fall 2008 in creative writing, specializing in fiction; a secondary specialization in creative non-fiction is desirable. Prof. Evan Radcliffe, Chair, English Dept. November 9, 2007.

Florida Southern College, regular full-time position in English, with a concentration in creative writing, beginning August, 2008. Dr. Susan P. Conner, VPAA and Dean.

Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, invites applications for a one-semester leave replacement position in writing starting in January 2008. Pavel Cenkl,Dean of Academics. November 16, 2007.

The English Department at Bridgewater State College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing with a specialization in poetry.

Roosevelt University invites applications for a tenure-track position as fiction writer and director of our thriving creative writing program, to begin Fall 2008.

The English Department at Western Carolina University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Creative Writing, Fiction) to begin August 2008. Dr. Elizabeth Addison, Department of English. November 15, 2007.

Axton Poetry Fellow and Axton Fiction Fellow (2 positions), University of Louisville, Fall 2008 – writers who have received their terminal degree within the last five years in Creative Writing are invited to apply. Paul Griner, Director of Creative Writing. November 2, 2007,

Rollins College, Department of English, Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Chair of Creative Writing. Endowed Chair. The Department of English, Rollins College, invites applications and nominations for a Writer in Residence and Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Chair of Creative Writing, beginning August 2008. M.F.A. or Ph.D. preferred. Screening of nominees and applicants will begin October 20, 2007, and continue until the position is filled. Philip F. Deaver, Selection Committee Chair.

The Hendrix College Department of English seeks applications for a two-year teaching residency in poetry or fiction writing, beginning in the fall, 2008. Alice Hines, Search Committee Chair, Department of English. October 26, 2007.

University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Assistant Professor of English wanted for a tenure-track position in Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, beginning Sept. 1, 2008. Dr. Ron Rindo, Chair, Department of English. November 12, 2007.

Gilman School, Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship in any genre: fiction, poetry, playwrighting, or creative non-fiction. Dr. Meg Tipper, Director, Writing Center. January 8, 2008.

Cleveland State University, Assistant Professor/Director of Creative Writing Programming, English Department. Dr. Louis Barbato, Chair, Department of English. November 1, 2007.

Franklin & Marshall College English Department invites applications from fiction writers for a possible one-year visiting Assistant Professorship, to begin in the fall of 2008. Judith Mueller, Chair, English Department. December 1, 2007.

Temple University English Department is looking to hire a distinguished fiction writer for one year to teach in our graduate creative writing program. Samuel R. Delany, Director of Graduate Creative Writing Program. December 10, 2007.

Ohio Wesleyan University seeks a specialist in creative non-fiction & expository writing with a compatible literary field. A full-time, tenure-track position, pending approval. Lynette Carpenter, Chair, Department of English. November 9, 2007.

Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. January 1, 2008

Northern Arizona University, Creative Nonfiction, Assistant Professor, starting August 2008. Duties include graduate and undergraduate teaching in creative nonfiction workshops, directing/reading theses, and advising students. Dr. Jane Armstrong Woodman, Chair of Creative Writing/Assistant Professor Search Committee. November 1, 2007.

Visiting Professor in Residence of Creative Writing, Murray State University. November 30, 2007.

The English Department at Western Kentucky University seeks applicants for a tenure-track position in Creative Writing-Fiction, beginning August 2008. Dr. Tom C. Hunley Chair, Fiction Writer Search Committee, Department of English. November 2, 2007.

Columbus State University Department of English invites MFAs and PhDs to apply for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor rank. Dr. Pat McHenry, Department of English, Columbus State University. December 1, 2007.

English/Creative Writing Instructor, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA. Kathleen Clark, Human Resources Department. January 14, 2008.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Department of Literature. Seeking a creative writer at a senior level to teach in a thriving undergraduate program and new MFA program. November 15, 2007.

Dark Sky Magazine has published its first October issue. It will now be a weekly magazine that features 1 writer, 1 poet, 1 photographer, 1 film article, 1 2-D artist and 1 comic. When subscribing, you’ll receive a new issue every Monday morning.

Taken from the Facebook profile of The Facebook Review:

Description: This might just be an original idea.

Welcome to the pre-natal version of The Facebook Review, the first and only Literary Review that uses Facebook as its means of publishing, of marketing, and of editing. We are essentially an online magazine with the (titular) difference of location. Our manifesto is humble and somewhat weak-kneed. Apologies. All we want is to publish the best work by Facebook members and to do so free-of-charge, free-of-cost, and completely within the confines of the Facebook network and software environment.

Process: Submissions will be accepted, for now, from the following disciplines: poetry, short fiction (sub 1600 words), prose poetry, drama (again, sub 1600 words) and creative non-fiction. Other genres may be accepted at some point in the future. The first issue will have no set start date, and will go live at some point in the future when enough good material has been submitted and the group has enough “subscribers” (read: members.) That first issue will be edited by our managing editor, Jacob McArthur Mooney. All future editions (which will then occur in monthly installments) will be edited by something called an “editorial train.” What’s an editorial train, you ask? Please read on… [visit The Facebook Review]

From Burnside Review Editor (aka The Vacationing Editor) Sid Miller: “Although we’re normally based in Portland, Oregon, I’ve just moved to L.A. for 6 months or so to assemble our first ever themed issued, ‘The L.A. Issue’. We’re looking for writing (mostly poetry, but also fiction, nonfiction and essay) from L.A.-based writers or work that is either about or centered in L.A. The deadline for submitting is April 30, 2008. Complete details are available on our website. I’ve also created the blog to chronicle the experience.”