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Flash fiction by Sheri Wright will appear in a forthcoming issue of Midway Journal.
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Becky Alexander placed second in the Haiku for Betty category of the Ohio Poetry Day contest sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association.
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Chuck Sudduth has signed a contract with Diversion Press to publish his middle-reader story "Halloween Kentucky Style.
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Jim Tomlinson read from his new short story collection Nothing Like An Ocean (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at The Summit on June 20.
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Angela Jenkins's story "Going HOme" won first place in the Elizabethtown News Enterprise competition.
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Scott Solomon's story "Sure We Do" was published in the Summer 2009 issue of The Antioch Review.
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Becky Alexander was a Top Ten Winner in the Cambridge Libraries Poem-A-Day Contest.
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Mary E. O'Dell's poem "That Bird" was published in the Summer/Autumn 2009 issue of Pegasus.
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Alan MacKellar's chapbook Chasing Schroedinger's Cat will be published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press.
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Sherry Chandler was awarded an Individual Artist Professional Development Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council to attend the 2009 Appalachian Writers Workshop.
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Work by Mary E. O'Dell will appear in Turtle House Ink's When Last on the Mountain: Essays, stories, and Poems from Writers over 50. The anthology will be published by Holy Cow! Press in Spring 2010.
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Anna Bellamy Lucas's poem "Oblivion, What Comes Before" was published in the issue 27 of right hand pointing. The issue features very short work. Her poem "Warming Up the Car" appeared in issue 14 and "Church Dance" in issue 7.
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Georgia Wallace's poem "Fishing at Jericho" appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of the Tipton Poetry Journal.
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Welcome to Lucy Kay Clayton, born May 30, 2009, to Sophie and Dave Clayton.
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Robin Fisher interviewed Jim Tomlinson on the June 14, 2009 edition of WFPL's Studio 619 (89.3 FM). They discussed Jim's new short story collection Nothing Like An Ocean (University Press of Kentucky, 2009). A podcast of the broadcast is available at the link. Jim's interview begins about 35 minutes into the program.
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Barbara McMakin was an honoree in the The Binnacle's Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition for prose works of 150 words or fewer and poetry of sixteen lines or fewer and fewer than 150 words. Her honored poem, "A Bird in Hand," will appear in the 2009 Ultra-Short issue. Deadline for the 2010 competition is December 1.
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Congratulations to Elaine Fowler Palencia on the birth of her new grandson, Jackson Maxwell Harper, on June 5.
Elaine has two poems published in Community Concierge Magazine.
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GRW members Virginia Anderson and Mary E. O'Dell recently volunteered to work the phones for public radio in Louisville.
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Katerina Stoykova-Klemer's interview of Sherry Chandler is online at Public Republic.
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Barbara McMakin's poem "Why is it?" was published in the Summer 2009 edition of Lucidity in their Succinct Verse (12 lines or less) section.
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Sherry Chandler's poem "Dog Days" has been published in OCHO #24, the Twitter Edition. Sherry writes micropoetry as bluegasspoet.
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Mary E. O'Dell's poem "Instructions Upon the Occasion of My Death" will appear in the anthology Of a Certain Age: Voices of Experience.
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Sherry Chandler's poem "A Weighty Problem" appears in the 2009 issue of Bumbershoot, an annual of humorous poetry.
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Scott Solomon's story "Mixed Breeding" was published in the Summer 2008 issue of New Letters.
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Sheri Wright's poem "Marked" was read on a recent broadcast of Katerina Stoykova-Klemer's "Accents" on WRFL-FM (88.1). You can listen to podcasts of Accents" at the link.
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Sheri Wright's chapbook The Courtship of Reason is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
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Sherry Chandler recently served as judge for the San Antonio Poets Association Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Society Contest 2009.
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E. Gail Chandler's poem "Following the Grunion" won second place in Literary Leo 2009's Poetry competiton. Her story "Abandon Hope" received an honorable mention in the Short Fiction categhory.
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Sheri Wright's poem "She Rides the Clouds Bareback" appears in the current issue of Earth's Daughters This same poem was featured during National Poetry Month on Sherry Chandler's blog.
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Jo Emary, executive director of the Radcliff-Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, was named a Kentucky Certified Chamber Executive by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Executives.competition. |
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Mary E. O'Dell's poem "Summons" has been accepted by the Cairn Poetry Journal
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Cate Pearson's "The Red Second Hand Matches the Tractor" won third place in Literary Leo 2009's Flash Fiction competiton.
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An indepth-interview of Sandy Brue, chief of interpretations and resource management at the National Park Services's Abraham Lincoln Birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky, recently appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Sherry Chandler has been awarded the 2009 Katherine Osborne Scholarship to attend the Wildacres Writers Workshop in Little Switzerland, North Carolina. She will meet up there with longtime GRW friends Terry Kanago and Jeff Hess.
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Barbara McMakin has two poems, "Photograph of the Year" and "Every Man Comes with a Box," in the April 2009 issue of The Enigmatist
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Linda Meg Frith read at the South West Writers Conference Poetry Month Celebration April 11, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Look for a poem by Tanya O'Nan in a forthcoming issue of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review.
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Look for poems by Elaine Fowler Palencia in an upcoming issue of Appalachian Journal.
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Virginia Anderson was recently nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award at Indiana University Southeast.
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Ernie O'Dell will have a selection of journal excerpts in Passager's March 2009 issue.
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Kathleen Driskoll, long-time friend of Green River Writers, was recently the featured personality in Today's Woman.
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Anna Lucas had two poems in The Catholic Reporter.
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Marj Bixler's short story "Turkey for One" was published in The Potomac Review.
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Becky Alexander won first place in the haiku category of the 2008 League of Minnesota Poets contest with her poem "even with a story." She also placed third in the "Critters Award" with "Grackle Dance."
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Becky Alexander's poem "Sightings" won First Place in the Modern Life Category of the 2008 Arizona State Poetry Society Contest.
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E. Gail Chandler was one of 14 writers selected to participate in a the WKU Writers' Workshop led by Silas House, January 23-25, 2009.
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Angela Barker Thomas's poem "She Dreamed of Orchestras" received an honorable mention for the 2008 Kudzu Poetry Prize. The poem is published in the 2008 issue of the magazine.
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Jo Emary was honored at the annual Women's Equality Day of the All Nations Worship Ministries in Radcliff, Kentucky in August.
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Anna Lucas had two poems accepted by The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
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Victoria Bailey (Tori)'s poem "Even in Bluff City" was published in the latest issue of Kudzu.
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Becky Alexander's poem "Once in a French Wheat Field" won Second Place in a recent poetry contest in Saint Louis. The poem is from Shrapnel, her work-in-progress. A second poem, "The Plough," won an HM in another category of the same contest.
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Don Ray Smith's collected humor essays, Feel My Humerus, will be published sometime in 2009. The collection will include his pieces from Louisville Magazine, Leo, African American Journal, Business First, or his web site Monday Morning Humor. Dan's pieces are also featured on WFPL Radio.
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Becky Alexander won two Honorable Mentions in the West Virginia Poetry Society Contest 2008 for her poems "Summertime Pals" and "On Heathered Winds." WVPS sponsors contests in approximately 30 different categories in conjunction with their annual convention.
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Sandy Daugherty was recently commissioned to write an article about the history of the beautiful St. James Court Art Show, the largest in the nation. The article was published in the brochure for the 52nd anniversary of the show. The brochure was published as a supplement to the October 2008 issue of Louisville Magazine
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Ellen Birkett Morris's play "Lost Girls" is a finalist for the 2008 Heideman Award given by the Actors Theater of Louisville. This $1,000 cash award is given to one entry in the National Ten-Minute Play Contest.
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Becky Alexander won First Place in the Children’s Poetry category of the 2008 Ohio State Poetry Society Contest, (Small Stuff), for "The Ice Witch."
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Mary E. O'Dell's poem "November in Pike County" has been published in the November, 2008 issue of Kentucky Monthly.
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Barbara McMakin's poem "Mom's Spoon" is published in the November, 2008 issue of Kentucky Monthly.
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Elaine Fowler Palencia's short story "A Rainy Day" appears in the Winter 2008 issue of The Journal of Kentucky Studies.
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Elaine Fowler Palencia's review of Willie Nelson's new novel A Tale Out of Luck, is online at Bluegrass Now. Unfortunately, Elaine reports, the economic downturn has killed this magazine.
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Georgia Wallace placed second for the "2008 Grand Prix" from the Kentucky State Poetry Society. Her winning poem is entitled "Last Night the Geese Came."
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Elaine Fowler Palenicia's short story "The Princiess Del Sarto" appears in the Fall 2008 issue of The South Carolina Review.
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Congratulations to GRW members who won or placed in the 2008 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest. Winners include Becky Alexander, Mary E. O'Dell, E. Gail Chandler, Georgia Wallace, Barbara McMakin, Judy Gill Milford, Irma Cooper, and Christine Strevinsky. GRW members won or placed in 18 or the 25 contest categories.
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E. Gail Chandler's chapbook Where the Road Meets the Sky will be available for pre-publication orders on February 19, 2009 from Finishing Line Press.
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Jim Tomlinson's second collection of short stories Nothing Like an Ocean is due out from the University Press of Kentucky in spring 2009.
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Barbara Greer arranged a group reading for the Green River Writers at Widdershins Giftshop on June 14, 2008. Participating readers included Barbara, Mary E. O'Dell, Sandy Daugherty, Alan MacKellar, Victoria Rose, Georgia Wallace, Sheri Wright, and more.
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Mary E. O'Dell's poems "Walking This Labyrinth" and "Safekeeping" were published in Ruminate, a magazine of faith in literature and art.
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E. Gail Chandler was awarded the prestigious Betty Gabehart Prize in Poetry from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference for her poem "One Room School," a pantoum. Her work was enthusiastically received at the prize-winners reading during the conference.
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E. Gail Chandler's poems "Love Story" and "The Thirtieth Anniversary" appeared in Mitakuye Oyasin, the newsletter of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.
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Roger Collins's play Pomp and Circumstance was performed on June 20, 2008, during the 9th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays at Actors' Theater in Louisville.
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