2008
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Cindy Savett (poetry) ~
Cindy lives in the Philadelphia area and
teaches poetry workshops to
psychiatric inpatients at Friends Hospital. Her poems have appeared in
recent
issues of LIT, Margie, The Marlboro Review, CutBank, 26 Magazine, Culture
Society, and other print & online journals. Her first book, Child
in the
Road, was published by Parlor Press.
Carol J. Clouse (non-fiction) ~
Carol J. Clouse is a writer, a long-time journalist and editor and a late bloomer. Her nonfiction work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as niche financial publications read by a smidgen of extremely important people. At 33, she left New York with a company transfer to London and later left journalism to teach English in Madrid, a period that would provide the material for the memoir she is writing: How to Make Dirty Nasty Love in the Bathroom Stalls of Hip European Nightclubs… And Maybe Even Fall in Love. (Always drawn to adventure, Carol did run with the bulls while in Spain. And even though she flattened herself tight against the barricade as they stampeded and then trotted after them, she still believes this counts.) She later returned to New York to enroll in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, where she completed her degree in fiction in 2006. She lives in Queens with her adorably hot Basque husband, who continues to teach her many Basque words, such as “poliki, poliki,” which means, step by step.
Ari Banias (poetry) ~
Ari Banias lives in Brooklyn, NY, and teaches writing and literature at Hunter College, where he also received his MFA. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, FIELD, Literary Imagination, Mid-American Review (as the issue's featured poet), MiPOesias, Arts & Letters, RealPoetik, and elsewhere.
Chris Robinson (poetry) ~
Chris Robinson is a student in the Hunter College MFA program. He earned his M.A. in creative writing from Boston University in 2007 and his B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Washington in 2005. You cannot find his poems in any journals, so don't look. He enjoys Star Trek as much as he does the Wu-Tang and he's been known to channel Borges if provoked.
Darcie Dennigan (poetry) ~
Darcie Dennigan's first poetry collection,
Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, won the
Fordham Poets Out Loud prize and will be published in February '08. In
2006, her poems were chosen for one of the "Discovery"/The Nation
prizes, and had the chance to read at the 92nd St. Y. She recently moved
from L.A. to Rhode Island.
Justine Manzano (fiction) ~
Justine Manzano is a student at Hunter College, double majoring in Media and Creative Writing. Aside from being a full time student, she is also a full-time employee as a Legal Assistant at a law firm in midtown. She is an entrepreneur - As the designer, co-owner and featured writer at the webzine www.g-pop.net. She has been published on the webzine www.ybfree.com and in The Bronx Times Reporter.
Kathleen Miller (poetry) ~
Kathleen Miller is a poet who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has kindly been featured in journals such as Shampoo, Shifter, and Matrix Magazine, as well as in the Faux Press anthology, Bay Poetics. Her chapbook, "The Weather is Happening All Around Us," came out in 2006 from Delirium Press. She is currently receiving her MFA from Bard.
Matt Reeck (poetry) ~
Matt Reeck is in the Brooklyn College MFA
program in poetry. He is also a translator from Urdu
and French. He lives in Brooklyn.
Special Holiday Event- All Women's Reading
Tara Betts (poetry) ~
Tara Betts is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies including MiPoesias, Essence, Bum Rush the Page and Callaloo. She is a graduate of Cave Canem and the MFA Program at New England College. www.tarabetts.net
Brooke Shaffner (non-fiction) ~
The first chapter of Brooke Shaffner’s memoir, Proximity, was published in The Hudson Review. She received her MFA from Columbia, where she was a Dean’s Fellow; and has been a VCCA-Auvillar Scholarship recipient, a Prague Summer Program Scholarship recipient, a VSC Writer’s Grant recipient, a two-time New Millennium Writing Award finalist, a Writers at Work Fellowship finalist, and a So To Speak Fiction Contest finalist. She lives in Brooklyn and is the curator and host of a monthly reading and artist talk series at Park Slope’s 440 Gallery.
Alana Joblin (poetry) ~
Alana Joblin grew up in Philadelphia. Prior to making New York City her home seven years ago, she earned her B.A. at Oberlin College, studying English and Religion, followed by seven months of writing poems in Israel's desert, as part of the Arad Arts Project. Alana currently teaches creative writing and intro literature at Hunter College, where she also earned her MFA in poetry. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Quarterly West, Realpoetik, and the abelianart project.
Jackie Clark (poetry) ~
Jackie Clark is currently a second year MFA student at The New School. Some of her writing has appeared in Dangling Modifier, XConnect, and Capgun. She was also nominated for Best New Poets 2007.
Past Readers
...poets... ... ...
Kate Greenstreet, Evie Shockley, Eva Salzman, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Bruce Covey, Amy King, Carly Sachs, Matthew Thorburn, Alexandra Grace, Jennifer Bartlett, Jeffrey Morgan, Peter Moore, Cate Peebles, Alexander Dickow, Matthew Yeager, Karin Randolph, Sara Femenella, Brian Kloppenberg, Keilly Sweatt, Amy Lawless, Siobhan Ciminera, Claudia Carlson, Julie Porter, Colie Hoffman, John Findura, Jason Takayuki Ueda, Merry Fortune
...fiction / non-fiction... ... ...
Jared Hohl, Matthew Everett, Jessica Penner, Annie Choi, Paul Rome, Jason Napoli Brooks, Melissa Febos, Boris Tsessarsky, Lisa Ko
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Submissions
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of Mouth Submissions Guidelines... ... ...
Submissions for 2008 readings are now closed.
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The following guidelines will stand for 2009 submissions, and are expected
to open again in August of 2008. Thanks for your interest!
Poets:
Please submit no more than 5 poems (each of a single page length or less),
or up to 2 longer poems (not exceeding 5 pages in length) for consideration.
The body of your email should include a brief, one paragraph bio, as well
as contact information and any special notes. Poems should be attached
as a single Word Document. This is worth repeating… All of your
poems must be attached as ONE document!* Submissions should be emailed
to wordofmouth1@gmail.com with
“2008 Poetry Submission” written in the subject line.
Fiction/ Non-fiction Writers:
Please submit no more than 5 pages (preferably double spaced) for consideration.
The body of your email should contain a brief, one paragraph bio, as well
as contact information and any special notes. The writing sample should
be attached as a single Word Document. Submissions should be emailed to
wordofmouth1@gmail.com with
“2008 Fiction Submission” written in the subject
line.
*Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be automatically
disqualified.
IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING SUBMISSIONS: Due to an overwhelming
number of submissions for the relatively few available reading spaces,
you will only receive a response from the curator if you have
been selected to read, at which point you will be notified of
your selected 2008 reading date. If you have not heard from the curator
via email/ phone by December 31st, 2007, please do not be discouraged,
but do resubmit again the following year.
** Special Note to those outside of NYC: Readings are held at
Bluestockings Radical Books on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. However,
we have an increasing number of readers who travel from out of state to
be here. Readers have hailed from Chicago, Virginia, Atlanta and even
London! So, if you do not reside in the New York City area, but are willing
to travel, or have plans to be here during the scheduled reading year,
please specify this in the body of your email.
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