The Autumn 2010 issue of The Battered Suitcase is now live.
This fall we’re delighted to offer you our usual mix of stories, poetry and non fiction with some stunning artwork from around the world.
In this Issue:
Fiction selections includes pieces exploring relationship dynamics, such as R. Matthew’s poignant novelette, ‘Be Careful’, whilst Isaac James Baker writes an intense, moving story, ‘Change’, full of close observation on people and relationships.
A recurrent theme in a number of our stories in this issue is people living on the fringes of society, from Ant and his hippy-esque mother in L.M Asta’s story, ‘The Bulb’, to Angela Still’s compelling novelette, ‘Looking for Shay’, in which a cast of seedy characters exist in an urban, drug-fuelled street-life.
Even The Battered Suitcase is not immune to the Zombie Apocalypse and David Laskowski explores the literary tradition of the undead ‘Dead Ringer’.
Our September poetry as always covers a huge range of subject matter, from the bitter-sweet self reflective, ‘mumbling life’ by Afshin Ahangar, to V. Iasiello’s brief homily on time, ‘Until’. Jacob Russell has written a lovely little reflection on the nature of time and change in ‘Every Ten Minutes It Passes’, and Helen R. Peterson has contributed a wistful pen portrait in ‘When Even the Neighbor’s Cat Feels Sorry for Me’. Mike Berger writes an ode to the joys of postal ordering in ‘Just a Little Crazy’ to remind us that poetry can be fun as well as reflective.
TBS staffers Ruth Lilly and Michelle Misfit conducted this issue’s interview with JJ Colagrande who talks about his book ‘Headz’, summer festivals and the American music scene. The non fiction also includes Austin Hackett’s small slice of New York hipster life and Suzanne Kehm discussing the writerly life with her toaster in ‘Teaching Myself to Write’.
TBS’s visual art is particularly spectacular this issue, including vividly coloured, piercing portraits and Picasso-esque composition from Dmitry Gubin and David Orziel’s stunning series of photographs of people against striking geometric urban and natural backgrounds.
Read for free online at http://www.vagabondagepress.com/
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Why We Love The Novella at Vagabondage Press...
He feels disabled by his own alienation from his middle-class suburban community. He'd rather listen to beloved mope-rock bands, The Smiths, The Cure, and Joy Division (from whom he quotes lyrics at length) than go to school or, God forbid, talk to anyone. He's buried in his own head, while this girl's disability, he imagines, has liberated her: “She seemed really to face the world, and her gaze came to me as if by catapult.”
Taylor Antrim explores why these short works might be perfect for our time and suggests a few recent ones that do things the novel can only dream about.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-04/the-novella-is-making-a-comeback/?cid=topic:mainpromo1
Taylor Antrim explores why these short works might be perfect for our time and suggests a few recent ones that do things the novel can only dream about.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-04/the-novella-is-making-a-comeback/?cid=topic:mainpromo1
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Amateur Query Mistakes
Here's a great list of mistakes that could land your queries or submissions in File 13. Some good advice here:
http://www.writersrelief.com/blog/post/query-letter-mistakes.aspx
Some agents and publishers are fuss-budgets, so it never hurts to make your query slick and professional.
One point of contention not listed here is getting the agents/publishers name right when addressing them in a query or submission. Personally, I get annoyed when people address me as "Faun" rather than spelling my name correctly. Especially when I've responded to your query or submission personally and you have my signature right there for reference. I won't can a submission or query over it, but it's only four letters--it shouldn't be difficult.
It may seem tedious to have to write and rewrite a query letter, but it's time worth investing. The whole point is to make the agent/publisher want to read your manuscript. If they're distracted by misspelled names, irrelevant information, bad grammar, etc., they're not going to want to invest the time it would take to read your work. The same way too much backstory, bad grammar, inconsistent characterizations, etc., will make readers put down your book unfinished.
http://www.writersrelief.com/blog/post/query-letter-mistakes.aspx
Some agents and publishers are fuss-budgets, so it never hurts to make your query slick and professional.
One point of contention not listed here is getting the agents/publishers name right when addressing them in a query or submission. Personally, I get annoyed when people address me as "Faun" rather than spelling my name correctly. Especially when I've responded to your query or submission personally and you have my signature right there for reference. I won't can a submission or query over it, but it's only four letters--it shouldn't be difficult.
It may seem tedious to have to write and rewrite a query letter, but it's time worth investing. The whole point is to make the agent/publisher want to read your manuscript. If they're distracted by misspelled names, irrelevant information, bad grammar, etc., they're not going to want to invest the time it would take to read your work. The same way too much backstory, bad grammar, inconsistent characterizations, etc., will make readers put down your book unfinished.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Mandatory Reading for Writers
I promised myself I'd never do this, but hey, I've promised myself a lot of things and I've found that I'm simply untrustworthy, so I'd just better learn to live with myself.
If you are a writer, you must read, must follow, The Rejectionist:
THERE'S NO CRYING IN PUBLISHING. Go out there with your fabulous selves, and own that shit. OWN IT. LOVE YOURSELF. Own how awesome you are, and how brave, every last one of you. Fuck a bunch of form letters. You're a fucking WRITER.
http://www.therejectionist.com/2010/07/what-form-rejection-means-to-you.html
And don't let me, or any other editor, tell you differently.
If you are a writer, you must read, must follow, The Rejectionist:
THERE'S NO CRYING IN PUBLISHING. Go out there with your fabulous selves, and own that shit. OWN IT. LOVE YOURSELF. Own how awesome you are, and how brave, every last one of you. Fuck a bunch of form letters. You're a fucking WRITER.
http://www.therejectionist.com/2010/07/what-form-rejection-means-to-you.html
And don't let me, or any other editor, tell you differently.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Vagabondage Press News
Look at what our prior contributors have been up to!
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
From Michael Chacko Daniels
Michael Chacko Daniels from The Battered Suitcase, Autumn 2009, has had some success with what he says are his "bits of entertainment." Grey Sparrow Journal published five senryu (The Twig, The Spreading Chestnut Tree, Buffers, Evening in San Francisco, and Waiting for the Taxidermist) in Issue #5, Spring 2010:
http://greysparrowpress.net/SPRINGPOETRYDaniel2010.aspx
From Doug Matthewson
Two of his pieces - "The Neighborhood" and "Babbage's Messaging Engine And Problems Arising From It's Use" were included in The Boston Literary Magazine Summer 2010 print issue. Available www.bostonliterarymagazine.com
From Jade Sylvan
Her "Drunk Driving" is in the June issue of Word Riot, http://www.wordriot.org/archives/1354
"Gold Dust" and "The Tower" are both in the Spring/Summer issue of the new OVS Magazine.
http://www.ovsmag.com/ovs-magazine-volume-2.html
From Kyle Hemmings
Check out Kyle Hemmings's new online chapbook of short fiction: You Could Pass for Lana Turner at Silkworm Ink Press - http://www.silkwormsink.com/chapbook_18.html
From David McLean
David McLean has a new full length poetry collection, Laughing At Funerals, on sale at Small Press Distribution.
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981184456/laughing-at-funerals.aspx
From Sean Patrick Hill
The Imagined Field, has been published by Paper Kite Press, and can be found here.
"Some poems are cast, some are scattered, some are written, some are crafted, some are teased out and some emerge as if by magic. The poems in Sean Patrick Hill's collection The Imagined Field can best be described as wrought, with all the blisters, callouses, sweat, smoke, and force the word carries with it. If you're looking to feel that thunk in the solar plexus you get when you see a hawk dive, tumble, tussle, and take flight with a field mouse in its claws, this is the book for you." Reviews are at elimae and The Line Break.
http://www.wordpainting.com/shop.shtml
From Gary Beck
His Book "Expectations" now available at Amazon-- EXPECTATIONS is a passionate exploration of people struggling to cope with a difficult, demanding life. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984098208
From V. Ulea
SNAIL - Formed from memories of dreams of memories, Snail is journey of life, introspection, and familial connectitude. Its seven interconnected stories are bonded by mood, plot, a single set of characters, and heart felt emotion; yet separated in a very dream like fashion by time, space, and logic of reality. Beautifully adorned by the artworks of Irene Frenkel, this book is not simply a work to be read and considered, it is a texturized and exhilarating cosmic dance for all the senses
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926617061?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1926617061
From Nina Schuyler
"The Bob Society" in The Meadowland Review, http://www.themeadowlandreview.com/spring2010/, the Spring 2010 issue. Her short short, "Collision," will be included in the Able Muse Anthology. It was originally published: http://www.ablemuse.com/v7/fiction/nina-schuyler/collision
From John Carroll
His short story "Some Come Running Through" appears in the current issue of Versal -
http://www.wordsinhere.com/
From Mitchell Waldman
FACE IN THE MOON, by Mitchell Waldman, is the story of a young man's journey down the winding road of first love and self-discovery. Check out A FACE IN THE MOON at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595091075?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0595091075
From Amye Archer
Amye is a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction Magazine blog contest. You can read the entry at her blog at
http://amyearcher.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/reality-bites/.
The winner will be announced in the upcoming issue #39 of CNF.
From Corey Mesler
Unprecedented publishing happenstance: Corey Mesler has two new novels released on the exact same day (March 31, 2010) from two different presses. They are Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press) and The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press). Along with Corey's other books, they can be ordered signed or inscribed through his bookstore, www.burkesbooks.com.
From Margaret Karmazin
Margaret Karmazin’s YA Fantasy novel, REPLACING FIONA, has been published by etreasurespublishing.com. Imagine being sixteen again without losing the worldly knowledge gained from age. In Replacing Fiona, a "dead" ninety-four year old woman accepts such an assignment, finds herself in the body of a teenage suicide and attends the girl's senior year of high school. Only now, it is 2004 instead of 1928 and she is acutely aware that her spiritual growth and possibly the fate of the world depend upon her success. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607026392?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1607026392
From Adnan Mahmutovic
Adnan's story 'First Day of Night" won second place in Biscuit Publishing competition
http://biscuitpublishing.com/index.html
His novel THINNER THAN A HAIR, won the Cinnamon Press competition and was recently released to great reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Kirkus Discoveries (http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/fiction/adnan-mahmutovic/thinner-hair/). The novella is an amazingly poignant and compelling narrative about a young Bosnian Muslim woman caught up in the 1990s Balkan crisis. You can purchase it here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907090037?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907090037
From Jess C Scott
Jess's novel PORCELAIN (contemporary poetry + fiction), a collection/portfolio of new and previously published short stories, poems, essays, and artwork offers a personal draft of the author’s navigation through a world that is fantastical, offbeat, ironic, unexpected, and true. Jess’s work exudes pure honesty that deserves praise." – RCGNTN Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TFEO5A?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003TFEO5A
From Kim Wilson
Kim's novel THE SPICES IN LIFE now available. Christine Veronica Webbster has outlived her cruel parents just to have her emotional after-effects predict her actions and reactions moving forward. The spices that flavor her adult life forces a nervous breakdown on her that she should have seen coming. Having to deal with securing multi-million dollar accounts, for her three companies, to feed her passion to succeed, her inner forewarning of issues to come can only be answered by one, and his name is Grim Reaper. The Spices In Life is available at ebooksforpleasure.com http://www.ebooksforpleasure.com/the-spices-in-life.html
From Robert Wexelblatt
Robert's novel ZUBLINKA AMONG WOMEN, winner of the 2008 Indie First Prize for Fiction is available online at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979963427?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979963427
From Colin James
Colin James has a new chapbook of poems published by Thunderclap Press. The book cover is a painting by an old friend, the Scottish Landscape artist John Mackenzie.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-violence-of-saints/10891126
From Myra King
Myra King’s short story, "The Black Horse", was shortlisted for the prestigious Glass Woman Prize
http://www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm
Her short story collection, CITY PADDOCK, was published by Ginninderra Press
http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/
The royalties from this book will be donated to the Creswick Light Horse Troop. This organization keeps the Light Horse memory alive and helps to save unwanted racehorses. Myra also has two short stories coming up in the print anthology, An Eclectic Slice of Life www.darkprintspress.com.au published by Craig Bezant.
From Jennifer Hollie Bowles
Jennifer's e-chapbook - EVERY MOMENT BREAKDOWN - is now published by Gold Wake Press and available here: http://goldwakepress.org/2010/04/06/jennifer-hollie-bowles-every-moment-breakdown/
Congratulations Everyone!
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
From Michael Chacko Daniels
Michael Chacko Daniels from The Battered Suitcase, Autumn 2009, has had some success with what he says are his "bits of entertainment." Grey Sparrow Journal published five senryu (The Twig, The Spreading Chestnut Tree, Buffers, Evening in San Francisco, and Waiting for the Taxidermist) in Issue #5, Spring 2010:
http://greysparrowpress.net/SPRINGPOETRYDaniel2010.aspx
From Doug Matthewson
Two of his pieces - "The Neighborhood" and "Babbage's Messaging Engine And Problems Arising From It's Use" were included in The Boston Literary Magazine Summer 2010 print issue. Available www.bostonliterarymagazine.com
From Jade Sylvan
Her "Drunk Driving" is in the June issue of Word Riot, http://www.wordriot.org/archives/1354
"Gold Dust" and "The Tower" are both in the Spring/Summer issue of the new OVS Magazine.
http://www.ovsmag.com/ovs-magazine-volume-2.html
From Kyle Hemmings
Check out Kyle Hemmings's new online chapbook of short fiction: You Could Pass for Lana Turner at Silkworm Ink Press - http://www.silkwormsink.com/chapbook_18.html
From David McLean
David McLean has a new full length poetry collection, Laughing At Funerals, on sale at Small Press Distribution.
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981184456/laughing-at-funerals.aspx
From Sean Patrick Hill
The Imagined Field, has been published by Paper Kite Press, and can be found here.
"Some poems are cast, some are scattered, some are written, some are crafted, some are teased out and some emerge as if by magic. The poems in Sean Patrick Hill's collection The Imagined Field can best be described as wrought, with all the blisters, callouses, sweat, smoke, and force the word carries with it. If you're looking to feel that thunk in the solar plexus you get when you see a hawk dive, tumble, tussle, and take flight with a field mouse in its claws, this is the book for you." Reviews are at elimae and The Line Break.
http://www.wordpainting.com/shop.shtml
From Gary Beck
His Book "Expectations" now available at Amazon-- EXPECTATIONS is a passionate exploration of people struggling to cope with a difficult, demanding life. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984098208
From V. Ulea
SNAIL - Formed from memories of dreams of memories, Snail is journey of life, introspection, and familial connectitude. Its seven interconnected stories are bonded by mood, plot, a single set of characters, and heart felt emotion; yet separated in a very dream like fashion by time, space, and logic of reality. Beautifully adorned by the artworks of Irene Frenkel, this book is not simply a work to be read and considered, it is a texturized and exhilarating cosmic dance for all the senses
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926617061?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1926617061
From Nina Schuyler
"The Bob Society" in The Meadowland Review, http://www.themeadowlandreview.com/spring2010/, the Spring 2010 issue. Her short short, "Collision," will be included in the Able Muse Anthology. It was originally published: http://www.ablemuse.com/v7/fiction/nina-schuyler/collision
From John Carroll
His short story "Some Come Running Through" appears in the current issue of Versal -
http://www.wordsinhere.com/
From Mitchell Waldman
FACE IN THE MOON, by Mitchell Waldman, is the story of a young man's journey down the winding road of first love and self-discovery. Check out A FACE IN THE MOON at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595091075?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0595091075
From Amye Archer
Amye is a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction Magazine blog contest. You can read the entry at her blog at
http://amyearcher.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/reality-bites/.
The winner will be announced in the upcoming issue #39 of CNF.
From Corey Mesler
Unprecedented publishing happenstance: Corey Mesler has two new novels released on the exact same day (March 31, 2010) from two different presses. They are Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press) and The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press). Along with Corey's other books, they can be ordered signed or inscribed through his bookstore, www.burkesbooks.com.
From Margaret Karmazin
Margaret Karmazin’s YA Fantasy novel, REPLACING FIONA, has been published by etreasurespublishing.com. Imagine being sixteen again without losing the worldly knowledge gained from age. In Replacing Fiona, a "dead" ninety-four year old woman accepts such an assignment, finds herself in the body of a teenage suicide and attends the girl's senior year of high school. Only now, it is 2004 instead of 1928 and she is acutely aware that her spiritual growth and possibly the fate of the world depend upon her success. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607026392?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1607026392
From Adnan Mahmutovic
Adnan's story 'First Day of Night" won second place in Biscuit Publishing competition
http://biscuitpublishing.com/index.html
His novel THINNER THAN A HAIR, won the Cinnamon Press competition and was recently released to great reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Kirkus Discoveries (http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/fiction/adnan-mahmutovic/thinner-hair/). The novella is an amazingly poignant and compelling narrative about a young Bosnian Muslim woman caught up in the 1990s Balkan crisis. You can purchase it here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907090037?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907090037
From Jess C Scott
Jess's novel PORCELAIN (contemporary poetry + fiction), a collection/portfolio of new and previously published short stories, poems, essays, and artwork offers a personal draft of the author’s navigation through a world that is fantastical, offbeat, ironic, unexpected, and true. Jess’s work exudes pure honesty that deserves praise." – RCGNTN Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TFEO5A?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003TFEO5A
From Kim Wilson
Kim's novel THE SPICES IN LIFE now available. Christine Veronica Webbster has outlived her cruel parents just to have her emotional after-effects predict her actions and reactions moving forward. The spices that flavor her adult life forces a nervous breakdown on her that she should have seen coming. Having to deal with securing multi-million dollar accounts, for her three companies, to feed her passion to succeed, her inner forewarning of issues to come can only be answered by one, and his name is Grim Reaper. The Spices In Life is available at ebooksforpleasure.com http://www.ebooksforpleasure.com/the-spices-in-life.html
From Robert Wexelblatt
Robert's novel ZUBLINKA AMONG WOMEN, winner of the 2008 Indie First Prize for Fiction is available online at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979963427?ie=UTF8&tag=vagabpress-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979963427
From Colin James
Colin James has a new chapbook of poems published by Thunderclap Press. The book cover is a painting by an old friend, the Scottish Landscape artist John Mackenzie.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-violence-of-saints/10891126
From Myra King
Myra King’s short story, "The Black Horse", was shortlisted for the prestigious Glass Woman Prize
http://www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm
Her short story collection, CITY PADDOCK, was published by Ginninderra Press
http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/
The royalties from this book will be donated to the Creswick Light Horse Troop. This organization keeps the Light Horse memory alive and helps to save unwanted racehorses. Myra also has two short stories coming up in the print anthology, An Eclectic Slice of Life www.darkprintspress.com.au published by Craig Bezant.
From Jennifer Hollie Bowles
Jennifer's e-chapbook - EVERY MOMENT BREAKDOWN - is now published by Gold Wake Press and available here: http://goldwakepress.org/2010/04/06/jennifer-hollie-bowles-every-moment-breakdown/
Congratulations Everyone!
Writer Promotion - Great Website Optimization Tool
hor I know I promised you a brush up on press releases, and I promise to deliver. I've been up to my ears in the slush pile, for both Vagabondage Press and Little Episodes and making sure our kind contributors get their submissions viewed in a reasonable time frame. But I promise, I'll follow up with some ideas on how to use press releases to promote your work.
In the meantime, I wanted to introduce you a great little tool to help you optimize your author website. It's call Website Grader, and it will scan your site and report back with ideas where it can be improved. It'll check on the quality of your blog, your backlinks, your content readibility and your indexed pages on Google. Just plug in your URL and you'll get some great ideas on how to improve your website presence.
Vagabondage Press only got 95/100, so I guess I better get back to work!
Find it at: http://websitegrader.com/
In the meantime, I wanted to introduce you a great little tool to help you optimize your author website. It's call Website Grader, and it will scan your site and report back with ideas where it can be improved. It'll check on the quality of your blog, your backlinks, your content readibility and your indexed pages on Google. Just plug in your URL and you'll get some great ideas on how to improve your website presence.
Vagabondage Press only got 95/100, so I guess I better get back to work!
Find it at: http://websitegrader.com/
Monday, July 12, 2010
Vagabondage Press News
VAGABONDAGE PRESS CELEBRATES 2ND ANNIVERSARY WITH DIGITAL AND PRINT
The Summer 2010 issue of The Battered Suitcase is now live and free to read online and marks our second anniversary. We're celebrating by expanding into eBooks and Print books and with a brand new look online.
We've got some great fiction from GK Wuori, Nicola Monaghan, Eric Fershtman, Josh Howatt, Jamie Guiney, Ken Tighe and much more. Brilliant artworks from Nancy Calef, Meredith Krell and Claudio Parentela (just to start). Non-Fiction contributors are Jodi Eichelberger, JM Huscher, and Mary Whitsell. We have an indulgent excess of of lovely poetry by Alison Ross, G Malin Wagnon, Lyn Lifshin and many many more.
We're celebrating our anniversary by bringing The Suitcase to you in beautiful print; three editions – the full color full edition, the text-only budget edition and the full color art-only edition.
http://www.vagabondagepress.com/
THE BATTERED SUITCASE ON KINDLE
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Download The Battered Suitcase and take it anywhere:
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VAGABONDAGE BOOKS
We are currently seeking novella and novel length manuscripts for development, publishing and distribution. See our submissions guidelines at the website for details.
LYROTICA SERIES
VBP is also developing a series of anthologies of literary erotica for release in time for Valentine's Day 2011. Submissions are still open – so if you've got an intelligent and erotic story to share, please see our guidelines online.
Our very special guest editor is none other than noted Creative Loafing Sex, Love and Relationships columnist Rebecca Ammon. You can check out her particulars by visiting her column online at http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/rebecca/
NEWS FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
LIVE EVENTS
IN LONDON, UK:
Little Episodes Late Night July Featuring Carl Barat, and Battered Suitcase contributor Kieran Leonard...
Little Episodes holds a monthly "Late Night Episode" in London every month and features new and established talent as well as providing a venue for socializing and networking. The July Late Night will be held at the famous 100 Club and features Carl Barat (of the Libertines), Kieran Leonard and The Penny Ballads as well as an interactive art project for all attendees. Check it out here:
http://www.littleepisodes.org/events/little-episodes-presents-julys
and here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129766160388987
IN NEW YORK, US:
From Patrick Gallagher - Animal Farm Reading Series
The amazing ANIMAL FARM READING SERIES announces a SPECIAL FIELD TRIP EDITION for THURSDAY, JULY 15: This time the show will take place at BAR 82, at 136 2nd Ave (at St. Mark's Place). The EVENT begins at 8 pm and is FREE.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133860806644540&ref=mf
IN NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA:
From Magdalena Ball – Book Signing & Reading
Australian Writer and creator of thecompulsivereader.com, Magdalena Ball is holding a Book Signing and Reading, at Angus & Robertson, Newcastle Mall, Shop 2/147 Hunter Street, Newcastle on Tuesday 27 July, 10:30 to 11:30am. Magdalena will autograph and read sensual, intriguing poems from her latest book Repulsion Thrust, which “explores the intersection between science and life, quantum theory and love, molecules and gamma rays and despair and betrayal.” (Sue Bond, M/C Reviews) For more info on Magdalena Ball or Repulsion Thrust visit http://www.magdalenaball.com/
IN BRUSSELLS
From Adnan Mahmutovic – Live Reading
Adnan will be reading his Battered Suitcase contribution 'Mind's Garbage' at the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education conference in Brussels in December
http://www.mariehaps.be/recherche-scientifique//baahe2010/
The Summer 2010 issue of The Battered Suitcase is now live and free to read online and marks our second anniversary. We're celebrating by expanding into eBooks and Print books and with a brand new look online.
We've got some great fiction from GK Wuori, Nicola Monaghan, Eric Fershtman, Josh Howatt, Jamie Guiney, Ken Tighe and much more. Brilliant artworks from Nancy Calef, Meredith Krell and Claudio Parentela (just to start). Non-Fiction contributors are Jodi Eichelberger, JM Huscher, and Mary Whitsell. We have an indulgent excess of of lovely poetry by Alison Ross, G Malin Wagnon, Lyn Lifshin and many many more.
We're celebrating our anniversary by bringing The Suitcase to you in beautiful print; three editions – the full color full edition, the text-only budget edition and the full color art-only edition.
http://www.vagabondagepress.com/
THE BATTERED SUITCASE ON KINDLE
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VAGABONDAGE BOOKS
We are currently seeking novella and novel length manuscripts for development, publishing and distribution. See our submissions guidelines at the website for details.
LYROTICA SERIES
VBP is also developing a series of anthologies of literary erotica for release in time for Valentine's Day 2011. Submissions are still open – so if you've got an intelligent and erotic story to share, please see our guidelines online.
Our very special guest editor is none other than noted Creative Loafing Sex, Love and Relationships columnist Rebecca Ammon. You can check out her particulars by visiting her column online at http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/rebecca/
NEWS FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
LIVE EVENTS
IN LONDON, UK:
Little Episodes Late Night July Featuring Carl Barat, and Battered Suitcase contributor Kieran Leonard...
Little Episodes holds a monthly "Late Night Episode" in London every month and features new and established talent as well as providing a venue for socializing and networking. The July Late Night will be held at the famous 100 Club and features Carl Barat (of the Libertines), Kieran Leonard and The Penny Ballads as well as an interactive art project for all attendees. Check it out here:
http://www.littleepisodes.org/events/little-episodes-presents-julys
and here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129766160388987
IN NEW YORK, US:
From Patrick Gallagher - Animal Farm Reading Series
The amazing ANIMAL FARM READING SERIES announces a SPECIAL FIELD TRIP EDITION for THURSDAY, JULY 15: This time the show will take place at BAR 82, at 136 2nd Ave (at St. Mark's Place). The EVENT begins at 8 pm and is FREE.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133860806644540&ref=mf
IN NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA:
From Magdalena Ball – Book Signing & Reading
Australian Writer and creator of thecompulsivereader.com, Magdalena Ball is holding a Book Signing and Reading, at Angus & Robertson, Newcastle Mall, Shop 2/147 Hunter Street, Newcastle on Tuesday 27 July, 10:30 to 11:30am. Magdalena will autograph and read sensual, intriguing poems from her latest book Repulsion Thrust, which “explores the intersection between science and life, quantum theory and love, molecules and gamma rays and despair and betrayal.” (Sue Bond, M/C Reviews) For more info on Magdalena Ball or Repulsion Thrust visit http://www.magdalenaball.com/
IN BRUSSELLS
From Adnan Mahmutovic – Live Reading
Adnan will be reading his Battered Suitcase contribution 'Mind's Garbage' at the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education conference in Brussels in December
http://www.mariehaps.be/recherche-scientifique//baahe2010/
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