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The Write Room September 19, 2009
In this issue
FICTION
Anthony Bromberg
She Had Always Been a Dog Person
Jane Hertenstein
Bitter Fruit
J. Eric Miller
The Cell
INTERVIEWS
Jennifer Escalona
Writing on the Edge of Controversy: An Interview with J. Eric Miller
Sean Patrick Leary
Peter Mclaren Captures the Faces of North Vietnam
Dallas Woodburn
“Renaissance Writer”An Interview with Steve Almond
NON FICTION MEMOIR
Diane Cameron
Iambic Pentameter and the Meter of War
Jeanne Grant
The Woman At The Gate
POETRY
Neil Carpathios
This Is Not a Poem, Damn It
What Happens Under the Overpass
The Function of Sadness
Sweetness
Questions
Cameron Conaway
Fighting In Phone Booths
Tomer Konowiecki
To All Ephemera
The Nodding Seamen
He Must Have Known
We’re Not Stopping Here
Believe Science
Patrick Pomeroy
Losing You
Temporal
Sean Rogers
Light Hearted
Heavy Hearted
Askold Skalsky
Colloque Aux Folies Bergere
The Persistence Of Summer
Les Adieux
Gorgo*
Elephant Herds
Testing Time
Cows
Allison Whittenberg
Water’s Wine
Life Slips
PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Mclaren
Faces in Time: North Vietnam
Introduction
This issue of The Write Room was inspired by The American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Books week, which is September 26- October 3. After reading the ALA’s list of frequently challenged and banned classics, I began to ask myself how we, as writers and publishers, deal with controversial subject matter. What do we hope to accomplish when writing about emotionally charged subject matter?
I believe the goal is simply to advance a conversation, even if it is our own internal dialogue. Whatever the issue, writers want to challenge the reader to think about what they have just read. Regrettably, independent thought can be a frightening proposition to those who seek to control the minds of others by controlling their access to written material.
Not all the work in this issue of The Write Room deals with controversial topics, but all, I hope, are thought- provoking. Among the more challenging pieces in this issue are works that address war, homelessness, terrorism, as well as race and class relations.
In this issue, author J Eric Miller’s fiction piece, The Cell, places the reader in the mind of a young Lebanese terrorist as he goes through his last hours prior to fulfilling his mission. In the accompanying interview, contributing writer JenniferDunn speaks with J Eric Miller on the topic of Writing On the Edge of Controversy.
Poet Neil Carthpathios expands our understanding of homelessness as he channels the experiences of a dispossessed man in What Goes On Under the Overpass.
Woman At the Gate, by author Jeanne Grant, reveals the invisible apartheid and the suffocating paranoia of a privately patrolled South African community.
Diane Cameron explores the mystery and motivation of a murder committed by her stepfather, a World War II veteran, in Iambic Pentameter and the Meter of War, as Cameron seeks answers in the recollections of other WWII veterans.
For his photo essay, Faces in Time, photographer Peter Mclaren traveled to the Sa Pa valley of North Vietnam to capture the serene faces of the Hmong people, visages starkly different from those commongly associated with Vietnam and its turbulent history. Writer and poet Sean Patrick Leary profiles the project in his piece, Peter Mclaren Captures the Faces of North Vietnam.
Enjoy,
Joellen Kubiak-Woodall
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Awards, Contests, and Competitions
for November 2009 updated 10/5/09 (more)
Awards, Contests, and Competitions
for September 2009
Bad Poetry Contest: presented by Shakespeare’s Tavern Atlanta, GeorgiaWe Need Your Bad Poems and You Need the Free Stuff We’re Going to Give You! (read more)..
Awards, Contests, and Competitions
for October 2009
American Poetry Review Honickman First Book Prize. A prize of $3,000 and publication by American Poetry Review is given annually for (read more)…Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships and Residencies
for September and October 2009
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. $50,000 to the winning poet to (read more)…Literary Events
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