Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat. I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

I just got finished listening to panel F138, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers and Writers in the Field. Abby Beckel, Randall Brown, Kim Chinquee, Sherrie Flick, Robert Shapard, and Lex Williford participated in the panel. Given the high attendance, many of you   Read More ...

Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover reads at the Omnidawn and Ahsanta Magnolia Ballroom Read

Sitting up in the Peak lounge, 26th floor of the Hyatt Regency enjoying to view and trying to finalize my plan for tomorrow. I have been hearing some people talking about a dozen author reading fom Omnidawn Publishing, at the Magnolia Hotel Ballroom 17th and Stout. Bar from 7-8 if   Read More ...

So many people are being kind enough, as we wind up to the conference, to answer my questions. Today, we are talking with the founding editor of mudlucious press, and do check out their awesome website here http://www.mudlusciouspress.com.  So here is my brief interview with J. A. Tyler! Mudlucious press   Read More ...

Vivian Dorsel editor at upstreet, was kind enough to answer some of my questions. For those that are curious, upstreet is going to be at the bookfair (K21) and will be having a Thursday night event at 7pm, 910 Arts Event Gallery. 910 Santa Fe Drive, and if you haven’t   Read More ...

I promised to preview this panel from two perspectives, here is Sherrie Flick’s voice on the same questions. Sherrie, BTW has an excellent novel out, and will be doing signings as noted below. I think our readers might not be familiar with flash fiction. I’m defining it as works under   Read More ...