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Visit our page on Facebook www.facebook.com ATTN: FLP AUTHORS: ALL OF OUR AMAZON.COM BOOK LISTINGS WILL BE DOWN UNTIL AUGUST 1. WE ARE TAKING OUR ANNUAL VACATION AND ALL OF OUR AMAZON LISTINGS WILL BE ON VACATION SETTINGS. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE OUR NEW RELEASES ALL NEW RELEASES ARE STILL AVAILABLE FROM OUR "NEW RELEASES" PAGE. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ` • Anita Gevaudan Byerly will read from her chapbook, October Light,
Anita Gevaudan Byerly will read with poets, Rosaly DeMaios Roffman and Ellen McGrath Smith on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at Hemingway's Cafe, 3911 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. ` • Sauci Churchill has been selected to read in the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C, July 22, 7:30 p.m. She will read poems from FLP books, Running Down Division Street and The Red Fin. Reading will take place outdoors but there is an alternative rain date location, 6th Presbyterian Church on 16th Street, Washington, D.C, where a reception follows the reading. ` • Donald Levering The Kingdom of Ignorance July 25, 2008 7:00 PM Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico ` • Anushka Anastasia Solomon uthor of Please, God, Don't Let Me Write Like A Woman is one of 12 authors Amnesty International UK is paying tribute to at an exhibition at the Edinburgh Int. Book Festival 2008. The exhibition is called 'Heroes and Heroines'. August 1-27, 2008, Amnesty International "Heroes and Heroines' exhibition" ` • Stephanie Coyne DeGhett will be reading from her chapbook No Longer any Place But Here at the Old Forge Public Library in Old Forge, NY on August 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm. She will be reading with poet Roger Mitchell. ` • Carolyn Howard-Johnson will read from her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, Monday evening, Aug. 11, at 7:30 pm at the Village Bookstore 1049 Swarthmore Ave, Pacific Palisades, CA. Poets Alice Pero and Lois P. Jones sponsor ongoing featured readings called Moonday. Learn more at www.home.earthlink.net/~pero/moonday.html. Tracings was named a Best Read by Compulsive Reader and given the award of Excellence by Military Writers Society of America. ` • Shawn Jones, author of Womb Rain,
author of Giving in to the Smoke) ` • Collin Kelley Reading from After the Poison at the following venues:
• Lisa C. Taylor , author of Talking to Trees,
` • Gary L. Lark will read from Men at the Gates in Lane Literary Guild’s Windfall series at the Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave, Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday, September 16th. Joining Gary will be Susan Denning, Oregon Book Awards and literary fellowships program director for Literary Arts of Oregon and editor of Caffeine Destiny. ` • Gladys L. Henderson, author of Eclipse of Heaven, will be reading at the following venues:
Molloy College, Wilbur Arts Center, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike, Rockville Centre, New York. www.molloyedu.
` • Rachel Bunting, author of Ripe Again, will be reading at the following venue:
` • Glenda Barrett, author of WHEN THE SAP RISES, will read and sign books during "First Saturday," at Phillips & Lloyd Book Shop; Main Street; Hayesville, NC; on Saturday, October 4, 2008; 10:00 AM--1:00 PM. ` • Brenda Kay Ledford, author of SACRED FIRE, will read and sign books during "First Saturday," at Phillips & Lloyd Book Shop; Main Street; Hayesville, NC; on Saturday, October 4, 2008; 10:00 AM--1:00 PM. ` • Howard Stein Reading and signing Theme and Variations 16 October 2008, 6:30-8 PM Full Circle Bookstore 50 South Pennsylvania Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73118 ` • Carol Hamilton, author of SHOTS ON ,
The Verandas, 108 E League St., Burnit, Texas, (512-715-0190 ).
The Boys and Girls Club, 700 Northington, Burnit Texas (512-756-1444).
• Bob Brooks, author of A Story Anyone Could Stick To, will be reading • Charles W. Pratt, author of Still Here, winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, will be reading at The Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, on Sunday, November 2 at 3 p.m. He will be joined by 10 other Concord Poetry Center members who have published with the press: Bob Brooks, A Story Anyone Could Stick To Polly Brown, Each Thing Torn from Any of Us Helen Marie Casey, Fragrance Upon His Lips Julia Lisella, Love Song Hiroshima Maura MacNeil, A History of Water Gary Metras, Francis d’Assisi 2008 Kathy Nilsson, The Abattoir Suzanne Owens, In the Lake’s Eye and Harvesting Ice Susan Edwards Richmond, Birding in Winter bg Thurston, Saving the Lamb The event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors. A reception and book signing will follow. Directions at www.concordpoetry.org. ` NOTE TO FLP; Author's Anamorphy a Journal and Anamorphy Weekly Podcast, is always looking for both Poets with new books/chapbooks toreview, poems for magazine, and authors to interview or read for ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. Recent winners and notables: Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air won the 2007 Belles Lettres Book of the Year award by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC. Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only) Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report. |
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