November, 2009: Serena Toma continues her run! The Stray Branch just accepted four poems from her due out some time in 2010. They are entitled "The Lovers", "Seer Psalm# 5", "Lightning Rod", and "The Waiting Room."
October, 2009: Serena Tome is a veritable Energizer Bunny! Her poem "Rilke's Eye Lids" was accepted by Sententia Journal. It is a print journal and will publish its inaugural issue May/June 2010.
Shoots and Vines accepted "I want" for its print issue due out this week.
Two poems, "Flaming Sheets" and "The Color Red," were accepted by Differentia Press for its anthology due out in July 2010.
The Muse Cafe Quarterly has accepted three of her poems. "Seer Psalm#4: Forgiveness", "Stranger", and "A Schizo-Poetic Composition." The poems will come out at the end of this month online and in print.
Leaf Garden Press has published three of her poems, "Seer Psalms #1," "Seer Psalm #2," and "Corn Rows. "
Shoots and Vines accepted two of her poems, "Bubble Bath" and "Drum Beats Manifesting In Suffering." They will be out next month.
Calliope Nerve just accepted three of her poems. "Moon", "Equinox", and "Porcelain Doll." The poems will be out later this month.
Her poem "Play Date" was accepted for publication by tinfoildresses Poetry Journal. It is a print and E-journal. The poem will come out in the Fall issue.
In addition, Word Catalyst Magazine just accepted three of her poems, which will appear in its November issue. They are "Daddy's Girls", "Hadassah", and "Colors of Night". The website is www.wordcatalystmagazine.com. Kudos galore, Serena!
September, 2009: And Serena Tome scores another hit! Her poem "Heterocera Behaviors" was accepted for publication by Word Riot.
August, 2009: Even more success for Serena Tome! "Graduation Day" has been accepted for publication in the October issue of Full of Crow, and three of her poems, "Night", "War Economics", and "Blade" were accepted for publication in Counterexamplepoetics. They will be available in October/November. Please check out the site www.counterexamplepoetics.com.
July, 2009: Congratulations to Serena Tome, who is really on a roll! Her poem "Spring" has been accepted for publication by Foundling Review, and "Fall," accepted for publication by Boston Literary Magazine for their Fall issue! Further, two of her poems, "Warming" and "Healing," were accepted for publication by The Legendary, and her poem "Calls for Submission" was accepted for publication by Breadcrumb Scabs: A Poetry Journal. Nice going, Serena!
June, 2009: And another coup for Alex Franco! His poem, "Life Sentence," will be published in The Stray Branch's Spring/Summer 2010 issue! Congratulations!
Ellen Lindquist's micro-fiction "Busride Stranger" was just selected as an honoree in The Binnacle's Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition. (She was also an honoree in The Binnacle's 2007 contest.) Her piece was one of 57 chosen out of 900 submissions from twenty-one countries and six continents. http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/binnacle/short.html
(This makes the 10th flash fiction contest she's placed in.) She also has two new pieces ("Eskimo Pie Psychosis" and "Properly Pedigreed Snails") coming out in the Fall issue of Clockwise Cat: http://www.clockwisecat.blogspot.com/
Ellen's whimsical short-short "Committing a Foe Paw" (a true favorite of Gelia Dolcimascolo's) is up on Postcard Shorts at
http://www.postcardshorts.com/read-280.html. This was one we at WC had the privilege of critiquing and enjoying a few months back!
May, 2009: Alex Franco is on a roll! He won GPC's Academy of American Poets "University and College Poetry Prize"! Stellar, Alex!
April, 2009: GPC student Alex Franco's poem, "One of Those Girls," won first place in the poetry contest for the Woman in a Globalized Society Symposium, and his essay, "That'll be One and A Half Cadavers, Please," won a gold key on the regional level in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Contest. His short story, "For the Love of God," won second place in the High School Literary Arts Competition for fiction, and his flash fiction, "Writer's Nightmare," won second place in the Dunwoody Library Writing Contest. Congratulations, Alex! That's an impressive list!
Gelia Dolcimascolo, Marianne Patty and Aviva Stern will present Disappearing Edges, a month-long exhibition of original poetry, mixed media painting and sculpture at the Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338, as part of the April 2009 National Poetry Month observances.
Gelia is also exhibiting her work at the Taste of Poetry exhibition, held during the month of April, at the Georgia Perimeter Dunwoody Campus Library. Such multi-gifted people we have as part of the Writers' Circle!
March, 2009: Congratulations to Dan Beckett! His poem "Writing Checks" took Third Prize in the Atlanta Writers Club Fall Light Poetry Contest!
Ellen Lindquist has lots of publishing news! Her poem "Espresso Melancholy" appeared in the November, 2008 print issue of The Rambler.
Her literary parody "Our Contributors" was published in the online version of Swink Magazine in January, 2009. http://www.swinkmag.com/ellenlindquist.html
Her micro-fiction "The Confessional Strain" came out in Six by Six, Issue 2. http://issuu.com/sixsentences/docs/sixsixes2?mode=embed&documentId=090101074131-89eaafbfe1c44aa69636a846f792ba9e&layout=grey
Her flash essay "Washington Square Park Massacre" was picked up by Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and she was invited to do a Mr. Beller's reading in NYC.
Her haibun "Jane Austen Dawn" was published in the March, 2009 issue of Contemporary Haibun Online (cho). http://www.contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages51/Lindquist_Jane.html
It was also selected for reprint in cho's annual print anthology, Contemporary Haibun Volume 10.
Flashshot: Daily Genre Micro-Fiction accepted three of her micro-fictions: "Shirt Grief," "How the Shark Survived the Cretaceous Period" and "Bowled Over: A Tragedy in the Lanes."
Her flash fictions "Egyptian Mourning" and "The Elephant of Few Words" were published by one of her favorite online e-zines, Rumble.
Wow, Ellen, you have been a busy and successful lady!
February, 2009: GPC student Alex Franco's story "Smoke and Mirrors" won 1st place in the fiction category in the GPC College Wide Creative Writing Contest!
Congratulations, Alex, and welcome to the Writers' Circle!
December, 2008: Thanks to Danny Beckett, who provided up a spot of holiday cheer with his Rudolph the Irksome Writer, posted here! A good laugh always seems to put things in perspective!
Patricia Patterrson will discuss her book Uncertain Choices and sign copies Wednesday, December 10, 2008 from 11 am 2 pm, at the Colonial Bank, 3379
Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta 30326. Her website is ar http://patricia-patterson.com.
November, 2008: Suzanne Williams (pen name Suzanne Adair) has published Camp Follower (ISBN: 978-0-9785265-5-9), the third book of her mystery/suspense series set during the Southern theater of the Revolutionary War. The previous novels are Paper Woman (2006), and The Blacksmith's Daughter (2007), See her web site www.suzanneadair.com and Blog: www.suzanneadair.typepad.com
October, 2008: GPC Honors student Laura Hernandez' article, "Dunwoody's 'Team Crunk' Fights AIDS" appears as the lead article of the Health & Fitness section, The Chronicle, October 2008 issue. Nice job, Laura!
September 2008: Gelia Dolcimascolo read her poem "On Tenterhooks"at Kennesaw University Center on the 20th of Sept. at Poetry of the Golden Generation Celebration.
August, 2008: More kudos for Gelia Dolcimascolo! Two of her poems, “On Tenterhooks” and “Weeds,” have been accepted for publication in Poetry of the Golden Generation, Volume V (September 2008)!
May, 2008: Our Gelia Dolcimascolo wears many hats! Poet of reknown, Coordinator of the Writers' Circle, and Writing Tutor at Georgia Perimeter College's Learning and Tutoring Center. She was just named Tutor of the Semester for her outstanding work there. Congratulations, busy and successful lady!
April 2008: Kudos to Mary Grabar! Her short story, "Drowning," was a finalist for the Glimmer Train February 2008 Very Short Fiction Award! Congratulations!
February, 2008: Ellen Lindquist won 2nd place (out of about 200 entries) for "Peggy Guggenheim's Nose" in the Mumbai, India Caferati 300-word "Tall Story" Flash Fiction contest. http://www.caferati.com/contests/ Her name was announced on Feb. 11, Contests Night, in the David Sassoon Library Garden at the Kala Ghoda Association Arts Festival. This is a nine-day festival of gallery and pavement shows, exhibitions, literary events, film screenings, music concerts, dance performances, theatre shows, workshops, heritage walks, a food fiesta, and a buzzing street festival that brings in audiences and participants from all over the city. The prize was 2000 rupees (US $50.50). The check has to be cashed in India.
December, 2007: Mary Grabar's poem "Queen Anne's Lace," published in The St. Ann's Review, Summer, 2007, has been nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Prize! See http://www.saintannsreview.com/grabar.html. She also had three poems published in The Houston Literary Review, March 2008. Her short story, “Roosters,” appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Issue 40, June 21-August 21, 2007. Her poem “Summer of 69,” also was published by Saint Ann’s Review, Summer 2007. Her short story,
“The Dream,” appeared in Ballyhoo Stories , April 2007 She was the featured poet at Java Monkey Speaks last July, and participated in the Pedestal Magazine Reading Event (sponsored by Poets & Writers) at the Composition Gallery on November 3, 2007. What a busy and succesful lady you have been, Mary! Congratulations!
November, 2007: Ellen Linquist scores another bullseye! Her "A Mighty Herd of Doormen " has been published at Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/story.php?storyid=2107
Congratulations, Ellen! Her three flash fictions "Lost Cat," "Alien Son(s)" and "Change of Class and the Afterlife" will appear in 2008 in Flashshot: Daily Genre Micro-Fiction. This makes 15 stories in all that she's published in Flashshot!
October, 2007: Ellen Lindquist's flash fiction, "Daredevil," was selected as one of the finalists from over 600 submissions to The Binnacle's Ultra-Short Contest. The winning stories will be printed on individual cards and mailed out in a box, evidently (in keeping with the definition of the word "binnacle"). This makes the eighth flash fiction contest Ellen has placed in! See the full text at
September, 2007: Mary Frances' new venture as Contributing Writer to Senior News is off to a spectacular start! The September 2007 issue has four of her articles: "Writers in a Huddle," "Folk Fest," "A Season for Art," and "Poets Gather." Her article "Writers in a Huddle," about the Writers' Circle, led two new writers, Pamela and Ronald, to attend the September meeting! Nice going, Mary!
And Jenny Heaton has taken studio space at Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford and invites visitors! How exciting! See www.TanneryRowArtistColony.com.
August, 2007: The second annual Decatur Book Festival is coming up in a few weeks,
Volunteers are needed for the various booths: If you are interested in working at the
festival, please contact Lee Ann Harvey at 678-553-6548 or
August, 2007: Tutor Talk, the newsletter of the Learning and Tutoring Center at the GPC Dunwoody Campus, featured a front-page article and photo of the recent The Colors of Poetry events. We hope to have this newsletter online in the future, but free copies are available in the Center.
August, 2007: Ellen Lindquist's flash fiction, "Dare Devil," (about the travails of attending Catholic school) was selected as one of the finalists from over 600 submissions to The Binnacle's Ultra-Short Contest:
http://www.umm.maine.edu/binnacle/short_2007.asp The winning stories will be printed on individual cards and mailed out in a box, evidently (in keeping with the definition of the word binnacle...)
May, 2007: Welcome to new Writers' Circle member Kim Conrey! Kim's first person essay "Mine Unbelief" appeared in the February 2007 Oracle 20/20 Magazine, at http://oracle20-20.com/magazine/archives.php. Congratulations, Kim!
March, 2007: More national recognition for Georgia Perimeter College's
highly-regarded literary magazine, The Chattahoochee Review:
Editor-in-chief Marc Fitten has been invited to speak at the New York
City Public Library's main branch on May 8 as part of that
institution's "Periodically Speaking" series, in which editors of
"influential literary magazines" present works by emerging writers that
have been published in their journals. Sharing the stage with Marc on
this particular evening will be the editors of The Kenyon Review and
The Yale Review--exceptional company indeed!
February, 2007:
Great job, Ellen! Ellen Lindquist's micro-fiction "In the Hawaiian Garden Where I Came to Escape Feeling Sad" was selected by poet and scholar Michael Schmidt to teach a class in flash fiction in Fall '06 at the University of Glasgow http://www.creativewritingglasgow.co.uk/pp016.shtml).
Her three flash fictions "How a Rasta Alien Ruined My Marriage," "Through Gelid Space He Flew" and "Alien Tot" placed in the Escape Pod "Best Science Fiction Story in Under 300 Words Contest": http://escape.extraneous.org/
She sold the short-short "Real Fine People" to the Winter 2007 issue of DesiLit Magazine: http://www.desilit.org/magazine/ She also wrote a capsule book review of Natalie Danford's novel Inheritance for Paste magazine (in print issue on the newstands): http://www.pastemagazine.com/
Our Margie Deeb is hard at work putting the finishing touches on her
new The Beader's Guide to Color, due out in Spring, 2008! She is also the author of Beading Her Image and Out On A Loom. Way to go, Margie!
January, 2007: Gelia Dolcimascolo has had three more poems published -- "Discipline'" "Dirty Little Secret" and "She" -- in Poetry of the Golden Generation III (CAREing Center at Kennesaw U.). Another member, Marianne Patty, has two poems in the same issue. Congratulations!
October, 2006: Gelia Dolcimascolo's "Castoff" has been published in InkCollective (Three), a lit mag available in hard copy and on http:inkcollective.com !
October 10, 2006: The GPC Writers Institute sponsored a faculty open mic room during the October 10, 2006 Faculty Development Day. Beth Horton and Nancy McDaniel read poems in the second session. In case you missed the great readings, or want to listen again, both sessions are now available as podcasts from The Chattahoochee Review podcast site. You can either listen to the sessions directly from the webpage or subscribe to have them, along with all future podcasts, delivered to your computer and MP3 player. Make sure to take a listen to all of the other great podcasts available too! Go to
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September, 2006 Ellen Lindquist's flash fiction "The 200-Channel Panda" got top billing in the Summer, 2006 issue of the Kennesaw Review (http://www.kennesawreview.org/). Her flash fiction "Percival the Frog: A Brief Introduction" was published in Genie: 2 (the Summer 2006 issue). Genie, a new journal that features satirical works, is published in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Congratulations, Ellen!
A super Opinion Piece by Mary Grabar has been published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 4, 2006! See http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/0804edgrabar.html
Delighted to report that Nancy McDaniel's "Wings" was published in the April issue of Atlanta Intown for National Poetry Month. The poem is 2nd in queue. Here's the link: http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/features/ReaderPoetry.php
August, 2006: Gelia Dolcimascolo has three poems, “She,” “Discipline” and “Dirty Little Secrets,” accepted into the Kennesaw University CAREing Center’s Poetry of the Golden Generation. The celebration, on September 16, includes a luncheon, workshops and readings by winners of the juried contest. The publication will be available in the fall.
June, 2006: Mary Frances' photo montage "Rusty" is featured as the cover image of the 2006 Creative License, Georgia Perimeter College's literary and art student publication. Congratulations, Mary!
Our Ellen Lindquist must be bribing the Muse! Her three flash fictions "Muffin Tale," "Greenwich Village: 12:01 AM" and "Boys on Paper" will appear in a 2006 issue of the daily flash fiction e-journal, Flashshot: Daily Genre Flash Fiction
(http://flashshot.tripod.com/). Her flash fiction/prose poem "Er, (reluctant
pause), hello?" will be in the Pudding House anthology One Moment, Please
(http://www.puddinghouse.com/) Her short-short "Life in a Box" will be in
the June ’06 edition of Staccato Magazine, the new micro-fiction publication
published in Athens, Georgia (http://www.staccatomagazine.com/) She was listed in
the blurb for Flashshot: Year One: An Anthology of Genre Micro-Fiction on
the website Fictionwise eBooks as one of the "top writers" in her field.
After her illustrated poem "The Cat Had a Rap," first published in Mark
Sonnenfeld’s MaryMark Press was reprinted in the Serbian zine Open World,
Ellen Lindquist was invited by Ruggero Maggi, director of the Milan Art
Center, to submit poetic texts to the 2004 London Art Biennial. She
submitted the following illustrated flash fictions and/or poems, which were
first exhibited in a preview show in Milan, and then in the Mail Art at the
Mirror show in London: "Blue Apples," "We Melted and Were Transformed into
Candy," "Helios’ Eyes," "The Megalomania of the Nose," "Espresso
Melancholy," "How I Dearly Loved a Chocolate Mousse (and How He Adored Me)"
and "The Erstwhile Wire-Woman." (http://www.artemossa.it/mailartallospecchio.htm).
Ellen can be reached at ellen_lindquist@hotmail.com
Deborah Broocker's article "Easy Ways to Clean and Store It All" appears in the December, 2005 BirdTalk Magazine, advising their readers on how to keep the birdcage mess to a minimum. Deborah is a reference librarian at the GPC-Dunwoody Library. Congratulations, Deborah!
Dancing Without Walls, by Lee Harper, Poetry by Gelia Dolcimascolo, Design by Joffre Moore, Published by Lee Harper & Dancers (2004), has been reissued as a 25th anniversary pictorial celebration More kudos for Gelia!
Nancy McDaniel, Supervisor of the Georgia Perimeter College's Writing Center at the Dunwoody Campus, has had her article "When Mommy Goes to Heaven" accepted by Gilgal Publications. The article will be included in The Gilgal Meditations Series, which is a collection of articles on coping with different forms of grief. The book is due out in Spring 2006. Many congratulations, Nancy!
Creative License, Spring, 2005, has published Mary Frances' poem "While Mozart Plays" and two of her photographic studies, "Washing Clothes" and "Mayan Gravesite." Nice going, Mary!
Ellen Lindquist's essay "Homebound to Kurdistan" will appear in a 2005 issue of Under the Sun, a creative nonfiction journal published out of the Tennessee Technological University English Department in Cookeville, Tenn. Her mock-interview "Religious Studies Grad Turns Zookeeper" will appear in the Feb. 2005 issue of defenestration: http://www.defenestrationmag.net/. Three other flash fictions, "The Bearded Washing Machine Haunted the Coney Island Boardwalk," "Exponential Return" and "Through Gelid Space He Flew" will appear in Flashshot Daily Genre Flash Fiction after mid-March '05. http://flashshot.tripod.com/ To read an online interview with her, go to:
Wow, what a busy and successful lady! Congratulations!
The new Poetry of the Golden Generation, Vol. II (A Celebration of Southern Poets 50 Years of Age or Older,) published by Brumby Holdings, Inc., 2004, features poetry by several of our WC poets:
Jenny Bishop Heaton's "Generations Overlapping" and "In Winter;"Gelia Dolcimascolo's "Solo;"Susan Snowden's "I Should Have Knocked;"and
Mike Bucki's "Sexy Scrabble" and "Last Rites." Congratulations to all of you!
Gelia Dolcimascola's poem "Insult to Injury" has been published in the July-Sept 2003 issue of Prehospital Emergency Care:Official Journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians. Congrats, Gelia!
Writers' Circle regular Mary Frances took First Place in the Creative Non-Fiction category of the 17th Annual Writers' Forum for her piece, "Sticky with Dried Salt," and Third Place in the Poetry category for her poem, "Lost Thought." Congratulations, Mary!`
Mary Frances' vignette, "Letting Go," appears in the Spring, 2004 Creative License Magazine, published annually by Georgia Perimeter College!
Gelia Dolcimascolo's poem "Danse Poetica" has been re-printed in The Art of Music: A Collection of Writing, Vol. 2, compiled and edited by Elizaeth C. Axford, M.A., Piano Press (www.pianopress.com)
