Huge congrats to instructor Nick Arvin ("City of Mary" published in the Missouri Review), and workshoppers Regina Drexler ("Stealing Mannequins" published in West Branch), and Lia Woodall ("Torn in Two" published in the South Loop Review), whose stories and essays are recognized on The Best American Short Stories and Essays notables list!
Double Kudos to Jesaka Long and Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn, whose screenplays have both been named as Second Rounders in the 2014 Austin Film Festival's Screenplay & Teleplay Competition.
Lighthouse young writers' instructor Andrea Bobotis is the runner-up for the 2014 James Jones First Novel Fellowship with her manuscript, The Middlings. Woot woot!
BOOK NEWS
Phyllis Barber's book, To the Mountain, One Mormon Woman's Search for Spirit, hit number one on Quest Book's 20 Bestsellers List!
Lydia Gil's bilingual middle-grade novel, Letters from Heaven / Cartas del Cielo, will be released on October 31.
Lit Fest visiting faculty Thomas McNeely's award-winning novel Ghost Horse is out now and garnering great reviews. Hear him read and discuss it at Story of a Book on October 25 at Lighthouse. Or check out his one-day workshop here.
Lighthouse visiting and regular faculty Ben Whitmer (Cry Father), Matt Thomas (We Are Not Ourselves), Joel Warner (The Humor Code), and Cheryl Strayed (Wild), are all over the local best seller list! Congrats to all.
PUBLISHED WORKS: MEMBERS AND WORKSHOPPERS
Lydia Gil's story "El estreno de Nina" appeared in the July/August issue of Iguana magazine.
A short essay Judith Gelt read in Grand Lake, "I'm Using You," is now published in Referential Magazine! Congrats, Judith!
Huzzah for Cara Lopez Lee, whose creative nonfiction piece "Which Words Come Last" is featured in the latest issue of Rivet, "the journal of writing that risks."
Jennifer Wortman's flash-fiction piece "The Speech" appears in the latest issue of PANK.
Alisa A. Gaston-Linn will have essays appear in two anthologies: Untold Stories to be published in October, and Homes coming out in spring 2015. Congrats!
Lighthouse program associate Kate Barrett's piece, "Thirty Dollars," appears in the current issue of Thuglit, available here!
A selection of poems from Teow Lim Goh's manuscript on the Angel Island Immigration Station will appear in the December issue of PANK.
In October, Abby Templeton-Greene will have 10 poems, written in both Spanish and English, in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.
Phyllis Barber's essay "Bounty" appears in the new anthology, Utah Reflections: Story from the Wasatch Front, and her essay "Great Basin DNA" will appear in the fall Issue of Weber: The Contemporary West.
Kudos to JL Fields, whose essay "A Well Rounded Vegan" appeared in Running, Eating, Thinking: A Vegan Anthology. Fields is the vegan dining reviewer for Colorado Springs Gazette and her next book,Vegan Pressure Cooking, will be released in January.
Joel Sayres' short story "180 Nights" was selected as the fiction winner in the Denver Bar Association's 2014 Arts & Literature Contest after appearing in the DBA publication, The Docket.
Keep up the good work!
The Lighthouse High-Five Committee
