Dear Writer:
It’s simple physics: The early days of fall often see a rise in our collective mood at Lighthouse, mostly based on the accumulation of good news from members and faculty. So please join us in cheering the many who have had recent breakthroughs in the art of writing and storytelling.
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Faculty member Erika T. Wurth has learned that her forthcoming-in-days book, White Horse, will be an Indie Next pick for the month of November (along with some of our favorite visiting authors, Ross Gay and George Saunders). Get the book next Thursday, and check out her website for news of upcoming readings and events. Yay, Erika!
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We’re all bursting with pride over Lighthouse faculty member and Book Project graduate Twanna LaTrice Hill’s play, “Love Multiplied,” which debuted at Phamaly’s Vox Vergere. The series of one-acts got this great review from our own Lisa Kennedy. Meanwhile, longtime member Michele Finn Johnson’s award-winning short story collection, Development Times Vary, should be available to order from The University of Arkansas Press on 11/7. Way to go, you two!
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Recent Book Project alum Jenée Skinner won the Michigan Quarterly Review's Jesmyn Ward Prize for her short story (selected by Ward herself), "Fields Laid Bare." The story appeared in this summer’s issue of the magazine. Current Book Project member Candice May won 2nd prize in Carve Magazine's 2022 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest for her story, "A Rugged Border." Alum Amanda Boldenow had a short story, "Joshua Told the Children to Shout," published in Bourbon Penn, and Carolyn Flynn’s essay, "What Happens Next," was published in Under the Gum Tree. The essay was a spinoff from Boundless, the memoir Carolyn wrote in the Book Project, which was longlisted for both the 2021 Mslexia International Memoir Prize and the 2022 First Pages Prize. Meanwhile, Book Project alum Brooke Tarperning has seen her novel Worse than Death win the Writers’ League of Texas competition for mystery novels and was named a finalist for the Killer Nashville 2022 Best Investigator award.
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Poetry Collective alum Marilyn K. Moody published quite a few poems recently, including “Lockjaw and Green Beans” in Unbroken, and “Cold” in The Solitary Plover, “Muskmelon Juice,” in Of Rust and Glass, and “Aunt Bertha Visits Denver,” in the Poetry Society of Colorado Centennial Anthology.
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Lit Fest advanced class attendee Marisa Crane’s debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself, will come out in January from Catapult. Way to go, Marisa! Meanwhile, advanced workshop alum Gina DeMillo Wagoner won the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Prize with her long-form essay, "Following Floodlights Instead of the Moon." Georgia English, who’s taken regular workshops and Lit Fest advanced classes, has completed a memoir in essays, three of which have been placed in literary journals. The Chautauqua Review recently published the essay “Patterson’s Curse”; “Ghosts” comes out in the fall issue of CrazyHorse, and The Potomac Review will publish “How Are Her Spirits?” Yippee to all!
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Katherine Indermaur's first book, I|I was chosen by Kazim Ali to win the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize at Seneca Review Books. I|I will be published on November 15 and is available for preorder now. Katherine is grateful for Lighthouse courses from Diana Khoi Nguyen, Radha Marcum, and Dan Beachy-Quick for helping her write and publish I|I.
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Lauren Barbato has a new short story, “Women of a Certain Kind,” in the fall 2022 issue of The Georgia Review. Board member (and current board chair) Rebecca Arno recently had her short story "Tetherball" published in the summer issue of October Hill Magazine. John Bellamy earned an Honorable Mention from Writer’s Digest 91st Annual Writing Competition in the memoir category for his piece “Black Teacher White Education.” Alaina Scarano has had a few publications this year, most notable of which was her flash nonfiction piece "What You Think of When You're 16 and Your Step-Father Tells You for the First Time That You're Really Filling Out Your Bikini," which was published in Pidgeonholes. Kaia Gallagher’s interview with Erika Krouse appeared in The Coachella Review Blog. Her essay, "Raging Wildfires," was released in We are the West: A Colorado Anthology, and she published a short essay, “History Repeats Itself,” in Kelp Journal. Robert Garner McBrearty is the winner of the Fractured Lit flash fiction contest, and his story, “It’s Still There,” was published last week. Finally, Sam DeLeo's nonfiction short story, "What's Mine and Yours," appeared in the October 2022 print issue of Reckon Review. He would like to thank the faculty at Lighthouse for their instruction.
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And finally, lots of news came in this past summer. In case you missed it, Lighthouse faculty member Traci L. Jones saw her fourth young adult title, Ransoming the Captive, come out a few months ago–be sure to check it out. Also released this summer was member Christina Holbrook’s debut, All the Flowers of the Mountain, which she read from at The Next Page Bookstore in Summit County. Ellen Malan published From Triggered to Happy: Free Yourself from Toxic Relationships Forever, this past summer. Vicki Mizel got to talk about her book Love Remembers on the Functional Doctor radio show. And Ralph Ogden published the chapter “Ethnic Cleansing and Other War Crimes in Kosovo,” for the American Bar Association’s Building the Rule of Law: Firsthand Accounts from a Thirty-Year Global Campaign. Pam Saylor’s book Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement is an Indie Excellence finalist. And finally, Lois Britton recently read at Tattered Cover from Once Upon a Felony: True Stories of Four Women Who Reshaped Their Lives After Prison. Read more here.
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Phew! Way to rally our spirits, everyone! If you’re a member at Lighthouse with good news to share, please fill out this form. We do our best to feature as many announcements as we can (clearly!).
Raising a glass to all of you,
Lighthouse
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