Dear Writers,
We continue to be blown away by the talent in our Lighthouse community, and we love highlighting your work! Check out the latest publication and award news from our members, instructors, and workshop participants. And if you're a Lighthouse member who'd like to share your good news, let us know!
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BOOK DEALS AND NEWS
Instructor Steven Schwartz's new novel, The Tenderest of Strings, was recently published by Regal House. Peter Orner, the author of Maggie Brown called it, "An empathetic and beautiful story.”
Denver Noir, published on May 3, 2022, by Akashic Books, joins over 100 volumes in Akashic’s award-winning Noir Series of location-based dark fiction anthologies. Lighthouse faculty member and Denver Noir editor Cynthia Swanson (author of The Bookseller and The Glass Forest) has pulled together 14 contributors who know the city best to pen short tales set in distinct locations from Aurora to Washington Park. Lighthouse faculty and members with stories in the collection include Mario Acevedo (Globeville), R. Alan Brooks (Baker), Amy Drayer (South Broadway), Twanna LaTrice Hill (Capitol Hill), Mathangi Subramanian (Washington Park), Cynthia Swanson (Cheesman Park), David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Aurora), and Erika T. Wurth (Lakewood).
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PUBLICATIONS
Instructor Sydney Fowler has published their poem "Pain Is" in the poetry anthology, Poems for the Ride by Coin Operated Press. This anthology includes poems written by people within the Amanda Palmer Patreon Community and covers the topics of life, death, grief, joy, and everything in between.
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Book Project participant Julia Halprin Jackson's writing has recently been published in a few venues. Her essay, "Scouting," was published in Cutleaf in December 2021 and included in its first print anthology. Her flash fiction series, "Starburst," was featured in Okay Donkey Mag. An excerpt of her novel-in-progress, The Assimilation Committee, is forthcoming in Mayday Magazine, and her essay "When it Comes" will soon be published in The Racket.
Book Project graduate Diane Alters and her chapbook, Breath, Suspended, were discussed in The Los Angeles Times by columnist Jean Guerrero, in an essay about Alters' son.
Lighthouse Executive Director, Michael Henry, has a new poem called "The Poet Addresses Gun" part of a collection he's been working on, published in the most recent issue of The Deadlands.
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Instructor Paula Younger's "Sebou Party" short story is in the Muddy Backroads Anthology from Madville Publishing. The Muddy Backroads anthology contains stories that “explore the side roads that take us away from the known.” It also has stories from the authors Dorothy Allison, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
Lighthouse member and LitFest attendee Alaina Scarano has a new prose nonfiction piece out with Watershed Review, which came out of Christopher Merkner's Eight Weeks, “Eight Starts” Asynchronous Workshop.
Instructor John Cotter's short story about poets and luck and tropical birds, "The Gold Thread," is published online at Joyland.
Deborah Kelly has recorded two poems, "Metabolic" and "Postcards to Ilya Kaminsky" for a podcast series, Words in the Air, produced by sound designer Kevin Seaman. The first poem was originally published in Punt Volat, the second in La Piccioletta Barca.
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Instructor Jenny Shank won First Place in the Personal Column category in the Society of Professional Journalists' 2022 Top of the Rockies competition for Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Colorado Book Awards Winners: Lighthouse Instructor Jenny Shank won the General Fiction category with Mixed Company. Instructor Wendy Fox’s What If We Were Somewhere Else won the Literary Fiction category. Lighthouse friend Wayne Miller’s poem “We Won the Jury” won the Poetry Category. And Instructor Olivia Chadha’s Rise of the Red Hand won the Young Adult Fiction Category.
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Ada Limón, who is a past Lit Fest visiting author, was named by the Library of Congress as the nation's 24th poet laureate! In a press release, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said, "Ada Limón is a poet who connects. Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward." (MEGHAN COLLINS SULLIVAN, NPR)
Yours in Writing,
Lighthouse
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