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Next regular SUBMISSION month for full length novels, poetry chapbooks, and short story collections: FEBRUARY, 2014.
See our guidelines here. Also in February, Port Yonder Press's first annual Zero Bone Poetry Prize. Guidelines. NEEDED: Artists willing to work cheaply (as in, for the experience and accolades) to help with several upcoming projects. Email us: contact@portyonderpress.com. |
Get our regular SURGEs of information (about once a month or so). WHOOSH!
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A CALL FOR STORIES - December 1, 2013 - March 1st, 2014
PTSD: Survivors' Tales (tentative title)
True Stories of The Tragedy-Induced Disorder Called Post Traumatic Stress
Have you ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after a stint in active military duty, after a major accident, rape, physical, emotional, spiritual abuse, or other trauma? I'm collecting stories of such for a layman's book on PTSD, to add to my own post-accident case in 2004. See our guidelines here.
PTSD: Survivors' Tales (tentative title)
True Stories of The Tragedy-Induced Disorder Called Post Traumatic Stress
Have you ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after a stint in active military duty, after a major accident, rape, physical, emotional, spiritual abuse, or other trauma? I'm collecting stories of such for a layman's book on PTSD, to add to my own post-accident case in 2004. See our guidelines here.
COMING SOON!
NEW RELEASES
Sylvia's Secret by Scott Evans When American poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide, many people blamed her unfaithful husband, but no one believed Ted Hughes actually murdered Sylvia. Until now. In London on a Fulbright scholarship, an attractive young American scholar named Cassandra Johnson claims to have discovered one of Plath’s missing journals. Lawyers for the Hughes estate want the newly discovered journal because it may contain evidence that Plath was murdered, and, according to Cass, they’ll do anything to get it. Bestselling author John Lescroat had this to say: "Scott Evans knows all about the collisions between the literary, commercial, and academic worlds and he blends them seamlessly in this intriguing tale of trust, betrayal, and redemption." 
Ship of Light
by Susan Shaw Sailer The speaker in Ship of Light is a woman aware that she has entered the last phase of her life, where it's easy to view time only as a process that reverse-sculpts people, robbing an artist of her creativity or ending the life of a man devoted to helping others. But time also offers new possibilities, such as taking the first bite of a luscious persimmon or having toenails painted purple by a granddaughter. These poems balance a sense of loss with a belief in the capacity to discover wonder in the most unlikely places. "Susan Shaw Sailer’s poems are haunted by the complexities of time passing … poems of wonder, humor, and joy … often metrical, always musical .... This book is a “ship of light” indeed, and I will reread these poems many times. They are beautiful and they make me happy." ~Maggie Anderson, author & Professor Emerita of Kent State University and the founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and the Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Series Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Book of Sylvariby Chila WoychikGiveaway ends June 03, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. |
Chila's sabbatical extends from December 1st, 2013 to January 31st, 2014. Emails received during that time will be responded to in early February.
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The coveted SPUR AWARD (2012)
______ A 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award - a nationwide recognition for independent presses
______ A 2011 Selah Book of the Year Award -
a religious fiction award ______ See more awards & recognitions here.
Recommendations
Chila managed an anthology of work done by several authors, making a seamless book that flowed well from story to story. I found her to be supportive, and easy to work with. ~Robert Vaughan, New York Times bestselling novelist & Writers Hall of Fame inductee
Not since Max Perkins at Scribners, who worked closely with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, has an editor coached and guided a writer. ~Scott Evans, author More Recommendations |
