News of Our Authors and Editors
Thomas E. Kennedy's In the Company of Angels was published in the US by Bloomsbury in March 2010 and in the UK in June 2010, was first published in Ireland in 2004, as Greene's Summer, to rapturous critical acclaim. It is one of four novels comprising the Copenhagen Quartet, and is the first of Kennedy's books to be published in the UK. The British-American publication by Bloomsbury marks the arrival of a hitherto undiscovered master. Kennedy's novel in essays, Last Night My Bed a Boat of Whiskey Going Down, was recently published by New American Press. The second novel of his Copenhagen Quarter, Falling Sideways, appears from Bloomsbury in the U.S. in March 2011
and in the U.K. in June 2011, while the paperback of In the Company of Angels will appear, respectively, in January and June 2011.
Walter Cummins' new short story collection, The End of the Circle, was published in 2010 from Egress Books of Hopewell Publication. Its fourteen stories set in Eurpean cities and countrysides first appeared in a variety of literary magazines.
Susan Tekulve's short story, "The Nipper," (originally published in Best New Writing 2007) has been anthologized in the Hub City Writers Project's latest collection of short fiction, Expecting Goodness. This anthology of South Carolina fiction writers was edited by C. Michael Curtis, the Fiction Editor of The Atlantic, and it will be released in late November. Additionally, she has co-authored an essay about the poetry of Albert Goldbarth with poet Richard Mulkey called "These Quiet Poems," which will be published in the next issue of The Georgia Review Her short story "Honeymoon" appeared in the fall 2009 issue of Shenandoah.
Elisabeth Murawksi is the winner of the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award Series. Her collection Zobra's Daughter, which received the prize, was published by The Utah State University Press. "The Other Son," a poem from In-patients, was a Verse Daily selection.
Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA in Creative Writing and Serving House Books will sponsor a contest for the best first book of poetry and of prose (novel, story collection, or creative nonfiction) in 2011. The winning entries will be published by Serving House Books and the authors invited to spend a week as a writer-in-residence at FDU's Madison, NJ campus and give readings in New York. Entries may be submitted between Feb. 1 And Apr. 1, 2011. More information will be posted.
