tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368087752024-03-05T06:05:49.918-06:00Ninthletter BlogMaurice Meilleurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06157893272078470149noreply@blogger.comBlogger522125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-53051966365630127832015-02-13T11:41:00.004-06:002015-02-13T11:41:45.513-06:002015 Literary Awards
We're pleased to announce the judges for our 2015 Literary Awards in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction! Contest submissions will open March 5; there will be a $17 entry fee for each submission, and all entrants will receive a one-year subcription to Ninth Letter. Check back here in a couple of weeks for complete guidelines!
2015 Judge for Fiction: Jac Jemc
Jac Jemc is the author of theJodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-45845203484637698772014-09-22T16:07:00.002-05:002014-09-23T12:45:13.401-05:00Pymalion Festival Lit Crawl 9/27
This week we are thrilled to be co-sponsoring the the Pygmalion Festival, Champaign-Urbana's four-day festival of music and literature. The lit portion of this year's festival showcases a huge number of amazing authors, including Matthew Gavin Frank, Jamaal May, Richard Siken, Alissa Nutting, Charlotte Pence, and so many more—plus a book fair on Saturday, September 27, where you can find books Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-4039300259378730042014-09-09T14:51:00.003-05:002014-09-09T14:51:39.503-05:00Congrats to our Best American Notable authors!Four selections from Ninth Letter have been recognized on the Notable lists in the 2014 Best American series:
"Recidivism" by Mary Miller and "Provenance; or, Notes from a Vanished Archive" by Michael Leone were listed among the 2013's Notable stories in Best American Short Stories 2014;
"Holiday" by Ariel Lewiton and "On the Far Side of the Fire" by Jessica Wilbanks (winner of our 2013 Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-63777040078224838432014-07-29T10:18:00.003-05:002014-07-29T10:18:53.566-05:00Featured Writer: Elvio GandolfoNew at ninthletter.com--"The Moment of Impact," a short story by Argentinian writer Elvio Gandolfo, translated by Will Vanderhyden. "The Moment of Impact" is from the anthology A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction, forthcoming this year from Open Letter Books.
Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-64976020087433630982014-07-24T12:24:00.003-05:002014-07-24T12:24:26.456-05:00Ninth Letter Web Edition #3, Summer 2014!Now available at ninthletter.com: Our third web edition, Summer 2014! Featuring new work by John Chapman, M. K. Foster, Katharine Johnsen, Kathleen Jones, Alisha Karabinus, Kyle McCord, Matt Morton, Colleen O'Brien, Zana Previti, Alexandra Tanner, J. Preston Witt, and Shelley Wong.
Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-75279734689208843432014-07-23T16:05:00.000-05:002014-07-23T16:05:00.920-05:00Five Questions with John GriswoldJohn Griswold is the author of Pirates You Don't Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life: Collected Essays, (University of Georgia Press, 2014). He's also the author of the nonfiction book Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City (2010) and the novel A Democracy of Ghosts (2010) which was named ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in 2010. He writes as Oronte Churm for his Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-78246991249002239982014-06-29T10:38:00.001-05:002014-06-29T10:39:34.330-05:002014 Literary Award Winners
Ninth Letter is pleased to announce the winners of our second annual Literary Awards competition!
Rachel Goldman is the winner in Fiction for her story "Steps."
Anders Carlson-Wee is the winner in Poetry for his poems "Dynamite" and "The Low Passions."
Nick Neely is the winner in Creative Nonfiction for his essay "The Book of Agate."
Ian Haight is the winner in Translation for his Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-47320392304317949392014-06-02T08:06:00.000-05:002014-06-02T08:06:05.737-05:00Featured Writer: Patrícia PortelaNew at ninthletter.com--excerpts from Patrícia Portela's novel Going up not North! Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-68977870347025164162014-05-28T11:53:00.001-05:002014-05-28T11:53:40.612-05:00An Interview with Peggy Shinner
This spring, 9L staffer Steve Davenport talked via email with Chicago-based writer Peggy Shinner about her recent book, You Feel So Mortal/Essays on the Body, discussing the process and craft involved in putting together a collection of essays. We're pleased to share this interview with our readers here.
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panose-1:2 Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-40763065630216577922014-05-19T14:03:00.002-05:002014-05-19T14:03:58.528-05:00Part 5 of "Inside the Secret" The final installment of José Luís Peixoto's serialized memoir of his travel through North Korea is now up at ninthletter.com. Visit our Featured Writer section to read this and previous installments.Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-86302614218168344482014-05-12T15:01:00.001-05:002014-05-12T15:01:12.701-05:00Part 4 of "Inside the Secret"Part 4 of our current web feature, José Luís Peixoto's "Inside the Secret," is now up at the site! If you haven't been following our serialization of this memoir of the author's travels through North Korea, you can start at Part 1, posted in April.Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-56767419220304113952014-04-29T10:31:00.003-05:002014-04-29T10:31:43.752-05:00Amy Sayre Baptista Performing at Hallways MicrocinemaNinth Letter contributor (and U of I alum) Amy Sayre Baptista will be performing excerpts from her play, The Widows of Whitechapel, on Saturday, May 3, at the Hallways Microcinema series in Champaign, Illinois. Details in the flyer!
Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-20920012912908848982014-04-26T10:04:00.001-05:002014-04-26T10:05:38.659-05:00DEADLINE EXTENDED!Our payment server was experiencing some issues last night right at the contest deadline, so we've decided to extend our Lit Award deadline through today--we'll be open for entries until midnight tonight, April 26.
If you run into problems with the submissions or payments, please contact us at info@ninthletter.com.Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-17672804728202167042014-04-21T11:51:00.003-05:002014-04-21T11:51:46.288-05:00Submit to 9L Lit Awards: Deadline 4/25!The deadline for our 2014 Literary Awards approaches! Get your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation entries in by midnight on Friday, 4/25/2014. Winners will receive $1000 and publication in our Fall/Winter 2014-15 issue--plus, all entrants receive a 1-year subscription to Ninth Letter. We look forward to reading your work!Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-12472636152363742832014-04-14T09:09:00.006-05:002014-04-14T09:09:59.976-05:00Featured Writer: José Luís PeixotoNew at ninthletter.com: excerpts from Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto's memoir of traveling in North Korea, Inside the Secret, accompanied by Peixotos never-before-published photos of the country. First in a five-part series. Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-38892240389260800672014-04-10T15:19:00.001-05:002014-04-10T15:19:16.361-05:00Contributor NewsCongratulations to Adrian Matejka, Paisley Rekdal, and Patricia Smith, who were all recipients of 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships in Poetry!
We're also excited to see Kirsty Logan's new story collection The Rental Heart, just out from Salt Publishing in the UK. Winner of the Scott Prize, The Rental Heart includes "Momma Grows a Diamond," which was originally published in 9L vol. 10, no. 1.
And Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-84280663160027049802014-03-17T08:38:00.002-05:002014-03-17T08:38:32.205-05:00MFA alumni news & publicationsCongrats to Lindsey Drager and Jaime Brunton, who were recently named finalists in writing contests. Lindsey's fiction manuscript The Sorrow Proper was a finalist in the 2014 Miami University Press's Novella Contest; Jaime's poetry manuscript Opera on TV was a finalist in the 2013 Susan K. Wheeler/Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest.
We're also proud to see Michael Don's story "Hometown"Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-83249463335068377702014-03-08T14:23:00.002-06:002014-03-08T14:23:19.788-06:00New Feature at ninthletter.com: Eric LeMayThis month's featured artist at ninthletter.com is Eric LeMay, with his interactive essay "On Cosmology." Check it out!Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-23832721902534768472014-03-05T12:23:00.003-06:002014-03-05T12:23:53.527-06:002014 Literary Awards!We're pleased to announce that we are now accepting entries to our 2014 Literary Awards! Awards will be given in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literature in translation. Complete guidelines can be found here. We look forward to seeing your work!Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-9745774523468431052014-02-17T12:48:00.001-06:002014-02-17T12:48:24.596-06:00Steve Davenport Interviews Tim Parrish at The RumpusReturning Creative Nonfiction Editor Steve Davenport talks with author Tim Parrish over at The Rumpus about writing and race. Tim's memoir, Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, was published in 2013 by the University Press of Mississippi.Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-41365425894932639342014-02-04T11:28:00.000-06:002014-02-04T11:28:06.659-06:00Submit to our 3rd web edition!Ninth Letter is pleased to announce we are accepting submissions for our 3rd special online edition featuring student writing. If you are currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate creative writing program, we want to see your work! Submissions will be open until April 1. For complete guidelines and to submit, visit ninthletteronline.submittable.com
Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-91076850532052106482014-01-07T08:03:00.001-06:002014-01-07T08:03:10.191-06:00Submit to the DISQUIET Prize, Deadline 2/15Don't forget, the DISQUIET International Literary Program is holding their annual literary contest right now! Deadline to submit work is February 15. The contest is open to poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction. The winner in each genre will be published: the fiction
winner in Guernica; the nonfiction winner in Ninthletter.com; and the poetry winner in The Collagist.
In addition, a grand prizeJodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-47463132545214372672013-12-09T16:36:00.001-06:002013-12-09T16:36:12.475-06:00New Featured artist at ninthletter.com: caraballo-farmanNew on our site: a text performance by collaborative art team caraballo-farman, "That's What the Tumor Says"
Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-87460847003761189762013-12-03T10:02:00.003-06:002013-12-03T10:02:40.164-06:00Pushcart Prize nominationsNinth Letter is pleased to announce our 2013 nominations for the Pushcart Prize!
From Vol. 10, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2013:
Anne Valente, "A Field Guide to Female Anatomy" (fiction)
Daniel Story, "In Need of Assistance" (nonfiction)
Geri Doran, "The Observable World" (poetry)
From Vol. 10, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2013 (forthcoming this month):
Jessamyn Schnackenberg, "A Scatology" (poetry)
Nalini Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36808775.post-65549379700516911512013-12-02T08:50:00.003-06:002013-12-02T08:50:28.040-06:00Mark Yakich on "What Is a Poem?"Contributor Mark Yakich (vol. 5 no 1) has a terrific piece featured in The Atlantic's Object Lessons series, "What Is a Poem?" Jodee Stanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653220609138305047noreply@blogger.com0