9L contributor, Keith Lee Morris will be a featured reader on Wednesday, October 22, at The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in NYC. The show starts at 8pm and is free and open to the public.
In other Keith Lee Morris news, his new novel,The Dart League King, is now available from Tin House Books.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Literary Translation: A View from the Pacific
The University of Illinois's new Center for Translation Studies is hosting their first Translation Colloquium on Monday October 27th, at 4:00 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana.
Jean Anderson, Director of the New Zealand Center for Literary Translation, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at Victoria University of Wellington, will be giving a lecture entitled “Literary Translation: A View from the Pacific.” She herself is a translator of francophone texts of the Pacific (Tahiti, New Caledonia) and works to get New Zealand writers translated into French.
Jean Anderson, Director of the New Zealand Center for Literary Translation, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at Victoria University of Wellington, will be giving a lecture entitled “Literary Translation: A View from the Pacific.” She herself is a translator of francophone texts of the Pacific (Tahiti, New Caledonia) and works to get New Zealand writers translated into French.
Monday, October 13, 2008
New Review at NewPages
The literary review site newpages.com has a very nice review of our Spring/Summer 2008 issue. Singled out for praise are prose writers Ron Carlson, Steve Tomasula, Tom Whalen, and Dave King, and poets Francine J. Harris and Twilight Greenaway.
Bonus: The review of the spring issue of Monkey Bicycle, which appears immediately before our review, makes special mention of 9L friend and UI grad student Aaron Burch, so check that out as well!
Bonus: The review of the spring issue of Monkey Bicycle, which appears immediately before our review, makes special mention of 9L friend and UI grad student Aaron Burch, so check that out as well!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Iron Horse Novella Competition
Iron Horse Literary Review is hosting a novella competition, judged by Ron Carlson. Carlson is the author of Five Skies, At the Jim Bridger, Plan B for the Middle Class, and numerous other novels and short story collections. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at University of California, Irvine.
The winning novella will be published in 2009 as a separate issue. Full-color cover art will reflect the novella’s content and emphasize the novella’s title, not the name of Iron Horse. The published novella will look like the single-author book that it is. The winner also receives a $1,000 honorarium.
Formatting Instructions:
Entries must be between 15,000 and 21,000 words.
Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
Manuscripts must be previously unpublished.
The author’s name and contact information must appear on a cover sheet, but it must NOT appear anywhere else on the manuscript.
Pages must be numbered.
Entries must include the $15 reading fee, which also purchases a subscription to Iron Horse.
Entries must also include an email address for results notification.
Mail entries to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, English Department, Mail Stop 43091, Lubbock, TX 79409-3091.
Postmark deadline for entries is November 15, 2008.
Entries failing to meet formatting instructions will be automatically disqualified.
Additional questions should be directed to the editors at ironhorselitrev@yahoo.com.
The winning novella will be published in 2009 as a separate issue. Full-color cover art will reflect the novella’s content and emphasize the novella’s title, not the name of Iron Horse. The published novella will look like the single-author book that it is. The winner also receives a $1,000 honorarium.
Formatting Instructions:
Entries must be between 15,000 and 21,000 words.
Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
Manuscripts must be previously unpublished.
The author’s name and contact information must appear on a cover sheet, but it must NOT appear anywhere else on the manuscript.
Pages must be numbered.
Entries must include the $15 reading fee, which also purchases a subscription to Iron Horse.
Entries must also include an email address for results notification.
Mail entries to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, English Department, Mail Stop 43091, Lubbock, TX 79409-3091.
Postmark deadline for entries is November 15, 2008.
Entries failing to meet formatting instructions will be automatically disqualified.
Additional questions should be directed to the editors at ironhorselitrev@yahoo.com.
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