We are in our final week (less than, actually) to deadline for the summer issue. Not only general submissions, but also Second Annual Short Story Contest entries - cash prizes. Have you sent yours in yet? Last chance...

Among other features in the summer issue, going live in mid June, is an interview with author Bonnie Jo Campbell ("American Salvage") and poet Shaindel Beers ("A Brief History of Time"). And, of course, the Winners Circle: 1st, 2nd, 3rd prize winners of our short story contest.

Please also welcome two new editors: Skye Leslie, assitant editor, and Lorena Audra Rutens, editor of "A Good Cause," a new page appearing in each issue featuring, well, a good cause.

The Smoking Poet is growing. Be a part of it.

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I read the interview with Shaindel and it is wonderful.

Nina wrote: "I read the interview with Shaindel and it is wonderful. "

Thank you, Nina. I very much enjoying interviewing Shaindel, and we are proud to feature it in our summer issue, online now at www.thesmokingpoet.net

Zinta