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Contests with 12/31 deadlines

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest $1500 1st Prize The Moth Poetry Prize 10,000Euro 1st Prize for an unpublished poem, and three prizes of 1000Euro for 3 runner-ups

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Orlando: Beauty in Deepest Cold

From my homey burrow I stare out at the deep freeze gripping Chicago. Not easy, given that the window glass is encrusted in a hard salty rime, courtesy of de-icer and gale-force winds. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando keeps whispering at me through all this white, forcing me to dig out the gorgeous passage detailing the coldest […]

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Revision, Re-seeing. Writing, Re-writing.

Taking a breather from preparing all my baggage (in both senses of the word) to head off to Vermont Studio Center, I looked up from my manuscript pages just now to see this jumbled geometry of umbrella, roof, sky, walls, stairs, and green. Now, it wasn’t as though some great revelation hit me, and I […]

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SUBMIT NOW! Mighty Sword Studio “Spare Ghosts”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A publishing opportunity for misfits and creeps!* Friends, for the next 3 days, starting right this minute and continuing through All Saints Day Nov 1, please submit your flash fiction and creative nonfiction to the spanking new Mighty Sword Studio “Spare Ghosts” contest. They will/might/just maybe be published today through midnight Nov […]

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They Did March for Me

In the photo above, demonstrators protest against U.S. President Donald Trump during the Women’s March inside Karura forest in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, January 21, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/ NYT: Thomas Mukoya, Nairobi ______________________________________________________________________________________________ As we settled into bed on the Sunday night after the January 21 Global Women’s March, my husband read a post that had […]

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Inspiration & Tarot: Jessa Crispin talks with Chicago Review of Books

Chicago is the lover Jessa Crispin returns to from time to time. Her new book, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life, reminds me of my on-again/off-again affair with the Tarot years ago, which had less to do with prognostication than with diversion, a rerouting for writing projects that seemed hell-bent in […]

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2016: 2 new events and a residency, and more to come

After a five-week writing residency at Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Thank you, VCCA!) and a quiet holiday interlude, I’ll be back on the road next month. February 9, Carnegie Center for the Creative Arts, Lexington KY.  I’m excited to be included in the Kentucky Great Writers Series with novelist Tania James and poet Tom […]

Christopher Rosales Chicago Release Party!

Saturday, Sept 5, 3-5pm, at the Side Project Theatre 1439 W Jarvis Ave. A debut, yes. But not your ordinary debutante.  My good friend and badass writer Christopher Rosales is coming to Chicago to celebrate the release of his debut novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper. Mixer Publishing has invited a wild-ish crew of Chicago area writers to kickoff Christopher’s new […]

A Shifting Literary Light

  I just received some bittersweet news in my email now: John Rich will be leaving his post at the Guild Literary Complex. John has been a gentle and moving force on the Chicago lit scene, bringing us years of fantastic cross-cultural programs at the Guild. The good news is that he has been hired on at […]

New Events Added to Cementville’s Paperback Tour

Cementville was released in paperback a few months ago, and I’m back on the road. 

In addition to the new softcover, Cementville can be downloaded as an E-Book for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple iBook formats. A limited number of 1st Edition Hardcovers are still available.

Purchase Cementville wherever books are sold:

Your local independent bookstore

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

Booksellers, please consider stocking Cementville in softcover—and there are a limited number of 1st Edition HC still available too. Let me know what I can do to help your efforts to get great reads into the hands of your customers. We writers appreciate all you do on behalf of the literary community.

Book groups, perhaps the modest softcover price will encourage you to add Cementville to your reading list. I love meeting with book clubs, and have met with many around the country over the past year. Let me know if you’d like me to join you via Skype or in person if I’m in your area.

And dear readers, thank you for picking up my novel. I love hearing from you!

New events recently added to the 2015 schedule:

Tuesday, June 23, 7pm, The Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th Street, NY

Dylan Landis (Rainey Royal), Rebecca Makkai (The Hundred Year House), and Paulette Livers (Cementville) will read and talk with the audience about our novels, all released in paperback this spring. Rebecca is also celebrating a brand new story collection, Music for Wartime!

Monday, June 29, Story Studio Chicago. 4043 N. Ravenswood, #222, Chicago, IL 60613, 773.477.7710. I’ll be teaching a one-night class on the creation and uses of character backstory in fiction, an introduction to the full-session class coming this fall. Visit the Story Studio website to register.

Thursday, July 9, Squaw Valley Community of Writers Click the Squaw link to see the incredible lineup of faculty and special guests at this historic summer workshop (July 6-13). Some other Squaw alumni and I will be reading and discussing our work Thursday night at an open-to-the-public event.

Saturday, July 18, “Exploring the Writer’s Craft” at the Louisville campus of Indiana Wesleyan University. I’ll be leading a session at the fourth annual conference sponsored by Women Who Write—this day-long event is open to member and non-member women, as well as men and students.

Saturday & Sunday, Sept 12 & 13, 10-5pm. Slice Literary Writers’ Conference. St. Francis College, 182 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY. I couldn’t be more happy about being part of the 5th annual conference put on by Slice magazine.

Thursday, Sept 17, Book Club meeting, Louisville, KY

September 21, 2015, The Book Stall, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka IL 60093. Reading with novelist Christine Sneed, author of Paris, He Said, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct 9, Prairie Path Books, 303 E Front St, Wheaton IL 60187. Reading with novelist Christine Sneed, author of Paris, He Said, 7 p.m.

Sept-Oct-Nov,  Story Studio Chicago. 4043 N. Ravenswood, #222, Chicago, IL 60613, 773.477.7710. I’ll be teaching a workshop on the creation and uses of character backstory in fiction.

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016, Kentucky Great Writers Series, The Carnegie Center, 251 W. Second Street, Lexington, KY 40507. Reading with novelist Gwyn Hyman Rubio, author of Love & Other Ordinary Creatures.