Proofs

Wade just emailed me to say that we sent the proofs back to the printer on Friday; apparently we also had a few things on the cover that we wanted fixed.

Also, we're settling up things for our trip to AWP, so that is good.

More later.

Spring 08 Issue printing soon

A few things before we break for winter:

We've received bluelines from the printer and it looks like we'll have to make a few changes - I'm not sure how much this will affect the time it will take to get this new issue out, but I'm hoping we can have it printed over Christmas? Ethan and Wade will take a look at it tomorrow one final time.

I've got a few fiction withdrawals to mention, but I don't have the info in front of me, so I'll have to post them after I come back.

Also, we're going to start sorting through the contest submissions - we received about 160 submissions in fiction this year (I'm not sure about poetry). We'll read through those and see how many make it to our judge, Peter Orner. Those who submitted can probably expect to hear results in early March.

That's all for now.

Pushcart Nominations!

All of us at Phoebe are thrilled to announce our 2008 Puschcart Prize nominations:

Fiction
Danielle Evans - "Harvest"
M. D. Baumgartner - "Like Gods of the Sun"

&

Poetry
Eleanor Graves - "Your Boarders"
Angus Bennett - "On Whether the River Will Break"
Reba Elliot - "Child Not Made"
Julie Marie Wade - "Law of Parsimony"

Best of luck to all of these writers, and thanks for contributing your wonderful work to Phoebe.