Back from AWP and wicked busy

Sorry we've been out and unable to post recently. And unlike last year, I probably won't be writing up a recap of AWP, since other things have been holding me up. But you can find out how it went from several other people: Cliff Garstang, Dan Wickett, the folks at Cutbank, and Erika Dreifus blogging for The Writer Magazine.

As far as I know, two of our Fiction contributors to this most recent issue have blogs up and running - if you find any others let us know. To read what's going on with Blake Butler, go here, and to see what's going on with Kim Chinquee, go here. Also, Kim Chinquee's book of short prose, Oh Baby, has just come out from Ravenna Press. Hooray.

Some fiction withdrawals shortly.

Phoebe at AWP!

Phoebe's coming to NYC! We'll be at the Associated Writing Programs Conference this week in New York. Look for us at table #483. As in past years, we'll be splitting a table at the bookfair with our sister journal, So to Speak. Drop by and say hello!

New Phoebe!

As Ryan mentioned previously, the new issue is out, and we're quite happy with it! We hope you will be too. We should have the cover image and some sample work online soon, but in the meantime, here's a list of what's in the issue:

Speacial Feature on Visual Poetry, Selected by Jessica Smith, with work from:
Anne Boyer, T.A. Noonan, Helen White, Michelle Detorie, Alixandra Bamford, Jessica Smith, Angela Szczepaniak, Jennifer Scappettone, K. Lorraine Graham, & Jess Rowan

Poetry from:
Zachary Schomburg, Charles Bernstein, Miriam Stewart, Cheryl Quimba, Stephanie Cleveland, Liberty Heise, Heather Green, Alejandro Escude, Joe Hall, B.J. Best, K. Silem Mohammad, Michael Murray, Amy Dickinson, Karen Rigby, Reginald Dwayne Betts, James Nave, Brenda Sieczkowski, & Brandon Lewis

Fiction from:
Beth Staples, Michael Wolfe, Aaron Burch, Carl Peterson, Kim Chinquee, Jason Skipper, Nathan Robison, Shelley Berg, & Blake Butler

& featuring artwork by Dan Hillier

If you're in DC, copies are available at Bridge Street Books in Georgetown, and The Writer's Center in Bethesda. We hope to have a pay pal ordering feature online soon, but for now, you can order a copy the old fashioned way, $6ppd to:
Phoebe, MSN2C5
George Mason University
4400 University Dr
Fairfax, VA 22030

Contributor copies are in the mail, and subscriber copies should go out shortly, if they haven't already.

If you'd like to review Phoebe for your journal/magazine/blog, please get in touch and we'll send you a copy: phoebe@gmu.edu

New Issue Here

We just received the Spring 08 issue from the printer, and it looks really good. I'll look around for an image of the cover to post soon, but not until we get a chance to send it out to our contributors. Hopefully we can surprise them.

Sorry our reading has a been a little slower than usual. Most of the editors have been out of town for the break. We'll get back to that shortly, especially since we've also got contest submissions to read.

More later.

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.