Brevity 31 is Up and Running!

Our Fall 2009 Issue is ready for your inspection, kind reader.

Brevity 31 offers work from Sherman Alexie, Lee Martin, Brenda Miller, Ron Arias, Amy Lee Scott, Rebecca Frost, Ann Claycomb, Jehanne Dubrow, Scott Moncrieff, and April Monroe. Some of these folks you’ve no doubt read elsewhere, others have graced our pages in the past, and at least one is publishing for her first time. That’s the sort of mix that makes us happy here in the Brevity corporate towers.

Also, strong new Craft Essays from Stephen Corey, Dinah Lenney, Jennifer Culkin, and Towles Kintz, and Book Reviews from J. Luise, Stephanie Susnjara, and Dinty W. Moore. And also, ten (count ‘em, ten) wonderful photographs from Tricia Louvar.

The Bright Forever of Lee Martin

We don’t like to play favorites here at Brevity, but sometimes we do, and Lee Martin is one of our favorites, both for his brilliant novels and searing memoirs, and for the Brevity 17 jewel Dumber Than.

We’d really like to take credit for discovering Lee, but the Pulitzer folks placed him as a finalist a few years back, so we think he was already on the map when we found him.

In any case, he is profiled nicely in the latest Poets & Writers magazine, and he is a great guy, and a stunning writer, and we are happy to have published him.

Anyone Up for an AWP Quickie?

Emerson College’s Redivider journal will be hosting an “AWP Quickie” contest for short-short fiction,  poetry, and yes Virginia, also for short-short nonfiction.  In order to participate, conference attendees just need to stop by Redivider’s table, grab a quickie card, then write a story, poem, or essay on the back and return the card by the end of the bookfair. First prize winners will receive $50.00 and publication in the fall 2008 issue of Redivider. The judges are Brock Clarke for fiction, Ravi Shankar for poetry, and Lee Martin for nonfiction.