Roberta Allen reads on 4/12/11

Roberta Allen will read from The Dreaming Girl--a new edition of which is coming out on Ellipsis Press in fall 2011.

7PM CREON Gallery 238 East 24 St, 1B (near 2 Ave) New York, NY

More info at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224

PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions by Norman Lock

New from Ellipsis Press author Norman Lock : PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions -- out this month from Spuyten Duyvil.

There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well. He has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world. --Brian Evenson

Pick it up from Spuyten Duyvil.

Joanna Ruocco wins FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!

Congratulations Joanna Ruocco!

Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Joanna Ruocco has won the second annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. The judge was Ben Marcus.

http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182

HARP & ALTAR PARTY

Sat., April 9th - HARP & ALTAR PARTY: Lichtenstein, Schomburg, Zeiss + Music by Hardin

An Event of Poetry, Art, & Music at Switchyard Studios:
109 SE Salmon St,
Portland, OR 97214

This Saturday, please come on out to Switchyard Studios, where we will host a celebration for the magazine Harp & Altar. Poets Jesse Lichtenstein, Zachary Schomburg will read, as well as fiction writer Michael Zeiss.
http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html

Saturday, April 9th*HARP & ALTAR PARTY@ 6:00 - 8:00p.m.
Jesse Lichtenstein
Zachary Schomburg
Michael Zeiss
Music by Alina Estelle Hardin
& Artwork (TBA)

Jesse Lichtenstein lives in Oregon where he writes poetry, fiction, journalism, and screenplays (and helps run the Loggernaut Reading Series). His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Paris Review, Diagram,EOAGH, Gulf Coast, Octopus, Boston Review, and other journals.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit(Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009),Little Blind Thing (Poor Claudia 2010), a dvd of poem-films, and the forthcoming Viking (McSweeney's, 2012). He lives in Portland where he co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine.

Michael Zeiss, a former resident of Portland, recently returned to the city after a decade in New York. Aconsultant for non-profit organizations, he spent five years at the American Red Cross working with people affected by the attacks of September 11. His fiction and criticism appear regularly in Harp & Altar.

Founded in 2006, Harp & Altar is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine edited by poet Keith Newton and novelist Eugene Lim. In its short tenure,Harp & Altar has emerged as an important new source for innovative and risk-taking literature, publishing poetry and fiction alongside criticism and reviews of writing and art. The Harp & Altar Anthology, featuring a selection of poems and stories from the magazine’s first three years, was published in 2010 by Ellipsis Press, and new issues continue to appear twice a year at www.harpandaltar.com