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THE DREAMING GIRL praised in The Review of Contemporary Fiction

D. Quentin Miller in THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION Fall 2011 (XXX1, no.3):‎

"The hypnotic prose of THE DREAMING GIRL is effortless to read, especially once the reader gets used to the ways the author flouts convention... The story is archetypal, lovely on the surface, and vaguely disturbing on a deeper level. In a word, dreamlike."
Pick it up today from Ellipsis Press, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, or wherever fine books are sold.

Launch Party for THE DREAMING GIRL with Roberta Allen & Lewis Warsh

Please join us in celebrating the publication of THE DREAMING GIRL by Roberta Allen.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York City, NY

Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, The Daughter (Autonomedia); a memoir, Amazon Dream (City Lights); the novel The Dreaming Girl (Painted Leaf, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011); and several writing guides. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lewis Warsh is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts) and A Free Man (Sun & Moon). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.

Roberta Allen documentary: Layers and Lines

Produced and directed by Ivan Weiss.

Roberta Allen's new book THE DREAMING GIRL is available here:

Upcoming events:
11/1 Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock at St. Mark's Bookshop.
11/9 Roberta Allen, Kirsten Kaschock, John Haskell, & Robin Grearson at Soda Series in Brooklyn.
11/30 THE DREAMING GIRL launch party at KGB. Roberta Allen with Lewis Warsh.

Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT in ABR

"The six long stories in Stephen-Paul Martin's outstanding CHANGING THE SUBJECT subtly challenge the conventions of the short story through seemingly simple prose that, in strange often hilarious digressions, knots in a fascinating, surreal, and masterful collection... CHANGING THE SUBJECT is a brilliant book..."

--Matthew Kirkpatrick, American Book Review

Pick up a copy and read more about this book at Ellipsis Press! Also available through Amazon and Small Press Distribution.

Ellipsis Press at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday 11/1

Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock will be reading at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM. Come join us!

Tuesday
11/1/11!
7PM at
St. Mark's Bookshop
31 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-260-7853

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Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including Certain People (Coffee House Press) and The Daughter (Autonomedia). The Dreaming Girl is being re-released by Ellipsis Press in November 2011. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years, has taught at Columbia University, and is currently teaching private workshops. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.robertaallen.com

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Lynn Crawford is the author of several books of fiction, including Fortification Resort, Simply Separate People, and most recently, Simply Separate People, Two. Her work appears in various anthologies including: The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press), marks, Fence Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail Anthology, The Oulipo Compendium, lacanian ink, Lilies and Cannonball Review. She is the editor of DETROIT: the journal published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). http://www.lynncrawford.net/

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Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the 1979 Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review and, most recently, the 2010 literary fiction prize from The Dactyl Foundation for his 2009 novel Shadowplay. He was awarded prose fellowships from the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and— for 2011—a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book-length fictions are Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press), Grim Tales (Mud Luscious Press), and Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions (Spuyten Duyvil). Norman lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen. http://www.normanlock.com/

Open Submissions 10/1 to 11/30

Ellipsis Press will be accepting submissions this fall. Details here: http://www.ellipsispress.com/submission-guidelines/.

Two upcoming readings with Eugene Lim

Bad Shadow Affair Reading series
at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm

Laird Hunt,

Tina Brown Celona,

Keith Newton &

Eugene Lim

will read from their work!

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Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:

A Reading with
Paolo Javier,
Eugene Lim,
Christine Hou

Thursday, May 19
6:30 p.m.
Flushing branch of the Queens Library
Rooms A&B, Lower Level
41-17 Main Street
718-661-1200
Join us and celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a reading featuring Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier, novelist Eugene Lim, and poet/art critic Christine Hou.

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

Norman Lock reads 3/23/2011 at The Brooklyn Winery

Come hear Norman Lock, Marcy Dermansky and Lincoln Michel read tonight in Brooklyn! http://tiny.cc/LockinBrooklyn

Vol.1′s monthly reading series returns to the Brooklyn Winery on March 23rd, for an night of readings presented in conjunction with the fine writers, theorists, and critics at Big Other.

When: March 23rd, beginning at 7 PM.
Where: The Brooklyn Winery, 213 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Who: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy’s short fiction has been published widely in literal journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and Fifty-Two Stories. A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize.

Norman Lock is the author of The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press),Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), A History of the Imagination (FC2), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe (Ravenna Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), and–writing as George Belden–Land of the Snow Men (from Calamari Press and in Japanese from Kawade Shobo Shinsha).

Lincoln Michel was born in Virginia and lives in NYC. He is a founding editor of Gigantic magazine and the books editor of The Faster Times. His writing appears in NOON, The Believer, Oxford American, Bookforum, elimae, Esquire.com, The Rumpus, Mississippi Review, McSweeneys.net, Hobart, Mid-American Review and elsewhere.

AD JAMESON on CHANGING THE SUBJECT

AD Jameson in RCF on Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT:

"In this exceedingly clever and mesmerizing collection, Martin guides us through six long stories that each contain numerous other stories, and are themselves also one long, strange fiction... Charmed from the very first sentence, I read this book straight through in a single night, and then reread it as soon as I could. How marvelous to see the story so thoroughly reinvented and reinvigorated! Changing the Subject is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010."

Read the rest of the review here:

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The Nation on Joanna Ruocco

A great review of Joanna Ruocco's Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009) in the newest issue of The Nation.

One of [The Mothering Coven]’s first descriptive passages, which concerns the witches’ next-door neighbor, presents an image of a lettuce heart as a model of the universe:

Mr. Henderson takes the lettuce heart. He had always thought the physical universe had no shape at all, just a multi-directional nothingness with deep space objects floating around at varying speeds. He realizes that he has been ridiculous. All these dark folded places, opening everywhere at once—of course, that’s what the physical universe looks like.

“Opening everywhere at once” is a good description of The Mothering Coven, which navigates the many, fantastical realities that crowd within the illusory unity of our universe... The novel encompasses a multitude of worlds, its concision no obstacle to its holding capacity, since the latter depends not on mere size but on an endless series of folds, which language is no less capable of creating than is vegetation.

...Ruocco’s coven is a counterproposal to language as a homogenizing force—to words that would flatten out the leaves of the lettuce heart or chop them into uniform, bite-size pieces. Ruocco’s feat is to show how esoteric vocabularies unfold hidden pockets of experience.

Read the full article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco

Pick up a copy today!

Ellipsis Press at AWP in Washington D.C. Table H33

http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011exhibitorslist.php

Necessary Fiction reviews THE MOTHERING COVEN

"There is quite a lot going on in The Mothering Coven: party preparations, art installations, visits from Ms. Kidney and her sled dogs, trips into town, shamanistic journeys, paleozoological studies and a score of research projects. Often, the tone of these activities is deceptively lighthearted. But this is not a book to read with blithe inattention, as much of what happens and what is said could be perceived as nonsensical whimsy. A slower, more careful read detects the fragile threads of what makes this a novel and not a playful and poetic montage... Despite the playfulness of the language and the sometimes comical, offbeat conversations, real moments of tenderness leap up from within these small scenes."

Read the full review by Michelle Bailat-Jones at Necessary Fiction

Order THE MOTHERING COVEN from Ellipsis Press.

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY wins the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award!

Pick up Shadowplay from Ellipsis Press here.

Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press, 137 pages) by Norman Lock, the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award recipient, is a dense fable, mixing magic realism with self-reflexivity. The entire story is given to us in miniature at the beginning, such that the novella itself is really a constant retelling–a folding and refolding–rather than an unfolding. A shadow puppet master named Guntur falls in love with Candra, who comes into his theater one day to buy puppets. When she dies of typhoid fever six days later, he falls into despair for many years, until finally he understands how to enter the world of the dead, through his shadow art, to abduct her shadow, bringing her back to the theater where she becomes his prisoner for many months... This plot unfurls slowly: it starts, stops, returns and starts again, usually with a new detail, or sometimes less detail, sometimes abstracted, sometimes enlarged. The effect is of narrative feathering, one moment being layered on top of another until the whole body is finally covered... Lock’s Shadowplay is a masterful rendering of the life of one story teller, trying desperately to fit within the intricate pattern of tradition, daring to transcend it by embracing it too much, until he is finally becomes a shadow in the story... an enchanting ritual of forms whose beauty will linger in the memory for a very long time.

Read the full review by Tori Alexander at http://tiny.cc/dactylawardSP

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY reviewed in latest RCF

John Madera writes: "Storytellers remind us that data retrieval is really a kind of betrayal, that truth and meaning are elusive, and that we see our selves, our relationships, our surroundings, as if through curtains. Norman Lock's Shadowplay penetrates these diaphanous folds by casting light on the folly of irreconcilable love, the melancholic ache of nostalgia, and the burning yearning of art, of making something out of nothing... Swathed in darkness, Lock traverses liminal realms with glassine sentences reminiscent in form and substance of the like found in Gene Wolfe’s and Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction, sentences you may be tempted to set off into line-broken verse. Shadowplay is another of the master locksmith’s nested boxes whose evocative, ensorcelling prose will withstand multiple readings, especially if read aloud."

Read the entire review here.

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Pick up SHADOWPLAY (and check out our 2 for $20 holiday sale) at the Ellipsis Press website here.

Harp & Altar #8 is up!

With poetry and fiction by Roseanne Carrara, Andy Fitch, Eileen G'Sell, Amy King, Richard Kostelanetz, Lawrence Mark Lane, Jesse Lichtenstein, Charles Newman, Leslie Patron, Rob Stephenson, Stephen Sturgeon, and G.C. Waldrep. Also: Jessica Baran on Brandon Downing; Dan Magers on Paul Killebrew; Patrick Morrissey on Ben Mazer; Lauren Russell on Kostas Anagnopoulos; Michael Newton's gallery reviews; and art by Jesse Lambert.
www.harpandaltar.com

Join Keith Newton, Shane Book, & Jared White for a reading at the Poetry Project this Friday at 10 PM.

A/bun/dance.

Boo/kings.

Come/dies.

End/or/fin.

Flag/rant.

Me/anti/me.

So/do/my.

To/read/or.

from FICT/IONS

by Richard Kostelanetz