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

BOMB magazine names CHANGING THE SUBJECT an Editor's Choice

Changing the Subject doesn’t live up to its title, it consumes it. Though the stories make high use of syntactical or symbolic repetitions, they are also powerfully digressive, hallucinatory.
http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/4732

Buy CHANGING THE SUBJECT here.

KGB BAR LIT MAGAZINE reviews CHANGING THE SUBJECT

"If his new short story collection Changing the Subject has an ambitious title, Stephen-Paul Martin gets away with it. And it’s not only because of his change-ups between eco-terrorism, women with nice teeth, dogs, Macbeth, various assassinations of President Bush, and animated billboards depicting Custer taking Tylenol before his last stand."

Read the rest at http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/book_reviews/changing_the_subject

HARP & ALTAR at the Poetry Project -- DEC. 10

Come join Harp & Altar on Friday Dec. 10 for the

Friday Night Series at the Poetry Project,

where we'll be celebrating the release of our eighth issue

with readings by Shane Book and Jared White.

Friday Dec. 10 at 10 PM

The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church

131 E. 10th St.,

New York

http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/a-reading-for-harp-altar.html

Joanna Ruocco and Keith Newton at Brown University on Tuesday

Ellipsis Press author, Joanna Ruocco, and Harp & Altar editor & publisher, Keith Newton, will participate on a panel of editors of some great literary magazines at Brown University this Tuesday, 11/30: http://tiny.cc/n4ifn

Small Press Periodical Publishing: An Editor Panel and Reading featuring
editors of the journals Birkensnake (Joanna Ruocco), Conjunctions (Brian
Evenson), Harp & Altar (Keith Newton), Paris Review (Lorin Stein), and
Tarpaulin Sky (Joanna Howard).

McCormack Family
Theater

Buy a copy of The Harp & Altar Anthology!

Three upcoming readings with Joanna Ruocco

The Bad Shadow Affair

presents an evening of readings with

Joanna Ruocco,

Thibault Raoul,

Tim Roberts, and

Margaret Ronda.
 


Details:
Reading is November 6th

this Saturday
at 7:30pm


at Lost Lake Lounge

address: 3602 E. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206
 


Joanna Ruocco is the author of Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009). She co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Thibault Raoult, born in Pithiviers, France, & raised in Rochester, NY, has published two chapbooks--"El P.E." via Projective Industries & "I'll Say I'm Only Visiting" via Cannibal. A former Dolin Scholar at the University of Chicago, he holds an MFA from Brown University. Person Hour, his first book, will be published via BlazeVOX Books.

Tim Roberts is a writer and editor living in Denver. He is the publisher, with Julie Carr, of Counterpath Press. His book Drizzle Pocket will be out from BlazeVox Books this Spring.

Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, won the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Recent poems can be found in Aufgabe, Gulf Coast, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She just moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where she is teaching poetry and American literature at Indiana University.

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Saturday, November 20th at 7pm

The Dikeou Collection

The Colorado Building

1615 California Street (at 16th Street)

Suite 515

Denver, CO 80202

Elizabeth ROBINSON

Erik ANDERSON

Joanna RUOCCO

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Saturday, December 4th at Ada Books

717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903

with Brian Conn

Time: TBA

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Buy Ruocco's The Mothering Coven here.