Mayapple Press is happy to announce that What Snakes Want by Kita Shantiris is in contention for two different book awards. Foreword Reviews has named What Snakes Want as a 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist in the Poetry (Adult Non-Fiction) category. The Foreword Reviews Award winners will be announced at an event…
Jean Nordhaus, author of Memos From the Broken World will read as part of the Literary Hill Bookfest in Washington DC on Sunday May 1st. The event gets underway at 11am at Eastern Market, 225 Seventh Street, SE. Then, at 3pm, Jean and a number of other poets will read at Tunnicliff’s Tavern, just across…
The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat\returns for its fourteenth year. This year the Retreat will take place from Tuesday July 26th to Monday August 1st . Once again we return to the rustic comfort of the Viletta Inn at the renowned Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Recharge your batteries, pick up new ideas and techniques,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 70 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-67-8 $15.95 + S&H Shipped to the USA: Shipped to Central and Latin America: Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal buttons, just a credit card. Poet Amanda Reverón maintains a blog. Her writing habit is to begin a…
Mayapple Press is happy to announce that Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion and of the Writer’s Almanac, will include “With Their Wings” by Jean Nordhaus in his program on March 11, 2016. The poem is taken from Jean’s new collection Memos from the Broken World The Writer’s Almanac is a daily radio…
Mayapple Press is very pleased to note that The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey has been named as a candidate for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2016 Elgin Award. Members of the Association will vote on the candidates. Nominations will be open until May 15th. The full listing of the candidates can be…
Mayapple Press is very pleased to note that The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey has been added to the preliminary ballot of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award. Gailey’s book is listed as a “Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection”. Active and Lifetime members of the Association will vote on the Preliminary…
Late last year we noted that Mayapple author Susan Azar Portefield had been awarded the 2015 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize. On Tuesday January 12th Geosi Gyasi posted a very interesting interview with Susan Azar Porterfield on Geosi Reads. Here’s a winner: Geosi Gyasi: What is the best time to write? Susan Porterfield: In…
Jessica Goodfellow, author of Mendeleev’s Mandala, has been named one of six Artists In Residence at Alaska’s Denali National Park for 2016. The park is the home of the mountain sometimes known as Mount McKinley. From the press release: Since 2002 more than 65 accomplished artists, writers and composers have participated in the program. Following…
