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News
... from Spring 2012
Anna Angelidakis has been awarded Semi-Finalist place in the 2012 Leapfrog Fiction Contest, Children's Division, for her story THE ICON THIEF.
http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm
Barbara Younger was selected by Estroven to take the Good Sleep Blogger Challenge and blog about it on their website for the next three months. The company spokesperson wrote: “This was a committee-based decision, and you were chosen by a group of individuals who believe that you offer high-quality, engaging content and an in-depth knowledge of menopause." Estroven will send Barbara to Blogher 2012 in New York City this August.
http://challenge.estroven.com/barbara/fourth-blog-entry.
Inspiring! Mima Tipper’s new interview with Sucker Literary and Hen&ink’s own Hannah Goodman on Through the Tollbooth
http://www.throughthetollbooth.com/
And her blog about process while writing “Alice” runs in three installments on Janet Fox's blog at Through the Wardrobe
http://kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com/
And last but not least, and a short piece on her fave inspiring quote (that will reference these other blogs) will run on Lindsey Lane's blog The Meandering Lane
http://www.lindseylane.net/blog/
Bloomsbury has sold Korean rights to KM-Kids for Mini Racer by Bridget Strevens-Marzo & Kristy Dempsey.
Bayard Presse France is making an animated app for iPad out of Bridget Streven-Marzo's illustrations to a picture book story 'A Night in School' by Céline Claire, first published as a Bayard Belles Histoires in 2008 and reprinted in English in Story Box.
Bridget Strevens-Marzo’s illustrations for Le Doudou du Loup (written by Cécile Claire), full-length picture book story for Bayard Press is due out in Belles Histoires in October, 2012. She details the process on her blog: http://bridgimage.blogspot.fr
Lots of squealing for Doug Cushman’s PIGMARES!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cushman-doug/pigmares/
CREATING CALM to pub October 2013. Whitney Stewart’s picture book on meditation to be illustrated by Sally Rippin and published by Windy Hollow Books (AU) will publish next October in Australia.
Emerging YA author Hannah R. Goodman’s new digital literary journal, Sucker Literary Magazine was released on Amazon and Smashwords in March 2012. The print version is due out in the fall of 2012. The second volume of Sucker will be released in January 2013 both digitally and in print. http://suckerliterarymagazine.wordpress.com/
J.M. Lee’s SHEEP FOR INSOMNIACS published in Time Anthology
http://pitchengine.com/joeyverse/sheep-for-insomniacs-published-in-time-anthology
Experience the French Revolution in its native tongue! Sarah Towles’ Time Traveler Tours app, BEWARE MADAME LE GUILLATINE now available in French and English.
http://www.pitchengine.com/timetravelertours/now-available-in-french-and-english
News from begining 2012, January ...
Since 1995, Fish Publishing has organized an International Short Story Contest that has been a stepping stone for many into successful writing careers. Each year 10 winning stories are published in the annual Fish Anthology. The Anthology is launched during the West Cork Literary Festival in July.
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, number9dream, Ghostwritten, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is judge of the 2011/12 Fish Short Story Prize. Past judges of the, now honorary patrons, include Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Dermot Healy.
This year's contest attracted 1900 entries. 550 stories made it to the long list, of which 145 remain on the short list, including Sarah Towle's The Last Testament, and Will, of Charlotte Corday, the short story version of her StoryApp, Beware Mme la Guillotine. The story was also shortlisted in the 2011 Paris Writers' News Short Story Contest.
This year's contest attracted 1900 entries. 550 stories made it to the long list, of which 145 remain on the short list, including Sarah Towle's The Last Testament, and Will, of Charlotte Corday, the short story version of her StoryApp, Beware Mme la Guillotine. The story was also shortlisted in the 2011 Paris Writers' News Short Story Contest.
Two for the Tipper: Mima Tipper's YA short story "Waiting for Alice" is available online now in the premiere issue of Sucker Literary Magazine. The story follows freshman Alice who-confused and despondent over a flash of insight on her first day of high school-goes to the first school dance of the year determined to make her life go back to what she's always known as normal.
Download Sucker's premier issue here: http://suckerliterarymagazine.wordpress.com
Live in Hunger Mountain's Fall 2011/Winter 2012 online issue, Art & Insanity of Creativity, Mima's YA short story "A Cut-Out Face."
Readers are saying:
"Enchanting and so gritty real at the same time...Socked me in the gut...Captivating and magically done...Intense...So many layers and each so perfect...Haunting and beautiful...Unique...Compelling...Gut-wrenching, not sure of the turn it might take...Tears filled my eyes at the ending. Sweet and sublime..."
http://www.hungermtn.org/a-cut-out-face
Whitney Stewart will be speaking at two literary conferences this summer.
In between those conference dates, she will be doing research in Germany and Poland.
The 25th annual conference of the Text and Academic Authors Association
June 8 - 9, 2012
http://www.taaonline.net/2012TAAConference/index.html
and at
The Gathering at Keystone College,
organized by children's book writer Suzanne Fisher Staples
July 19 - 22, 2012
http://gathering.keystone.edu/Homepage2012menu.html
MADAME LA GUILLOTINE! is a School Library Journal Top 10 2011 App!
And a TeachersWithApps Top Ten Tried & True Classroom App!
And to encourage educational travel:
http://www.pitchengine.com/timetravelertours/the-future-of-educational-travel
J.M. Lee Anime Central as an Artist Alley illustrator in April 2012, Chicago Illinois.
http://www.joeyverse.com/2011/12/16/contouring
Erzsi is pleased to announce that she'll be participating in the alumni weekend of
the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children, 12-15 July 2012.
Let her know if you'll be there!
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