Archive for May, 2012

FWJ Alum Edie Meidav Nominated for Book Award

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Edie Meidav, who guest-edited fiction for our Spring 2010 issue, has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award. Congratulations, Edie!

For more information, check out the article Berkeleyside has written about Edie and her recently published novel, Lola, California:

Novelist and Northern California Book Reviewers member Steven Simmons finds that, “Meidav gets the bustling intellectual and cultural intensity of Berkeley; the oddly exhilarating anomie of Los Angeles; the physical and psychological terror at the pot farms in Mendocino; and the sensory pleasures as well as the spiritual delusions of a neo-hippie retreat … She digs deeply and painfully into the changing relationships over three decades of husband and wife, parents and children, and friends.”

Congratulations again, Edie, and best of luck to you!

Celebrate Our Tenth Issue at the Spring 2012 Release Event

Monday, May 14th, 2012

It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in just five years. Help us celebrate the big 1-0 by attending our Spring 2012 Issue 10 release event on May 20, 2012, at Open Books in Chicago!

FWJ and Open Books

Sunday, May 20, 2012
3:00–5:30 p.m.

Open Books
213 West Institute Place
Chicago, IL 60610

Readings by David Hernandez, Christine Sneed, Achy Obejas, and Richard Jones.

For details, visit our Events page. Planning to attend? Let us know on Facebook. We hope to see you on the 20th!

New Poetry From Our Book Reviews Editor

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Andrea Witzke Slot, our new book reviews editor starting in fall 2012, has recently published a book of poems titled To find a new beauty. The book has spent time on both Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Poetry and Amazon’s Hot New Releases in General. We encourage everyone to support Andrea and help her book continue to make waves!

Andrea’s work has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Translation Review, Pacific Review, Southern Women’s Review, and Chiron Review, among other print and online journals. She teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is also on the editorial board of Rhino Poetry. To find a new beauty borrows its title from a line of H.D.’s and has been described by Marge Piercy as being “rich with cool, intelligent, and carefully crafted poems that often have a subtext of terror and darkness.”

To find a new beauty