Crab Creek Review Reading and Editors Panel at Centrum Writers' Conference in Port Townsend, WA (July 21 & 23, 2010)

Join us on July 23rd at 7:30 p.m. as we celebrate the release of our 2010 Vol.I issue at Fort Worden (Port Townsend) in a joint reading with Willow Springs Literary Magazine. Our featured readers will be poets, Molly Tenenbaum and Peter Munro (both of whom have poems featured in 2010 Vol.I). Special thanks to the Centrum Writers' Conference for hosting us.

About our readers:

Molly Tenenbaum’s books: Now (Bear Star Press, 2007)
and By a Thread (Van West & Co, 2000). Her chapbooks:
Blue Willow, Old Voile, and Story. Her old-time stringband:
The Queen City Bulldogs. Her CD: Instead of a Pony.
Her location: Seattle. Her work: teaching music and
English.

Peter Munro is a fisheries scientist who works in the
Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, the Gulf of Alaska, and
Seattle. On-line, he hangs out at Café Blue, a literary
listserv, which can be found at http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/
mailman/listinfo/cafe-blue.

The editors from Crab Creek Review will be participating in a panel about publishing on July 21st from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Centrum Writers' Conference:
Panel Discussion Room D “How to Run a Literary Journal”
Featuring the editors of the Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Jen Betterley, and Annette Spaulding-Convy); The Meadow (Lindsay Wilson); and Willow Springs (Sam Ligon); this discussion will center, from an editor’s perspective, on how to successfully curate the most vital and essential sector of the world’s literary venues: the literary journal.

Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol.I is Now Available

We are pleased to announce that Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol.I has just been released!

An excerpt from our Editors' Note: As we celebrate National Poetry Month and the creative writing process, we realize how privileged we are as editors to read the diversity of poems and stories received in the mail each week, as varied and intriguing as our April weather. Putting this issue together, we found that we had chosen works covering a wide scope of topics: contemplation of the past, former and present lovers, the surrealistic and fantastical, parenthood, the humorous, rural and urban living, the writing process, springtime and birds, to name a few. This “everything themed” issue is an apt way to begin a new decade as yet undefined, and therefore filled with every possibility. David Wagoner might express it best in his poem, How Birds Feel About Air, “and some carve it like constantly astonishing experts / into shapes ordinarily unimaginable.”
This issue features the work of: Dmitri Avaliani, P.K. Brask, Alex Cigale, Josh Cooper, Sharon Doyle, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Patrick Friesen, Terry Godbey, David Guterson, Jeremy Halinen, Michael Hanner, Jordan, Hartt, Sharon Hashimoto, Deborah Hauser, Niels Hav, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Michael Johnsen, Robert Kostuck, Kate Lebo, Diane Lockward, George Looney, Brendan McBreen, Rachel Mehl, Natasha Kochicheril Moni, Peter Munro, Justin Petropoulos, Cati Porter, Connie Post, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Victor David Sandiego, Emily Scudder, Andrei Sen-Senkov, Tim Sherry, Laura Stott, George Such, Molly Tenenbaum, Natalie Haney Tilghman, David Wagoner, Wendy Wisner, Mark Wisniewski, and Rachel Zitomer.
Cover Art: Memphis Girl, by Rowland Salley.
Order Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol.I here and please consider subscribing to our journal.

Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol. I due out in April

We are just beginning the proofing stage of our next issue--CCR 2010 Vol. I, which will be published in April, just in time for National Poetry Month.

2010 Vol. I will feature:

*An interview with author David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars) in which he discusses his writing life, specifically his venture from fiction into poetry.

* Two poems by one of the Pacific Northwest's most notable poets, David Wagoner, author of eighteen books of poetry.

* Two poems by award winning poet, Rachel Contreni Flynn, who was a finalist in our 2009 poetry contest.

* Two poems by Seattle poet, teacher, and musician, Molly Tenenbaum, who was the runner-up in our 2009 poetry contest.

* And new poems from Sharon Hashimoto, Natasha Kochicheril Moni, Peter Munro, Jordan Hartt, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Kate Lebo, Cati Porter, and Wendy Wisner as well as poetry and fiction from some strong emerging writers.

* We will also be featuring the artwork of Rowland Salley (Roly Salley), bass guitarist and vocalist with Chris Isaak's band Silvertone and a Grammy Award winner for his song, Killing the Blues.


Look for Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol. I to be out in April.
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