the "Two²" issue of BluePrintReview is online!
the issue goes live in sequences, starting with 3 pages. to introduce all two-contributors-to-be right at the launch, and to go on a rolling journey through words and places, here a contributor roundabout in connecting colors: Karyn Eisler is soaking away the summer in Hungarian thermal waters and Canadian hot springs. She was
PicFic's
Featured Contributor for July, and her image "
Red/White/Blue" appeared in
Referential Magazine. Track her down at
Living ?.
Sheldon Lee Compton returned to using a typewriter this summer. Just before that he saw the stories "
Johnny's Blue Mosrite Guitar" published at
Staccato Fiction and "
The Son of a Man" at
Divine Dirt Quarterly. He writes and interviews and reviews at
Bent Country.
Susan Gibb is spending the summer
writing one, sometimes two stories a day. She recently had a story named "
Cooper's Promise" in
Divine Dirt Quarterly, and "
Where We Come From, Where We Go" in the May 2010
Istanbul Literary Review. She blogs at
Spinning.
Brad Rose is spending the summer
writing poetry and flash fiction, and listening to the Black Keys, while working to pay the mortgage. He wonders if, in fact, T.S. Elliot wasn’t wrong? Isn’t August is the cruelest month? Brad’s poem “
The Liberation of the Knife-Thrower’s Daughter” appears in
Right Hand Pointing. Brad’s novelette
Lola Loves Richard, a tragicomedy told in 6-sentence chapters, is in progress at
lola-loves-richard. Links to his poetry and flash fiction can be found at
bradrosepoetry.
Rose Hunter is spending her summer in the
winter. (A recent, disorienting move to the southern hemisphere.) She's not sure what she's doing yet, except being cold. Her poetry book,
to the river, is being published by Artistically Declined Press this November. She blogs at
Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home, and also edits the poetry journal
YB.
Michelle Elvy is spending the summer getting accustomed to the New Zealand
winter. Her flash fiction piece, "Bedtime Story", appears later this month in
Gloom Cupboard and her latest
sailing photos/story can be seen in the August issue of
Blue Water Sailing magazine. You can find her at
Glow Worm.
This summer
Marcia Arrieta is
spending time at the ocean in California and is also on the road through Utah, Colorado, Idaho, & Montana. Two of her recent poetry publications include "
the mysterious" in
Bolts of Silk and "
Days" in
Melusine. You can find her at
indefinitespace.
Linda Simoni-Wastila is eating her way through her garden and conducting plastic surgery on her
second novel Pure. Her short story "
Another Thursday Night" recently appeared in
The Shine Journal and her poem "Unction" was named as one of the Top 50 poems by Robert Brewer of Writers Digest in the
April Poem-A-Day Challenge. She pontificates almost daily at her blog
leftbrainwrite.
Kirsty Logan is spending the summer working on her
first novel,
Little Dead Boys. She had a story named "
Beauty" in
Annalemma and a prose sestina named "
Anchor of the Suburbs" in
Weave. She blogs at
kirstylogan.
Michael K. White is spending the summer like a lotto winner spends fifty dollar bills. He recently had the a micro-novel "
My Apartment" published at
blueprintpress and a staged reading of his play at
paragontheatre. He doesn't blog anywhere but his gnarly website can be beheld at
brokengopher.com.
Steve Wing's summer has included traveling in
North Carolina, painting his kitchen, and spending quality time with intestinal parasites. His photography was included in the first issue of
Lantern Review, and 3 images of a photo collaboration with
blueprint editor Dorothee Lang appeared in Issue 18 of
Otoliths: "2 Layers". Steve is a sometimes contributor to the this blog, his bio page can be found
here.
bl pawelek is currently
stressing a move from San Diego to Madison. Recently, there has been a flash piece called '"
North of Paris" at
The Northville Review and an art piece called "
after the prayer" at the latest
Dogzplot Flash Fiction. He would love to see you at
blpawelek.
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is spending August battling PPD (post-
Paris depression!) by writing and reading and writing some more. Last month, she saw her first published piece - "
The Old Lie" - appear in
Camroc Press Review. More of her short fiction is forthcoming in
JMWW and
Moon Milk Review, among other lovely magazines. You can find her at
suzannemariewrites.
Kim Keith is spending the summer trying to not overheat. She recently had a poem called "Forsaken" in the
Vampires issue of
Skive Magazine and another poem entitled "
Lunaticks" appearing soon in
Fissure Magazine's
Steampunk issue. Kim can be found blogging at
sparkygurl.
Jeff Crouch recently had a story named
crackle pop in the magazine
abjective and a short film with Cece Chapman named
paste in the magazine
unlikely stories 2.0. He blogs at
Famous Album Covers.
Eckhard Gerdes is spending the summer editing the next issue of
The Journal of Experimental Fiction and working on his own writing. He recently had a pair of novels published together as
The Unwelcome Guest plus Nin and Nan by Enigmatic
Ink in London, Ontario. You can find him at
eckhardgerdes.com.
Michael Brandonisio has been spending the summer
battling the intense heatwave that has gripped New York City. His story,
Schiz, recently appeared at
PenSpark, and a
poem with corresponding
photograph about Jean Genet,
Darling Divine, is in the current eye-opening Fetish Issue at
Shit Creek Review.
changming yuan is enjoying a 'free' summer for the
first time in his entire life. Most recently he had
poems accepted by
Cha, 4 & 20, MTLS, Windmills and
Turbulence. Yuan blogs at
bquest-yuan.blogspot.com.
Ray Scanlon lives in Massachusetts. The two² image is his
first published photo. His writing has appeared at
Tiny Lights and his story
Karma in
Camroc Press Review, and he's on the Web at
read.oldmanscanlon.com.
Claire Ibarra is spending the summer raising her
puppy and
whittling down her towering stack of
'must read' books. She recently had a story titled "
Confession" in
Midway Journal and a creative essay titled "
A Blessing" in
Quiet Mountain Essays. You can find Claire at
claireibarra.
This summer,
Dorothee Lang has started to
carve out some time for flash writing and for sunday
mountain drives. She recently had a
Sky Blue story in
metazen, and talked about writing, reading and travelling with Rose Hunter in
the first daily s-press author talk. She keeps a sky diary and a blog of
virtual notes.
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