A Single Hurt Color, now available
March 11, 2010
More big news from Andrew Demcak, who you’ll remember from our Fall 2007 issue — his new book of poetry, A Single Hurt Color
New Season, New Issue
February 6, 2010
Welcome to the Winter 2010 issue of The Furnace Review. This collection couldn’t have gone live at a better time for many of you stranded in snowheaps (or, in South Florida, stranded amidst heaps of football tourists). We hope this issue makes the winter a bit brighter for you. Read, enjoy, and as always, let us know what you think.
Dzanc Prizes
October 1, 2009
Attention, writers! Dzanc Books has announced two contests, offering both fame and (small) fortune to the winners. We at TFR know our readers are a talented bunch, so we wanted to let you know asap. And if you snag a winning spot, please do let us know!
The official info:
The Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest
Dzanc Books is a publisher doing everything it can to preserve and push the short story form. In 2008 and 2009, Dzanc published seven full collections, as well as another eight between its imprints during that span. Three of these collections were named to the Kansas City Star’s top ten story collections of 2008. Last year Dzanc held its first Short Story Collection Contest and David Galef’s My Date With Neanderthal Woman was selected the winner out of hundreds of entries.
Having received many fantastic manuscripts last year, Dzanc has elected to run another Short Story Collection Contest this year, and the winning manuscript will receive a publishing contract with a $1,000 advance, and see the collection published in late Spring/early Summer 2012.
Entry to the Dzanc SSC Contest will require a $20 reading fee, and a full manuscript sent via email to ssc@dzancbooks.org. The entry fee can be made either via check made out to Dzanc Books, mailed to 1334 Woodbourne St., Westland, MI 48186 or via paypal by clicking on the button at the following link. The contest deadline is December 31, 2009.
The Dzanc Prize
Instituted in 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have a work-in-progress they can submit for review, and present the judges with a Community Service Program they can facilitate somewhere in the United States. Such programs may include anything deemed “educational” in relation to writing. Examples would include: working with HIV patients to help them write their stories; doing a series of workshops at a drop-in youth homeless center; running writing programs in inner-city schools; or working with older citizens looking to write their memoirs. All community programs under the Dzanc Prize must run for a full year. They must truly serve a literary community in need.
The submissions for the Dzanc Prize are reviewed by, and the prize will be awarded by, a panel of Steve Gillis, Dan Wickett, and Steven Seighman. All writers, including friends and associates of the panel, are eligible for the prize. The integrity and objectivity of Dzanc Books will not be compromised and, given our vast connections to so many great writers, exclusion of any kind would be impossible. The 2009 winner will be notified in January 2010.
Any questions can be submitted to prize@dzancbooks.org.
Guidelines
Those submitting should send to prize@dzancbooks.org, the following:
- an MS Doc file of their work in progress (25 to 50 pages)
- an MS Doc file of their Literary Community Service – this plan should be in as great detail as they can provide, including sign-offs from personnel where they believe it will be necessary (for instance, if the LCS is to work in a retirement home – we’d like to know the specific retirement home and that they have somebody’s approval to set up such a program)
- an MS Doc file of their latest cv/resume
Creative Nonfiction wants your blog
August 11, 2009
A blog post about blog posting? How very meta. Still, Creative Nonfiction’s call for blog posts makes for a great writing opportunity — selected posts will appear in one of CN’s upcoming issues. For more information and nominating details, see below.
Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in an upcoming issue of CNF.
We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts that can stand alone, 2000 words max, from 2009. Something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s blog.
The small print: We will contact individual bloggers before publication and pay a flat fee for one-time reprint rights. Deadline for nominations: August 31.
The form to nominate is here: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/blog_nomination_open.html
The Furnace Review :: Summer 2009
July 17, 2009
We’re so proud to bring you this season’s issue — our biggest yet. But it’s not just about increasing our numbers. The works of fiction and poetry featured here are the very best we’ve seen in the past few months, and we hope you’ll take the time to peruse the entire issue and discover them for yourself. As always, we look forward to your thoughts: editor@thefurnacereview.com
New Work from Wahlgren
June 4, 2009
Congrats to J Michael Wahlgren on his recent publication: “Nightingale,” in Flutter. If you’re looking for more of Wahlgren’s work, check out “Disco,” which we published in our Winter ’08 issue.
E-pub Roundup
June 2, 2009
We at TFR have been inspired, as we work to create our Summer 2009 issue piece by piece, by the wealth of new work that’s made its way to the web in the past few weeks. While you wait (with nearly impossible eagerness, we assume) for our new issue, why not check out some of what we’ve been reading lately:
- The Literary Bohemian continues to satisfy our wanderlust with its summer-themed summer issue.
- Broadsided Press put out a double feature of PDFs for readers to print and post publicly.
- Carte Blanche includes truly intriguing work in its ninth issue, not the least of which is Aaron Costain’s graphic fiction.
What new works on the web have you discovered lately?
Kingyens Considered Best New Poet
May 18, 2009
Not that we didn’t already know that! Still, we recently learned that Carolynn Kingyens, whose work we featured in our Fall 2008 issue, has been nominated to appear in Best New Poets 2009. Congrats, Carolynn!
The Furnace Review :: Spring 2009
April 18, 2009
With the change in seasons comes The Furnace Review’s new issue, featuring the best work we’ve had the opportunity to read all winter. Peruse and enjoy, and don’t forget to let us know what you think at editor@thefurnacereview.com.
Dzanc’s Creative Writing Sessions
March 13, 2009
Dzanc Books–publisher of the Best of the Web series, among other things– has come up with another valuable resource for undiscovered writers: the Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions. The program pairs poets and authors in need of guidance with published writers, forming a one-on-one relationship for discussions, critiques of stories and poetry, and other writing-related advice. And what’s more, all of the money brought in from the program will support Dzanc’s other writing mentorship program–the one for kids ages 4 to 12. For more details, click here.
