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Updated October 29, 2008

Guild Members In the News

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Ingrid Wendt has been busy – she has given workshops in Newport, Oregon and in her home state of Illinois where she was also inducted into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame. She has a book review in Calyx and one in the on-line journal Poemeleon. She has poems published or reprinted in several journals including Surgeonfish, Babel Fruit, and the anthology Across the Threshold, Into the Questions, from Morehouse Publishing. And if that’s not enough, she will be the “featured poet” in the forthcoming issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Jason Lee Smith’s book The Truth of Rain is out and available at Barnes & Noble. Jason says the book is “science fiction – Sin City with the tone of Blade Runner.”

Alan Contreras wrote an essay on the death of poet Reginald Shepherd which appeared on-line in Inside Higher Education. Alan’s memoir Afield: Forty Years of Birding the West, will be out from OSU Press in the spring of 2009.

Janice D. Rubin has had poems published in Flutter Poetry Journal, Rattlesnake Review, and American Poets Abroad.

Laura LeHew broke through the 100 poems published mark with poems accepted by The Tonopah Review, and her very timely poem “The Great and Powerful Sarah Palin” will be published in the New Verse News, as well as another poem accepted by New Verse News.

Henry Alley read “The Water Ghost: Story,” as part of the Qliterati: Monthly Panel LGBTQ Reading Series at the Q Center in Portland in September.

Ralph Salisbury has poems published in Many Mountains Moving and in a new anthology from the University of New Mexico Press. He’s had a short story translated into French and published in an anthology called On Turtle’s Back. He has also had an essay published in Yellow Medicine Review and will read his poetry November 6 at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.

Deborah Narin-Wells was a finalist in the 2008 Comstock Review Poetry Contest!

Jud Hyatt will read his poetry at The Celebration of the Human Spirit production at the Angus Bowmer Theatre on November 8 in Ashland. This is an annual, multi-venue event with singers, dancers, musicians, actors, and poets and draws an audience of over 300 folks.

Carol Ann Bassett is home from her Galapagos journey and is working on a book, Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Tourists, Creationists, and Biologists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution, due out next summer with National Geographic Society Books.

Lois Rosen has her first fiction publication, with her short story, “The Sons of Judea’s Chanukah Dinner” appearing in this fall’s issue of Raven Chronicles. Her short story, “Polio Pioneers” won an honorable mention in this fall’s Oregon Writers’ Colony Prose Contest. AND as if that were not enough, Calyx has accepted two of Lois’ poems!

Catherine McGuire recently had poems accepted by Main Street Rag and Plainsongs.

The following poets won prizes or Honorable Mentions in the Fall 2008 OSPA Poetry Contest: Toni Van Deusen, Catherine McGuire, Joan Dobbie, Michael Hanner, Anita Sullivan, Joyce Baker, Kathleen Pyle, Sandy Jensen, Bonnita Stahlberg, Carter McKenzie, and Eleanor Berry.

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