Laura LeHew’s poems fiction forthcoming — “This Just In” in Clutching at Straws,” “The Waking Incandescence,” won an honorable mention and will be published by Kudzu, “We Don’t Need Words” has been accepted to Ghost Town, “Season to Taste” and “A Word Problem, 2” have been accepted to Perceptions, “The Scheme of Work” to Poet’s Ink Review, “When We Were Robots” and “Pancakes” in Poetry Now, “All Evidence No Proof,” “Be Still,” and “Killing Your Lover” in Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling, “Three Shows Nightly” and “Topaz, The Grumpinator” in the first issue of The Feline Muse, “Living: This is Goodbye” and “The Absence or the Sum” in The Medulla Review, “The Well” in The Raleigh Review, “The Evolution of Bats” and one other poem tbd in Tiger’s Eye.

I was awarded a writing residency to the Montana Artists Refuge www.montanarefuge.org for the month of March ’10. And, I will be guest editing The Medulla Review www.themedullareview.com starting in July. I will be reading at the Sacramento Poetry Center’s Tiger’s Eye reading on July 12th along with Joyce Odam, Peter Ludwin, Cleo Griffith, Tom Goff and Karen Clausel– for more information: http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/.

I am pleased to announce the release of a new chapbook from Uttered Chaos by Sharon Lask Munson Stillness Settles Down the Lane, May ’10. More information can be found atwww.utteredchaos.org <http://www.utteredchaos.org/>.

Oblongata Contest — check the web for details  http://www.themedullareview.com/Oblongata_Contest.html

The Medulla Review is offering a unique opportunity. During approximately the first three weeks of each month the editor-in-chief will review poetry, flash fiction, and fiction submissions for contests. First, second, and third place winners will be chosen for publication out of each category. Works will be published on the first day of every month.

First place winners will receive publication, payment based on 10% of the entry fees per category, and a link with their name on the homepage of  The Medulla Review for one year. The winning writer’s web-page containing their winning piece may also include artwork, lengthy bios, promotions of books, blogs, links to other sites, or a myriad of other things, depending on the specific wishes of the writer.

Second and third place winners will receive publication of their work and a short-bio for one year on a homepage link entitled “Oblongata Winners.”

Erik Muller has poems in the current issues of Windfall, Hubbub, and Cloudbank, with a review of Lex Runciman’s Starting from Anywhere forthcoming in the winter Cloudbank. At Poets’ Concord he led discussion of the poems of Clem Starck read by the author.

Creative Blockbusters, June 12, 2010 (Sat.), 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. ,Lamb Cottage, Skinner Butte Park, Eugene $30.00

register at http://www.moxiemavericks.com/

Join Lisa Gentile, M.S., Life and Creativity Coach from the San Francisco area, to: * Learn new ways to hear what your work is saying, * Manage anxiety * Prioritize * Stay focused and * Get the feedback you need, when you need it. “I highly recommend this workshop, and Lisa — she’s been a mentor to me for the past three years. A Poetry Anthology I’m coordinating with five other women from across the U.S. is nearing completion. Lisa’s guidance was critical during the process. I’m delighted to be meeting her in person — we’ve worked together online and via phone up to now. I’m happy to talk with anyone interested in more information about my experience working with Lisa.” Michele Graf MGraf@roadwriter.net

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The Muse Online Writers Conference, - the only FREE conference of its kind!  http://www.themuseonlinewritersconference.com/ Affiliated with the award-winning sites and Writer’s Digest Top 101 Writing Sites: 
The MuseItUp Club & Apollo’s Lyre Registration is now open for the October 11 – 17, 2010 Conference! (Registration deadline: August 15, 2010) No matter where you live, what you write, at what point you are in your writing career, you’ll find a workshop that fits your needs during our weeklong conference. Don’t miss out! JOIN US!

(local contact Michele Graf MGraf@roadwriter.net for more info)

Writing to Explore Your Spiritual Journey, a seven-week, on-line, summer course, will be taught by member, Nan Phifer, author of Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Guide. Offered through Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, find descriptions at http://www.cdsp.edu/center_online.php and www.memoirworkshops.com. Nan’s description– We’ll go beyond chronological, autobiographical writing to focus on our most significant spiritual experiences.  I’ll guide you in identifying the landmarks of your spiritual journey and lure you with writing prompts that lead into not-yet-explored territory.  You’ll write to recognize your inner light, to reconcile your sorrows and blessings, to forge paths toward altruism, and to express the presence of the numinous.  I’ll illustrate a technique you may employ to breathe life into narration. You’ll write in pace with each other in small, ongoing groups, sharing drafts and responding to them in a prescribed, constructive way.  From the affirmations and questions of group members, you’ll gain personal insights and collegial affiliation, for supportive bonds often form within the small groups.  From the course overall, you’ll master a writing process you can continue to use any time you want to write so vividly that you awaken readers, as well as yourself.

Nan Phifer

http://www.memoirworkshops.com

Sharon Lask Munson has poems in Earth’s Daughters, Brevities, and Groundwaters.  She has forthcoming poems in Goose River Anthology, Silver Boomers, and Drash: Northwest Mosaic.  Her forthcoming chapbook, Silence Settles Down the Lane will be published in the spring, 2010, by Uttered Chaos Press.

Amy MacLennan will have an article appear in the 2011 Poet’s Market. Her work has recently been accepted by the online magazine Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and she will be a featured guest on Rustin Larson’s poetry radio program out of Fairfield, Iowa.