We’re very excited to announce the release of Senior Editor Syed Afzal Haider’s new novel, To Be With Her (Weavers Press). To mark the release of the novel, and the release of CQR 2010, readings will be held at the Booksmith in San Francisco on Thursday, November 11, 2010; and the Capitola Book Cafe on Monday, November 15, 2010 in Santa Cruz, California. Join us for this joint celebration which will feature Haider along with CQR contributors Timothy Crandle, Lynn Martin, Roberta Montgomery, Peter Sheehy, Don Skiles and Laura Wine Paster in San Francisco; John Chandler, Caitlyn He, Vanessa Hemingway, and Randy Splitter in Capitola.
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Chicago Quarterly Review 2010
We’ll be celebrating the upcoming release of our 2010 issue of Chicago Quarterly Review with two West Coast readings, one in San Francisco on Thursday, November 11 at the Booksmith and the other in Santa Cruz at the Capitola Book Cafe on Monday, November 15. This issue of CQR is our most ambitious ever. We’re thrilled that we’ve been able to give space to twenty-nine excellent writers. If you live in the Bay Area we hope very much you’ll be able to join us.
We’d like to dedicate this 2010 issue of CQR to Mark Cullison, our dear friend and dedicated editor who died suddenly at his home this fall. Mark was a talented playwright, a sensitive and thoughtful editor, a great friend to many people, and above all a devoted husband and loving father to his two children.
Check out CQR editor Jeanie Chung’s latest publications
Jeanie has an essay in the forthcoming issue of Drunken Boat and also in the latest upstreet magazine. Her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Timber Creek Review, Madison Review, Hunger Mountain, and upstreet, as well as the anthology The Way We Knew It. A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College, she was formerly a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her journalism and interviews have also appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. A fictionalized version of “Cuts and Folds” was selected for The Parlor’s Emerging Writers Festival in 2009.
United States/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship
Chicago Quarterly Review Editor and fiction writer Elizabeth Mckenzie has been awarded a United States/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship through the Japan/US Friendship Commision. She will receive a five month paid residency to live in Japan and pursue a creative project.
Editor Syed Afzal Haider in Taylor Trust Poetry & Prose
Check out CQR editor Syed Afzal Haider’s short story, ‘Colors Of A Day,’ in Taylor Trust Magazine.
What’s New & What’s Next in Chicago Publishing
CQR editors had a great time at the City of Chicago sponsored publishing event ‘What’s New & What’s Next in Chicago Publishing’ last night. Four writers from the 2nd Story ensemble read – the theme was love in all its various guises – and music was provided by the always fantastic Seeking Wonderland. We also enjoyed a conversation with Jill Pollack, director of StoryStudiochicago, before the reading.
Editor Dan Portincaso published in Pank Magazine
CQR editor Dan Portincaso has had a story titled ‘7 pm: Room 71 – Melissa’ published in Pank Magazine.
Open Books, check out December events
A worth cause and a place to volunteer or donate books: Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago and beyond. We enhance lives through reading, writing, and theNEWSWORTHY power of used books.
To learn more about us and find out how you can get involved, visit us at http://www.open-books.org!
Book Review: The Resurrection of the Body, by Armando Maggi
The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade, by Armando Maggi, (University of Chicago Press, 2009) is an extremely rigorous study of Pasolini’s final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his notorious final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, an adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade.
Book presentation: Italian writer Clara Sereni’s novel ‘Keeping House’
Clara Sereni, Italian writer, journalist, translator and former Deputy Mayor of the City of Perugia, read from her book Casalinghitudine at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in early November 2009. Casalinghitudine, (Keeping House: A Novel in Recipes), was recently translated into English by Giovanna Miceli-Jeffries and Susan Briziarelli, and published by the SUNY University Press Women Writers in Translation Series.
As Miceli-Jeffries writes in her introduction, “There is at least one recipe for every significant character that takes hold of the memory and the imagination of both the narrator and reader…”
Writer Carrie Messenger: 2 new stories
Carrie Messenger (2008 issue) has new stories coming out in Redivider and Crab Orchard Review.
Camillo Sbarbaro translations by Natalia Nebel and Paola Morgavi
Free Verse has published a special supplement of 14 poems by Camillo Sbarbaro (1914) translated by editor Natalia Nebel and writer Paola Morgavi. Click here to access.
Upcoming Reading: Babylon Salon in San Francisco
We’ll be giving a reading featuring Michela Martini, who translated Edoardo Sanguineti’s poetry from Italian into English with Robert Hahn, on September 12 at the Babylon Salon in San Francisco. We’re thrilled to be part of their line up. Click here to find out more about this fantastic reading series.
Jody Azzouni’s poetry collection
Jody Azzouni’s poetry collection The Lust for Blueprints (Poet’s Press) is available at Amazon.com or through his website. Click here to access his website, which is packed with great stories and poetry.
Paul Luikart: finalist in NPR’s 3 minute fiction contest
You can still find his story, “Something to Crow About” on the NPR site. Paul also has a story in the Santa Fe Writing Project and another, called “Another Shot at the Pennant” up at Boston Literary Magazine.