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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
In Profile: Vanessa Gebbie, Writer, Editor, Teacher, and More!
I recently interviewed the multi-talented Vanessa Gebbie for the Writer Profile Project. Read her interview here. Vanessa is a past SmokeLong contributor (read her story "Bones") and the author of the short story collection Words from a Glass Bubble, forthcoming from Salt Publishing on March 1st.
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posted by Kelly Spitzer at 8:58 AM 0 commentsMonday, February 11, 2008
In Profile: Barbara Jacksha of Cezanne's Carrot
Barbara Jacksha, SmokeLong author and Cezanne's Carrot co-publisher, is featured in the Writer Profile Project. If you're interested in reading about the vision behind Cezanne's Carrot, the spirituality of place, magical realism novels in progress, and much more, check it out. Here.
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posted by Kelly Spitzer at 9:34 AM 0 commentsWednesday, January 16, 2008
In Profile: STEFANI NELLEN, Writer and Steel City Review Co-Editor
Stefani Nellen kicks off the 2008 season of the Writer Profile Project. Read what she has to say about Steel City Review, star-gazing, the world of board game designers, speculative fiction, and a TON more. Click here.
Stefani Nellen co-edits the Steel City Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inkwell, Mad Hatter's Review, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, flashquake, Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, FRiGG, SmokeLong Quarterly, and more. Her story "The Attraction of Asphalt," originally published in issue 17 of SmokeLong Quarterly, was selected for Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2007 Anthology, edited by Nathan Leslie and Steve Almond. Stefani splits her time between the US and the Netherlands.
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posted by Kelly Spitzer at 8:51 AM 0 commentsFriday, November 30, 2007
2008 Writer Profile Project
The Writer Profile Project wants new voices! If you'd like to participate in the project, please send the following information to kelly@kellyspitzer.com:
--a 10-20 page writing sample. Any genre is acceptable. Multiple works are fine, but if possible, send complete works. They do not need to be published, but if the work has been published online, you can opt to send me 2-3 links instead. Bottom line: it's all about the writing.
--a brief statement about what you're currently working on in your writerly time
If you are a publisher, editor, literary blogger, and so on, let me know about your work in these areas, too.
--a short writer's bio is optional
Disclosure:
Not all slots will be filled by applicants. I do solicit writers to take part.
The Important Stuff:
Please allow me 1 month to review the material you send. If you do not hear back from me after that time period has elapsed, please query! Email does get lost, and I will respond to everybody.
Samples and statements will be read in the order received. There are 15 slots available. Once they are filled, I will cease reading.
If you are chosen, you will need to be available for approximately two weeks prior to the date your profile is schedule to go live. That means you will need to check in, via email, at least once a day. If you cannot commit to this, this isn't for you. If you are uncertain about scheduling a profile many months, and up to a year, in advance, this isn't for you either.
If you are chosen, and need to change the date which we agreed upon at the time, please let me know a minimum of three weeks in advance so I can ask someone to switch with you. After this time, you forfeit your slot. If I need to change the date of your profile because it no longer works with my schedule, rest assured, I will work to get your profile up as soon as possible.
Hint:
I'm looking for diversity. That said, it's still all about the writing.
What is the Writer Profile Project?
It's an interview series I run on my website. Head there to check it out. You can browse every interview conducted by going to Literary Land/The Writer Profile Project.
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posted by Kelly Spitzer at 12:35 PM 0 commentsWednesday, November 28, 2007
Curtis Smith completes the 2007 Writer Profile Project
Curtis Smith, whose story "Neighbors" appeared in issue 18 of SmokeLong, wraps up the 2007 Writer Profile Project. View his interview here.Curtis Smith is the author of The Species Crown, An Unadorned Life, and two short story collections published by March Street Press. His most recent novel, Sound and Noise, is forthcoming from Casperian Books in the fall of 2008. Curtis’ stories and essays have appeared in over fifty literary journals, including American Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Hobart, Greensboro Review, West Branch, Bellingham Review, and Passages North, among others. His work has also been included in a number of anthologies and has been cited by The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and The Best American Spiritual Writing.
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