tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50460804278945739332024-03-13T00:57:01.390-07:00Casey Shay PressAn independent press in Austin, TexasCasey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-58416131919331181222016-06-22T10:41:00.001-07:002016-06-22T10:41:53.363-07:00Deanna Roy writes conclusion to her USA Today bestselling Forever series<h3 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #2a3e59; font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.4px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Only when you let go of yesterday can you find yourself in forever…</h3>
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This USA Today bestselling series takes you through the lives of couples with tragic pasts, who must find a way to put their tragedies behind them to find the love of their life.</div>
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<span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://deannaroy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/For-Lov-3d.gif" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></a>Forever Loved</strong>The shattering sequel to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forever Innocent</em></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that all the fans asked for.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gavin and Corabelle discover one last secret from their past.<a href="http://amzn.to/1eIW2S5" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amazon</span></span></a><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ~ <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forever-Loved-The-Series-ebook/dp/B00HRJQKG0" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amazon UK</span></a> ~ <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forever-loved-deanna-roy/1118018479?ean=2940148219743" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BN</span></a> ~ <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/forever-loved-1" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kobo</span></a> ~ <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Deanna_Roy_Forever_Loved?id=1wKHAgAAQBAJ" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google Play</span></a> ~ </span></span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/forever-loved/id792594590?mt=11" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">iBooks</span></a></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forever Family</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: navy; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The final book in the Forever series takes our three couples on their journey into trying once more for the family that will heal their hearts.</span><a href="http://bit.ly/ForFam-Zon" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/ForFam-Nook" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">BN</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/ForFam-Kobo" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Kobo</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/ForFam-GPlay" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Google Play</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/ForFam-iBooks" style="color: #15615c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">iBooks</a></div>
Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-18519637458303268672016-04-01T06:58:00.001-07:002016-04-24T20:16:27.469-07:00The 2016 winner of the Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is out -- Take Wing<br />
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From the sweetness of picking blackberries while one is dying to witnessing how cancer "hollows bones," the poems in <i>Take Wing</i> speak lyrically of the process of letting go.<br />
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When poet David Allen Sullivan first started scribbling down his emotions surrounding the impending loss of his mother-in-law, he didn't know these fragments would become poetry.<br />
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"I started writing notes as the events unfolded," Sullivan said. "Sometimes they would be close to poems, and few came out fully formed."<br />
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From those notes and pieces came <i>Take Wing</i>, a collection of poetry that was recently named the winner of the 2016 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize.<br />
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Rosemary Catacalos, former Poet Laureate of Texas and author of<i> Again for the First Time</i>, judged the contest. "The loss of loved ones is central to our shared humanity," Catacalos said. "With <i>Take Wing</i>, David Allen Sullivan has given us poems that confront death with the mineral strength of a spiritual warrior."<br />
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The poems create snapshots of the life of a dying woman as viewed by her family. Danusha Lameris, author of<i> The Moons of August</i>, called the poems "Beacons lighting the liminal space between the body's heat and its inevitable decline."<br />
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Sullivan, who teaches at Cabrillo College, said the poetry helped him connect the death of his mother-in-law Mary with his own mortality. "I think every writer -- no matter how far away from the subject matter -- is pulling from their life," he said.<br />
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Sullivan said he hopes readers will remember to face grief "head on" after reading the collection. "Return to your own life chastened, renewed, and more committed to live ferociously, hungrily, and without holding back."<br />
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Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-7275944460310569542016-01-12T11:17:00.000-08:002016-01-12T11:19:20.961-08:00Introducing the winner of the 2016 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Mary
Ballard Poetry Chapbook prize -- David Allen Sullivan's book <i>Take Wing</i>.</div>
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<a href="http://davidallensullivan.weebly.com/index.html">David Allen Sullivan</a> is a former Fullbright scholar who has
written a number of poetry books on topics ranging from the Iraq war to his
father's dementia. His poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's
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He teaches at Cabrillo College, where he edits the Porter
Gulch Review with his students, and lives in Santa Cruz with his love, the
historian Cherie Barkey, and their two children, Jules and Mina Barivan.</div>
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Our 2016 judge was <a href="http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=135" target="_blank">Rosemary Catacalos</a>. Catacalos was the
2013 Poet Laureate of Texas, a Paisano fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
fellow, and her poetry has been nominated for many Pushcart prizes and included
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Catacalos said that Sullivan's depiction of the loss of
loved ones was "central to our shared humanity. <i>Take Wing</i> has given us
poems that confront death with the mineral strength of a spiritual
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She praised the language in the collection, calling it
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<i>Take Wing</i> will be released in April 2016 as both a paperback
and digital edition.
Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-18790851825265352152015-09-29T21:00:00.000-07:002015-09-29T21:00:05.019-07:00Announcing the finalists to the 2016 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again we have had an amazing year. Over 200 quarterfinalists. 45
semifinalists. Now we are down to three.<br />
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At the next stage, these three chapbooks will be
sent to our poet-judge. While our goal is to have a winner in November,
the schedule of our judge will determine when we announce. Finalists,
we will be in touch with you every step of the way.<br />
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I
hope all of you will continue to send your poems out into the world. Our
contest will open again in late spring. We're thrilled to have read
your work.<br />
<br />
And here they are:<br />
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<i><b>Say the Words</b></i> by Carolyn Martin<br />
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<i><b>Take Wing</b></i> by David Allen Sullivan<br />
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<i><b>Baghdad Menagerie</b></i> by Paul David Adkins<br />
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Congratulations, poets!Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-11654277585539510532015-08-29T22:30:00.000-07:002015-09-25T16:38:58.616-07:00Announcing the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Semi Finalists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are excited to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.<br />
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Semi-finalists,
keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately
if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected in September,
and we need to be certain these three poets are available to
accept their publishing contract upon winning.<br />
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Congratulations, poets.<br />
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Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-60522341224706714102015-07-31T21:01:00.000-07:002015-09-25T16:39:17.667-07:00Announcing the Quarter Finalists to the 2016 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had an amazing field of poetry to judge this year. For our fifth Mary
Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, we have selected 200 quarter
finalists, our largest field ever.<br />
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In the next phase, we will narrow these chapbooks to
about 30 semifinalists to be announced on August 31. Absolutely keep
your simultaneous submissions active during this time, but do let us
know if you are accepted elsewhere and need to withdraw. (Three poets got
their chapbooks accepted by other publishing companies during the
process. Congratulations!)<br />
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We will also be talking to
our celebrity poet about the timing of
judging the finalists, so we can have a rough idea of when we will have a
winner this year. It's always fun to hold on to the secret of who our
final judge will be. We've had some wonderful ones in the past -- Jay Parini, Fred
Marchant, Dorothea Lasky, and Larry D. Thomas.<br />
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Congratulations poets, and please, if we made an error in your title or
name,
reply to the email you received when we confirmed your original
submission to let us know. We kept the capitalization you provided when you filled in the form, but if you weren't going for e.e. cumming's style, let us know.<br />
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And here they are!<br />
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Adriana Claudia Ciobotu ~ A Symphony of Sighs<br />
Aidan Ziliak ~ What Do I Do with My Diploma?<br />
Ajamu Abdullah ~ ProtoStar<br />
Alan D. Harris ~ Fall Ball and other late inning storylines<br />
alex stolis ~ Postcards from the Knife Thrower<br />
Alice Stinetorf ~ Within Our Vagrant Flesh<br />
Alina Stefanescu ~ i watch dishes<br />
Aline Alzime ~ Love Solstice<br />
Allie Marini ~ Cliffdiving<br />
Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi ~ Selected Poems<br />
Amy Krohn ~ Grass Fire<br />
Ana Prundaru ~ Cinderella takes a Gap Year<br />
Andrea Janelle Dickens ~ Landscape With Buffalo<br />
Andrea Marsiano ~ Distance<br />
A.M Rees ~ Insecurities and Remedies<br />
Ann Taylor ~ The Exquisite Truth: Heloise and Abelard<br />
Anna Cates ~ Starry, Starry Nights<br />
Anne Britting Oleson ~ Ruelle des Rèves<br />
Atar Hadari ~ Letters to Larkin<br />
Ava Love Hanna ~ The Life-Cycle of a North American Woman<br />
B Deep ~ In The Belly Of A Star<br />
Beate Sigriddaughter ~ Thirteen Love Poems and Twelve Songs of Despair<br />
Becca Lamarre ~ You Are The Pestle<br />
Ben Johnson ~ The Art of Communication<br />
Benjamin Pfau ~ Vanilla<br />
Betty Lipton ~ On A Wednesday My Childhood Died<br />
Bill Cushing ~ Two Centuries<br />
Blake C. Aarens ~ Clearing A Silted Stream<br />
Briana Forney ~ Missing Antecedent<br />
Bud R. Berkich ~ Halley Street Revisited<br />
Cari Oleskewicz ~ You'll Find Me on the Highway<br />
Carol Dorf ~ The Theory Headed Dragon<br />
Carolyn Martin ~ Say the Words<br />
Cassandra Baliga ~ Giant Shadows From Small Corners<br />
Catherine Moore ~ Flesh is Narrative<br />
Cherise Wyneken ~ White Cranes<br />
Christina M. Rau ~ Liberating The Astronauts<br />
Clara Freeman ~ A Southern Woman's Confessional- Poems from the soul<br />
Clinton Siegle ~ Syria<br />
Corey Ginsberg ~ Bowling in the Bumper Lane<br />
Courtney Claire Taylor ~ The Moon for Our Garden<br />
D. I. Ejuailo ~ Sounds of a Missing Jazzman<br />
Daniela Violin ~ Something Scandalous<br />
Dante Di Stefano ~ Grace Notes<br />
darlene anita scott ~ Try Years of Today Like Today<br />
David Butler ~ The Dogfish<br />
David Allen Sullivan ~ Take Wing <br />
Deborah Chava Singer ~ Body of Feeling, Body of Knowledge<br />
Derek Kannemeyer ~ What Lives<br />
Diana Woodcock ~ IInto Vastness and Freedom<br />
Don Thompson ~ Something About the Light<br />
Donna J. Sanders ~ Lost in Paradise<br />
Donna Nelesen ~ Women as Overcomers<br />
Dori Appel ~ Escape Artist<br />
Dot Dannenberg ~ The Wild Eye<br />
Dr. Graham ~ Tiny Little Cracks: Lessons Learned in the Classroom (and other Tales of Enlightenment)<br />
Eleanor Stanford ~ Forming the Artificial Body<br />
Elise Hempel ~ Older Man<br />
Elizabeth Breder ~ My Own Making<br />
Elizabeth Johnston ~ Where the Wild Sing<br />
Emma Decent ~ I dare you<br />
Fernando Valdivia ~ Seam Allowances<br />
Fletch Fletcher ~ Love the Loop<br />
Gail Eisenhart ~ Lost and Found<br />
Gail Langstroth ~ Hyena Dreams<br />
Gary Beck ~ The Mind of a Liar<br />
Gary Glauber ~ Focal Points<br />
Gene Hult ~ Render<br />
Gina Marie Mammano ~ Pill Hill and Other Stories<br />
Hannington Mumo ~ A Sound From Africa's Lyrical Caves<br />
Heather Awad ~ Cleaning Out Closets<br />
HeidiLynn Nilsson ~ The Math of Gifts that Are Not Wages<br />
Hemant Bawankar ~ Words ...and Poetry<br />
Howard Sage ~ Nutritious Contention<br />
Issa M. Lewis ~ Tricks of Light<br />
Irene Bloom ~ Stirrings<br />
Ivy Alvarez ~ The Museum of Welsh Life<br />
J.C. Elkin ~ Legacy<br />
Jack Peachum ~ Seat Of the Pants Poems<br />
Jackie Craven ~ Thirsty Wishes<br />
Jacqueline Seewald ~ Heart of Wisdom<br />
James G. Piatt ~ Reflections of an Aging Poet<br />
James M. Croteau ~ Tangled in the Sweat on My Neck<br />
Janne Karlsson ~ Cooking for the void<br />
Jane Rosenberg LaForge ~ In Remembrance of the Life<br />
Janet M. Powers ~ Some Other Magic<br />
Janet Ruhe-Schoen ~ Dedicatorias/ Dedications<br />
Jay K. Mishra ~ Trance-Memories<br />
Jennifer Ruth Jackson ~ The Layers of This Being<br />
Jerri Hardesty ~ On Location<br />
Jessica Goody ~ Other Voices<br />
Jim Davis ~ Neon<br />
Jimmy Reed ~ Illuminating Words of Fortitude in Some Dark Times<br />
Joan Canby ~ Rancho Peude Ser<br />
Joe Henry Gonzales, Jr. ~ Roses and Sparrows Die In Texas<br />
John C. Mannone ~ Elements of Survival<br />
John Reinhart ~ Black and White Teeth Marks<br />
Judith Kelly Quaempts ~ All That We Are<br />
Judith Waller Carroll ~ Ordinary Beauty<br />
Julia Hones ~ The creature inside a cage with wings<br />
Julianna Tresca ~ Darkness is Misunderstood<br />
Julie Fowler ~ In Search of Sweetness<br />
June Capossela Kempf ~ Lifelines<br />
JW Mark ~ Menagerie<br />
KJ Hannah Greenberg ~ Politics Like Sardines<br />
Karen Little ~ Joined at the Root<br />
Kathleen Gunton ~ If in This Sleep<br />
Kathleen Rose Guiles ~ My Tender Side<br />
Kathy Engel ~ The Lost Brother Alphabet<br />
Kevin Zepper ~ Moonman<br />
Kira Geiger ~ Nothing Like This Dream<br />
Kirby Wright ~ At the Artist Colony<br />
Knar Gavin ~ Live Lives<br />
Nolo Segundo ~ The Enormity of Existence<br />
Laryssa Wirstiuk ~ Vanna White Clapping<br />
Laura Foley ~ Between Apple and Limb<br />
Laura Lee Perkins ~ Soul Music<br />
Laura Taylor ~ Kaleidoscope<br />
Laurie Kolp ~ The End, Beached<br />
Leah Mueller ~ Allergic to Everything<br />
Leland James ~ The Barrenness of Light<br />
LindaAnn Loschiavo ~ "Dangerously in Love"<br />
Lisa Folkmire ~ Lessons I Thought I Understood: A Poetry Collection<br />
Lisa Hartz ~ Bloom or Perish<br />
Lisa L. Lynn ~ From the Alembic: Alchemical Poems<br />
Lisa M. Hase-Jackson ~ When I Die, Remember Me<br />
Lisa Timpf ~ Only Natural<br />
Loretta J. Oleck ~ Songs From the Black Hole<br />
Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen ~ Paper Daughter<br />
Lukata Martin ~ Imperfect Expressions of Perfect Concerns<br />
Magdalena Ball ~ Most of Everything is Nothing<br />
Malia Rock ~ Be Careful Who You Make Memories With<br />
Margaret Rozga ~ Measure of Peace<br />
Marguerite Costigan ~ Rock & Fire<br />
Marilyn Zelke-Windau ~ Woof Worthy<br />
Mark Alen Jenkins ~ Forklift Tattoo<br />
Mark Mansfield ~ Past the Narrows<br />
Mark Smith-Soto ~ Only Human<br />
Mark Wacome Stevick ~ Local Habitations<br />
Martin Willitts Jr ~ Snowy Day<br />
Mary Buchinger ~ Vagrancies<br />
Mary Kipps ~ The Art of Kissing Softly<br />
Mary W. Jensen ~ Break Free From Stillness<br />
Maureen Sherbondy ~ Belongings<br />
Meg Eden ~ Drowning in the Floating World<br />
Melissa Atkinson Mercer ~ After the Miracle Season<br />
Melodic Rose ~ The Ephemorphosis<br />
Michael Baldwin ~ Messing With Texas<br />
Michael Campagnoli ~ Fuoco<br />
Michael Jones ~ [S]ELF<br />
Michelle Chen ~ A Thousand Natural Shocks<br />
Miles Liss ~ All the Constellations<br />
mobnika john ~ "Not that I love you less"<br />
Nathanael Cook ~ From the Happy Stones of the Living<br />
Ndaba Sibanda ~ A Season to Reason<br />
Nick Hilbourn ~ Pacha<br />
P.C. Vandall ~ Brain Freeze and Heart Burn <br />
Pat Anthony ~ In the Pink Bowl<br />
Patti Sullivan ~ Top Forty<br />
Paul David Adkins ~ Baghdad Menagerie<br />
Paul Dickey ~ The Wall Refuses to Allow Itself to Be Painted<br />
Paul Fauteux ~ Scattered Letters<br />
R. Bremner ~ Kerouac Dreams, Kerouac Visions<br />
Raegen Pietrucha ~ An Animal I Can't Name<br />
Raydene Nash ~ Love Within A Nervous Breakdown<br />
Rhiannon Thorne ~ Stillbirth<br />
Rob Stephens ~ The Art of Fugue<br />
Rose M. Smith ~ Holes in My Teeth<br />
Ruchika Jain ~ A Sun in My Ear<br />
Sandra Campbell ~ Breaking Through<br />
Sarah Ann Winn ~ Gone Golden<br />
Sarah Frances Moran ~ Evergreen<br />
Sarah Lilius ~ Lightning, Glass, and Stone<br />
Sarah Richards ~ Complexities, of Mind and Body<br />
Savannah Thorne ~ Dare<br />
Schuyler Peck ~ An Alcoholic's Holy Water<br />
Scott Beal ~ The Octopus<br />
Sea Sharp ~ The Swagger of Dorothy Gale & Other Filthy Ways to Strut<br />
Shari Caplan ~ Advice from a Siren<br />
Shauna Osborn ~ Indra's Net<br />
Shawn Ballard ~ Time for the Rats and Pigeons to Dance<br />
Simon Peter Eggertsen ~ Without Knowing<br />
S. Wallace ~ Women's Voices: Seasons of Change<br />
Shinjini Bhattacharjee ~ Homebodies and Other Exhibits<br />
Simon Mermelstein ~ The Continuing Adventures of Orthomax (now with Bombastic Pentameter!)<br />
Skyy ~ A Womans Worth<br />
Sondous Alsoubani ~ verses of an overzealous friend<br />
Sonja Johanson ~ Stirring Settled Honey<br />
Stephanie Lane Sutton ~ Revocation<br />
Steve LaVigne ~ My heart the betrayer<br />
Sylvia Telfer ~ Pandora's Boxes - Fragile <br />
Tanque R. Jones ~ Little Deaths<br />
Theodore Irvin Silar ~ Nunc Dimmitis<br />
Thu Anh Nguyen ~ Passages<br />
Tinasha LaRayé ~ skin, of the chocolate complexion<br />
Tracey S. Rosenberg ~ Quiet Burning Makes a Good Marriage<br />
Tracie Renee ~ Soundtrack<br />
Tracy Davidson ~ Another Sunrise<br />
Trish Hopkinson ~ Stranger Underneath<br />
Ty Stumpf ~ Remains<br />
Valerie Wieland ~ Life is a Test<br />
Verna Cole Mitchell ~ Dinner of English for the TeacherCasey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-88541606976402297612015-05-07T15:03:00.002-07:002015-05-07T15:10:15.344-07:00The 2015 Ballard Poetry Prize collection is out -- Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are thrilled to announce the official release of our newest prize-winning poetry collection, Sarah McCartt-Jackson's <i>Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River.</i><br />
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Larry D. Thomas, former Texas Poet Laureate and member of the Texas Institute of Letters, judged the contest and found the collection both realistically and luminously depicted. "The brutality of life is brilliantly counterpointed by the elegance of lyrical diction," Thomas said. "It's a memorable collection."<br />
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The poems form a narrative about Ora, a woman living a hard existence, who works through the loss of her children, a grief that McCartt-Jackson calls, "unending but not life-ending."<br />
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McCartt-Jackson, who is the current poet-in-residence for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, recognizes that a lot of people don't read poetry. "I knew I wanted to make a collection with a narrative arc to show readers, even non-readers of poetry, that reading a collection of poems can be equivalent to--or even better--than reading a novel."<br />
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The book is available in both paperback and ebook form at the following retailers and bookstores:<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/ChildBorn-Zon" target="_blank">Amazon</a> <br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/Children-Born-Powells"><span id="goog_205247909"></span>Powell's Bookstore</a><span id="goog_205247910"></span><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/childrenborn-BN" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/ChildrenBorn-iTunes" target="_blank">iTunes</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/ChildrenBorn-GP" target="_blank">Google Play</a> <br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/ChildrenBorn-Kobo" target="_blank">Kobo</a><br />
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<br />Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-24114360867447808352015-03-30T23:18:00.000-07:002016-06-22T10:38:00.540-07:00The Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize rules[Note: This contest has been discontinued. Poets have many opportunities for their work now with self publishing, and many are taking that route. We wish all you poets the very best.] <br />
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We are pleased to announce that the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook
Prize is open for submissions April 1 through June 30, 2015. There is
NO fee to enter this contest and international entries are welcome.<br />
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Please
realize that this is a chapbook competition for 20-40 pages of poetry.
Entries with fewer than 20 pages will simply be discarded.<br />
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Ballard Wright wrote poetry, but almost no one knew it. She raised
three children through two marriages, kept a home, and scribbled verses
in those moments when she dared to think of something other than daily
life.<br />
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In
1979, a tornado swept through her town of Wichita Falls, taking her
home and everything she owned. Among the things she lost were her life's
work, handwritten poems kept in a closet.</div>
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Mary
died in 2010, and here at Casey Shay Press, we have decided, in her
memory, to publish one poet each year. It is our hope that by
encouraging poets to send their work out into the world, we can
help keep others from sudden loss, be it a natural disaster, a technical
failure that destroys a hard drive, or a personal loss in the theft of
the laptop or computer.</div>
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<b>The winner of the
Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize will receive $500 and 25 printed
copies of the chapbook. The chapbook will be sold in both physical and
electronic versions via a publishing contract with Casey Shay Press.</b></div>
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<b>There is NO fee to enter this contest, but each entrant may submit only one manuscript.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;">Rule for Entries:</span><br />
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<b>Deadline: June 30, 2015</b><br />
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<li>The Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is open to all poets, published or unpublished.</li>
<li>The prize is open to international entries, although the poetry should be in English.</li>
<li>Manuscripts may be either a collection of poems or one long poem and should be<b> a minimum of 20 pages and a maximum of 40 pages</b> (not including the title page).</li>
<li>Poems should adhere to a theme, however loosely.</li>
<li>We consider themes for adults as well as collections for children.</li>
<li>Individual poems may be previously published, but poems should not have been published as a group in any form, <b>including self-published collections</b>.</li>
<li>No more than 10% of the poetry should have been posted to the poet's
own blog or web site previously, and print and digital rights to any
published poems should have reverted to the author to be eligible.</li>
<li>All poems should be single spaced and typed in size 12 Times New Roman or similar font.</li>
<li>Each manuscript should include a title page. This page should
include the title, a one-sentence explanation of the chapbook's theme,
and contact information on the poet. Please use your real name for your
submission. If you prefer to use a pseudonym on your chapbook, you may
list that as well and we will use it on public contest results.</li>
<li>If any poems have been previously published, please indicate their titles and where they were published.</li>
<li>If the poet already participates in readings, poetry groups, or
writers' organizations, we would love to hear about that, but it is
optional.</li>
<li>The reading period for the 2016 competition begins on April 1, 2015.
Entries must be submitted by June 30, 2015. Submissions will only be
considered if received between those dates.</li>
<li>The quarter-finalists will be announced July 31, 2015. Semi
finalists Aug. 30. Finalists Sept. 30. The winner will be chosen by a
celebrity poet judge, and we can't always be sure when the judging will
be completed, but hopefully by Nov. 1.</li>
<li>We are all-electronic. Fill out this form to submit your entry:<b> </b><div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Uncommon Clay</i> by Darlene Franklin-Campbell, judged by Jay Parini, author of <i>The Last Station, Robert Frost: A Life</i>, and numerous poetry collections. <br />
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You can read free samples of her work at<a href="http://amzn.to/HaWXPv" target="_blank"> Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncommon-clay-darlene-franklin-campbell/1109598435?ean=9781938150005&itm=1&usri=uncommon+clay%3a+poems">Barnes and Noble</a>.<br />
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<i>Seven Times to Leave</i> by Jeannette Angell, judged by Fred Marchant, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Suffolk University and author of <i>The Looking House</i>. <br />
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Read her work at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Times-Leave-Domestic-ebook/dp/B00BXPNNK0" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/seven-times-to-leave-poems-on-domestic-violence?store=allproducts&keyword=seven+times+to+leave+poems+on+domestic+violence" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>.<br />
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<i>Splitting the Velvet Dark</i>
by Elaine Mott, judged by Dorothea Lasky, professor of poetry at
Columbia University's School of the Arts, and the author of three
full-length collections of poems.<br />
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Read her work on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938150244/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1938150244&linkCode=as2&tag=theromancereview" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/splitting-the-velvet-dark-elaine-mott/1118907166?ean=9781938150241" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>. Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-66977725234195820852015-01-12T08:01:00.001-08:002015-01-12T08:03:55.777-08:00My Big Brother's Birthday is here -- in hardcover!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTt8SGQ-mtSP4_gxE4rL3Fa8T011975pDL_rlyetr8mUFVWEDE76LXG6Xl93co68JDKvFbjFfoH_aAkREo7rwegoKUvqpDZSHSGudJdIJAZkQoBJl1vW2Ru5z1YWk005uYcY045ld5TE8p/s1600/web-MBBB-stack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTt8SGQ-mtSP4_gxE4rL3Fa8T011975pDL_rlyetr8mUFVWEDE76LXG6Xl93co68JDKvFbjFfoH_aAkREo7rwegoKUvqpDZSHSGudJdIJAZkQoBJl1vW2Ru5z1YWk005uYcY045ld5TE8p/s1600/web-MBBB-stack.jpg" height="320" width="290" /></a>Something we'd wanted to do for a long time was to introduce some of our early works in hardcover editions. Today, we released one of our treasured titles: <b><i>My Big Brother's Birthday</i></b> by John J Asher.<br />
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The book has always been available in electronic form, but for this
release, we are introducing a new Kindle version made especially for
tablets! It has pop up text and all the features you'd expect from a
modern children's title.<br />
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Here's a little more about the book:<br />
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Why can't it be MY birthday?</h2>
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Little brother is sure everyone at the big-kid birthday party will
push him out of the way and gobble up all the treats. If only it were
HIS birthday instead!
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But just when he can't feel any worse, an unexpected turn means that
his big brother's birthday just might end up being the best day of all!
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Written and illustrated by long-time children's artist John J. Asher, <i>My Big Brother's Birthday</i> is the perfect reading for younger children who may be feeling left out on a sibling's big day.
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Purchase the hardcover and get the ebook for free through Kindle's
Matchbook program. You can read this book both traditionally and on the
go!Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-60668527401151507562015-01-07T10:05:00.000-08:002015-01-07T10:15:59.743-08:00The Winner of the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is Sarah McCartt-JacksonWe are pleased to announce the winning chapbook: <i>Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River</i> by <a href="http://sarahmccarttjackson.com/" target="_blank">Sarah McCartt-Jackson</a>.<br />
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Sarah calls Kentucky home. She is currently the artist-in-residence for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She has published another chapbook called<i> Vein of Stone</i>. <br />
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Her works have been published in <i>Indiana Review</i>, <i>Journal of American Folklore</i>, <i>The Fourth River</i>, and <i>NANO Fiction</i>. <i>Tidal Basin Review </i>selected her as their inaugural Poetry Series Center Feature poet.<br />
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Our 2015 judge was <a href="http://www.larrydthomas.com/" target="_blank">Larry Thomas</a>. Thomas is a former Poet Laureate of Texas, an inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, and has published multiple volumes of poetry, most notably, <i>Where Skulls Speak Wind</i>. He has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes. <br />
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Thomas said of <i>Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River, "</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The brutality of life 'on the wrong side of the
river' is brilliantly counterpointed by the elegance of lyrical diction and
unforgettable imagery." </span><br />
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<i>Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River </i>will be released in April 2015 as both a paperback and digital edition.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-59549546831310107392014-09-29T22:30:00.000-07:002014-10-06T13:18:10.726-07:00Announcing the finalists to the 2015 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again we have had an amazing year. Each level of the contest was a larger group this year. Almost 200 quarterfinalists. Over 50 semifinalists. Now we are down to three.<br />
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At the next stage, these three chapbooks will be
sent to our poet-judge. While our goal is to have a winner in November,
the schedule of our judge will determine when we announce. Finalists,
we will be in touch with you every step of the way.<br />
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I
hope all of you will continue to send your poems out into the world. Our
contest will open again in late spring. We're thrilled to have read
your work.<br />
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And here they are:<br />
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<i>Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River</i> by Sarah McCartt-Jackson<br />
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<i>Letters to Sneha</i> by Souradeep Roy<br />
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<i>Love and Sorrow</i> by B.J. Buckley<br />
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Congratulations to all of our entrants. It's been a terrific year.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-42935285487708708782014-09-29T12:41:00.000-07:002015-03-30T23:22:52.238-07:00Our Romance Superbundle has gone live!Today we are very pleased to announce the release day for a special project -- a boxed set of seven full-length romance novels centering around first love.<br />
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These types of ebook bundles have become popular, and we are thrilled to have three New York Times bestselling authors and one USA Today bestselling author in this one.<br />
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EXCLUSIVE scenes and epilogues by five of the authors can ONLY be found in this bundle.
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when they reconnect at one of Sam’s gigs, their explosive reunion will
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repair shop owner tries to win the heart of a jaded florist, despite all
the times she’s sent apology flowers to his ex-girlfriends.
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<b>HEARTBITTEN</b> by New York Times and USA Today bestselling
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forward together or will their troubled pasts consume them both?
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<b>FOREVER INNOCENT</b> by USA Today bestselling author <a href="http://www.deannaroy.com/" target="_blank">Deanna Roy</a> —
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<i>Special EXCLUSIVE scene with Angel and Arion available ONLY in this bundle.</i>Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-9396275074536606772014-09-22T08:29:00.001-07:002014-09-23T08:03:51.745-07:00The Adventure Collection features SIX amazing books for middle grade readersWe love boxed sets, and they've been hugely popular in ebook format in adult genre fiction. We looked around and didn't see much of anything for middle grade readers!<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So now <i>The Adventure Collection</i> is here!</span></b></span><br />
The set is just <b>99 cents</b> right now, but it won't be for long.
Preorders are guaranteed at that price.<br />
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early for a special promotion.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">About the Collection</span></b></span><br />
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The Adventure Collection includes SIX action-packed novels written
especially for readers aged nine to twelve. With over one thousand
pages of magic, danger, horses, and family secrets, third to eighth
graders will find plenty to read and love from these bestselling
authors. <br />
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<b>THE GENIE’S GIFT by <a href="http://www.chriseboch.com/" target="_blank">Chris Eboch</a></b> — Thirteen-year-old Anise
braves a sorcerer, a sea monster, and a host of challenges to seek a
Genie who can give her the power she needs to change her future. <br />
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<b>PRISCILLA THE GREAT by <a href="http://www.sybilnelson.com/" target="_blank">Sybil Nelson</a></b> — An ordinary seventh
grader must save her family from genetically enhanced assassins and
bring down an organization that turns children into killing
machines. <br />
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<b>JINNIE WISHMAKER by <a href="http://ddroy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">DD Roy</a></b> — Eleven-year-old Jinnie discovers
she can grant any living thing its one true wish, only to have her
power stolen by magic thieves. <br />
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<b>OPERATION GOLDEN LLAMA by <a href="http://5cousinsadventures.com/" target="_blank">Sam Bond</a></b> — Five cousins navigate
the Peruvian jungle, lost cities, kidnappers and llamas while
searching for ancient gold and a mysterious grandma. <br />
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<b>CODE: ELEPHANTS ON THE MOON by <a href="http://www.jenniferbohnhoff.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Bohnhoff</a></b> — During the
fight against the occupying German army in World War II, a French
village girl begins to understand dark family secrets and the coded
message behind a radio announcement that there are elephants on the
moon. <br />
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<b>ANGELS CLUB by <a href="http://gottahaveya.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Courtney Vail</a> and <a href="http://westridgefarmpublishing.com/about/" target="_blank">Sandra J. Howell</a></b> —
Eleven-year-old Jacinda finds refuge from school bullies with Angel,
a scrawny rescue horse she is determined to keep from being sold.<br />
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Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-7118877043412463032014-08-30T23:30:00.000-07:002014-08-31T15:30:52.832-07:00Announcing the Semi Finalists to the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize for 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are excited to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.<br />
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Semi-finalists,
keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately
if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected in September, and we need to be certain these three poets are available to
accept their publishing contract upon winning.<br />
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Congratulations, poets.<br />
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The size of our contest just keeps growing. For this, our fourth Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, we have selected almost 200 quarter
finalists.<br />
<br />
In the next phase, we will narrow this field to
about 30 semifinalists to be announced on August 31. Absolutely keep
your simultaneous submissions active during this time, but do let us
know if you are accepted elsewhere and need to withdraw. (Four poets got
their chapbooks accepted by other publishing companies during the
process. Congratulations!)<br />
<br />
We will also be talking to
our celebrity poet about the timing of
judging the finalists, so we can have a rough idea of when we will have a
winner this year. It's always fun to hold on to the secret of who our final judge will be. We've had some wonderful ones -- Jay Parini, Fred Marchant, and Dorothea Lasky.<br />
<br />
Congratulations poets, and please, if we made an error in your title or
name, or you would like us to go ahead and switch to your pseudonym,
reply to the email you received when we confirmed your original
submission to let us know.<br />
<br />
And here they are!<br />
<br />
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Neriya</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Inelegant Proof ~ Scott C
Stewart</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Intermittent ~ Ateet Tuli</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">International Trapeze Act
of Fire ~ Jen Karetnick</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">intoday ~ John Reinhart</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ironflowers ~ Mary Ann
Malone</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Islands where egrets wade ~
Monika John</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">It's in the Works! ~ Gail
Eisenhart</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Kalediscopic Female ~ Don
Shook</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Collecting Kernels - <i>From the Orchard
of my Imagination</i> ~ E M Hector</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Knocking on the Roman Walls
Around the Ruins of My Heart ~ Telaina Eriksen</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Letters in the Margins ~ Alina
Stefanescu Coryell</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Letters to my Daughter ~ Robert
Perry Ivey</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Letters to Sneha ~ Souradeep
Roy</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Letting go ~ Alicia Owen</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life, Death, And Everything
In Between ~ Alannah Leary</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life, Truth, and Love ~ Elizabeth
Jarah</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lightning, Glass, and Stone
~ Sarah Lilius</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Love All the Weather ~ Suzanne
Allen</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Love and Sorrow ~ B.J.
Buckley</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Love Letters to Lu ~ Philippe
Shils</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">love poems for various
places, people, and things. ~ Katharine Gripp</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Love, Transcription ~ Maureen
Alsop</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Loving the Pyromaniac ~ Louise
Fabiani</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lucha ~ Marjorie Sadin</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lucky Tonight ~ Lee Patton</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Luminesce ~ Joanna Gale</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mark of Woman ~ Cecilee
Jayne Hilton</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Military Sexual Trauma ~ Joe
Henry Gonzales, Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mine to Tell (and other
poems) ~ Will Reger</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Misplaced Bookmarks ~ Winston
Mayo</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mortar & Pestle ~ Tavia
Grabas</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">My Father's Bargain ~ Jessica
Cuello</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">My Husband is Praying, But
the Ghosts Are Talking To Me ~ Melissa Knox</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">My Road Divides In Many
Directions ~ Lezah Redle</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Necessary Work ~ Nicole
Rollender</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Night Patrol and other
Poems ~ Gary Beck</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">No Judgment ~ Sarah
Karstaedt</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">No Roadmap, No Brakes ~ Madeleine
Beckman</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">No Small Effort ~ Joseph
Dorazio</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oasis Bridesmaids ~ E.
Doyle-Gillespie</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Observations ~ Daena Lee</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ode to the Stage Curtain:
The First Native American on Broadway ~ Jennifer Grant</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Of Sand and Shadows ~ Paula
M. Rodriguez Gomez</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">On Being Human ~ Heather
Awad</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Orphanhood After 50 ~ Melvina
Noel</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Out of Mud ~ John Nimmo</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">PA ~ Peggy Trojan</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pains, Pleasure, Ecstasy
And God's Everlasting ~ Clara Freeman</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pancake Kisses ~ Lydia
Suarez</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Paper Bridges ~ Karen
Douglass</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Past the Narrows ~ Mark
Mansfield</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pastoral ~ Mark Jay Brewin,
Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Patched Collective ~ JW
Mark</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Patchwork ~ Stephanie Lee
Evans</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pearl ~ Lawrence Kessenich</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Peeling Back the Veil ~ Andrena
Zawinski</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Penumbra ~ Sharon Scholl</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Planes and Trains and
Automobiles ~ Anne Britting Oleson</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Poem of the Month Club ~ Alex
Stolis</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Poetic Injustice ~ SANDRA
W. BURCH</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Precise as a Cloud ~ June
Blumenson</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Progress ~ Annette
Armellino</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Promises to the Dead ~ June
Sylvester Saraceno</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Recapitulation ~ Rohan
Chhetri</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Remarkable Shadows ~ Margaret
Rozga</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Requiem for a Doll ~ Ellie
White</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Romance Meets Darkness ~ Trishala
Sanzgiri</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Saltwater Under Brittle Sky
~ Lori DeSanti</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Scavenger Hunt ~ Sara
Backer</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Seat of the Pants ~ Jack
Peachum</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Seeing Perception ~ Selena
Flores</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sidewalk Stories ~ Francis
DiClemente</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sipping Sweet Memories from
a Cup of Childhood ~ Verna Cole Mitchell</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Soul Thoughts ~ Celestial
K.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Soulful Passions ~ Shyamal
R Swamy</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Souvenir ~ Trish Hopkinson</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Stanhope ~ Bud R. Berkich</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Stay ~ Melissa Jackson</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Stirrings of the Soul: The
Search for Meaning ~ Kara Spain</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Strangers ~ Desiree Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Elaine Mott’s life work was
almost never published. Between growing up in Brooklyn in the 40s, and battling
depression and anxiety as a wife and mother, Mott penned exquisite verses that
few people ever read until her son submitted her collected work to a contest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharon Olds, winner of the
2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, said of Mott’s work, “Her voice is genuine and
immediate. We hear it with the sense she is right next to us, singing directly
to us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This genuine voice earned her
the medal for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize by publisher Casey Shay
Press. Mott’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splitting the Velvet
Dark</i>, will be released in conjunction with April’s National Poetry Month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Mott occasionally submitted
poems to magazines and anthologies and managed to place a few of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Dorothea Lasky, Poet and
Professor of Columbia School of the Arts, judged this year’s finalists and
lauded the collection as “a gift to us from Elaine Mott, who left behind a book
to guide us through our days.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Elaine Mott’s son Aaron Mott collected
the poems and submitted them four years after her death. “Reading through her
work to put together the twenty poems in this collection gave me a way to
connect with her,” Aaron Mott said. “The poems were so evocative and revealed
so much of her inner dialogue that it felt like having a deep conversation
with her about her life.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Mott was born in Brooklyn in
1946. She struggled with depression as she raised her son and daughter, a
recurring theme in her poetry. She retired to the mountains of upstate New York
with her husband of forty years until her death in 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Perhaps most poignant of the
previously unpublished works as we listen to a poet almost lost to time is in a
verse from “Dragonflies and Green Rushes.”</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s simpler to live this way, with my hands plunged
in the warm dirt</span></i></div>
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Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-52682423961843193942014-03-31T12:08:00.000-07:002016-04-01T06:52:54.824-07:00The Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is OPEN for the 2015 contestWe are pleased to announce that the 2015 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook
Prize is open for submissions April 1 through June 30, 2014. There is
NO fee to enter this contest and international entries are welcome.<br />
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Please
realize that this is a chapbook competition for 20-40 pages of poetry.
Entries with fewer than 20 pages will simply be discarded.<br />
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Ballard Wright wrote poetry, but almost no one knew it. She raised
three children through two marriages, kept a home, and scribbled verses
in those moments when she dared to think of something other than daily
life.<br />
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In
1979, a tornado swept through her town of Wichita Falls, taking her
home and everything she owned. Among the things she lost were her life's
work, handwritten poems kept in a closet.</div>
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Mary
died in 2010, and here at Casey Shay Press, we have decided, in her
memory, to publish one poet each year. It is our hope that by
encouraging poets to send their work out into the world, we can
help keep others from sudden loss, be it a natural disaster, a technical
failure that destroys a hard drive, or a personal loss in the theft of
the laptop or computer.</div>
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<b>The winner of the
Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize will receive $500 and 25 printed
copies of the chapbook. The chapbook will be sold in both physical and
electronic versions via a publishing contract with Casey Shay Press.</b></div>
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<b>There is NO fee to enter this contest, but each entrant may submit only one manuscript.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;">Rule for Entries:</span><br />
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<b>Deadline: June 30, 2014</b><br />
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<li>The Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is open to all poets, published or unpublished.</li>
<li>The prize is open to international entries, although the poetry should be in English.</li>
<li>Manuscripts may be either a collection of poems or one long poem and should be<b> a minimum of 20 pages and a maximum of 40 pages</b> (not including the title page).</li>
<li>Poems should adhere to a theme, however loosely.</li>
<li>We consider themes for adults as well as collections for children.</li>
<li>Individual poems may be previously published, but poems should not have been published as a group in any form, <b>including self-published collections</b>.</li>
<li>No more than 10% of the poetry should have been posted to the poet's
own blog or web site previously, and print and digital rights to any
published poems should have reverted to the author to be eligible.</li>
<li>All poems should be single spaced and typed in size 12 Times New Roman or similar font.</li>
<li>Each manuscript should include a title page. This page should
include the title, a one-sentence explanation of the chapbook's theme,
and contact information on the poet. Please use your real name for your
submission. If you prefer to use a pseudonym on your chapbook, you may
list that as well and we will use it on public contest results.</li>
<li>If any poems have been previously published, please indicate their titles and where they were published.</li>
<li>If the poet already participates in readings, poetry groups, or
writers' organizations, we would love to hear about that, but it is
optional.</li>
<li>The reading period for the 2015 competition begins on April 1, 2014.
Entries must be submitted by June 30, 2014. Submissions will only be
considered if received between those dates.</li>
<li>The quarter-finalists will be announced July 31, 2014. Semi
finalists Aug. 30. Finalists Sept. 30. The winner will be chosen by a
celebrity poet judge, and we can't always be sure when the judging will
be completed, but hopefully by Nov. 1.</li>
<li>We are all-electronic. Fill out this form to submit your entry:<b> </b><div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Uncommon Clay</i> by Darlene Franklin-Campbell, judged by Jay Parini, author of <i>The Last Station, Robert Frost: A Life</i>, and numerous poetry collections. <br />
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You can read free samples of her work at<a href="http://amzn.to/HaWXPv" target="_blank"> Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncommon-clay-darlene-franklin-campbell/1109598435?ean=9781938150005&itm=1&usri=uncommon+clay%3a+poems">Barnes and Noble</a>.<br />
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<i>Seven Times to Leave</i> by Jeannette Angell, judged by Fred Marchant, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Suffolk University and author of <i>The Looking House</i>. <br />
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Read her work at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Times-Leave-Domestic-ebook/dp/B00BXPNNK0" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/seven-times-to-leave-poems-on-domestic-violence?store=allproducts&keyword=seven+times+to+leave+poems+on+domestic+violence" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>.<br />
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<i>Splitting the Velvet Dark</i> by Elaine Mott, judged by Dorothea Lasky, professor of poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and the author of three full-length collections of poems.<br />
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Read her work on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938150244/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1938150244&linkCode=as2&tag=theromancereview" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/splitting-the-velvet-dark-elaine-mott/1118907166?ean=9781938150241" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>. Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-44433902879606499782014-01-22T12:32:00.000-08:002014-03-27T12:35:11.251-07:00Deanna Roy makes the USA Today Bestseller List<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8knhhRG1Luh1N14GZvJGyH9xnKPuFGNBWRPDKMUgORa5qZ9HH22OtjQNwGvBuWUkwZ_0iaDFIz0oqOvxRvyuqGYxX7PQL4rIxgyTheT-vdn7fi2sL-7FUgBZ4V2N-o00pJ36BwAW-LelQ/s1600/web-Forever-Loved-3D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8knhhRG1Luh1N14GZvJGyH9xnKPuFGNBWRPDKMUgORa5qZ9HH22OtjQNwGvBuWUkwZ_0iaDFIz0oqOvxRvyuqGYxX7PQL4rIxgyTheT-vdn7fi2sL-7FUgBZ4V2N-o00pJ36BwAW-LelQ/s1600/web-Forever-Loved-3D.jpg" height="200" width="141" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZ4188Mi0kUsZZ0UuFeHWfR88dY93LA74sQTLMS779mYNa7ohHzgBfC_frRVj9M_Kz1jNdEfyDXisubnodJGsnAXdyn8PeE-Y52RJlTJssOwsOgv4GBrU2uKkT9_Z2vpyjRnxU-Rb3OIa/s1600/web-Forever-Innocent-3D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZ4188Mi0kUsZZ0UuFeHWfR88dY93LA74sQTLMS779mYNa7ohHzgBfC_frRVj9M_Kz1jNdEfyDXisubnodJGsnAXdyn8PeE-Y52RJlTJssOwsOgv4GBrU2uKkT9_Z2vpyjRnxU-Rb3OIa/s1600/web-Forever-Innocent-3D.jpg" height="200" width="142" /></a>We wanted to congratulate Deanna Roy, author of <i>Forever Innocent, Forever Loved, </i>and<i> Baby Dust </i>for making the USA Today Bestseller List in January.<br />
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Deanna published her first novel with Casey Shay Press in 2011.<br />
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Her next novel, <i>Forever Sheltered</i>, will come out in August 2014. She will be attending the Romantic Times Convention in New Orleans in May and the Romance Writers of America Convention in San Antonio in August.<br />
<br />Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-23398186755156692062014-01-08T09:13:00.000-08:002014-01-08T10:16:36.104-08:00Announcing the winner of the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize!We are pleased to announce the winner of our annual poetry contest: Elaine Mott's <i>Splitting the Velvet Dark.</i><br />
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Elaine Mott left behind a completed, book-length manuscript of poems at her death in 2009. Although she published poems in magazines and anthologies over the years and had won several poetry competitions and been named a poetry fellow at the Breadloaf Writers Conference, her collection was never published. Her son Aaron submitted her work on her behalf.<i><br /></i><br />
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Our finalist judge was <a href="http://dorothealasky.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Dorothea Lasky</a>, a professor of poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and the author of three full-length collections of poems including <i>Thunderbird</i>, <i>Black Life</i>, and <i>AWE</i>.<i> </i>She is the 2013 Bagley Wright Fellow in Poetry.<br />
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Lasky called Mott's work "a gift" and a guide to help us through our days. "I love this book and I love this poet. She is brave and strong and clear-headed."<br />
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Lasky said the book is one to carry through life, if one is like Mott's:<br />
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heavy and darkly mysterious<br />
fed by the secret river of her dreaming<br />
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<i>Splitting the Velvet Dark</i> will be released in print and as a digital edition in April 2014.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-10033116798517389602013-09-15T06:00:00.000-07:002013-09-15T06:00:01.466-07:00Announcing the finalists for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a tough time getting down to our finalists. All the chapbooks at this stage are truly excellent works. Thankfully, the staff is still speaking to each other as various chapbooks were passionately championed and yet, we had to narrow it down to just three.<br />
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At the next stage, these three chapbooks will be
sent to our poet-judge. While our goal is to have a winner in November,
the schedule of our judge will determine when we announce. Finalists,
we will be in touch with you every step of the way.<br />
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I
hope all of you will continue to send your poems out into the world. Our
contest will open again in late spring. We're thrilled to have read
your work.<br />
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And here they are:<br />
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<i>Charismata Canticle</i> -- W.F. Lantry<br />
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<i>Old News: The Bond Between My Father and Me</i> -- Eva M. Schlesinger<br /><br />
<i>Splitting the Velvet Dark</i> -- Elaine Mott<br /><br />
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Congratulations to all of our entrants. It's been a terrific year with 1000 entrants.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-47814353567662363302013-08-30T06:24:00.000-07:002013-09-03T14:32:22.669-07:00We are pleased to announce the semi-finalists for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook PrizeWe are excited to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.<br />
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Semi-finalists,
keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately
if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected within two
weeks, and we need to be certain these three poets are available to
accept their publishing contract upon winning.<br />
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Congratulations, poets.<br />
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A Benign Sort of Cannibalism -- Lisa Haag Kang<br />
A Woman Passing -- Ruth Holzer<br />
All Roads Lead There -- Kate Hutchinson<br />
Angels Kept Her Feet -- Randy Michael Robinson<br />
Anthems for a Sixteen Year Old Girl -- Emily Marquis<br />
Apostrophes -- Katie Darby Mullins<br />
Bright Lives Broken -- Ace Baker<br />
Charismata Canticle -- W.F. Lantry<br />
Escape to Cyberspace -- Gary Beck<br />
Everyday Love -- Peggy Trojan<br />
Flux Lines -- John C. Mannone<br />
Gift Snake -- Nina Forsythe<br />
Grace Notes -- Jane Ebihara<br />
Life's Epiphanies -- Angela E. Sarumi<br />
Midwest Science and Poetry Through a Family -- Joyce Frohn<br />
Modern Farming and Other Changes -- Steve Broidy<br />
Music from a Farther Room -- Barbra Nightingale<br />
My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto -- Steve Klepetar<br />
Negative Splits -- Jennifer Marshall Lagedrost<br />
Old News: The Bond Between My Father and Me -- Eva M. Schlesinger<br />
Pulchritude in All Directions -- Don Shook<br />
Ripe -- by Gina Marie Mammano<br />
Sawing a Lady in Half -- Lee Schwartz<br />
Skeletons in the Closet -- Mara Ferguson<br />
Spectrum -- Darrell Lindsey<br />
Splitting the Velvet Dark -- Elaine Mott<br />
That Orangutan Can Sing the Blues -- Alvaro Salinas, Jr.<br />
The Book of Nin -- Joseph Kayne<br />
The Crone at the Cathedral -- Janet McCann<br />
The Edge of Death -- Thea Iberall<br />
The Edge of Never -- Martin Willitts, Jr.<br />
The First Arts -- Tom Holmes<br />
The Flash before the Shadow -- George Such<br />
The Little Blue Hut -- Nancy Charley<br />
The Notion of Wings -- Sally Albiso<br />
The Queen of Flight -- Denise Grier<br />
The Stairs -- Betty Lipton<br />
The Starving Artist and Other Poems -- Michael Nicholson<br />
Tricks of Light -- Issa Lewis<br />
Where Jewish Grandmothers Come From -- Debra Winegarten<br />
Xing: Poems of Movement -- Shauna Osborn <br />
<br />Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-70676235040696852302013-07-31T07:00:00.000-07:002013-08-30T11:04:38.045-07:00Quarter Finalists for the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize are here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The size of our contest has grown immensely each year. For this, our third Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, we have selected 161 quarter finalists.<br />
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In the next phase, we will narrow this field to
about 30 semifinalists to be announced on August 31. Absolutely keep
your simultaneous submissions active during this time, but do let us
know if you are accepted elsewhere and need to withdraw. (Two poets got
their chapbooks accepted by other publishing companies during the
process. Congratulations!)<br />
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We will also be talking to our celebrity poet about the timing of
judging the finalists, so we can have a rough idea of when we will have a
winner this year. We can't wait to tell you about our final judge for the 2014 prize. We've had some wonderful accomplished poets judge our finalists in the past -- Jay Parini and Fred Marchant!<br />
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Congratulations poets, and please, if we made an error in your title or
name, or you would like us to go ahead and switch to your pseudonym,
reply to the email you received when we confirmed your original
submission to let us know.<br />
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And here they are!<br />
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64 Blue Letters -- Constance Alexander<br />
A Benign Sort of Cannibalism -- Lisa Haag Kang<br />
A Liar and a Thief: Robert Rauschenberg Poems -- Jessy Randall<br />
A Poet's Spiritual Walk with Nature -- Steven Jacobson<br />
A Report on Love and Wrestling -- Jeff Tigchelaar<br />
A Woman Passing -- Ruth Holzer<br />
After Midnight -- Gloria MacKay<br />
Aging Space -- Christine Adler<br />
All Roads Lead There -- Kate Hutchinson<br />
All-Nighter -- Anna Rose Gellert<br />
American Ark -- Dante Di Stefano<br />
Angels Kept Her Feet --Randy Michael Robinson<br />
Anthems for a Sixteen Year Old Girl -- Emily Marquis<br />
Any Old Truth -- Leah Miranda Hughes<br />
Apostrophes -- Katie Darby Mullins<br />
Arrows from Bone -- Lisa Cheby<br />
As the Metal Sun Rises -- Kelsey Nicole Lueptow<br />
At night in the room with others -- Lesley Constable<br />
At the Clothesline -- Marjorie Power<br />
Between X and Y -- Elizabeth Rees<br />
Beyond Confusion -- Jane Blanchard<br />
Black Holes of Genocide -- Mimi Harriet Uwineza<br />
Breathing Spaces -- Carmela Co<br />
Brief Cycles -- Maude Larke<br />
Bright Lives Broken -- Ace Baker<br />
Carcinoma Variations -- Jesse Minkert<br />
Charismata Canticle -- W.F. Lantry<br />
Chasing Zero -- Christina M. Rau<br />
Country of Mourning and Awakening -- Annie Dawid<br />
Cracks -- Jane Ellen Glasser<br />
Dawn of My Talent -- Joshua John Chirambwe<br />
Dearest Maxwell -- Zoya Gurm<br />
Defying Gravity -- Sherilyn Lee<br />
Desire for Pulse -- Susan Azar Porterfield<br />
Double Chai -- Erika Dreifus<br />
Eden -- Jennifer Highland<br />
Escape to Cyberspace -- Gary Beck<br />
Evelyn -- Leah Sewell<br />
Everyday Love -- Peggy Trojan<br />
Female, 18-24 -- Cassandra Baliga<br />
Floating over India -- Nancy Goodrich<br />
Flux Lines -- John C. Mannone<br />
Gift Snake -- Nina Forsythe<br />
Grace Notes -- Jane Ebihara<br />
Half-Hidden -- Diandre Prendimano<br />
Halfway Ever After -- Katherine A. Roche<br />
Heart of Wisdom -- Jacqueline Seewald<br />
Homesick Everywhere -- Robin Amelia Morris<br />
Horseflesh -- Amberle L. Husbands<br />
Hot Gods -- Wendy Taylor Carlisle<br />
How Are You Liking the Scenery -- Janet Barry<br />
I took Goliath home -- Lungile Msimanga<br />
If My Father -- T. Stores<br />
if you're a humming bird -- M.K. Sukach<br />
In a Lonely Place -- Mark Liam Piggott<br />
In Love's Garden -- Elya Braden<br />
In Response to Cancer -- Andora Henson<br />
Independent City -- Jennifer Tappenden<br />
Insufficient Cohesion -- Corey Ginsberg<br />
International Trapeze Act of Fire -- Jen Karetnick<br />
Kingdoms in a Foot of Ground -- Alexandra Fresch<br />
Last Night of Maskmaking -- Carolyn Moore<br />
Lessons in Ruin -- Justin Hamm<br />
Letters to War and Lethe -- Farzana Marie<br />
Life Stages, Love Stages -- Deborah Darby<br />
Life's Epiphanies -- Angela E. Sarumi<br />
Little House, Little Song -- Lauren Gordon<br />
little, kansas -- Sea Sharp<br />
Looking Back -- Tamika Wright<br />
Love Tooth -- Brenda Yates<br />
Man Overboard -- David Denny<br />
Men and Myths -- Savannah Thorne<br />
Messiah Auditions Saturday -- Nancy Devine<br />
Midwest Science and Poetry Through a Family -- Joyce Frohn<br />
Mirage -- RJ Clarken<br />
Modern Farming and Other Changes -- Steve Broidy<br />
Mother -- Mary Stone Dockery<br />
Murdering My Darlings -- Cathy Bryant<br />
Music from a Farther Room -- Barbra Nightingale<br />
My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto -- Steve Klepetar<br />
Negative Splits -- Jennifer Marshall Lagedrost<br />
Nekyia -- Michael Collins<br />
Night Putting -- Joe Hess<br />
Not At All What I Had Expected -- Robin Kalinich<br />
Nowhere Near Morning -- Jeff Bernstein<br />
Old News: The Bond Between My Father and Me -- Eva M. Schlesinger<br />
Other Women's Voices -- Karin L. Frank<br />
Pains and Pleasures of the Kanoli Bank -- Fabiyas MV<br />
Pioneer Children -- Tracey S. Rosenberg<br />
Play -- Jo Angela Edwins<br />
Poetry -- Modester Okafor<br />
Precipice Fruit -- Sara Biggs Chaney<br />
Pregnant Pause -- Desiree Miller<br />
Pulchritude in All Directions -- Don Shook<br />
Rags and Riches of the Soul -- Chantelle Suzuki<br />
Recapitulation -- Rohan Chhetri<br />
Ripe -- by Gina Marie Mammano<br />
Ruina Montium -- Jeremy Dae Paden<br />
Saints, Hymns, and Slanted Miracles -- Teresa Milbrodt<br />
Sandringham Beach -- Gary Devilles<br />
Sawing a Lady in Half -- Lee Schwartz<br />
Saying and Telling -- Janet Cannon<br />
Sea Change -- Carol Smallwood<br />
Seasons of the Keeper -- Cliff Gale<br />
Seven Myths -- Nate Maxon<br />
Seventy-Four Reasons to Visit the Everglades -- Diana Woodcock<br />
Silence and Dreams -- Michael Campagnoli<br />
Sixes and Sevens -- Bonnie J. Morris<br />
Skeletons in the Closet -- Mara Ferguson<br />
sketches and snapshots -- Cynthia Baculi-Condez<br />
Slick -- Rebecca Aronson<br />
Small Hill in a Deep Valley -- Chris Farrell<br />
Sometimes You See the Cracks -- Edward Palumbo<br />
Spectrum -- Darrell Lindsey<br />
Spirited Soul -- Neelam Saxena Chandra<br />
Splitting the Velvet Dark -- Elaine Mott<br />
Spyre -- Jeanine Deibel<br />
Step Touch Back Step -- Heidi Rosenberg<br />
Stitches -- Lauren Payne<br />
Subterranean -- Lisa Alexander Baron<br />
Taming Butterflies -- Eileen Rosensteel<br />
Teachings of the Wild Mushroom -- Monika John<br />
That Orangutan Can Sing the Blues -- Alvaro Salinas, Jr.<br />
The Beckett Girl -- Mercedes Lawry<br />
The Book of Nin -- Joseph Kayne<br />
The Crone at the Cathedral -- Janet McCann<br />
The Deluge -- Su Cho<br />
The Edge of Death -- Thea Iberall<br />
The Edge of Never -- Martin Willitts, Jr.<br />
The Eighth Phrase -- Lisa Williams<br />
The fall of Girl -- Katherine Hoerth<br />
The First Arts -- Tom Holmes<br />
The Flash before the Shadow -- George Such<br />
The Host -- Meg Eden<br />
The Ignited Soul -- Dawnell Harrison<br />
The Intimacy Archive -- Leigh Anne Hornfeldt<br />
The Last -- M.E. Silverman<br />
The Late, Late Show -- Helen Ruggieri<br />
The Little Blue Hut -- Nancy Charley<br />
The Notion of Wings -- Sally Albiso<br />
The Queen of Flight -- Denise Grier<br />
The Silences Between -- Judith Kelly Quaempts<br />
The Small Stays We Work -- Diane Kendig<br />
The Stairs -- Betty Lipton<br />
The Starving Artist and Other Poems by Michael Nicholson<br />
The Waiting Room -- Christine Strevinsky<br />
The Window that Faces South -- Lissav Saksuor<br />
The Year the World Ended…Not -- Walter Ruhlmann<br />
Transport -- Jacob Russell <br />
Tricks of Light -- Issa Lewis<br />
Under-Spoken Odes -- Margaret Rozga<br />
Undreaming Babylon -- Susan DeFreitas<br />
Vermilion Mile -- Jenna Kilic<br />
We Walk Together -- Donna Marie Merritt<br />
What I'm Wearing Today -- Marion Deutsche Cohen<br />
What makes the dawn come up like thunder -- Alex Stolis<br />
What Remains -- Andrena Zawinski<br />
When God Sleeps -- Damara Martin<br />
Where Jewish Grandmothers Come From -- Debra Winegarten<br />
Where the Meadowlark Sings -- Ellaraine Lockie<br />
With This Ring -- Allie Marini Batts<br />
Write of Divorce -- Joan Canby<br />
Zing: Poems of Movement -- Shauna OsbornCasey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-77832062559244618642013-04-01T02:30:00.000-07:002013-07-31T08:34:17.737-07:002014 Poetry Prize Contest is OPEN for submission through June 30We are pleased to announce that the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is open for submissions April 1 through June 30, 2013. There is NO fee to enter this contest and international entries are welcome.<br />
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Please realize that this is a chapbook competition for 20-40 pages of poetry. Entries with fewer than 20 pages will simply be discarded.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFHaENeXtUME_6qm0GBJd-vGueHRb1LJSJQUUxdltXeiCk-Tmp-AAHlbyIquq4hW20hJYzvdjS4KG7tRs6ZEAArG_9XwrLDCISNuEKVdLW5RqFbv8INAcrqz_FrYXDXRLxvao0Px-YxK1/s1600/MaryEllaRoyWright1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFHaENeXtUME_6qm0GBJd-vGueHRb1LJSJQUUxdltXeiCk-Tmp-AAHlbyIquq4hW20hJYzvdjS4KG7tRs6ZEAArG_9XwrLDCISNuEKVdLW5RqFbv8INAcrqz_FrYXDXRLxvao0Px-YxK1/s200/MaryEllaRoyWright1944.jpg" width="155" /></a>Mary Ballard Wright wrote poetry, but almost no one knew it. She raised three children through two marriages, kept a home, and scribbled verses in those moments when she dared to think of something other than daily life.<br />
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In 1979, a tornado swept through her town of Wichita Falls, taking her home and everything she owned. Among the things she lost were her life's work, handwritten poems kept in a closet.</div>
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Mary died in 2010, and here at Casey Shay Press, we have decided, in her memory, to publish one poet each year. It is our hope that by encouraging poets to send their work out into the world, we can help keep others from sudden loss, be it a natural disaster, a technical failure that destroys a hard drive, or a personal loss in the theft of the laptop or computer.</div>
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<b>The winner of the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize will receive $500 and 25 printed copies of the chapbook. The chapbook will be sold in both physical and electronic versions via a publishing contract with Casey Shay Press.</b></div>
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<b>There is NO fee to enter this contest, but each entrant may submit only one manuscript.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;">Rule for Entries:</span><br />
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<b>Deadline: June 30, 2013</b><br />
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<li>The Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize is open to all poets, published or unpublished.</li>
<li>The prize is open to international entries, although the poetry should be in English.</li>
<li>Manuscripts may be either a collection of poems or one long poem and should be<b> a minimum of 20 pages and a maximum of 40 pages</b> (not including the title page).</li>
<li>Poems should adhere to a theme, however loosely.</li>
<li>We consider themes for adults as well as collections for children.</li>
<li>Individual poems may be previously published, but poems should not have been published as a group in any form, <b>including self-published collections</b>.</li>
<li>No more than 10% of the poetry should have been posted to the poet's own blog or web site previously, and print and digital rights to any published poems should have reverted to the author to be eligible.</li>
<li>All poems should be single spaced and typed in size 12 Times New Roman or similar font.</li>
<li>Each manuscript should include a title page. This page should include the title, a one-sentence explanation of the chapbook's theme, and contact information on the poet. Please use your real name for your submission. If you prefer to use a pseudonym on your chapbook, you may list that as well and we will use it on public contest results.</li>
<li>If any poems have been previously published, please indicate their titles and where they were published.</li>
<li>If the poet already participates in readings, poetry groups, or writers' organizations, we would love to hear about that, but it is optional.</li>
<li>The reading period for the 2013 competition begins on April 1, 2013. Entries must be submitted by June 30, 2013. Submissions will only be considered if received between those dates.</li>
<li>The quarter-finalists will be announced July 31, 2013. Semi finalists Aug. 30. Finalists Sept. 15. The winner will be chosen by a celebrity poet judge, and we can't always be sure when the judging will be completed, but hopefully by Nov. 1.</li>
<li>We are all-electronic. How to submit: [Edited -- our submission process will change in 2014. Watch the blog for details.]</li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvj6MkwTxxrYszE23_NVu0vEC_RDvUGUBcIw6jA0e6s5gmfSroEkprRCD5Bc9H-JyinwjxWMlWTqNDKhFlaD1vk6uJ7tT7t_s5mXNZ00wtHKOmJIlxAmGVD09v4nCB3PcZacgVXvXzMw9d/s1600/Uncommon-Clay-Cover-Low-Res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvj6MkwTxxrYszE23_NVu0vEC_RDvUGUBcIw6jA0e6s5gmfSroEkprRCD5Bc9H-JyinwjxWMlWTqNDKhFlaD1vk6uJ7tT7t_s5mXNZ00wtHKOmJIlxAmGVD09v4nCB3PcZacgVXvXzMw9d/s200/Uncommon-Clay-Cover-Low-Res.jpg" width="126" /></a><b>Take a look at our previous winners:</b> <br />
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<i>Uncommon Clay</i> by Darlene Franklin-Campbell, judged by Jay Parini, author of <i>The Last Station, Robert Frost: A Life</i>, and numerous poetry collections. <br />
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You can read free samples of her work at<a href="http://amzn.to/HaWXPv" target="_blank"> Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncommon-clay-darlene-franklin-campbell/1109598435?ean=9781938150005&itm=1&usri=uncommon+clay%3a+poems">Barnes and Noble</a>.<br />
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<i>Seven Times to Leave</i> by Jeannette Angell, judged by Fred Marchant, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Suffolk University and author of <i>The Looking House</i>. <br />
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Read her work at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Times-Leave-Domestic-ebook/dp/B00BXPNNK0" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/seven-times-to-leave-poems-on-domestic-violence?store=allproducts&keyword=seven+times+to+leave+poems+on+domestic+violence" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046080427894573933.post-3489041748566318482013-03-04T12:06:00.001-08:002013-03-04T16:38:36.840-08:00Cover Reveal for our 2013 Poetry Winner Seven Times to Leave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're deep into March, which means it's almost time for the release of our newest poetry prize winner!<br />
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This year, poet Jeannette Angell won the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize, judged by renowned poet and professor Fred Marchant.<br />
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We are pleased to reveal the cover to Angell's new chapbook, <em>Seven Times to Leave</em>.<br />
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Angell's poetry focuses on the subject of domestic violence. Here is an excerpt of one of her poems:<br />
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<em>He had been so perfect. </em><br />
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<em>Your rebellion was small, a donation here, a token purchase</em><br />
<em>there, you were testing the</em><br />
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<em>waters, seeing how far you could go. He showed you, and left</em><br />
<em>you bruised and crying on a floor that someone could eat off</em><br />
<em>of. While I, the</em><br />
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<em>wild-child, the feminist, the one who could never quite put</em><br />
<em>her world together -- I became your refuge, and took you to</em><br />
<em>dinner at a place neither of us could</em><br />
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<em>afford, just to show you we could</em><br />
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We are pleased to announce the winner of our annual poetry contest: Jeannette Angell's <em>Seven Times to Leave.</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.jeannetteangell.com/" target="_blank">Jeannette Angell</a> is an award-winning author and playwright whose work has been translated into twelve languages and has appeared in fifteen countries. She is also a survivor of intimate-partner abuse and volunteers with an agency providing services to victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse on the Cape.<br />
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Our finalist judge was <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/fred-marchant" target="_blank">Fred Marchant</a>, poet, professor, and Director of Creative Writing at Suffolk University. He was the 2009 co-winner of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets whose “work is an inspiration to other poets," and his most recent book of poetry, <em>The Looking House,</em> was named by Barnes and Noble Review and the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of poetry in 2009.<br />
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Marchant said he particularly appreciated that <em>Seven Times to Leave</em> "presents us with survivors’ tales, stories that teach us the strength of mind and courage of soul that the recovery from such trauma requires."<br />
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"These unflinching, brave poems remind us that above all we must keep alive our capacity to love, or else we die somewhere deep within," Marchant said.<br />
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<em>Seven Times to Leave</em> will be released in print and as a digital edition on March 19, 2013.Casey Shay Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954724154056796110noreply@blogger.com0