DEAD SPACE

Hi, Josh! How are the publication efforts for VITLA going? Hope well! I like your wife's quote from you on her myspace--it is witty, but does make a good point.

I like this Thomas Wolfe quote: "...and in a man's works there exists not only the power of creation, but the seeds of destruction. ...for our creative forces will rot stillborn within our vitals." Something like that!

Hope all is well.

Laura

PS I am one of the new advisors of the high school newspaper where I teach, and it's been a trip! Great kids, driven, really quite dear--but oh my goodness! What time it takes!

I also just found the band Faye Michelle on Myspace.
www.myspace.com/fayefayefayefaye

The Smoking Poet’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers in any genre.

An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal.

Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Word count must not exceed 5,000. Please include a short bio in the body of your e-mail.

Judges are Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; Russell Rowland, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of In Open Spaces and The Watershed Years; and Dominic Smith, author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, two honorable mentions will receive a copy of Dominic Smith’s new novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous. All winners will be published in the summer issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid June, 2008.

Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2008. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet@lycos.com

Rediscover the thrill of reading...

Hi from the Authors of NCP!

ha. do you recommend it? i've heard a few things...

holy moly!
thanks for sharing!

that would be great but yeah, either way we'll be coming down.

Happy New Year Yosh!!

I tried to text you guys on X-Mas, did you get that? Message me your Davis-houshold phone number!