Editors Sam Pickering and Bob Kunzinger have announced their final choices for inclusion in Madville Publishing’s 2021 essay anthology, Being Home.
And here they are:
CONTRIBUTORS:
• Johnnie Bernhard “Ignorance or Innocence” • Rick Campbell “Celibacy and Ancestry” • Maryah Converse “Becoming Bedouin” • Susan Delgado Watts “Being Home” • John Flynn “Living Between the Leaves” • Debra Frank “The Accident House” • Karin Hedetniemi “Inheritance” • Anndee Hochman “2 Rms, Family View: The Ones We Call Home” • Richard Holinger “Cornwall Village” • Jamie Hughes “Making Room” • Robert Iulo “The Neighborhood”* • Kyle Ingrid Johnson “The House and Its Moments”* • Judy Johnson “My Brothers” • Deb Liggett “Marking Our Place” • Mel Livatino “Going Home Again” • Geoffrey Martin “Birdland” • Robert Miltner “Into the Bargain” • Vicky Oliver “Alice in Motherland” • Lea Page “Everything and the Kitchen Sink” • Rhonda Ray “My Rock” • Claude Clayton Smith “Blue Heaven” • Marsha Lynn Smith “4 Generations of Black Hair Matters” • Bill Stifler “Not From Around Here” • Elizabeth Templeman “In Place” • Elaine Terranova “Being Home” • Lee Zacharias “On a Rocky Inland Coast” • Madelaine Zadik “Triumph”
The Runaway Anthology results are in at long, long, last. We had hoped to make this announcement three weeks ago. However, the universe conspired to slow us down with dreadful things like illness, injury, surgery and several deaths in our families, but we are gathering our wits at last. We are ready to announce the stories our judges have chosen to include in our 2020 short fiction anthology, Runaway Stories: An Anthology [working title]. *
Here are the judges’ choices:
“The Stones” by Richard Shelton
“Neighbor Boys and Cousins” by Jodi Angel* honorable mention $100
“Kansas” by Emily Chiles
“Ritual” by Albert Aden* #1 $200
“Running Toward Away” by Richard Jay Goldstein
“If That Isn’t a Sign From God, Then I Don’t Know What Is” by Philen Bradford
“Sugar” by Misty Skaggs
“The Whiskey Monkey” by Maureen O’Brien
“Vivian Delmar” by Louise Marberg
“Nothing to Light Our Way” by Emily Hoover* honorable mention $100
Congratulations each of these fine authors. All of us at Madville along with our judges, Luanne Smith, Michael Gills, and Lee Zacharias wish you all the best!
If you’ve been following us for a while, you will have seen our calls for submissions to the Dancehall Poetry Anthology.We are happy to announce that it has gone to press, and we hope to have copies available at AWP! Editor Janet Lowery named the collection By the Light of a Neon Moonand Jacqui Davis created this eye-catching cover for it. We are humbled by the quality of the poetry we received, and we cannot wait to share it with everyone. The contributors are already discussing the fact that the launch party should include a dance. We aren’t sure how we’ll pull that off, but we love the idea!
We had several poets laureate contribute to the collection as well as many other award-winning poets from around the country. Have a look at the Table of Contents.
Contents
Introductionby Janet Lowery
I—Neon Light
Beloved, After These Thingsby Alan Birkelbach Like People in Loveby Kimberly Parish Davis A Thing About Rhumbaby Gianna Russo Pretty Womanby Luanne Smith Not That Sallyby George Drew Dear Will’s Pubby Pj Metz Rose-Coloredby Janet Lowery Old Flameby Winston Derden Music for Arms Like Oursby Mike Schneider Oh, That Buckskinby Christine Cock Dancing Foolby John Grey Always Openby Karen Head Words from My Fatherby karla k. morton One Way Trafficby Alan Birkelbach Dancing at Dirty Frank’sby Lisa Naomi Konigsberg
II—Neon Signs
The Bull Riderby Katherine Hoerth The Archaeologist Dreams of Sleepby Kimberly Parish Davis Chevy Pick-Up, Loadedby Ed Ruzicka Integration 1964by Dave Parsons Dallianceby Ruth I. Healy Triple-Two at the Danceby Janet Lowery Prickly Pearby Katherine Hoerth Partnerby Sarah Cortez You Ain’t the First Singed Hash Browns on My Plateby R. Gerry Fabian Just Believe Her!by Alan Birkelbach Rodeo Exchangeby karla k. morton Backby Juleigh Howard-Hobson I May Not Be Drunk, But I’ll Get Thereby Herman Sutter Your Dancing Lessons Didn’t Pay Offby J. J. Steinfeld Little Hereticby Gerry LaFemina Waiting for Resurrectionby Leah Mueller Alwaysby Anusha VR The Way We Danced Before I Became Another Ex in Texasby Laurie Kolp Dancing with a Cue Stickby George Drew Death at the Dancehallby Janet Lowery Two Dogs Howling at the Moonby Dave Parsons Resurrection Maryby Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
III—Neon Hearts
Standing on the Edge of the Roadhouse Charybdisby Alan Birkelbach Dancing Beforeby Lesley Clinton Zydeco Shindigby Dolores Comeaux Friday’s Danceby Mike Schneider Road House on the Way to Cheyenneby Rick Campbell Guitar and Mandolinby Gerry LaFemina Dress Code at the Dance Hallby Alan Birkelbach Here at Ransom’s Saloonby George Drew Hard Woodby Jerry Bradley Bootstrapby Winston Derden 6 a.m. Outside the Dance Hallby John Grey Empties by Gerry LaFemina
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