Compose Journal’s Fall 2014 Contributor Lineup
Our reading period for Fall 2014 is now over and we’re working hard to publish the issue before the end of October.
If you submitted work to us and have yet to receive a response, that means we’re considering your work for the Spring 2015 issue. Thank you for your patience!
We’re very sad to say this will be the last issue for our features editor, Jennie Nash, but we look forward to being part of a fantastic new program she’s working on at the moment (we’ll fill you in on the details in a couple of weeks).
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our Fall 2014 contributors:
Features
Betty Kelly Sargent, Founder of BookWorks.com and TheEducatedAuthor.com, was the Editor-in-Chief of William Morrow, Executive Editor of Harper Collins, Executive Editor of Delacorte Press, Fiction and Books Editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, and book reviewer for CNN. She is the author of seven traditionally published books and one self-published book.
Dan Blank is the founder of WeGrowMedia, where he helps writers share their stories and connect with readers. He has helped hundreds of authors via online courses, events, consulting, and workshops, and worked with amazing publishing houses and organizations who support writers such as Random House, Workman Publishing, Abrams Books, Writers House, The Kenyon Review, Writer’s Digest, Library Journal, and many others. You can find Dan on his blog at http://WeGrowMedia.com or on Twitter at @DanBlank.
Jane Eaton Hamilton‘s eighth book, the poetry volume Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes, appeared fall 2014. Her work has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Short Stories, and has been cited in the Best American Short Stories. She has won many prizes for her short fiction, including twice, first prize in fiction in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014). She has published in the New York Times, Seventeen, Salon, Numero Cinq, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the Missouri Review, Ms blog, the Alaska Quarterly Review and many other places. Jane’s work is upcoming in several anthologies and in Siécle 21 in Paris. Jane is also a photographer and visual artist and was a litigant in Canada’s same-sex marriage case. She lives in Vancouver. janeeatonhamilton.wordpress.
Poetry
George Moore‘s poetry collections include The Hermits of Dingle (FutureCycle Press, 2013), and Children’s Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry, 2014). Nominated for Pushcart Prizes and The Rhysling Award, Moore has also been a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Brittingham Award, The Anhinga Poetry Prize, and the Wolfson Award. His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Antigonish Review and elsewhere. He presently lives with his wife, the Canadian poet Tammy Armstrong, on the south shore of Nova Scotia.
Casey Patrick‘s poems and interviews have recently appeared in Fourteen Hills and Willow Springs. A former publishing assistant at Milkweed Editions, she currently works as a bookseller and a teaching artist with The Loft Literary Center. She is the 2014–2015 Hub City writer-in-residence.
Lauren Camp is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently The Dailiness, winner of the National Federation of Press Women 2014 Poetry Book Prize and a World Literature Today “Editor’s Pick.” Her third book, One Hundred Hungers, was selected for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her poems have appeared in Brilliant Corners, Linebreak, Nimrod, J Journal, and elsewhere. She hosts “Audio Saucepan,” a global music/poetry program on Santa Fe Public Radio. www.laurencamp.com.
Ian Khadan was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He’s a curator of poetry events in New York City, most notably the Ginsberg Turn On (a Naropa University fundraiser series) and the Urbana Poetry Slam (the winningest slam series in the world at the National Poetry Slam). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mead Magazine, Radar Poetry, The Literary Bohemian and Brawler Mag. He’s the author of the upcoming chapbook collection The Kaieteur Fall.
Megan Collins received her MFA from Boston University, where she was a teaching fellow. She currently teaches creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, as well as literature at Central Connecticut State University. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including 3Elements Review, Hartskill Review, Linebreak, Off the Coast, Siren, and Rattle.
Emily K. Michael is a poet, musician, and writing instructor, living in Jacksonville, FL. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Artemis Journal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, and I Am Subject Stories: Women Awakening. She has forthcoming work in Bridge Eight, Breath & Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature, and Barriers and Belonging: Student Perspectives on Disability. She writes for Classical Minnesota Public Radio and designs grammar workshops for multilingual learners. Visit her blog at On the Blink.
Lindsay Wilson, an English professor at Truckee Meadows Community College, co-edits the literary journal The Meadow. His first book, No Elegies, won the Quercus Review Press Spring Book Award 2014, and his poetry has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Verse Daily, The Portland Review, Salamander, and The Bellevue Literary Review, among others.
Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of thirteen books including All You Ask for Is Longing: Poems 1994- 2014 (2014 BOA Editions), Scything Grace (2013 Etruscan Press) and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010 BOA Editions). He is the recipient of two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, an appearance in Best American Poetry 2014, and a US Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans. He currently works at a Gold Crown Billiards in Erie, PA, and tours for performances.
Marianna White was born in Seattle, WA, but is currently living across the country for college, where she plans to study creative writing (fingers crossed). She misses her dog and rows competitively. If she could be any animal she’d want to be a cheetah, and this is her first poetry publication.
Jennifer Tappenden is the founding editor of Architrave Press. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri—St. Louis where she also served as the university’s first Poet Laureate. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Flyway, The St. Andrew’s Review, Terrain, Euphony, Bryant Literary Review, Slipstream and elsewhere. Her interview (with Karen Lewis) of Thom Ward for Traffic East magazine was featured on Poetry Daily. Most recently she was named a 2013 Creative MasterMind by the Riverfront Times.
Fiction
Carole Glasser Langille is the author of four books of poetry, a collection of short stories and two children’s books. “I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are” is from a manuscript of linked short stories. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Links to her poems can be found at http://library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/langille/index.htm.
Lou Gaglia‘s short stories have appeared recently in The Brooklyner, Eclectica, Pithead Chapel, Hawai’i Review, Oklahoma Review, Main Street Rag, and elsewhere. He teaches in upstate New York after many years as a teacher in New York City, and is presently an assistant editor with Bartleby Snopes.
Rowan Beaird currently works at the arts nonprofit Project& in Chicago. She is the former Program Manager of Grub Street in Boston, and received her B.A. from Kenyon College. Her work has previously been published in The Missing Slate and HOOT.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is currently working towards his MFA at Syracuse University. It is cold there, but he loves it. His work has been previously featured in Broken Pencil Magazine and Gravel Online Journal. He is from Spring Valley, New York, proudly.
Jenny Wales Steele‘s fiction has been published in The Ampersand Review, Sou’wester, juked.com, cleavermagazine.com, Quay, onethrone.com, among others, and she has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. A native Arizonan, she now lives in Tucson.
Jane Eaton Hamilton‘s eighth book, the poetry volume Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes, appeared fall 2014. Her work has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Short Stories, and has been cited in the Best American Short Stories. She has won many prizes for her short fiction, including twice, first prize in fiction in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014). She has published in the New York Times, Seventeen, Salon, Numero Cinq, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the Missouri Review, Ms blog, the Alaska Quarterly Review and many other places. Jane’s work is upcoming in several anthologies and in Siécle 21 in Paris. Jane is also a photographer and visual artist and was a litigant in Canada’s same-sex marriage case. She lives in Vancouver. janeeatonhamilton.wordpress.
Nonfiction
Trevor Ellestad keeps a tidy home and spends his time doing Public Relations and Social Media in Vancouver, BC. Trevor also likes to surround himself with plants and obsess over the seemingly simple lives of cats and robots. You can follow him on Twitter @trevorellestad, Instagram @litteroddity, and Facebook—Trevor Ellestad.
Amy Trainor lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she works as copywriter and freelance editor. She earned her Certificate in Publishing from the Columbia School of Journalism and is currently working toward her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Queens University of Charlotte. Her writing has appeared in the Charlotte Observer and Today’s Charlotte Woman magazine. Love to John to whom she dedicates this piece and to Miss Eleanor—wherever she may be.
Athena Dixon is a former contributor at For Harriet, a Managing Editor for Z-Composition, and a Fiction Reader for Gigantic Sequins. Her poetry and non-fiction has appeared both online and in print at Okayplayer, Rolling Out Weekly, Blackberry: A Magazine, Rose Red Review, Pluck!, and OVS Magazine among others. She is also co-founder of Specter Literary Magazine and founder and editor in chief of Linden Avenue Literary Journal.
Carol Tyx teaches writing and American literature at Mt. Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her work has most recently been published in RHINO, Poetry East, Water-Stone Review, Big Muddy, Iowa City’s Poetry in Public, and Rising to the Rim, published by Brick Road Poetry Press. On any given day you might find her cooking with kale, contra dancing, or standing on her head.
Louis Wittig works in the advertising industry in New York. He feels that if he leads with that fact, rather than the fact that he tries at writing, you will judge his work on a curve. Like you’ll think “this is good for some guy.” He would appreciate your thinking that. His short fiction and humor has appeared online at Punchnel’s, Ducts.org and Gravel.
Artwork
Andi Tomassi graduated from the University of South Florida with a dual-major BA in Visual & Performing Arts and Art Education. She has also received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Tampa, and held the positions of Art Editor and Poetry Editor for the publication of their online journal, Tampa Review Online.
Thomas Gillaspy is a northern California based photographer with an interest in urban minimalism. His work is forthcoming in Streetlight Magazine, Apeiron Review, Suisun Valley Review, Citron Review and Turk’s Head Review.
Clinton Van Inman was born in Walton-on-Thames, England, graduated from San Diego State University, and has been an educator most of his life. He is currently a high school teacher (planning to retire at the end of the year) in Tampa Bay, where he lives with his wife, Elba.
