Kudos

CONGRATS TO THESE LITERARY MAMAS!

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Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-editor: Kamata’s novel Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible was named the APALA (Asian Pacific American Librarians Association) Young Adult Honor Book for 2013.

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The new anthology Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction published by Ashland Creek Press in February 2014, includes the story “Blue Murder” by Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor, and “With Sheep” by Kelly McGee, Contributor, co-authored by Carol Guess.

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Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, Columns Editor: “My essay “Seascape with Eagle, Ravens, Seagull, Two Men and Their Phones” was recently published in Brevity and I have a series of prose poems forthcoming in the next issue of Passages North. I was recently selected to be a writer-in-residence at Denali National Park in March.”

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Camille-Yevette Welsch, Reviews Editor: “My manuscript, The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom, was given an honorable mention in The 2013 Steel Toe Poetry Book Contest.”

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Libby Maxey, Literary Reflections Editor: “My poem “Fair Food” will appear in the Volume 12 of The Mom Egg Review, coming out this April.  Thanks to Literary Mama’s round-up of calls for submissions!”

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Amanda Jaros, Blog Editor: “I have been accepted into Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program. I plan to focus on nature writing in the creative nonfiction genre, and will begin working toward my degree in fall 2014.”

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Kate Haas, Creative Nonfiction Editor: “My essay, The Baby Corps, was recently published on Full Grown People. It tells the story of how I used Peace Corps recruitment lingo to convince my folks to move to my town and help out after I had a second child.”