MadHat's July Newsletter

Dear Friends:

We’re going sawed off shotguns with our new Blog and getting  impressive submissions to the MadHat Press  poetry chapbook contest,  judged by  CA Conrad.  So please consider submitting to either or both and spreading the word.  And don’t forget to tell every poor cooped up urban dweller about MadHat’s Little Mountain Retreat (& B&B) in gorgeous Asheville, NC.

Former & Forthcoming Review & Blog Contributors & Book Reviewers:

We’re seeking book reviewers to write short reviews  Review and Blog contributors’ new books for our Blog, which means that both putative reviewers and contributors with new books are invited to send requests with details/links to mhrblog@madhatarts.com.  If you already have a reviewer searching for a venue, have her/him send the review to us, bearing in mind the guidelines listed on the blog.  We will also publish a few reviews in our Review issues.   We are not ruling out reviews of art, inventive electronic literature, et al.  Query and we’ll respond.

Contributors are also invited to submit news of book publications and readings/performances.  Please write “NEWS” in the subject line of your email to our blog staff and limit your descriptions to seven lines max.

And:  Contributors are invited to curate MadHat/Review readings/performances/multimedia spectacles/fundraisers in their home towns.  Email askalice@madhatarts.com if you want to host an event.

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If you haven’t had a chance to peruse our new, inclusive organization’s website, please do.  We’re really excited about our new projects, which include the expansion of the reading series to Asheville, as well as maintaining a presence in NYC.  Our Mad Hatters’ Review Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes Series will be represented in NYC at 4 pm on July 30^th at The First Annual New York Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island.  Our next Asheville reading, once again at The Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, will take place on August 18^th, and I’ll be flying up to NYC in October for a Mad Hatters’ Review Editors’ Reading at our old haunt, The KGB Bar (October 27^th).  All readings and performances will be posted on the blog.

Contributors Jeff Davis (Issue 12) and Lori Horvitz (Issue 13) will join me in hosting a Mad Hatters’ Review radio show this Sunday on Jeff’s Word Play series.  Tune in to Asheville FM 5 – 6pm (EST USA) to hear recitations of works published in the Review.

MadHat Press is embarking on its first full-length publication, a book of poems by our wise and exceptionally prolific friend Hugh Fox.  We hope to have the book out by October.  It will be available for purchase via our Press page, as well as amazon.com, et al.  

The expenses of preparing to open a Retreat have been an enormous strain on the bank account of the Publisher.  There will also be expenses associated with the Press, the non-profit organization, and ongoing expenses to produce the Review.  So once again, I’m asking for contributions, fully deductible for US tax payers.  Your gift of any amount will no doubt yield beneficial Karmic consequences, as well as this Publisher’s heartfelt gratitude.  We need donations to survive!

Wishing you a wonderful, relaxing season without tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis, toxic spills, and nuclear fallout,

Carol Novack, Publisher

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Reading next Wednesday in the East Village

NEW Reading Series!!

Friends of Tuesday Shorts now showing monthly at the Boxcar Lounge (http://boxcarlounge.com): Our FIRST phenomenal reading is November 28, 2007, 168 Avenue B, East Village NYC. 8 - 10 pm.

Please join us and forward to anyone you know. We wanna see your shorts there too!

Hosted by Shelly Rae Rich, writer (see http://blog.shellyraerich.com) and co-editor of Tuesday Shorts (http://myspace.com/tuesdayshorts), the series kicks off with an eclectic group of talent.


And here they are…..(in ABC order)

Rusty Barnes grew up in rural northern Appalachia. He received his B.A. from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Emerson College. His fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in journals like Pindeldyboz, Post Road, and Red Rock Review. After editing fiction for the Beacon Street Review (now Redivider) and Zoetrope All-Story Extra, he co-founded Night Train, a recently reinvented literary journal, which has been featured in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, and on National Public Radio. Sunnyoutside Press published a collection of his flash fiction, Breaking it Down in November 2007.

Linda DiGusta is a freelance writer and artist. Active in the NYC theatre for more than a decade as a director, designer and performer, the inventiveness of acting and collaboration on a screenplay re-kindled her early interest in fiction, and she has had several short stories published in print and online. In the fine art world, she currently has 2 still-life drawings in the exhibition "Lineal Investigations" at the Housatonic Museum of Art, and her assemblages and drawings have been seen in group exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including at Art Gotham in Chelsea this month. Integrating art and writing, Linda also writes for and serves as Executive Editor of Resolve40.com, an online publication created by artists in 2005 to present the art world from a fresh point of view. She lives in midtown Manhattan with artist Mark Wiener and their multi-species family. More at: http://www.lindadi.com and http://www.resolve40.com.

Anne Elliott has performed her poetry, with and without ukulele, at the Whitney Museum (with the Beats show), PS122, Lincoln Center, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, Woodstock '94, and other venues in and out of NYC. Her poems have appeared in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets, and other anthologies. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Pindeldyboz, FRiGG, Ars Medica, and others, and she blogs on the writing life and feral cat management at http://assbackwords.blogspot.com.

Carol Novack, a former criminal defense lawyer and Australian government grant recipient, is the author of a chapbook of poetry, play, collaborative CD and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in many publications, including American Letters & Commentary, Action Yes, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 5_trope, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Fiction, La Petite Zine, LIT, Notre Dame Review, and the Star*Vigate anthology of best online writings. Carol publishes the multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters' Review (http://madhattersreview.com), curates a reading series at the KGB Bar, and runs lyrical fiction writing workshops. She'll be a resident at The Vermont Studio Center next year. For additional details, see her blog (http://carolnovack.blogspot.com).