I recently had the chance to interview one of my favorite poets John Yamrus who after 40 years of writing is still producing amazing stuff. Hope you enjoy the read as much as I did the opportunity!
C.Q.: John thanks for carving out the time for this interview. I have often heard you say that it [...]
Hope all of you had a great holiday season and able to take time away from work and just relax for a little while. As a magazine SSL had a great 2009 with our subscription now reaching 300 readers each week and averaging around 4000 pages (stories, poems, articles, etc) read each and every month. [...]
If you are looking for a last second gift this holiday season or just a fan of SSL and ReadMe Publishing please consider two new books that I want to tell you about. The money from the sales of our print books go right into funding next year’s contests and publishing more short story and [...]
SSL: Hey Paul, thanks for agreeing to do the interview let’s start out with a little background. How long have you been writing and what was your first big break?
From about the age of seven I’ve strived – on and off – to be a writer, and at college I wrote a few still unpublished [...]
As editor of SSL I was able to pick three pieces of writing that I have published this year and send it on in for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web series. Here is a little blurb from the publisher:
Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web series is a yearly anthology compiling the best fiction, poetry, [...]
The final decisions were made by Aston West for the “What If” science fiction contest this week and here are the winners:
1 Extra Good Care – By Valerie Hodge
2 Not Your Ordinary Little Green Men – By Kelli Wilkins
3 Danger, Maybe – By Marian Powell
The following stories will be included in the anthology that should [...]
Casey: Hello Milner, thanks for agreeing to do an interview with SSL, I appreciate you taking the time. To get started, would you please share a little bit about your background outside of poetry?
Milner: You might well say, Casey, that I’d lived several lives before poetry arrived. I worked in many jobs and in many [...]
ReadMe Publishing has now released the latest publication which is a poetry chapbook named “Everyday Musing” – The collection of poems was the result of a poetry contest (http://shortstory.us.com/2009/04/readme-publishing-poetry-winners-announced/ ) offered by ReadMe Publishing which the top poems received a cash payout and inclusion in the collection. The collection has poems from the following poets:
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Imagine what if?
and so you ask yourself, what if… what? Well you tell us! We want short science fiction short (micro, flash or short stories) that tell us a science fiction story around the idea what if. Where ever you take it, take it interesting! The word limit is 5,000 words.
This contest will be judged [...]
As many of you know in addition to editing this magazine and ReadMe Publishing, I also write prose and poetry of my own. Back in November of last year I was lucky enough to have a collection of poems accepted for publication by a small press and now the book is out!
The book was released [...]
