We are thrilled to announce that our 2012 issue (Volume XI), will be launching on Sunday, April 22, 2012. We’ll be celebrating with a reading as part of the 2012 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, which takes place throughout the weekend on campus.
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 7pm
Slonim House, Sarah Lawrence College
featuring:
Michael Klein, Rick Moody, Chloe Caldwell, Mary Morris, Kenneth Calhoun, Anne-E. Wood, Michael Sharick, Elizabeth Tashiro, Jessica Cuello, Marielle Prince
VOLUME XI includes the winning selections of our 2012 Poetry Contest judged by Carolyn Forche, an interview with Dorothy Allison by Marie-Helene Westgate, cover art by photographer Laurel Nakadate, and brand new writing from:
Hari Alluri, Lorna Knowles Blake, Celia Bland, Jenny Boully, Shevaun Brannigan, Ronda Broatch, Chloe Caldwell, Kenneth Calhoun, Susan Calvillo, Inara Cedrins, William Cordeiro, Kay Cosgrove, Melissa Crowe, Jessica Cuello, Joey De Jesus, Juris Edgars, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Tanya Frank, Seth Fried, Allen Gee, Alec Hershmann, Wesley Holtermann, Cathy Park Hong, Maria Hummel, Michael Klein, Alyse Knorr, Kate LaDew, Ann Lauinger, Christopher Lirette, Naomi Lore, Rick Moody, Mary Morris, Heather Aimee O’Neill, Peter Orner, Leslie Paolucci, Christopher Phelps, Marielle Prince, Evan Rehill, Michael Sharick, Charity Stebbins, Elizabeth Tashiro, Matthew Vollmer, Kathryn Wiese, Anne-E. Wood.
A reading to honor LUMINA staff & writers, past & present
Sunday, March 11, 7pm
Milk & Roses in Greenpoint (1110 Manhattan Ave.)
with
SETH FRIED, JOEY DE JESUS, MIRA PTACIN,
HEATHER AIMEE O’NEILL, and JUSTIN TAYLOR
MIRA PTACIN was the Editor-in-Chief of LUMINA in 2009, and her essay “Migration” appeared in the 2010 issue. Mira Ptacin is founder and director of Freerange Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Adult Swim, The Morning News, Nerve.com, Epiphany and was recently featured in the collection The Moment (Harper Perennial 2012).
JUSTIN TAYLOR’s short fiction "Aggregate" was featured in the 2011 issue of LUMINA. He is the editor of the acclaimed short fiction anthology The Apocalypse Reader, and is the author of Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His first novel, The Gospel of Anarchy, was released in February 2011.
SETH FRIED’s short story “A Note from the Brewers” will appear in the 2012 issue of LUMINA. Seth Fried’s short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Tin House, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Vice, and have been antholo- gized in The Better of McSweeney’s, Volume 2 and The Pushcart Prize XXXV: The Best of the Small Presses. His debut short story collection, The Great Frustration, was published in May 2011 by Soft Skull Press.
JOEY DE JESUS’s poem “hunters’ camp at Nxai Pan” was recently selected by Carolyn Forche as the 1st Prize in LUMINA’s 2012 national poetry contest, and will also appear in the forthcoming issue. His poem, “Letters from the Athi-Kapiti Plains, Kenya” appeared in LUMINA vol. X. He is currently completing his MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, where he is also the director of the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival.
HEATHER AIMEE O’NEILL is the Assistant Director of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at Hunter College. Her work has been published in several literary journals and her poetry collection, Memory Future, was selected by Carol Muske-Dukes as the winner of the University of Southern California Gold Line press award and published in 2011. Her novel manuscript, Hers to Hold, was recently short-listed for the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. An excerpt from HERS TO HOLD will appear in the 2012 issue of Lumina.
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2012 Poetry Contest, judged graciously by Carolyn Forche. These four exceptional poems will be featured in LUMINA Volume XI, available April 22, 2011 for mail-order and at select bookstores throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1st Place, Joey De Jesus, “hunters’ camp at Nxai Pan”
2nd Place, Marielle Prince, “Downpour in Marshall County, Mississippi”
3rd Place, Jessica Cuello, “Massacre at Beziers, 1209″
Honorable Mention, Christopher Lirette, “A Year Acceptable to the Lord”
Dear visitors,
After a very encouraging fall of recruiting writers of all kinds, we’re now in the editing phase of our tenure with LUMINA. Since LUMINA is an annual publication, we’re closed for submissions from now until late-summer (2012). Those of you who submitted for Volume XI will hear from us no later than March 1, 2012.
In the meantime, we’ll be appearing here and there. In a few weeks, the 2012 staff will be camping out at AWP so please stop by the bookfair to meet us and snatch a recent issue. We also have several NYC events planned for spring and summer, so stay tuned.
Our Volume XI issue will launch on April 22, 2012 at Sarah Lawrence’s campus in Bronxville, NY. We’ll be participating in the annual Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in the state of New York.
Any questions or queries can be directed to me, Molly, at lumina@gm.slc.edu. Happy spring!
Yours sincerely,
Molly Rose Quinn, Editor-in-Chief
We are very honored to announce that the stunning Carolyn Forche will be judging our Volume XI Poetry Contest. We are currently accepting submissions for the contest, which are due by November 15, 2011. Poets may submit up to three poems, and contest entries do require a fee of $12. Further guidelines and online submissions can be found here.
The staff of LUMINA Volume XI (Publication, Spring 2012) is thrilled to announce the opening of submissions, from now until November 15, 2011. LUMINA accepts submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. You can read more about our submissions guidelines, and access our online submissions manager, by clicking SUBMIT.
Welcome to Lumina’s brand-new blog. From here, we’ll be updating our contributors, readers, and friends on news and upcoming events! Please excuse our dust as we transition from our old spot. If you’d like to check out the archives, please visit www.slc.edu/lumina.
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