News About Facets Writers

Lions' Heads in Boston's Back Bay Photograph by William Routhier

Toni Amato, whose short fiction appeared in the first issue of Facets, is holding A Weekend Adventure Workshop, concentrating on fiction and narrative nonfiction, with Amie M. Evans on Cape Cod (West Yarmouth, MA) May 16-19, 2003: http://www.writeherewritenow.org. For more information, send e-mail to TTONIAMATO@aol.com or call (617) 541-6913. Send check or money order made out to Toni Amato (16 Whittier Street, Cambridge, MA 02140) for $150.00 by May 1, 2003, to guarantee your spot. The remainder is due May 12, 2003. Registration is open until May 12, 2003. Fifteen pages of text must be received by May 5 to ensure critique.

Olivia Boler ("Love to Hate," January 2003), a fiction writer from San Francisco, is spending a month during Spring 2003 as a writer-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation (www.ragdale.org). Ragdale is a nonprofit, internationally acclaimed artists' community located thirty miles north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois. During her stay, Olivia is working on a revision of a novel and drafting a screenplay. More information about Ragdale and Boler's stay there can be found at her Website: http://www.oliviaboler.com.

Frequent contributor, Janet Buck, is the winner of the Fourth Annual Gival Press Poetry Award, 2002. In addition to the $500 cash prize, Gival Press is publishing the winning poetry collection, Tickets to a Closing Play, which includes four poems originally published here.

A story by Erika Dreifus has been selected as a "Bests of the Contest" from the 2002 Improper BostonianShort Story Contest. Her "Meeting the Family" appeared in the July 2002 issue.

Nancy Haiduck's poem, "Moon Over the Bronx Expressway," published in April 2002, won First Prize in the 2002 Janice Farrell Poetry Competition, sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill/San Francisco Bay Area Branch.

Shawnte Orion's poem, "Objects Buried in the Sock Drawer," published here in January 2002, is part of his collection,The Infernal Gaze, that just won the Red Booth Review's chapbook contest. http://www.shawnteorion.4t.com.

Some of James R. Whitley's poems published in Facets (July 2001 and October 2001) appear in his latest chapbook, entitled THE GOLDEN WEB, published earlier this year by Wind River Press. The chapbook is available at http://paumanok.digitalrice.com/whitley/index.html. More recently, Whitley's second full-length poetry manuscript won this year's Ironweed Press Poetry Prize. As the winner he will receive $1,500, and the collection (entitled THIS IS THE RED DOOR) will be published by Ironweed Press in early 2004.