The National Book Award Finalists are posted and Joshua Ferris is among them.
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Phoebe will be joining So to Speak and GMU’s graduate reading series, the Candid Yak, for a fall kick-off party next weekend…
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Ahsahta Press, 2007 Paperback. 82 pgs. Review by Robb St. Lawrence If you were to google the phrase “dog girl,” the top results would point you to websites about Oxana Malaya, a feral child from the Ukraine. When Oxana was three, her parents left her at home without anyone to care for her, and,...
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Plain View Press, 2007 Paperback. 80 pgs. Review by Danika Stegeman Like many college campuses, mine featured several corners stationed with flier-peddling, open-air evangelists. John, Mark, Luke, Revelations…all were there with open arms, whether I wanted the arms or not. One day I’d had enough. As a young man handed me a flier I...
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Phoebe is happy to announce that we will now be reviewing books of poetry on our blog. Although there is limited page space in the journal for such features, we feel it important to participate in and help further the dialogue about poetry, something that our recent entry into the world of blogs allows...
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Ahsahta Press, 2007 Paperback. 92 pgs. Review by Joe Hall One leaves Sign hungry, parched. Things are eroded down to the bare bone of the eye and mind: “Eidetic / steps / the eye / ascends.” The line is the mind moving with deliberation, calculation. Absence is signified everywhere—from the body of his magnificent...
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We just heard word from Jonathan Lyons that his latest story will appear in the next issue of Gargoyle, due out summer of ’08. Lyons’ story “The Good Life” ran in the Spring 2007 issue of Phoebe, so we’re really happy to report his newest success.
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School is back in session at GMU and we are looking forward to a wonderful year here at Phoebe, with some exciting stuff in store. Here’s a bit of an update on a few things…. Submission Period OpenWe are happy to announce that the fall submission period is open and we are now reading...
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A quick announcement before I head off to get some writing done. Congratulations to the following authors: Rebecca Hall withdrew her story “La Maison du Fada” from us a few weeks ago. Her story will appear in the next issue of Redivider. I am jealous. Holly Wilson, an editor at The Southeast Review, just...
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