MINI INTERVIEW: Sarah McKinstry-Brown
May 25, 2019
How did you get into writing? When I was 19 years old, I wandered into a poetry slam team performance at a coffeehouse in Albuquerque, my hometown, and was hooked when I saw the team performing a poem about New Mexico’s history of Spanish colonization, layering their voices as they chanted, “Tel...
MINI INTERVIEW: Greg Kosmicki
May 16, 2019
How has your family inspired your writing? My family didn’t exactly inspire my writing as much as it provided raw material for writing. My writing is usually triggered by or suggested by interactions with people or with other creatures. If I pay attention—and I think that nearly a hundred percen...
MINI INTERVIEW: Ruth Williams
May 6, 2019
What do you find easiest about writing? This is an interesting question since I feel like we writers often focus on the hardest aspects of writing. I suppose for me the easiest part about writing is the part where you simply write and don't edit yourself or consider the quality. Letting the words flo...
Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth! Spring 2019
May 5, 2019
Congrats to our Fiction Slam Rebirth winners! 3rd place Meena Dalal, 1st place Vito Cole, 2nd place Tana Buoy, and 4th place Bill Tindle. Special thanks to all the readers and supporters! Contestants: Katie Flower, Myah Gibney, Natasha White, Alex Retzlaff, Christel Wiggan, Vito Cole, Gabriel Malfileno,...
MINI INTERVIEW: David Wyatt
April 22, 2019
What inspired you to write Gathering Place? What notions appear in Gathering Place are those which have shown up in most of my writing. The fact that the book, a first, is published quite late in my writing life has for me made it a kind of selected poems, even though it's the length of a standard...
MINI INTERVIEW: Todd Robinson
April 11, 2019
How did your book Mass for Shut-Ins come about? Several years ago, Greg Kosmicki, founder and editor of Backwaters Press, said he’d like to publish my next book. I held him at bay for a time, knowing I didn’t have enough poems of note to hold a collection together, but the last four years have be...
Plains Writers Series – April 25th, 2019
April 8, 2019
Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this spring’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Gr...
Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth – April 25th, 2019
April 3, 2019
Join us for the Spring 2019 Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth, April 25th at The Max Bar and Grill. Slam starts at 7 pm. There will be no preliminaries for this slam, registration starts at 6pm. Bring 2 short stories and $5 entry fee to compete. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place participants....
MINI INTERVIEW: JV Brummels
April 1, 2019
How did your book [email protected] come about? I’d had [email protected] in mind for the title early on and couldn’t shake it. It went through a dozen permutations while I wrote and collected the poems but ended up back where it started. I liked the idea that it could serve as an address for me...
BOOK REVIEW: Mass for Shut-Ins by Todd Robinson
March 5, 2019
The poems in Todd Robinson’s Mass for Shut-Ins are simultaneously societal and intensely personal, gleaned through a lens of unifying solitariness, the sense that “We, anonymous cannon-fodder” share more than we’ve ever differed, our burden of impermanence both unique and unexceptional: “Tyran...
Poetry Slam 41 winners! Spring 2019
March 5, 2019
Congrats to our Poetry Slam 41 winners! 2nd place: Hurdle Papi, 4th place: Gopal Chitaure, 3rd place: Katie Flower, and 1st place: Taylor Penn! Contestants: Miguel Barajas, Hurdle Papi, Gopal Chitaure, Dante Brooks, Abraham Montulver, Taylor Penn, Elijah Herrington, Scott Tarmick, Katie Flower, Shanae...
Plains Writers Series – February 28th, 2019
February 8, 2019
Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this spring’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of...