Outsider Ink: Contributor's Updates

Outsider Ink - Fall 2006

Fiction By:
A. Alan Beck
Brad Brown
Elwin Cotman
Utahna Faith
Jim Musgrave
J.R.
Devan Sagliani

Poetry By:
Luke Buckham
Jeannie Dugan Sanders

Artwork By:
Valencia Pilgrim

Spotlight on:
Jack Conway

	David Barringer's David Barringer's latest books include the novel Johnny Red from Word Riot Press, the nonfiction book American Mutt Barks in the Yard from Emigre, and the fiction collection Terminally Curious from So New Media. He designed the cover for the latest issue of Quick Fiction, and his Dead Bug Funeral Kits and Making Faces Kits are available at www.davidbarringer.com. His recent fiction appears or will appear in Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Drunken Boat, Small Spiral Notebook, Wisconsin Review, Facsimilation, Pindeldyboz, Opium Magazine, and others. Quick Fiction nominated one of his stories for a Pushcart Prize. Read "Nimareen Hauslek" from OI Summer 2002.
	Since appearing in the "pages" of OI, Paul G. Bens, Jr. has been slaving away at his day job, reveling in the reformation of Van Halen (gay headbangers unite!), and continuing to write away. His short stories have also appeared in The Egg Box and Scared Naked Magazine. He is currently focusing on his full-length novel "Kelland"—the tale of a mysterious stranger whose effect on the lives of four divergent people is fleeting, loving, devastating, and ultimately redemptive. He resides in the blisteringly hot San Fernando valley, is a chocoholic and has become addicted to the Larb at Los Angeles' best Thai restaurant, Sanamluang. Read "Dwellings" from OI Fall 2002.
	John Birkbeck was a late bloomer and did not publish any poetry until he was in his mid-forties. Since then he has had poems published in many small-press magazine worldwide, as well as four books of poetry. For over thirty years he worked as a scientific illustrator for James Van Allen, the discoverer of the radiation belts that were named for him. John is also the host and producer of a local TV cable show called "The Poets' Corner." Family legend has it that he is descended from Lord Byron, but other that writing poems, they have very few things in common. He is also the host and producer of a local cable TV show called "The Poets' Corner." Read his Poetry from OI Fall 2000.
	Adam Breier is working on Great Kills Press, a Journal of poetry and Prose, slated for debut the fall of 2003. Read "The Standard" from OI Winter 1999.
	Janet Buck has released a new book, Ash Tatoos: 9/11 and Beyond. You can order through The ZeBook Company. Also available, Desideratum's Doggie Dish "There's a laugh a minute in this hilarious collection of essays on the roles of men and women, the hubris of academia, the headaches of bureaucracy, and the foibles of human nature." Read her poetry in OI Spring 2002 & Fall 2000.
	David Bulley has released his first novel, Weapon in Heaven, about Eddy who's master plan is to kill God and then himself. How this plan plays out is both funny and heart rending. Read "Hole's Holes" from OI Summer 2002.
	Anastasia Clark has published three full-length poetry books released by Sun Rising Poetry Press (www.sun-rising-poetry.com). Grieving With Poetry, Bloodsongs, and Skeletons and Other Complaints. She also published a series of chapbooks released by Sun Rising Poetry Press: Poetry Petals, which are designed for gift and floral baskets. Her poem, “Old Volcanoes,” (from Bloodsongs) was nominated for the 2005 Pushcart Award. She continues her work as Poetry Editor & Poetry Columnist for Epiphany Magazine: a celebration in writing. In 2005, Sun Rising Poetry Press will release her fourth full-length book, Vagabond Pond. You can visit her website at www.anastasiaclark.com. Read her Poetry from OI Summer 2003.
	April Delgado is a Los Angeles-based artist and sometime poet who lives with her canine guru Desmond Blue. Her literary influences include Karen Krenis, Brian Strause, Kurt Cobain, William Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud. Delgado is set to release her Historical Fiction Comic book Novela at the Comic Con, July 2005. She has been featured on Outsider Ink, Getunderground.com and Staticfiends.com. Her visual work can be seen at www.aprildelgado.com. For news on her upcoming comic book, go to: www.donamarina.com. Read 'A Pair of Noids' from the Artist Spotlight.
	Viet Dinh's stories can be found in a number of journals, including Zoetrope: All-Story, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fence, Florida Review, Seattle Review, Chicago Review, Black Warrior Review, and his non-fiction appears in the Indiana Review. His agent is currently shopping around his collection of short stories, I (Heart) Disaster. He could love you too, if you were a disaster. Read "Company" from OI Spring 2000.
	Kevin Dresser has updated his website www.derelictvehicles.com View his artwork in OI Fall 2000.
	Chris Duncan has just published two short fiction pieces with Ray's Road Review online. Check out his new work. Read "Sam Hayter: Winner of the 2002 Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes" in OI Winter 2002.
	Robert Klein Engler was born into a poor, southside Chicago family. His father died when he was a boy, leaving his mother alone to raise 4 children. He eventually worked his way through college, ending up with degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He then become a poet and a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago, advancing there to become a department chair and a labor union leader. He was banned from the college by the chancellor in 1997, and wrote about this experience in his book A Winter of Words. Robert continues to teach and live in Chicago and New Orleans. His books, including American Shadow are available from amazon.com. Headwaters/Hudson Press has scheduled the release of his multipart poem, "The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering (In the Modernist Style)," in chapbook form for later in 2004. Read "The Theft of a Pencil" from OI Fall 1999.
	As the author of the Outsider Ink short story, "In Control" and a half dozen of other published works, Jennifer Gatewood is now writing again. She has finally broken through a bout of writer's block and is reworking many of her short stories for publication, and has started her third novel. She is determined to complete and publish this novel before her thirtieth birthday two years from now. She would like to be a Pulitzer Prize novelist, but will settle for cracking The New York Time's Bestsellers List. Jennifer is grateful to her Philadelphia-area writer's group and believes that without their support she would not have been reunited with her first love: writing. Read "In Control" from OI Winter 2003.
	The publication of Jim Gladstone's "Perversion" in the Winter 2003 OI anticipated a happy flurry of short story acceptances, including Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly (Summer/Fall 2004 issue), and the counterpointy pair of anthologies Best Gay Erotica 2005 and Best Gay Love Stories 2005 (This makes me feel like a properly well-rounded gay guy). Add to that the recently published book that makes me feel like a well-rounded writer overall: Gladstone's Games To Go, a collection of new and traditional no-equipment games which has proven to be quite the hit both with my friends in bar booths and with kids in children's bookstores -- It makes me smile so much when I see people playing my games and getting really into it! I also completed editing an anthology of short stories about guys and tattoos, Men & Ink, for Alyson Books (Summer, 2005) and am continuing work on a second novel and oodles of other stuff. Now if I just had time for some naps and some dates, I'd be totally peachy! Read "Perversion" from OI Winter 2003.
	Hi, my name's Giuliano Giuliani, I'm 35 and I live in Rome, I'm working for a private company and the poor short time that I have it's all devoted to my ever passion: drawing. I love the USA and I'd like to visit your beautiful country and maybe, who knows, move there to live. View his Illustration from the Artist Spotlight.
	Jason Gurley published a book of short stories and watched it sink with its publisher; he landed a high-profile literary agent and then watched the agency's doors close following 9/11; he's written and rewritten and rewritten his third novel and spent the last two years staring at an idea that he's terrified to actually try his hand at. His website, Deeply Shallow, has become an excercise in personal journalism and helped him refine his style. He was asked to join MANUAL, an anthology of writing by nearly twenty other bloggers, and invited to be part of another anthology, Best Writing on the Web, Vol. 1. Read "Only the Neccessary Damage" from OI Winter 2001, and "Two Rogers" from OI Winter 2000.
	Judy Hall is working on her writing full time. She has cut back on her teaching hours. She is trying to get her novel, Sanguine, published. It is a coming of age story about a teenage girl who, in order to escape her abusive family, becomes a prostitute. Read "Mama" from the Artist Spotlight.
	Cheryl Kidder has had fiction and poetry published in both Sandscript and The Story Garden. She has appeared in the Clackamas Literary Review, her story "Beds" originally appeared in In Posse Review and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been included in Meg Files' book Write From Life out from Writer's Digest Books. Read "Crash" from OI Summer 2002.
	Francesco Levato is a native Chicago poet living in Central Italy whose work typically deals with what lies beneath the surface of modern life. As well as being Poetry Editor for Newtopia Magazine his work has appeared in numerous publications including Newtopia Magazine, Letter eX: Chicago Poetry, Snow Monkey, Outsider Ink, Niederngasse Magazine, Xcp: Streetnotes, and Poets Against the War. Read his Poetry from OI Fall 2002.
	Paul Lorenz was one of the painters representing the United States at the Triennale de Paris at La Grande Arche - La Defense in Paris, France in Sept-Oct, 2002. He is now living and working in Paducah, Kentucky, a brand new artist community just over the Illinois border. He is in the process of building a new house/studio/gallery. The studio/gallery will be called 'STUDIO mars' and will be opening in November 2004. He has a solo show of his work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at Shidoni gallery, closing on August 21, 2004. Currently, he works with HANG in San Francisco, Shudoni Gallery in Santa Fe and Nobe Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland. You can check out more on Paducah at: www.paducaharts.com and www.lowertownarts.com. Visit Paul Lorenz online at: www.paullorenz.biz View his Artwork from OI Spring 2002.
	Travis J. Mader: It is with deep sympathy that I say goodbye to a colleague and friend, Travis J. Mader, who passed away on June 29th, 2005. There is a wonderful collection of letters to Travis, published online in Galveston's paper, which will give you an idea how he touched other lives. As with any writer, the way to keep him alive is to read and share his work. >Read "Ext. Day./ Int. Night." from OI Summer 2000. >Read "bruiser" from OI Fall 2001. >Read "full-frontal, exhibited, hung" from Velvet Mafia >Read "Be Prepared" from Velvet Mafia.
	Heather McFall is currently putting together a collection of interwoven novellas entitled Crazy, about four mental hospital's outpatient's personal and often satirical take on their illnesses. She is also living back in Indiana, and working for IUPUI's University Writing Center, as a peer tutor. Which means she gets to take these well molded, rigidly anal academic writers, and turn them into flippant fiction writer's like herself. WAH HA HA HA! Read "How To Have An Affair WIth Your High School Botany Teacher" from OI Spring 2004.
	Allen McGill was the 1st place winner of Yellow Moon's haibun contest, had a photo-haiku travel series published online and inprint on Literary Potpourri/Ink Pot, had short plays published in Aesthetica, Regal Quill Quarterly, non-fiction published in Mindprints, poetry published in Contemporary Haibun and Haiga, Long Story Short, Green Tricycle, Kaleidowhirl, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, and fiction published in Baroque Review, Song Of The Siren, Flash Me, Dark Krypt, Red Writing Hood (contest winner), and Verse On Vellum. Allen was just published in the Philippines - making thirteen countries in which his work has appeared. Read "I Have The Right" from the Artist Spotlight.
	Sean Meriwether's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the peculiar nature of everyday life. His work has or will be published in Love Under Foot and Best Gay Erotica 2002, and appeared online in Lodestar Quarterly and 3AM Magazine. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. In addition to writing, he has the pleasure of editing Outsider Ink and Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs. Together they form Blowsquish.com, an internet design company. Read "Sunday Night, Going Nowhere" from OI Fall 1999.
	Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Black Dirt, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. It received raves from Lee Smith, Frederick Barthelme, Robert Olen Butler, John Grisham, Suzanne Kingsbury, and others. His latest two poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004). He also has a book of short stories, The Booksellers' Beautiful Daughter, coming out in 2004. Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe's dad and Cheryl's husband. Read "Fires" from the Artist Spotlight.
	Piers Midwinter is an artist, creator & director of the Raw Arts Festivals www.rawartlink.com and www.rawartsfestival.co.uk View his Artwork from OI Fall 2002.
	J. Eric Miller's short story collection, "Animal Rights and Pornography" is being released by Soft Skull Press. He has recently finished the second draft of a novel called "Venereal: a Story of Love" about a young man who decides, after his girlfriend has left him, to revenge himself on her by getting herpes and convincing her to sleep with him again so that he can pass them on to her. We follow him through three days and nights as he tries to contact the disease, find out where his ex has gone, arm himself with various pills (Viagra, Rophonyl, etc) that he believes will help in his quest, and finally come face to face with her. He has also finished a short novel, almost a quasi-memoir, called "Artless", a sort of meditation on the process and value of writing, as well as sex, loving, being loved, and other cries for attention. Read "Broken Harder" from OI Fall 2003.
	Marshall Moore's first novel, The Concrete Sky, has just been released. Described as "A wild, queer, and reckless ride into the flip side of the American Dream," by Neil Drinnan, it's a book you don't want to miss this summer. Read "The Right Way To Eat A Bagel" from OI Winter 2002.
	Jim Musgrave is attempting to get the flickers to look at his novel, Sins of Darkness, so he's hired a professional outfit to write it up in language the filmmakers can understand. It's way better than The Manchurian Candidate, so Meryl Streep may be getting a better part! Jim is entering fiction contests and submitting away to the conventional venues, but no luck yet (one made "finalist"). How does one get a "name" in this business, anyway? Stay tuned. Read "The Lupercian Festival" from OI Fall 2003.
	Daniel A. Olivas is the author of Devil Talk: Stories (Bilingual Press, 2004), Assumption and Other Stories (Bilingual Press, 2003), The Courtship of María Rivera Peña (Silver Lake Publishing, 2000), and a children’s book, Benjamin and the Word (Piñata Books, 2005). His stories, essays, book reviews and poems have appeared in many publications including the Los Angeles Times, MacGuffin, Exquisite Corpse, The Elegant Variation, Outsider Ink, THEMA, The Jewish Journal, and the Multicultural Review. Read "Hit" from OI Fall 2005, "Assumption" from OI Winter 2003, "Driving to Ventura" from OI Summer 2001, and "Los Angeles, 1970" from OI Spring 2000.
	Andrew Penland is still a multimedia artist, though he has relocated to a new location in North Carolina. He and his good friend Andrew Octopus have spent the last few years collaborating on visual art, music, and gedanken experiments. The results of their work, including a slew of new paintings and a CD entitled TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE, are available at http://www.creativegoals.com/andrewoctopus Read "disguised" from the Artist Spotlight.
	Ian Philips is the Editor in Chief (and Mother Bear) of Suspect Thoughts Press. He is also the author of two collections of literotica: See Dick Deconstruct and Satyriasis. And since February 19, 2004, he is the legally wed husband of heartthrob author-publisher, Greg Wharton. Read "7 Just 7 Tales of Lust on a Bed" from OI Winter 2003.
	Colin Pink lives and works in London, UK. He writes plays and fiction. His plays have been performed in New York City by the Luminous Group, who premiered his full-length plays 'The Inner Circle', (Sande Shurin Theatre, June 2001) and 'Minotaur', (Pantheon Theatre, April 2003) as well as producing his short plays ‘Touch’, ‘Stakeout’, and ‘Couple’. Several of his short plays have also been produced by the Faultline Theatre in San Diego and at the Malibu One Act Play Festival. His fiction has been published in Tales from Tartarus, Enigmatic Tales and All Hallows and has appeared on the internet at Outsider Ink, Velvet Mafia and 3AM magazine. Read "Three Things You Need To Know" from OI Summer 2003 and "Some Beautiful Connecticut" from OI Spring 2002.
	PROPHECY ANTHOLOGY, featuring the story "Slow Boat To China" written by R.S. Rhine and illustrated by Shannon Wheeler ("Too Much Coffee Man") is now available for 29.95 in bookstores and the web here: http://www.sequentmedia.com/prophecyanthology/index.php Read "Snapped" from OI Spring 2004.
	Since "Stare Number Twelve" appeared in the Winter 2002 issue of Outsider Ink, Priscilla Rhoades had poems published in The Green Tricycle and Lodestar Quarterly, and a short story accepted by Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly. Her focus at present is on the short story, which she is studying and trying to learn how to write. Her background is in journalism, so this is a new--and enjoyable--direction. Read "Stare Number Twelve" in OI Winter 2002.
	Since her story, "Lost Chance", was published in Outsider Ink, Vanessa Russell has been busy stretching the short into the long, into novel ideas. Her first novel, Good Woman, was published by a small press, but the long was cut short there when their president died, their company folded, and the rights were returned to her. She is hoping for bigger and better with my second completed novel, Book of Bess, which is now being represented by a well-known NY literary agent, Frank Weimann. Her third story is happily growing from a dream to a short story and up into a novel. She is about in the teenage stage with it now so is suffering some frustrations with its future but she'll get there. Read "Lost Chance" from OI Winter 2003.
	James Secor has short fiction collected with three other writers in The Tangled Web. The Tangled Web is a collection of startling short stories that indulge the senses and challenge the mind. It is avialable for purchase at Hollow Hills Publishing Read "Esprit de Corps" from OI Summer 2001.
	Since Fall 2003, when her story "The Drift" first appeared in Outsider Ink, Tamara Kaye Sellman has become a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize and semi-finalist in the competitive Lyric Recovery Festival held annually at Carnegie Hall. Her work has since been published in the North American Review, Literary Mama, Cenotaph Pocket Editions, Stories With Grace, Red Rock Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, Lunarosity, and The Raven Chronicles. She co-wrote a series of articles on Gabriel Garcia Marquez and magical realism for the Oprah.com online book club feature of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and she emceed a reading of O Taste and See: Food Poems (2003: Bottom Dog Press) at Chicago's prestigious Russian Tea Time restaurant and a food writer's panel for PEN-Washington at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle. She also facilitated a workshop on writers' market groups with Kelli Russell Agodon before the Pacific Northwest Book Association. Her work also appeared in WomanMade Gallery's HerMark 2004 datebook. As editor and publisher of MARGIN: Exploring Modern Magical Realism, Sellman is currently planning celebratory events for the anthology's fifth anniversary coming in January 2005. Read "The Drift" from OI Fall 2003.
	Andrew Shelley has recently released a pamphlet, "Requiem Tree", available for £1.50 (or $3.00) from the imprint Spectacular Diseases, c/o Paul Green, 83(b) London Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 9BS, UK. Other recent publications include a prose-poem, "Crash Course", in a the zine Aught, No. 8. Further work is in the just published fourth volume of the series "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself", ed. Marlow Peerse Weaver which can be ordered online http://www.starfishy.com/mwe/ Further online publications are in the archive of The American Journal of Print, in Big Bridge, (Issue 6). and in the current issue of Unmade Magazine. Read "shot" from the Artist Spotlight.
	Jack Slomovits is a commercial and portrait photographer as well as a graphic and web designer. Maturing sexually during the 80's, in an age of AIDS, Jack's lust for adventure was tempered by his fear and awareness of the disease. He refocused his sexual energy into his art and his camera became his wand of control. Jack's work has been collected by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and have been published in two photographic anthologies. Visit Jack Slomovits online at: http://JackSlomovits.com Revist his Blackenlight images from OI Winter 1999.
	Outsider Ink was Eric Smiarowski's first publication and since then he has been in a couple of other publications, including web apperances on Thundersandwich.com and UnlikelyStories.org. He has been in some print publications as well, but mostly smaller, local magazines and open calls. He has read quite a bit and has been featured for ButcherBlock Press in Oneonta and the poetry bar on Beacon Street in NYC, as well as numerous venues in Albany. Read his Poetry, "Hometown Spreads Her Legs For Me" from OI Spring 2000.
	Kelly Sptizer is currently working on a novel. Read "Town Kids" in OI Spring 2004, and "Chasing Tijuana" in OI Summer 2003.
	Doug Tanoury has several ebooks of collected poems available on his website, including the Exodus Poems and Getting Religion. Visit him online at: http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html Read his Poetry from OI Summer 2001.
	Since Ben Tanzer's Vent appeared in May 2001, he had a son and had pieces published in Abroad View, Windy City Sports, Chicago Parent, Punk Planet, Rated Rookie, The Heartlands, and Midnight Mind, for which he is a contributing writer. He is also happy to announce that his first novel, Lucky Man, is to be published under the new Midnight Mind book imprint in August, 2004. Read "Vent" from the Aritst Spotlight.
	David Toussaint has released Gay and Lesbian Weddings, Planning The Perfect Same-Sex Ceremony. This book helps plan their special but far from conventional ceremony. The authors cover basics that any couple, regardless of gender, needs to consider in order to make the whole affair go smoothly. Read "Queer Window" from OI Fall 1999.
	Ray Van Horn, Jr.'s thriller novel, Mentor, is out there, of course, and he's been writing, reviewing and interviewing for an underground Goth / industrial / electronica / punk magazine called "Legends". That led him to begin a book on the history of hard rock and metal music. To date, he's interviewed over 30 musicians, plus gathered testimonials from fans, business folk and related insiders for this project; including Michael Schenker, Joe Lynn Turner, Dee Snider, and so on. It's been a huge step in his life as he's gotten to know more about the music business and the people he adored as a teenager. Last year Ray began writing and reading poetry on open mike events in Maryland and had three feature slots. He came to NYC in 2003 and tried to find the Nuyorican and got lost in Greenwich, knowing I'd screwed up somehow. Oh well, another day. Read "Nightshines" from OI Fall 2000.
	Greg Wharton is the author of the collection Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales. He is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press, co-coordinator for Project: QueerLit, and an editor for two web magazines, SuspectThoughts.com and VelvetMafia.com. He is also the editor of numerous anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award Finalist The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Ian (Ian Philips and Greg Wharton were married February 19, 2004 at San Francisco's City Hall), a cat named Chloe, and a lot of books. Read "Ben and the Countess" from OI Spring 2001.
	Nora Winslow (aka TJ Perkins) has released her two children's suspense books, Wound Too Tight and Mystery of the Attic. The book is being distributed through Publish America, and you can order it through their site HERE. Search for TJ Perkins to get to her listing. Read "69 South and Vine" by her "adult" alter-ego, Nora Winslow, from OI Summer 2001.
	Wayne Wolfson has released an image rich stew of text and musical soundscapes created with composer/producer Grenadier. It is now available through his website www.waynewolfson.com Read "Burying Kristen" from OI Spring 2002.

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