Brett Foster

Brett Foster’s first book of poetry, The Garbage Eater, was published last year with Triquarterly Books / Northwestern UP. Foster’s writing has lately appeared in Ascent, Atlanta Review, Books & Culture, Crab Orchard Review, First Things, Green Mountains Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, and Seattle Review. Foster teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton College. Read his poems “Inspirited, and Then Some” and “Request Overheard on a Car Radio.”

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.

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Does ‘Person of Interest’ on CBS make surveillance too cool?

Read “Spies like us,” this week’s installment of Strange Days.

LiturgicalCredo editor starts a new online column for the Weekly Surge

Check out Strange Days today and every Wednesday, only from the Weekly Surge.

Follow CLMP members on Twitter

Updated Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

LiturgicalCredo is a member of the Council of Literary Magazine and Presses. Please support CLMP’s e-publication members by following these literary journals on Twitter:

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Fiction Fix — @FictionFix

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Ray’s Road Review — @raysroadreview

Red Ochre Press — @REDOCHRELiT

Superstition Review – @SuperstitionRev

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The Write Place At the Write Time – @WritePlcWriteTm

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15-year-old photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Mencap, Big Issue, Wrexham Science , Fennel and Fern and Nature’s Best Photography. She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the Guardian, RSPB Birds, RSPB Bird Life, Dot Dot Dash, Alabama Coast, Alabama Seaport and NG Kids Magazine (the most popular kids magazine in the world). She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus sponsored “See The Bigger Picture” global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010. She was also the only visual artist published in the Taj Mahal Review June 2011. She was the youngest artist to be displayed in Charnwood Art’s Vision 09 Exhibition and New Mill’s Artlounge Dark Colours Exhibition. View a LiturgicalCredo gallery of her photography here.

Jess Upshaw Glass

Jess Glass is fiction editor for Liturgical Credo. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Mary Washington, where she studied under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. As an undergraduate, she was the literary editor for Aubade, the university’s literary magazine. Her book and theater reviews have been published in The Free Lance-Star and The Caroline Progress, and her fiction and essays have been published in Surreal South, Knee-Jerk Magazine, The 6S Review, Requited Journal, and PANK Magazine.  She blogs at jessglass.com. Read “Dear Lord (A Lament).”

Jane Blanchard

Having earned degrees in English from Wake Forest and Rutgers, Jane Blanchard currently divides her time between Augusta and St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. In August, she began teaching at Augusta State University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Arabesques Review, Blue Unicorn, descant, James Dickey Review, Light, Pearl, Pembroke Magazine, Penwood Review, REAL, RiverSedge, Thema, Time of Singing, Turtle Quarterly, Welter, and elsewhere. Read “The Serpent’s Tooth” and “Cravings.”

Free Film Noir Movies | Open Culture

Here’s an amazing collection you can watch online — for free: Free Film Noir Movies | Open Culture.

On meeting Caitlin Horrocks

This afternoon I briefly talked with Caitlin Horrocks after her reading at Coastal Carolina University.

Horrocks read “At The Zoo,” an incredible, multiple point-of-view short story from her collection This is Not Your City. I wonder if “At The Zoo” — with its fully rendered characters, humor, and heartbreak — is representative of the rest of the collection.

I’ll find out soon enough: I bought a copy of This Is Not Your City for her to sign, and I asked her about her favorite books on the craft of writing.

She said she doesn’t read as many books on craft as other writers, but she mentioned two favorites: Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern (a great book I already have!) and Ron Carlson Writes A Story by (guess) Ron Carlson.

Horrocks was a generous and friendly person. I’m glad I got to meet her, and I wish her big successes.

You can buy these three books from Amazon right here.