2012 FLYING HOUSE SPONSORS!

Thank you to the 2012 Flying House sponsors for signing on for another year. We love you and thank you for your support!

Poets & Writers has once again pledged to help fund our writing participants in this year's show. 

Plus, Vivo has pledged to supply our appetizers at the show and offer a drink & dinner special at their restaurant (right around the corner from Maes Studio) to anyone who shows up with their Flying House ticket! 

Last by not least, the talented Andrea Rettig (also a Flying House artist from 2011), will be manning the bar with her talented Cocomori crew and supplying her famous cake pop inventions––we're excited to see what flavors she brings!

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring Flying House, please contact us for a sponsor packet. theflyinghouseemail@gmail.com

THANK YOU!

Ponce and the NEA

Flying Houser, Pedro Ponce, received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts this year, and here is what he's up to: 

"For the last couple of years, I've been a short story writer attempting to make the transition to writing novels. It's easy to underestimate the differences between genres; it's not just about adding pages, as I soon learned after starting work on my first full-length novel in the summer of 2010. The more time I spent away from the novel, the hazier the plot and characters, and the less narrative energy to galvanize readers' interests chapter by chapter. The support of the NEA will allow me invaluable time, not only to practice but also learn the craft of novel writing from teachers up to now shelved away for future reference."

Read more here. 

And did we mention Pedro used his piece "The Piazza de Chirico" to win the grant? The same piece he applied to FH with, coincidentally. They must have good taste!!

Congrats, again, Pedro. Hope that novel is shaping up!

Danillo Thomas Reviews

Flying Houser, Danillo Thomas, reviews "Sinners of Sanction County" at Southern Lit Review. Thomas writes:

"White’s world is rendered vividly here, and it is brutal, and so his characters, too, are brutal. This is nothing we have not seen recently in Bonnie Jo Campbell’s or Donald Ray Pollack’s spine jarring fictions, but what savesSinners from redundancy is a “grace of calamity,” as White puts it, that gives these stories a life of their own and that separates the noirish, often excessive violence from the emotions fueling these acts. White allows the reader to recognize the sorrow in the characters even while they wipe the blood off their hands."

Read more. 

2nd Place Winner, Katherine Zlabeck!

Congratulations to Flying Houser, Katherine Zlabeck, for making second place in the Hatfield/Westheimer Short Story Prize Competition. 

Jennifer Moore in "Passages, Pathways & Portals"

photo by Jennifer Moore

Congratulations to Flying Houser, Jennifer Moore, whose work has been accepted into the "Passages, Pathways and Portals" juried exhibition at Flow Art Space in Minneapolis, MN. 

If you're around Minneapolis on August 9th, check out the show! You'll get a small taste of what to expect from this artist later in the month––at the Flying House show! Mark your calendars Chicago friends, Flying House is August 25th!

Ray Bradbury

If you're going to read a tribute to Ray Bradbury, read this one by BJ Hollars. 

Lit 50

The top 50 writers (out of a cool 200!), all living in Chicago, who have published books this year. Check it out for some good summer reading!

Danillo Thomas live at Whitefish Review

Get Inspiration

Ever sat down to work on a novel/poem/short story/etc. and thought to yourself, what's the point? All writers have. Maybe all artists too. Pressgang asked a few notable writers (including our very own BJ Hollars) their thoughts about this problem, and here's what they had to say. 

Richard Thomas live at Thick Jam

Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Award

Congratulations to Flying Houser, Pedro Ponce, for making the short list at the Dzanc Books. 

Also on the list, two sweet women from bama (!) Kellie Wells and Jessica Hollander. 

Three out of ten on the short list? Not too shabby!