Congratulations to Flying Houser, BJ Hollars, whose book, "Thirteen Loops" has won the Society of Midland Author's award for Best Adult Nonfiction.

Past award winners have included the likes of Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jane Smiley and Louise Erdrich. A crowd of people I would be happy to stand up beside!

Congratulations, BJ! Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago for your award reception.

Flying Houser, Richard Thomas, is lightin' it up lit-wise. This month he has new stories up at Curbside Splendor and in the collection "Terror Scribes," by Dog Horn Publishing, as well as a review up at The Nervous Breakdown, AND AND!!! he landed himself an agent for his latest novel.

Congrats, Richard!

April's Bang Bang Fiction & Poetry Reading

Bang Bang Pie Shop, 2051 N California, Chicago, IL

Chicagoans, come check out a new Flying House participant, Heather Momyer, at the Bang Bang Fiction & Poetry Reading at Bang Bang Pie.

This Thursday, 7:30pm, Logan Square.

(there WILL be pie)

BJ Hollars Interviewed

Thirteen Loops getting some props...

@ The Emerging Writers Network

& Los Angeles Review!

Jennifer Moore's New Show!

Masur Museum

Brand new Flying Houser, Jennifer Moore, will be exhibiting her work at the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, this May.  Congratulations, Jennifer!

If you want to follow more of her words, work and updates (including her Flying House blog), you can follow her here and see her work here. 

"Parts of the Whole" recently at Photo Four Gallery

Flying House 2012!

Congratulations to the participants of Flying House 2012! 

We had soooo many great applications, and it was really hard to decide our top ten –– so we took our top twelve instead!

Introducing (drummmmmmm rooooolllll....) Flying House 2012!

Artists:
Jyl Bonaguro
Cleveland Dean
Melanie Larson
Christina Loraine
Vanessa Palacio
Jennifer Moore

Writers:
Tyler Gillespie
Richard Thomas
Luke Geddes
Heather Momyer
Katherine Zlabek
CD Mitchell

Alternates: CJ Hungerman (artist) & Joseph Young (writer)

Bios and works samples will be posted online soon! We're looking forward to a great year, great work, and a great show!

Looking to Publish a Chapbook?

The Review Review has put together a nice list of places interested in publishing your poetry chapbooks. How very nice of them. Check it out here.