Slipstream Announces Nominations for the Pushcart Prize XXXIV

The editors of Slipstream Magazine and Press have nominated the following pieces from our 2008 releases for the Pushcart Prize:

From Slipstream 28 (2008):
1. Across a Universe of Grass (poem)—-Shari O’Brien
2. Chopin and a Barbershop (poem)--Matthew Snyder
3. My Father Says Yes (poem)--Doug Ramspeck
4. Mathematics 101 (poem)--Neil Carpathios
5. Deconstructing Dorothy (poem)--Nina Corwin

From Rescue Conditions (2008)--chapbook by Carrie Shipers:
6. Moose Liquor (poem)--Carrie Shipers

To order either release, please visit: http://www.slipstreampress.org/

Release Party for Issue #28 Announced

On Saturday, September 27, 2008, Slipstream will host a party/reading in celebration of the release of issue #28. The event will be held at the Book Corner, 1801 Main Street, Niagara Falls NY at 6:00 P.M.

Come early and browse three floors of books at one of Western New York's oldest and most renowned independent book stores.

(For info on the Book Corner, visit: www.fallsbookcorner.com).

Featured readers will include:

• E.R. Baxter
• Michael Basinski
• Robert Giannetti
• Aaron Giovanne
• Jane Adam
• John Marvin
• Michelle Ann Kratts
• Karen Lewis
• Ed Taylor, Jr.
• Don Scheller
• Gay Baines
• Christina Wos Donnelly
• Gary Earl Ross
• Ken Feltges
• Livio Farallo
• Dan Sicoli

Artist Phil Hendrickson will also have his work on display.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Refreshments and food will be served.

The event is free and open to all. Hope to see you there!

New Issue and Chapbook Have Arrived!

This past weekend issue #28 of Slipstream along with our new chapbook, Rescue Conditions by Carrie Shipers, arrived from the printer. All contributor copies, subscriptions, orders, and chapbook contest entrant copies are currently being mailed out.

It took us a bit longer to get these out this year due to the fact that we worked with a new printer and there were a few unexpected details we needed to address. In the end, the printer did a fine job, resulting in two beautifully produced volumes, which we believe were worth the wait.

Please check our web site for further details on both releases.

2008 Poetry Chapbook Winner Announced

The editors of Slipstream Press would like to congratulate Carrie Shipers of Lincoln, NE for winning our annual Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Competition. She will receive the $1,000.00 award as well as 50 copies of her published chapbook, Rescue Conditions.

We found Rescue Conditions to be a remarkable and impassioned collection. As poet, editor, and professor, Hilda Raz has commented: “To read Rescue Conditions is to experience the pure joy of recovering family identities--as heroes, outlaws, lovers, and tender citizens--through
art.”

Kathy Fagan writes: “Rescue Conditions is the story of a working family living in a small American town. The Gainses are their neighbors to the left; the Losses are their neighbors to the right. They try hard, love hard, live harder. With these substantial and substantially crafted poems, Carrie Shipers says forget the band-aids, what we need are CPR and a stiff drink. Her book reaches us just in time.”


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For those of you who have participated in the competition, we thank you for your involvement and support. It is always a difficult decision to select a single manuscript from among many excellent entries.

All entrants will receive a copy of the chapbook as well as the latest issue of Slipstream Magazine, both of which are currently being printed.

Our Poetry Chapbook Competition has an annual deadline of December 1 and is open to all poets writing in English. This year, for the first time, we are accepting contest submissions electronically as well as by regular mail. Chapbook contestants can upload their manuscript via the Slipstream website and remit the $20.00 reading fee using PayPal (which accepts credit card payments).

Please review the contest guidelines at: www.slipstreampress.org/contest.html, where you will also find directions on the submittal process.

We remain an independent, not-for-profit small press unaffiliated with any university or school.

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