Light’s rise sparks bright blooms:
birdsong, fields of it, vining–
spring’s first green flourish.
These mornings, I step outside my back door to hear the hush of winter thrown off by a clamor of birdsong–the crackle of starlings, jazzy riffs of purple house finches, a lonely two-syllable call from a flycatcher, screeches [...]
The Vernal Equinox arrives Sunday, March 20. To celebrate spring’s arrival last year, WIZ ran a Spring Poetry Runoff Contest and Celebration that had fantastic participation–a veritable cascade of sparkling poesy–and was lots of fun. So beginning March 20, we’re running WIZ’s Second Annual Spring Poetry Runoff Contest and Celebration!
In keeping with [...]
The Provo Orem Word, an online venue for artists in the Provo-Orem area of Utah, has published an excerpt from my novel The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books 2004) in this year’s nature-themed issue. You can read the excerpt and rest of the issue here, or click on the picture. Also, check out the ad for [...]
For the second year, we’re making February “Love of Nature, Nature of Love” month on Wilderness Interface Zone. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, all month long we’ll publish poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music (mp3s), video or other media that address the subject of love while making references to nature. Or [...]
Torrey House Press has extended its writing context deadline from January 15, 2011 to February 21, 2011. This press sponsors four writing contests a year. This one is for fiction and short fiction (2,000-20,000 words) exploring “the issues, people, history, cultures, and landscape of the Colorado Plateau and the American West.” Prizes: 1st [...]
Wilderness Interface Zone seeks submissions of poetry, prose, fiction–any of the kinds of nature writing listed in its submission guidelines. Please take a quick look at our “About” page too. Photographs that take nature as subject matter are also welcomed. WIZ finds especially interesting works that illustrate creative, productive human relationships with the natural world (and vice versa). [...]
Torry House Press, a publishing company located in south central Utah and dedicated to producing works about the people, places, history and issues of the Colorado Plateau, is running a fiction and short fiction contest. Cash prizes will be awarded. Winners’ work will also be published in Torry House Press’s annual journal. Deadline is January [...]
Mormon Artist Magazine has published a fun interview they did with me for their current issue. I’ve not often been interviewed–just one phone interview where I wound up misquoted–so I appreciate Mormon Artist’s interest in my work and attention to detail during this process.
The pics accompanying are unfortunately not as fine as I’d like, but [...]
Over the last couple of years, my family’s home business has moved into reproducing public domain documents, movies, and other materials to sell on that juggernaut Ebay and, eventually, on our own website. Recently, I became more involved with writing auction descriptions for old films, some from as far back as the 30s. To save [...]
First off, frequent WIZ contributor Karen Kelsay invited me to submit poetry to her online poetry journal Victorian Violet Press, where I’m the featured poet for her summer issue. Victorian Violet Press also nominated “The Pear Tree” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks, Karen!
You can hear me read “The Pear Tree” here.
Second: If you’re one of the [...]