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This just in! Lee Upton is winner of the 2nd Annual BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize for her collection The Tao of Humiliation. After receiving nearly 100 manuscripts, the collection was selected from among four finalists by BOA Publisher Peter Conners. Upton will receive a $500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in the spring of 2014. Of the collection, Peter Conners says, “What impressed me most about Lee Upton’s debut short story collection is her ability to peel back layers of experience, revealing the complexity of human emotion buried in even our simplest interactions. Upton tells a...

Are you a fan of short fiction? How does having free top-notch short stories from award-winning independent publishers available on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad every week sound?! The Bookslinger app (Consortium) delivers new (free) stories to your device every Friday at noon Eastern time, exposing you to some of the best new voices in contemporary short fiction. The app itself is free - no cost, no subscriptions, and no registration - just an easy way to get more access to emerging and underappreciated voices in the literary world! Going live this Friday on Bookslinger is Adam McOmber's story "The...

With copies of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 finally reaching the world's doorsteps every day, people are finding good reason to celebrate. How? By sharing pictures of their glowing faces beside the breathtaking volume! Check out some of the photos below, shared by Publisher Peter Conners, BOA staff Melissa Hall and Jenna Fuller, author and journalist Daniel Nester, and author Aimee Nezhukumatathil - and share with us your own picture beside the book on Facebook or Twitter! https://twitter.com/boaeditions/status/233571966802620416/photo/1 http://danielnester.com/2012/08/17/heres-me-posing-with-the-collected-poems-of-lucille-clifton-which-i-got-in-the-mail-today/ https://twitter.com/aimeenez/status/235466756091686912/photo/1

In their Summer 2012 newsletter, NeMLA (the Northeast Modern Language Association) made BOA the visual highlight of their recent 2012 Rochester Convention! Check out some candid shots of BOA poets and staff at the convention below: Clockwise from left: Keetje Kuipers, author of Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; BOA Publisher Peter Conners; BOA Poets (first row starting from left) Christoper Kennedy, Keetje Kuipers, and Michael Waters together at the 2012 Convention. The next NeMLA conference will be held September 30 at the Boston Hyatt, sponsored by Tufts University.

[caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Ennui Prophet, poems by Christopher Kennedy"][/caption] Christopher Kennedy's "The Fact Remains" has been selected as this week's Poem of the Week by The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre! The prose poem comes from his fourth poetry collection Ennui Prophet. "I’m heavier than some animals, lighter than others. Also, I’m more threatening than most animals, less threatening than a few; faster than some, slower than most. I don’t bite, though, unless provoked by desire. What I want to say is: I still measure distance in years. And swans mate for life. At least that’s what I believe. I...