Red Herring reading Saturday afternoon

Several members of Red Herring Fiction Writers, including myself, will read from their work Saturday as part of the 10th annual Boneyard Arts Festival. Our reading is from 3-5 p.m. at the Iron Post on Race Street north of the Urbana Free Library. Please drop by if you can. The Boneyard Festival, primarily sponsored by local arts organization 40 North 88 West, takes place in more than 100 locations beginning today.

Reviewer loves latest 'Ninth Letter'

The Fall/Winter 2011-12 issue of Ninth Letter, the lit magazine from University of Illinois, got an enthusiastic review from Hazel Foster in New Pages. Calling the magazine the "exuberant, popular-as-a-result-of-being-odd kid on this gigantic playground," Foster said she read each piece in the current issue "with energy and took each one as inspiration and aspiration." She singles out Theodore Kitaif's blended fiction/non-fiction piece, "Pictures," as the must-read. Ninth Letter is a collaborative project of the Graduate Creative Writing Program and School of Art and Design at U of I, Urbana-Champaign.
In the same batch at New Pages, posted yesterday, I have reviews of current issues of The MacGuffin and The Threepenny Review.

I'll be reading with friends at Iron Post Saturday

I and writer friends John Griswold and Lania Knight will be reading from our work at the Stories and Beer event from 3 to 5 p.m. next Saturday at the Iron Post. Here's a story about the reading from C-U's online news and arts site, Smile Politely.