Fifth Wednesday Journal

Spring 2010

Our spring 2010 issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and photography from around the world. Learn more ...

Guest Fiction Editor: Edie Meidav
Guest Poetry Editor: Monica Berlin
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Edie Meidav

Edie Meidav is the author of Crawl Space (FSG/Picador), The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner), and the forthcoming Steal Me (FSG). She has received for her work a Lannan Fellowship, a Bard Fiction Prize for Writers Under 40, the Kafka award for Best Novel by an American Woman, a Fulbright in Sri Lanka, and her work has been cited as an editors' pick by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Litblog Coop, The Electric Review, and elsewhere. A former director of the MFA in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California, she teaches at Bard College in New York.
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Monica Berlin

Monica Berlin's recent poems have appeared in Diagram, Rhino, Tammy, Fourteen Hills, New OrleansReview, ThirdCoast, Dislocate, Artful Dodge, The MissouriReview, and After Hours. Her critical work has been published with MLA’s Profession, Black Warrior Review, and Dalkey Archive Press. In addition to a handful of nominations for Pushcarts, she was awarded an Illinois Arts Council grant in 2005. Recently, she won the Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize from Passages North for her essay, “The Eighteenth Week,” which is forthcoming. Berlin is an Associate Professor of English at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where she teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, and serves as the Associate Director for the Program in Creative Writing

Fall 2010 editors

Guest Fiction Editor: Lon Otto
Guest Poetry Editor: Amy Newman
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Lon Otto

Lon Otto has published two collections of stories — A Nest of Hooks ( University of Iowa Press), winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction, and Cover Me (Coffee House Press). His fiction has appeared in magazines such as Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Great River Review, American Fiction, and Water-Stone, is in a number of anthologies, including Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) and Not Normal, Illinois (Indiana University Press), and has been broadcast on NPR’s Selected Shorts and All Things Considered. He is a Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and regularly teaches in the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
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Amy Newman

Amy Newman is the author of Order, or Disorder (Cleveland State), Camera Lyrica (Alice James Books), fall (Wesleyan), and the chapbooks Bird Girl Handbook (Laurel Review/GreenTower Press) and The Sin Sonnets (Scantily Clad Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Hotel Amerika, The Georgia Review, Image, Witness, The Laurel Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Colorado Review, and Born Magazine, as well as the anthologies The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, and Sentence’s An Introduction to the Prose Poem. She has served as virtual poet in residence at The London Guardian, and her work has been translated into Italian and Romanian. A recipient of three Individual Artists Fellowships, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, she is the founding editor of Ancora Imparo, the journal of arts, process, and remnant, and teaches at Northern Illinois University.

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Lina ramona Vitkauskas' new book, In the Range of Your Amazing Nothing, is out from Ravenna Press. Learn more...
Elizabeth J. Colen wins Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry with her new book Money for Sunsets. Learn more...
Kathleen Kirk's new chapbook, Living on the Earth, is published by Finishing Line Press. Learn more...
J. C. Hallman's latest book, In Utopia, will be out in August. Learn more...
Adam Gallari's new book receives praise from Bret Anthony Johnston. Learn more...
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Fifth Wednesday Journal

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Spring 2010

Edie Meidav

Monica Berlin

Lon Otto

Amy Newman

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