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Congratulations to Robert Repino, whose story "Life in the Fishbowl" (Fall 2007) was selected as a Notable Story of 2007 by storySouth's Million Writers Award judges!
In this issue of jmww (spring 2008):
Marion Winik discusses
her favorite memoirs
Reviews of Katherine Cottle's
My Father's Speech
(Apprentice House Chapbook Competition winner),
Dave Housley, justin sirois, Daniel Trask, and more!
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jmww. spring 2008
High Five
High Five: Contemporary Memoir by Marion Winik
Stories
Flyaway Dreams by Bryan S. Wang
Aerial Acrobatics by Julia LaSalle
My Brother Picks Cans by Mark R. Dursin
The Cradle of Aviation by Susan O'Doherty
Makeover by Kerry Langan
Case Study: Part 16 by Brian Langston
Maw Maw by William R. Duell
Flash Fiction
Skin by Emily Weiss
Poetry
Forget the Bells in the Distance
Song of the Bottomless Lament by Martin Willitts, Jr.
They Follow Her by Ellen Pober Rittberg
Book and Chapbook Reviews
DMR by Daniel Trask
(Reviewed by Adam Robinson)
Secondary Sound by justin sirois
(Reviewed by Adam Robinson)
My Father's Speech by Katherine Cottle
(Reviewed by Adam Robinson)
Electric Grace edited by Richard Peabody
(Reviewed by Jen Michalski)
Santi: Lives of Modern Saints
edited by Lucia Dipierro and N. Frank Daniels,
illustrated by Rachel Bradley
(Reviewed by Jen Michalski)
Ryan Seacrest Is Famous by Dave Housley
(Reviewed by Catherine Harrison)
Castleman in the Academy by Charles Rammelkamp
(Reviewed by Kate McGill Wyer)
Brand New Fence
by Wes Ward
(Reviewed by Shara Terjung)
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"This is how Maw Maw died: She sat on the john and pottied her spine. That's what Hilda said, but Buddy disputed it. No, when she sat down, she fell in. And Mrs. Forbus went to clean the bathroom, and flushed her away without noticing. Hilda shook her head. No, you numbskull, she was too big, she would have clogged the pipe. Her spine went first, then maybe her organs, and Maw Maw flushed the toilet herself, thinking she had done her business. By then she was nothing but a skin-bag of stuff, and she collapsed into the bowl like a popped balloon."
William R. Duell, Maw Maw
"Ossi, who seems to be the saint of mirrored Ray Ban sunglasses, is timeless, a pillar of stoic, albeit indifferent, fairness, Tommaso's actual unattainable father figure. Dipierro's is a haunting, hallucinogenic story, a vision blurred by a metaphorical snowblindness."—review of Santi: Lives of Modern Saints
jmww: a quarterly journal of writing publishes the best in fiction, poetry, flash, nonfiction, and art (or a close approximation) every april, july, october, and january (or thereabouts).
News
 
The JMWW Anthologies I and II
are now available at
Lulu.com
Our Million Writers Award Nominations: Dominic Prezioi's "Red Line to Puritas," Ropert Repino's "Life in the Fishbowl," and Barbara Diehl's "Teacups." Congratulations!
Next stop: JMWW at the Baltimore Book Festival, September 27th, Baltimore
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