Deadline to submit to SOL Books 2010 Contests is Oct. 31^st

Poetry Series:
Gigs, by John Davis — sample poems will be available soon.

Pacific, by Scott R. Welvaert — read sample poems from his collection and check out an interview with Scott on our blog

The Prostitutes of Post Office Street, by Frank Carden — read a sample selection from his novel and check out an interview with Frank on our blog.

Bodywearers, by Connie Colwell Miller — read sample poems from her recently released collection and check out an interview with her on our blog.

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Announcing our recent
Poetry Series selection

We'd like to start the New Year off by announcing the latest selection for Sol Books Poetry Series: Mama Joy by Eileen Silver Lillywhite.

About the winning selection: Mama Joy is lit with a quiet beauty, its language easy in the best sense of the word—graceful, melodic, never over-handled. Eileen Silver Lillywhite's poems move together like variations on a favorite theme, the “streets rasping with Cadillacs” and the “winds booming across continents,” all of which set the tone for a frank look at life’s major thematic movements.

Runners up:

• Admissions by Don Narkevic
• Night's Body by George Keithley
• Apacheria Tableaux by Rawdon Tomlinson
• Tidal Gift by Marjorie Power

Finalists:

• The Breath of Houses by Catherine Jagoe
• Cadence of Shared Space by Pearl Karrer
• Field Notes of a Descendent by Carolyn Moore
• Fly Over States by Richard Luftig
• Heart of Gold by Alan Catlin
• The Hinge of the World by Lucian Young
• I Regret Nothing by Jean Hollander
• Killing the Dog by Michael Steffen
• Letters to Juliet by Robert Cooperman
• Returning from Egypt by Elizabeth Rees
• String Theory for Lovers by Ken Pobo
• Sumptuous Heart by Muriel Karr
• Threading Miles by Alfred Encarnacion
• To Shake Hands with Mountains by Lynn Veach Salder
• Voiced Shadows by Tom McFadden

Congratulation to Eileen and all of the finalists, and thanks to everyone who submitted their poetry collections, making this another successful contest.

We are now accepting entries for the selection in our Prose Series.