Deadline to submit to SOL Books Prose Series 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
Prose Series selection

Congratulations to Shilo York, whose short story collection, French-Kissing Angels, was selected for our Prose Series.

A note on French-Kissing Angels from our judges: From young, homeless mailbox thieves, metropolitan swingers, and Communistic prep school students to a small-town suicidal pizzeria owner, a Hollywood writer with an odd case of writer’s block, and a barfly who befriends Satan, York captures brief slivers of life. With deft and a to-the-point prose, French-Kissing Angels allows readers complete access to titillating characters trapped in unique situations, turning the very conventions, plot devices, and archetypes of the short story on their heads.

Runners Up

• Phobia, by Daniel Wright
• Among Survivors, by Ann Leventhal

Finalists

• Bistro Girls, by Vanessa Blakeslee
• Blue Talk and Love, by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• Coffee with God, by Kal Wagenheim
• Confessions of a Naked Skydiver, by Meryl Lipman
• Floating Above the Carnage, by Barbara Zimmerman
• Ghosts in the Glen, by Jones Kerry
• Greater than Y, by Cherri Randall
• Hindseeing, by AL Edgell
• Making It Work, by Rick Strong
• Model Homes, by Letitia Moffitt
• Prayer to Saint Jude, by Vicki Salloum
• Preserving Munich, by Naton Leslie
• The Sunlight of Suggestion, by Michael Milburn
• Speculative Geography, by Bryan Walpert
• Yosemite and Other Stories, by Alan Steinberg

Congratulations to all of the finalists, and thanks to every one who submitted a manuscript to our Prose Series.

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