Perigee 2008 Fiction Judge Wins Eric Hoffer Award

Thomas E. Kennedy follows his Eric Hoffer Best Novel Award for Greene's Summer (2006) with the first runner-up Eric Hoffer Best Novel Award for Danish Fall (2007.) Kennedy also received the New Letters Best Essay Award for "I Am Joe's Prostate." The first place award was shared with Margaret K McCarty-Ozemet for her essay "Bovine Dreams," which will be published in the April issue of Perigee. Our congratulations!

Congratulations for a Well-Deserved Award

Press Release Jan. 28, 2008
Submitted by: Shirley Roe, Managing Editor
Allbooks Review www.allbookreviews.com
2008 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award Winners announced!
SHORT STORY COLLECTION BY MATHIAS B. FREESE:

Down to a Sunless Sea

The editors at Perigee are proud to announce that the story collection by Mathias B. Freese reviewed in the January issue has won the 2008 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award. This is Freese's second Allbooks Award. His first was for his novel, The i Tetralogy, a powerful and uncompromising study of the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

Perigee's 19th Issue, Contributors

The 19th issue of Perigee is set to be released on January 15th, and we are very excited by what is shaping up to be a fine issue indeed. The new issue contains all new poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews, book reviews, and visual art—some of the finest we've received.

Everyone who submitted work for our winter issue has our thanks. We would especially like to congratulate the writers, poets, and artists whose work will be appearing in our 19th issue (in whatever order they land here):

Alan Elyshevitz, "Angels"
Anthony Frame, "World News" and "Promenade Park"
Barbara F Lefcowitz, "My I-Pod"
Carolyn Harris Zukowski, "The Procrastinating Adulteress"
Joanne Lowery, "Sailors"
Kenneth Salzmann, "Small, Round Words"
Lucas Smalldon, "Composed in a Quandary on Poetry"
Mark Neely, "Cardinal" and "Saturday Morning, Alden Road"
Ray Succre, "Give Me Your House"
Michelle Panik O'Neill, "Fly the Coop"
Paul Silverman, "The Nepco Man"
Sandi Sonnenfeld, "Between Takes"
Tom Sheehan, "Apple, for Whom I Have Scoured the Universe"
Walter Cummins, "Bird With Strings"
Liam MacSheoinin, "Zeta Reticuli, Here I Come"
Lance Olsen, "Calendar of Regrets: An Excerpt"
Okla Elliott, "The Queen of Limbo"
Gordon Weaver, "That Face in My Bathroom Mirror"

With additional work from:
Alice Maud Guldbrandsen
Christopher Woods
Duff Brenna
Jensea Storie
Lance Newman
Sue Fellows
Robert Judge Woerheide

Including book reviews of:
Cast Upon the Day, and A Passion in the Desert, by Thomas E Kennedy
Anxious Pleasures: A Novel After Kafka, by Lance Olsen
Long Gone, by Richard Willis
Down to a Sunless Sea, by Mathias B Freese

Our 19th issue will be released Tuesday, January 15th. We hope you will read it, subscribe, and submit your own work.

Cheers!

Meet the 2008 Fiction Contest Guest Judge!

Fiction Editor Duff Brenna interviews Thomas E Kennedy, our 2008 Fiction Contest guest judge. You can read the special feature now—even before our upcoming 19th issue (January 15th). Don't miss this opportunity to familiarize yourself with this award winning writer.

And don't forget, our fiction competition is now open and accepting submissions from writers around the world. Send in your best stories for a chance to win a cash award, publication, and a Pushcart nomination!

CLICK HERE FOR THE SPECIAL INTERVIEW!

2008 Fiction Contest Now Open!

Our 2008 Fiction Contest is now accepting submissions. With $600 in cash prizes, publication for the top three stories, and a pushcart nomination for the winning entry, we hope lots of storytellers will be excited about participating.

This year, we welcome the esteemed novelist, essayist, and story writer Thomas E. Kennedy as guest judge. Kennedy's 22 books have garnered wide attention. His essays, interviews, and stories (some of which have appeared in Perigee's pages), like all of his work, have consistently challenged and thrilled. He is the recipient of both the O. Henry and Pushcart awards.

For complete details and guidelines—and to upload your contest submission—click here.