NEWS

Jon Bergey, my brother David, and I recently posted issue 4 of Nashville Is Reads (www.NashvilleIsReads.com). It took us a couple of days. These are pictures from day 1. Jon took pictures, I taped, and David hammered.

Matt Jasper's "Psalm" was first. Posted in the back yard of Leah Rose Retirement Center.

I had the pleasure of talking with Jason Behrends about Keyhole. You can read his questions and my answers on his blog, What to Wear During an Orange Alert.

We are pleased to announce the finalists for our poetry chapbook contest. We were pleasantly surprised by the number and quality of the entries that we received for our first contest. Congratulations to our finalists. Poet Eugene Gloria is currently working on selecting the winner and an announcement will be made soon.

The winner is Curtis Crisler and his chapbook Spill. We asked Eugene Gloria to say a few words about why he chose this collection, and here's what he had to say:

Thanks to reviewer, Josh Maday, for saying nice things about the issue 3 contributors and Keyhole itself.

You can read the review here:
http://newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/default.htm#keyhole

Also, on Josh's blog there's a chunk that got edited out about Blake Butler's pieces in issue 3, and you can read that here:

Keyhole and 6 other presses participated in an e-panel on upstart publishing at Emerging Writers network.

You can read it here:
http://emergingwriters.typepad.com/emerging_writers_network/2008/09/e-pa...

Panelists:
Kathleen M. Rooney and Abigail Beckel – Rose Metal Press

Nashville Is Reads Issue 4 is posted around town. Some of the poems have been torn down...the ones we know of are marked with blue--the rest are red. Still, reds may or may not be there. They will be re-posted periodically and the map will be updated.

Keyhole has several full-length releases scheduled in 2009.

First up is William Walsh's Questionstruck - A Collection of Question-based Texts Derived from the Books of Calvin Trillin.

Then Stephanie Johnson's fiction collection, One of These Things is Not Like the Others and a fiction collection by Shellie Zacharia, Now Playing.

It was a hard decision, because of course I like everything we've published.

Michael Kimball - "Sara's Eulogy for Jonathon"
Noel Sloboda - "Winter of the Campaign"
Tim Keppel - "Pilgrimage"
Shellie Zacharia - "Stitch"
Jessica Hollander - "Fantasy Land"
Joshua Diamond - "Pumpernickel"

We've made a new spot on Keyhole's main page for your literary news. Anyone is welcome to submit any news they feel like sharing, about themselves or others, so long as it pertains to literature. If you have a book (or know of a book) that is coming out, if you've got a story up at another journal that you're proud of, repost the info on Keyhole, get some extra traffic.