Deadline to submit to SOL Books Prose Contest is Oct. 31^st

Poetry Series:
Mama Joy, by Eileen Silver-Lilywhite was released this summer — sample poems

read an interview with John Davis, author of Gigs

Well Deserved, by Michael Loyd Gray — read a sample chapter from his book and an intveriew with Michael on our blog

My Father's Gloves, by David Spiering — read sample poems from his collection

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Announcing our recent
Prose Series selection

The Wash, by Clyde Derrick, is the latest addition to Sol Books Prose Series. Here’s what the judges had to say about Clyde’s book

“Like the torrential flash floods that plague the town of Vista Linda, California, The Wash sweeps you up, drags you beneath its currents and desperately tries to drown you in the silt below. Clyde Derrick’s excruciatingly intimate prose follows a boy contending with his mother’s disappearance in the flood, a catatonic father, a racist brother, murderous ancestors and a grandmother’s mistaken profession in a brothel. The Wash weaves a powerful family tapestry that proves even the strongest of us survive the turmoil as changed, and perhaps wiser, people.”

Clyde’s book will be available the fall of 2012.

Finalists (in no particular order)

• Vicki Salloum
• Jarda Cervenka
• Alan Steinberg
• Vanessa Blakeslee
• Kathleen Hering
• George Casey
• Joan Franks
• Camille Goodison
• Lynn Veach Sadler
• Christina Pacosz
• Clyde Derrick
• Lorna Raness
• Joel Peckham
• Mary Alice Haug
• Wendy Sand Eckel
• Brett Peppler
• Michael Milburn
• Hollis Seamon
• Pamela Balluck
• Thomas Livingston

Congratulation to Clyde and all of the finalists, and thanks to everyone who submitted, making this another successful contest.

We are now accepting entries for next year's selection for our Prose Series.