Monthly Archives: February 2012

Introducing IHLR 13.6, the Fireside Issue

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The newest issue of Iron Horse Literary Review, which we’ve dubbed the Fireside Issue, is sure to make for cozy reading.

This winter-themed issue features fiction by Elizabeth Buchanan and Khristian Mecom; poetry by Brock Guthrie, Douglas Ray, B.J. Best, Doug Ramspeck, Benjamin Myers, and Randolph Thomas; a flash nonfiction piece by Lili Wright; and a stunning cover photo by Charles Patterson.

Aaron Alford’s “Hit List” column has a little bit of everything–Yeats, H.D., the Beatles, Motown, and a winter ennui somewhere between angst and fluff. And in this issue’s “Horselaugh,” Brent Newsom offers up “Mash-Up Paradelle: Winter Tunes.”

To purchase a copy, send $5 to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, Department of English, Box 43091, Lubbock, TX  79409-3091. Or, you can now order an issue online by going HERE and following the instructions for ordering a back issue. This issue will also be featured at AWP in Chicago–come by and see us at table B17 in the Bookfair.

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Fiction Writer Melanie Rae Thon to Read at Texas Tech February 16

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Photo by Andi Olson.

Novelist and short story writer Melanie Rae Thon will give a reading at Texas Tech University on Thursday, February 16, 7:30-8:30 in English 001.

Melanie Rae Thon’s most recent books include the novel The Voice of the River (FC2, 2011) and In This Light: New and Selected Stories (Graywolf, 2011). Her other novels are Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and she has also published two more story collections: First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and the O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), and a Writer’s Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005). In 2009, she was Virgil C. Aldrich fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center. Thon’s fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, Thon now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah.

This is the first reading in this year’s Iron Horse Reading Series, sponsored by Iron Horse Literary Review, the Texas Tech University Department of English, and the Texas Tech University Graduate School.

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February Back Issues of the Month: Single-Author Issues

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Starting this February, each month Iron Horse Literary Review will designate one or more back issues for sale at a special, reduced price of only $3 each. This month, with submissions for our current Single-Author Issue competition now open (see our guidelines if you want to enter your work), we’re highlighting our three previous Single-Author Issues:

 

Me, Them, Us by Meagan Ciesla (Novella, IHLR 11.4)
Fall Ends Tomorrow by Eric Neuenfeldt (Short Stories, IHLR 12.3)
Control Burn by Hastings Hensel (Poetry, IHLR 13.4)

Orders for a single issue can be placed online HERE, or by mailing $3 cash or check (made out to Iron Horse Literary Review) to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, Department of English, Box 43091, Lubbock, TX  79409-3091. Please include a note specifying the desired issue and the appropriate shipping address. NOTE: Orders for multiple issues must be processed by mail.

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