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May Back Issue of the Month: 2011 Father’s Day Issue

Each month Iron Horse Literary Review designates one or more back issues for sale at a special, reduced price of only $3 each. Our sale this month features the 2011 Father’s Day Issue (IHLR 13.3). This issue features cover art by Virgil Suárez; poetry by Timothy Kercher, Jaclyn Dwyer, Manda Frederick, David Starkey, Diana Arterian, and Jill McCabe Johnson; fiction by David James Poissant, Karin C. Davidson, and Michael Baccam; and a personal essay by Lindsay Beamish, our 2011 Discovered Voices Award winner in nonfiction.

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 appropriate shipping address. NOTE: Orders for multiple issues must be processed by mail.

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Memoirist Bonnie J. Rough to Read at Texas Tech March 29

Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the new memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint), winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award. Her essays have appeared in many magazines, literary journals, and newspapers, including The New York TimesThe SunHuffington PostThe Iowa ReviewNinth LetterIdentity Theory, and Brevity. They have also appeared in several anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1 (W.W. Norton), and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). Bonnie holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has taught at The Loft Literary Center and is now an honored visiting artist on the faculty of the Ashland University MFA program. Her many awards include a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.

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

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With Love from Us to You: IHLR 14.1, Valentine’s II Issue

IHLR 14.1, the Valentine’s II Issue, is now available. We sold out our first Valentine’s Issue, IHLR 10.1; now we’re spreading the love (lost & found, spurned & received) again, four years later.

In this issue you’ll find fiction by Teresa Milbrodt and Jackie Reitzes; poetry by Ashley Danielle Ryle, Karrie Warrala, Rebecca Parson, Aran Donovan, John Davis, Adam Deutsch, and Gary Dop; and creative nonfiction by Scott Nadelson.

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 purchasing a back issue.

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Introducing IHLR 13.6, the Fireside Issue

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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IHLR 13.5 is Here!

The latest issue of Iron Horse Literary Review has dropped, and with it comes our new, wider format, pared-down cover design, and some great new writing!

This Open Issue features fiction by Joseph O’Malley and J.T. Bushnell; poetry by Tara Bray, Heather Price, Michael Salcman, Melissa Cundieff-Pexa, Robby Nadler, Bhavin Tailor, and Jennifer Habel; Amy Roper’s nonfiction piece “A Map of Childhood Games,” complete with map and legend; and photographs by John Martino, Whitney Martin, and J. Marcus Weekley. One of Martin’s lovely images graces the cover.

Issue 13.5 also introduces a new feature of Iron Horse, one-of-a-kind columns written by our Managing Editors, Aaron Alford and Brent Newsom.

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.

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Memoirist Irene Vilar to Read at Texas Tech October 6

Author Irene Vilar. Photo by Gary Isaacs.

Author Irene Vilar will give a book reading and talk entitled “Unlucky Lucky Bodies: A Personal Account of Generational and National Trauma” on Thursday, October 6, 7:30-8:30 p.m., in English 001.

There will also be a Q&A session with Vilar on Thursday, October 6, 2:00-3:00p.m., in English 201.

Irene Vilar was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her memoir The Ladies’ Gallery (Other Press, 2009, originally published in 1996) was a Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press notable book of the year. Her latest memoir, Impossible Motherhood (Other Press, 2009), has been translated into many languages, is a bestseller in Italy, and won the 2010 IPPY gold medal for best memoir/autobiography. She is series editor of The Americas at Texas Tech University Press and a Guggenheim Fellow. Vilar is literary agent for Vilar Creative Agency, and co-agent in the U.S. for Ray-Gude Mertin Literary Agency, an agency specializing in Spanish, Latin American, and Portuguese authors.

These events are co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program, the Creative Writing Program, and the Department of English.

More information on the writer and her books can be found on her website.

Praise for Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict

Impossible Motherhood is like a journey into a harrowing underworld but guided by Vilar’s gifts and her light we emerge in the end transformed, enlightened, and oh so alive.” -Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Vilar does exactly what the best memoirists do: She tells us the truth about everything, even when the truth utterly confounds… Unsettling and complex and ultimately redemptive.” -The Oregonian

“An extraordinary memoir… [Vilar's] brutal honesty is haunting.” -Sunday Independent

Praise for The Ladies’ Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets

“Irene Vilar is a writer of extraordinary passion, erudition, and intelligence.” -Tobias Wolff

“Startling, raw, and affecting, a painful exercise in which memoir as therapy becomes memoir as art.” -Philadelphia Inquirer

“This memoir introduces us to a writer bound to make an impact… An autobiography as fantastic as any novel.” -Boston Globe

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Live Reading by David R. Dow

Join us for a live reading by David R. Dow @TexasTech.

February 10, 2011, 7:30pm CST

Watch live streaming video from ironhorsereview at livestream.com
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