Relief: A Christian Literary Expression » Ian David Philpot

5.2 eBook Now Available

Ian David Philpot — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:06:42 +0000

For the first time ever, we would like to present you with our eBook before the print copy is available. Creating a hard copy takes a lot of time and extra energy, so, while our team is still hard at work churning it out, we’ve been able to secure the eBook early!

The eBook comes in PDF format, perfect for reading on your computer, smartphone, or tablet device. And did we mention it’s only $4.99?! Get your copy now by clicking the button below, or you can pick it up on our Buy page along with the eBooks for our last six issues.

Announcing 5.2 Fiction Authors

Ian David Philpot — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:28:18 +0000

	Thomas Allbaugh "A Point of Saturation" Thomas Allbaugh is an Associate professor of English at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California, where he teaches writing, rhetoric, nonfiction, and composition. In addition to having a short story published in ˆ last fall, he has also had work appear recently in Pedagogy, Writing on the Edge, Blue Moon Review, Studio: a Journal of Christians Writing, and Mars Hill Review. His essay on Flannery O’Connor and nihilism was included in Doing Good, Departing from Evil: Research Findings in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carole J. Lambert. He has also written Pretexts for Writing, a textbook for First Year writing.
	Meg Eden "Hosea" Meg Eden has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Rock & Sling, The Science Creative Quarterly, anderbo, Gloom Cupboard, and Crucible. Her chapbook The Girl who Came Back was given first honorable mention of NFSPS’s University level Poetry award. She is currently working with a literary agent with the hopes of publishing novel works. http://artemisagain.wordpress.com/
	Virginia Hernandez "Sins of the Mother" Virginia Hernandez lives in sunny Florida with her marvelous husband and terrific kids. She reads way more than she writes and needs to fix that ASAP.
	Joshua Hren "Wrecking Ball" Joshua Hren is hurrying through the night to complete his creative dissertation In the Wine Press, which is being published serially by Dappled Things, a journal of art, ideas, and faith. Once he completes this novel, he will receive his Ph.D. in English from UW-Milwaukee, where his major areas of emphasis are Religion and Literature and the Political in Philosophy and Fiction. He works as adjunct instructor of English at Concordia University and is the newly-born father of a daughter Anaya and a son Soren, both of whom were carried and delivered by his indefatigable wife Brittney, who, more than a mother, is nevertheless under consideration for beatification for her mothering alone.
	Samantha Monaghan "An Ill-Defined Problem" Samantha Monaghan is a recent graduate of Roberts Wesleyan College, where she earned a degree in Communication. She grew up outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Rochester, NY, with her sister and the mouse they are convinced lives under their fridge.

Announcing 5.2 Poets

Ian David Philpot — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:41:55 +0000

	Timothy Bartel "Four Counties" Timothy E.G. Bartel is a husband, writer, and educator from Whittier, CA. He currently resides in Edinburgh with his wife, while he pursues a postgraduate degree in poetry and theology at the University of St Andrews. Timothy's work has recently appeared in The Other Journal, Christianity and Literature, and the St. Katherine Review.
	Cindy Beebe "My Son Says What If Jesus Were Playing Basketball" Cindy Beebe lives in Collierville, TN, a suburb of Memphis, with her husband, their two teen-aged sons, and a couple of slacker house cats. She sings in her church choir, home-schools her children, and ministers to the community as a member of Continuum Arts: Engaging Culture With Culture Through Acts of Creative Excellence. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Image, The Cincinnati Review, RATTLE, The National Poetry Review, The Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Radix, and APJ, among others. She also has poems in previous issues of Relief. Feel free to contact her.
	John J. Brugaletta "Itadaki Masu" "Everything Is Otherwise" John J. Brugaletta is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton. He was editor and publisher of South Coast Poetry Journal during its ten-year history, and contributing editor of The Lamp-Post. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Tongue Angles and Tilling the Land, and is co-author of Discovering the Way of Wisdom: Spirituality in the Wisdom Literature. He lives in Northern California with his wife Claudia, where he makes tables, clocks and poems.
	Sara Burant “After Reading from Genesis I Consider Angels" “Within" “The Place After Words” “Meditation on a Man’s Figure” Sara Burant's poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Comstock Review, and Ruminate Magazine, among others. Her first chapbook, Verge, has just been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, a ball-crazy dog, elderly cat and small flock of chickens. This summer she was fortunate enough to be present at the birth of her first grandchild.
	Scott Cairns "Two Trees" Scott Cairns, Professor of English at University of Missouri, is director of MU Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki/Thasos, bringing graduate and undergraduate students to Greece every June for engagement with literary life in modern Greece. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. His most recent books are Compass of Affection (poetry), Short Trip to the Edge (memoir), Love’s Immensity (translations), and a book-length essay, The End of Suffering. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.
	Maryann Corbett "Knowledge" Maryann Corbett's book Breath Control is due out in 2012 from David Robert Books. Her chapbooks are Dissonance and Gardening in a Time of War. She has been a winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and a finalist for the Morton Marr prize and the Best of the Net anthology. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals in print and online and in the anthologies Hot Sonnets, The Able Muse Anthology, and Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature. She lives in St. Paul and works for the Minnesota Legislature.
	Lynn Domina "Flickering Green, Flickering Bronze" "Omniscience in Babel" Lynn Domina is the author of two collections of poetry, Framed in Silence and Corporal Works. She is also the editor of a collection of essays, Poets on the Psalms. Her recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, The Southern Review, Christianity & Literature, and several other periodicals. She currently lives with her family in the western Catskill region of New York.
	Michael Martin "Visions of Vladimir" "Words written during the suffering and subsequent death of John Paul II" Michael Martin lives on a small, organic farm between Detroit and Ann Arbor with his wife and eight children. He teaches English at Marygrove College in Detroit. His work has appeared in many different journals, most recently in Tiferet and Prose Studies. This is his third appearance in Relief.
	Marsha Mathews "Crossing the Dead" Marsha Mathews’ Sunglow & A Touch of Nottingham Lace has won this year’s Red Berry Editions Chapbook Award. In 2010, her first book of poems, Northbound Single-Lane, was published by Finishing Line Press. Magazines that have published Mathews’ work include Apalachee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Fourth River, Greensboro Review, Hampden-Sydney, Inkwell Journal, Melusine, and Pembroke. Her poems appear in these anthologies, Child of My Child (Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, 2010) and Touching: Poems of Love, Longing, and Desire (Fearless Books, 2011). Mathews teaches writing at Dalton State College, in Dalton, Georgia, where she advises the campus literary magazine, Tributaries.
Julie L. Moore	Julie L. Moore "Prayer Shawl" Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom (WordTech Editions) and Election Day (Finishing Line Press). In addition, her manuscript, Scandal of Particularity, was a finalist for the 2011 FutureCycle Press Poetry Book Prize and a semi-finalist for the 2011 Perugia Press Prize. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize from Ruminate, Moore has also had her poetry published in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Journal, Atlanta Review, CALYX, Cimarron Review, The Missouri Review Online, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. You can learn more about her work at www.julielmoore.com.
	Paul Willis "After Saying Goodbye" "The Closet in the Skeleton" "Dinah Morris Digresses in Her Evening Sermon on the Green" "Friday Night" "Looking Away" Paul J. Willis is a professor of English at Westmont College and the current poet laureate of Santa Barbara, CA. His most recent books of poetry are Rosing from the Dead (WordFarm, 2009) and Visiting Home (Pecan Grove Press, 2008). He is also the author of Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild (WordFarm, 2005) and the four-part eco-fantasy novel The Alpine Tales (WordFarm, 2010). He spends a little too much of his time creating obscure trails through the poison oak canyons of his campus.

Announcing 5.2 Creative Nonfiction Authors

Ian David Philpot — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:30:17 +0000

	Gayle L. Boss “Sitting with the Rabbit” Gayle Boss is a freelance writer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she and her husband also raise two sons.
	Grace Campbell “Aftershocks” Grace Campbell is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, but is also a student at Cedarville University in Ohio where she is studying Technical and Professional Communication. She enjoys running cross country and track at Cedarville as well as working at the Cedarville University Writing Center. After graduation Grace would like to be an editor and run marathons.
	Jean Hoefling “Remission” Jean Hoefling is the author of two books on Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Regina Orthodox Press), and several articles on the humorous side of living cross-culturally. She is co-owner of J&J Copywriters, works as a freelance copyeditor, and is currently writing a book on suffering. She lives with her husband, Tim, in Louisville, Colorado, and enjoys hiking and church stuff.
	Heidi Gabrielle Nobles “Watching Songs” Heidi Gabrielle Nobles earned her M.A. at Baylor University and her M.F.A. at the University of South Carolina. Her creative writing has appeared in Relief, Welter, and Aenonfire; she also writes for the National Association of Military Families and blogs for Abilene Christian University, where she currently teaches. She is looking for a publisher for her first book, Confiding History, about U.S. military children growing up around the world.
	Chely Roach “Drowning the Albatross” Chely Roach is a lifelong St. Louisan, along with her husband and their preschool-aged twin daughters. Together, they have owned and operated their own business since 1993, though the kids aren’t much help yet. Not long after enlisting into Baby Boot Camp, she rekindled her love of written words, all while acquiring honorary Masters Degrees in tandem nursing and sleep deprivation. On the rare occasion that she is conscious, coherent and captures a moment of peace, she loves to read grown-up books, cook all things delicious (while ignoring the dishes), and write stuff. This is Chely’s first print publication.
	Heather M. Surls “The Door of Hope” Heather recently returned to the States after living in Israel for two years. She now lives in Illinois, in an apartment complex housing refugees and immigrants from more than a dozen people groups. There she reads voraciously, takes frequently walks around the nearby pond, and strives to love God, her husband, and her neighbors.

Relief News Tuesday: 5.24.2011

Ian David Philpot — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:39:05 +0000

Now Accepting Graphic Narratives, Images, and Interviews!

Issue 5.1 has shipped, and the submission period for issue 5.2 opened May 1. New work is already flowing in, meaning our editors are starting to think about all the work they have to do again.

This issue we’re excited to try out some new content, so we’re announcing here that Relief will now accept graphic narratives and images for consideration. This is an experiment, so we won’t run anything if we don’t find work that meets our standards, but we’re optimistic that through this site and word-of-mouth (that means you) we can find some great stuff.

This will make Relief, as far as we know, the only place you’ll be able to find graphic narrative of a Christian/spiritual bent. There are others doing images, but we think there are plenty more great artists out there whose work needs a home.

We will also be accepting queries for author interviews. Guidelines for this new content can be found on our Submissions page.