Awards and Nominations Jim Hamilton’s Ozarks RFD: Selected Essays won the 2020 Non-Fiction Book Award from the Ozarks Writers’ League. Seven of the essays in this collection appeared in Elder Mountain. The editors of Elder Mountain have nominated Denise Henderson Vaugh’s article “The West Plains Sewage Lagoon Drama, 1978: A Lesson on Infrastructure Failure in a Karst … [Read more...] about Awards and Nominations
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Book Reviewers Needed The books listed below are currently available for reviewing for Elder Mountain. If you wish to review one of these books or wish to suggest a book for review, email me at philliphowerton@missouristate.edu. Reviews should be 500-1000 words, confirm to MLA guidelines, and be forwarded as a Word document in an email attachment. Deadlines for … [Read more...] about Reviewers Needed
Issue Ten is Here. It's a whopper of a double issue--290 pages and color images. I am busy sending out contributor copies, and Elder 7-10 can be purchased on line at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers. Below is the Table of Contents for Issue Ten. Table of Contents Editor’s Note / 8 Fiction John Mort The First Day / 9 Steve … [Read more...] about Issue Ten is Here
The Pain Trader and Other Poems. By James Fowler. (Golden Antelope Press, 2020, Pp. 77) Reviewed by Terrell Tebbetts James Fowler writes poems about his state and region, the little postage stamp of a world that he knows well. He succeeds when he offers apt descriptive and narrative portraits of characters and settings and then leads readers into new understandings of … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Pain Trader and Other Poems