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Backbone Press just published my new poetry chapbook The Ocean Between Us along with Faisal Mohyuddin‘s The Riddle of Longing. Faisal’s book The Displaced Children of Displaced Children just won the 2017 Sexton Prize for Poetry from Eyewear Publishing; I’m very honored and excited to be published alongside him! Many thanks to editor Crystal Simone Smith for…
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I’m very happy and honored to announce the fall 2017 publication of my 2nd chapbook, The Ocean Between Us by Backbone Press. Backbone’s description: “The Ocean Between Us is a collection of poems wrapped in memories and language. Beatriz Fernandez artfully weaves together dazzling imagery and alluring sounds to create concrete visions of Puerto Rico, Florida, and…
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I’m excited to announce that Alsina Publishing will present my fantasy fiction trilogy via LingoBites, their app for language learning via story-telling. Writing for language learners poses a whole new set of challenges for me. I’m also so pleased and grateful that Selina Fenech, an incredible Australian artist and author, agreed to let me use her beautiful…
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My poetry chapbook “Voices from the Bonfire” made the finalist list in Thirty West Publishing House’s 2017 chapbook contest: However, their critique of the manuscript let me down very easy! I am going to frame it and post it by my writing desk for encouragement! Thank you, Thirty West Editorial panel! Excerpts: These pieces are…
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June has been a good month for me! Alsina Publications accepted two flash fiction fantasy pieces, with a view to a third to complete the trilogy. Alsina is launching a new language learning app, LingoApp, that will help students and other customers learn languages by reading stories! Then Highland Park Poetry republished my poem “The…
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The Ginger Collect just published two of my poems, “The Story of the Stones” and “Under a Graveyard Sun” in their Issue Two. This issue also includes short fiction, flash fiction and more poetry. Their mission is to publish “The Weird, the New Age, and the Strange.” I’m glad they thought these two poems qualified!…
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Thirty West Publishing House produces hand-bound chaplets and chapbooks. As I previously posted, they recently chose my poem “The Surest Poison” as winner of their sonnet challenge (part of their celebration of National Poetry Month) and now editor Josh Dale is publishing a chaplet of all the weekly challenge winners! It will include work from four…
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For some reason, I never announced the publication of my latest favorite poem, “Rilke Returns to Ronda,” a ghazal in an earlier issue (number 63) of The Ghazal Page. This poem was inspired by my visit to Ronda, Spain last year. I found out that Ernest Hemingway had famously visited Ronda, and so had Rainer Maria Rilke,…
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The Australia Times Poetry Magazine published my poem “Seagrapes” in February; the cute illustration is by TAT artist Shallamar Mugot. I’m very sad to find out that TAT will be closing its doors by May of this year. I loved learning about Australia via its writers’ works! Poetry editor Maureen Clifford is the best!
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