Welcome to GHLL

Beginning with Volume XVII (2006), GHLL became an online, open-access journal.

 

News about GHLL people:

Keetje Kuipers has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford and will be moving to San Francisco this fall. Her manuscript has been awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Prize and will be published by BOA Editions next spring.

GHLL founding editor Jack Smith has won the George Garrett prize in fiction. His novel Hog to Hog is scheduled for release by the Texas Review Press January 31, 2009:

A dark comedy written in rollicking prose, Hog to Hog deals with excessive development in a relatively pristine Midwestern rural area. The spoils of misadventure go to the top polluters, like Dick Columbus, who makes money for the state’s coffers with his Wheeleroo!, an ATV mega event that runs roughshod over the local nature sanctuary. Columbus wins a seat in the state Senate. Bernie Sapp, the novel’s protagonist, lacks political savvy and power and ends up in one of Columbus’s pet projects, the newly constructed prison. With a culture based on plunder and socio-economic injustice, the ordinary man’s American Dream turns into the American Nightmare.

"Jack Smith's stunning first novel, Hog to Hog, proves William Styron's thesis that 'only a great satirist can tackle the world's problems and articulate them.' The pace is feverish, with non-stop action revealing new heights of national folly, greed, and excess. Bernie Sapp, Smith's protagonist, is by turn a fearful, angry, arrogant, acquisitive, horny, and touching Everyman as he scrambles avidly for his slice of the pie. Smith's prose is crisp and acerbic, his themes reminiscent of Heller, Southern and Nathaniel West: surely this is what black humor is all about."

    - Geoffrey Clark, author of Wedding in October and Jackdog Summer

"Boisterous and compelling, Hog to Hog is often a funhouse mirror reflecting American materialism, greed, and crassness. Jack Smith's spot-on dialogue will make you laugh; this award-winning tale, the taller it grows, will convince you to treasure it as good old satire."

    - Mark Wisniewski, author of Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman and All Weekend with the Lights On
 

Speaking of Mark Wisniewski, GHLL congratulates him on the appearance of his story "Straightaway" in the 2008 Best American Short Stories.  His story originally appeared in Antioch Review

Some of My Best Friends and Other Fictions, Joe Benevento's first collection of short stories, is now available from Lewis-Clark/Sandhills Press.

Gary Fincke's tenth full-length collection of poems—The Fire Landscape— was published by the University of Arkansas Press, August, 2008. Garrison Keillor read a poem from the collection—“The Sorrows”—on The Writer’s Almanac.

Mark Fabiano (An Arrangement of Blue and Green) has a story forthcoming in the Atlantic Monthly's   Special Fiction Issue. 'We Are All Businessmen' will appear in August 2008. Mark was awarded a $10k Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Fiction for 2008.

 

Barry Kitterman has a new novel forthcoming from SMU Press in May. Click here for details.

Nancy Cherry's "Yearly Trek to Bear Valley" (volume XVIII) has been selected for the "Best of the Web" anthology.

Read the Writer's Digest article from our founding editor, Jack Smith

GHLL editorial board member Robert Garner McBrearty, of Louisville, CO, is the winner of the annual $15,000 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award.  His entry to the competition was noteworthy for its blend of pathos and humor, according to the Sherwood Anderson Foundation.   McBrearty submitted three short stories from a new collection of stories in progress.  Some stories from the new collection in progress have been previously published in the North American Review, Story Quarterly, and Narrative Magazine. 

DeWitt Henry, one of GHLL's favorite authors, has a new volume of narratives, essays and meditations. Click here to read about Safe Suicide

Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press in the fall of 2008.

 

 

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Publication Information

The Green Hills Literary Lantern ( ISSN 1089-2060) is published annually, in June, by Truman State University. Historically, the publication ran between 200-300 pages, consisting of poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews, and was printed on good quality paper with a glossy, 4-color cover.  The digital magazine is of similar proportions and artistic standards. All views, conclusions, or opinions are those of the authors of the pieces and not necessarily those of the editorial staff or publishers. The Green Hills Literary Lantern is indexed by the Index of American Periodical Verse (Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press) and The American Humanities Index.

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