Here we go! The winners of the 2011 SFWP Poetry Awards Program are below! We had so many amazing entries that it just wasn’t fair to stick with a single grand prizewinner, so I added two more prize positions. Even then, it’s been an amazing few weeks of...
Here’s the short list of finalists for the Poetry Awards Program. Pared down from the long list, which you can find right here. It’s been a grueling judging process… There were so many excellent entries for this inaugural year. So a shout out to all...
Wow! We have some stunning entries. Right now, I have been given the “first round” of finalists — 54 names. And, I’m told, it was hard getting the list down to just 54. Some extraordinary talent for this inaugural poetry program. I’m...
Okay, then! That’s enough about Gifford’s Ice Cream. Let’s get back to business. To date, SFWP’s best-selling book has been Richard Currey’s Fatal Light. It was originally published in 1988 and we acquired the rights after it went out of print around 2000 or so. Nine...
Over the last couple of years, multiple folks in the media have asked me for photos of the old storefronts. It’s one of those things that comes up once a month so, finally, I broke down and started searching online and through the mildewed boxes in storage....
I’ve got Gifford’s Ice Cream boxes scattered around my apartment, and in a storage shed. Sunday’s article got me hauling stuff out from the bottom of my closet and digging around. A friend suggested that I photograph a few things and post them. So...
