New Works Review

Scope
New Works Review has broad interests. Our editors are looking for first-class manuscripts on many subjects — short stories, articles, diaries, and visual art (paintings, photographs, and more). NWR will also publish reprints of previously published material, provided the author owns the copyright or reprint permission is granted by the original publisher. New Works Review is not accepting unsolicited poetry at this time. All poetry contributions are by invitation only.

We want to encourage writers of all ages. Keep in mind, we are a family-oriented e-zine. We do not publish stories that contain strong violence or explicit sex. We reserve the right to change words or phrases that amy be offensive to some of our readers. To get an idea of what we are looking for, read or view what we have published.

Payment
At this time, we are unable to pay even a small stipend, but every effort will be given to widely publicize this new publication and its writers. Recognition is the most important advantage New Works Review offers its authors. Every author will retain ownership and copyrights so that later on other publication options may be solicited.

1. All story and essay manuscripts must be submitted in Rich Text (.rtf) format. Your word processing software can save in RTF format. Use the "Save As" feature of your word processing software and save your ms in either the text or rich text format.

2. Please do not submit manuscripts in their native word processing format, such as MS Word (.doc file extension) or WordPerfect (.wpd file extension). If manuscripts are submitted in formats other than rich text, they will not be accepted, and you will be asked to resubmit them in the required format. Believe it or not, there is a good reason for this!

5. Double space between paragraphs. Use the Enter key to do this. This will automatically put an indent in a paragraph's first line. No Space-Bar paragraph indents, puhleeze! I have to take these out manually.

6. Your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, and word count must be on your manuscript. Sometimes an email address changes or is typed incorrectly. That is why I need a telephone number and mailing address.

7. Only one space after each sentence, please. All publishing today uses single spaces after punctuation marks. The use of two spaces after a punctuation mark harks back to the good old Underwood days when proportional type was not available.

For length, style, etc., use our published presentations as your guide. The longer submissions must include your own photographs for illustration; however short diary-form submissions and poems, do not require photos. Until you have been notified that your work has been accepted for publication, do not send photographs. All manuscripts, photographs and artwork must be the author's own work. Use of the work of others without permission is a violation of copyright law.

Important
Send us your best work. It is not an editor's job to fix your mistakes. It is your job. Please use spell check, and incorporate any necessary suggestions for grammatical improvement suggested by your word processor. First drafts seldom make the cut. We reserve the right to make minor changes to manuscripts so that they fully conform to our guidelines. All manuscripts should contain only one space after each period, not two. Manuscripts may be single or double spaced, your preference.

When your work has been accepted, then send photos. The first will need to be in JPEG file format (low resolution JPEGs, between 72 and 100 dpi) and, preferably, should not exceed 600 x 600 pixels in size, or exceed approximately 19 Kb. This photo will be for the website. Computer monitors seldom exceed a 72 dpi resolution. Photos must be coded (by id. number) to match the numbered location specified in your manuscript. Contact us if you have any question regarding photos. Upon acceptance of your work, you will be required to provide us a short bio and a recent picture of yourself. The second photo should be a high resolution file of 300 dpi, which will be used for the PDF Edition.

Requirements
Put your name and address, email address, and telephone number on your submission.

Send story, essay, diary, artwork, and other submissions as an attachment to your email to The Editors.

In the subject line identify the subject — travel journal, diary, poem, artwork, or name of story. This is very important. We don't want to miss your submission. We get lots of email, and we want to be able to easily identify your submissions.

Submissions will be processed on a "first received - first served" basis. Somtimes we amy run out of time and not be able to prepare your submission for publication in an upcoming edition. If this happens, you will be notified and your submission will appear in a subsequent edition.

Jonathan Sanders officially took over as Editor-in-Chief of New Works Review with the Spring 2008 edition. Sanders, 26, is a senior at Ball State University, and will graduate in May 2008 with a bachelors' degree in magazine journalism and history, with a minor in creative writing. He also serves as the site's webmaster. He is responsible for the new look of the magazine, both online and in the new PDF Edition. Sanders is a music critic by trade, and currently serves as News Editor for Stereo Subversion, where he interviews musicians, known and unknown, on a regular basis. Once he gets past graduation and his impending wedding in May, he hopes to make a living for himself as a freelance music journalist. He's also at work on research which could potentially lead to a book on Donald "Don Fargo" Kalt, who was among the top professional wrestlers of the "Territories Era" of the 1950s through the 1970s. Sanders will soon be settling down with his wife-to-be, Aimee, in Indianapolis.

Brett Alan Sanders is New Works Review’s Managing Editor. He teaches Spanish (and sometimes English) at Perry Central Junior- Senior High School, where since the 2004-05 school year he has also sponsored an extracurricular literary club and helped launch the student literary journal The Jolie Rouge. He has studied Spanish and English at Indiana University and is completing a Master of Arts in Liberal
Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. He has just completed work on his Argentine travel memoir,
Journeys and Digressions, and a collection of short fiction, No One Assured In God.

Lucia Crocheron Greer, better know as "Chia" was attending a writer's workshop and many authors talked about not getting their work accepted for publication. Chia suggested that anyone who was seeking publication to send their work to her. In 1997 Chia started Casa Chia Library, an online echo of her private library. Her first story was about Sam Eskin, folksinger-collector. During August, 1997 she met Tim Healy at a computer class, and shortly after that New Works Review was formed. It hit cyberspace in February, 1998. Ads in Poets & Writers Magazine brought in many manuscripts. Barbara Massie and Mike Burnett were invited to join The Group, then other departmental editors were added from places in the United States and Canada. In the Fall of 2000, Chia was struck with a debilitating attack, and rather than close the ezine, it was sold to Pivotal Glyph Foundation in Chicago under the able direction of Brian Adkins. Brian's editorship was cut short for unspecified reasons. Chia and Tim picked up the domain, and like the Phoenix, it rose again. In the four-and-a-half years of publication, 325 works —short stories, poetry, music, paintings, book reports, and visual arts were presented. National recognition from personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and various hard-copy publishers were received on an ongoing basis.

Chia continues her Website presentations on a smaller scale with her Casa Chia Library and Passport Journal, which began as a department in New Works Review, only to evolve into it's own stand-alone e-zine. The magazine just released its 18th issue, which features Tim Healy's Egyptian Wonderland. You can visit the site at www.passportjournal.org.

Tim Healy used to be NWR's Webmaster and Art and Story Editor. He recently handed over editor-in-chief duties to Jonathan Sanders. "One thing I like to do is get things accomplished," Tim said." One of my most memorable moments came when I learned to tie my own shoelaces at age 5. A lot followed after that. One memorable incident occurred when I cracked up the family car at age 18. I don't consider that a winner, but I did find out that sedans aren't meant to be raced on dirt roads. Flying airplanes became a passion, and I earned my private pilot and commercial pilot certificates just for the fun of it. This led to the founding of Clipper Air International, a commuter airline serving the Caribbean. My Dad was smart enough to make sure I went to school to also get smarts, and I earned my B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Hofstra University. When I sat for the five-hour M.B.A. comprehensive exam I had to answer two of the three questions asked. The luck of the Irish prevailed, because I did know the answers to two. Answer to number three is still a mystery. And speaking of Irish, I obtained honest-to-gosh Irish citizenship just a few months ago. But that's another story." Read Midwest Book Review's interview of Tim that was in the December '04 edition.

Charles Adés Fishman is Poetry Editor of New Works Review and director of the Distin- guished Speakers Program at Farmingdale State University. He holds the world record for hitchhiking from Seattle, Washington, to New York City: 70 hours. He was in Florence when the Arno River overflowed its banks and floated downstream in his sleeping bag at Woodstock. He was underwater swimming champ at Camp Wauwipex two summers running and can still balance almost anything, though not always himself. Charles loves beauty in all its forms, textures, tastes, sounds, fragrances, nuances, and resonances and looks for poems that share some of these qualities. He lives with his wife, Ellen, on Long Island, near the Great South Bay, and has amazing memories of growing up in a different century. He can still outdance the twenty year olds but has not made peace with his ghosts. Read about Charles in a recent blurb by Farmingdale State University.

Gordon Bennett, one of NWR's Story Editors, writes mainstream, mystery, and speculative fiction under the pen-name Isak Romun, is primarily a short-story writer whose credits include Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Mystery Monthly, Espionage Magazine, The New Black Mask, S t. Anthony Messenger, the Danish magazine Sondags, CUBE Literary Magazine, and other periodicals and journals. His fiction has been included in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Asimov, and Mystery Writers of America anthologies as well as in high school and college texts. His story, The Enjoyment of an Artist, has been recorded by Arte Johnson on audio cassette (Dove Books on Tape, Inc.).

Bennett has been listed several times on the Honor Roll of the Yearbook of The Mystery and Suspense Story. He is a winner in the NEA/PEN American Syndicated Fiction Project for his story, "Lully's Baton." In conjunction with this award, his winning entry was published in Sunday supplements of the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. His story, Eagles, was a winner in the Catholic Press Association Short Story Competition. He has served as a short-story judge for the Edgar Awards of the Mystery Writers of America and, locally, as a short-story judge for college writers' conferences. Bennett has written articles on Civil War history which have appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated, Soldiers (the magazine of the US Army), The New York Times, and other magazines and newspapers. He has written articles on management, training and education, and problem solving which have appeared in various professional journals. He is a member and past Board Member of The Virginia Writers' Club, Inc. (past President).

Sherry Bowen is a published children's book author with three books published with Richard C. Owen Publisher. She was also contracted to write six non-fiction books, which were published locally in Georgia for the Writing Express Program. In addition to her books, Sherry has had stories and articles published in such magazines as Humpty Dumpty, Footsteps, Atlanta Parent, Atlanta Baby, and Michigan Learning Magazine, as well as being the former Children's Editor of New Works Review and now NWRs Special Projects Editor and Story Editor.

Laurel Johnson is NWR's Review (stories and poetry) Editor. Laurel is a retired Registered Nurse who believes that love, compassion, and the natural wonders around us enrich her existence. Her lifelong love of poetry and prose took a natural progression after retirement when she began to write in earnest. Her published books include: The Grass Dance, a book of poetry and prose; The Alley of Wishes, a fictional allegory; and a retrospective of her maternal grandmother's life, My Name is Esther Clara. A full length book of poetry, Color of Laughter, Color of Tears, is out of print. Laurel enjoys reviewing novels and poetry. She currently reviews for New Works Review; Midwest Book Review; and Shadow Poetry Quill Quarterly Review. She has written commentaries on Books and Writing for her publisher, Dandelion Books, for MyShelf.com, and a dissertation on coping with grief and loss for The Bright Side. Laurel is somewhat of a ham so relishes her occasional stints as featured speaker at writing seminars. Laurel and her husband currently live in Washington KS, but still consider Kerby Knob KY home because she loves the Appalachians and the plains in equal measure.

Michael Corrigan brings his strengths as a published author, playwright, and educator to NWR's ranks. He writes: Any bio has to include the question, why write? What a ridiculous business. A writer's life can be a lonely business. As Hemingway said, "a writer faces eternity or the lack of it each day." Despite loneliness, writers can experience a joy that "normal" people can't imagine. I adapted the letters of a late writer friend, Rebecca Bruns, to a stage play. Born in New Orleans, she worked in San Francisco. We had known each other for twelve years and much of our relationship consisted of letters. Hers were articulate, poignant and heartfelt. When she died of cancer, I put the letters into a two person play, and the premiere in Ketchum, Idaho, gave her words flesh. The audience listened as Rebecca spoke through an actress giving her a voice. A woman came up to me after the show and said, "You must be so proud to celebrate your friend like this." Actually, I felt a bit depressed since the words couldn't replace Rebecca's warm presence, but it was some comfort to think a few people went home that night feeling the presence of this remarkable person who died too soon. The play, "Letters From Rebecca", is available through Aran Press for those who want to hear that special voice. His wife Karen passed away on September 12, 2005.

Lynn Strongin was born in New York City in 1939 and was raised in and around New York. She lived in California during the politically active Sixties and worked, in Berkeley, for Denise Levertov. During that turbulent period, she also met Robert Duncan, Josephine Miles, and Kay Boyle. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the Seventies, and to British Columbia in 1979 where, for the past twenty-five years, she has made her home. Strongin’s books include The Dwarf Cycle (Thorp Springs Press), Toccata of the Disturbed Child (Fallen Angel Press ), A Hacksaw Brightness (Ironwood Press), and Countrywoman / Surgeon (L'Epervier Press), all published in the Seventies, and Bones and Kim a Novella (Spinster's Ink Press, 1980). The European debut of Lynn Strongin's memoir Indigo has appeared in Storie , Rome Italy. Lynn serves as a Book Review Editor.

Irving A. Greenfield, Ph.D. is one of our story editors. He writes: "I owe it all to oneof those angry gods who must have said, 'This boy will toil with words for his bread.' And 'toil' I did and loved every moment of it. I've written many novels, many short stories, and several plays, most of which have been produced. I am very pleased to be one of NWR's story editors.

Barbara Massie is a former Story Editor. Most of her "full-time career was spent in the business side of higher education. She retired from all that and has expanded her writing and speaking life into a second career. Barbara has taken an active role in the arts and crafts arena and in writing about home-based business. Her latest book Creating a Small Business —Doing It a Woman's Way is a compilation of what she has learned during the past 30 years in business. During the past six years Massie has won writing awards for both fiction and nonfiction. She has written 400 plus articles and features, 5 business guides and 2 business books. Her features are printed in both the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and in the local Villager Journal.

As a member of the National League of American Pen Women, she is branches editor for their publication The Pen Woman and is a vice-president on their National Board. She is their roster chairman, so laid out and edited the 4000 member roster for 2002-04. Massie is charter president of the Spring River Branch of the NLAPW. She is on the Board of Directors for the Arkansas Writers' Conference and is on the Public Relations Committee of the assisted living facility, Fountain Place, in Cherokee Village, Arkansas.

Barbara's floral watercolors are exhibited in several galleries in Arkansas. She is an active member and volunteer of the Spring River Art Gallery in Hardy, AR.

Mike Burnett was one of NWR's key personnel during its early years. He created the publication's design and did much of the Internet troubleshooting. Mike has continued his Website design and host through his company, Iconx.com. He is also well known as a photographer of the exotic plants in his Houston, Texas garden.

Brian Adkins, born in Milwaukee, currently residing in Chicago, is adoctoral candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before moving East to pursue his Ph.D., he attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning a B.A. in History and Political Science (1991), and a M.A. in History (1992). Brian has written book reviews for H-Net, EH-Net, and the Florida Historical Quarterly. A former Ford Foundation Fellow, Brian's historical research focuses on social and economic changes that have altered 20th Century American society; most notably, domestic policy and socio-political culture since World War Two. Through the Pivotal Glyph Foundation, Brian became editor-publisher of New Works Review in the Fall of 2000.