New Works Review

	Fiction
		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. Corrigan's story "Paraguay Wedding" is included in its entirety in our PDF Edition, available on our main page. The first section of the story can be read by visiting Michael's New Works Review fiction page.
		T. Crepeau resides in Minneapolis with a tenacious fern. He holds BAs in Literature and Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies from the University of Minnesota. He divides his time between studying Humanology, writing freelance or working on his first novel, teaching Kundalini Yoga, growing spiritually, breathing, getting up to no-good, waiting tables, and patronizing the arts and local coffee shops (sometimes simultaneously). He is twenty-six years old and can bench press darn near two hundred pounds. He likes both cats and dogs. His favorite color is white. Visit Crepeau's New Works Review fiction page.
		Stephen Calhoun was born in Columbus, Ohio where he survived a childhood with two older brothers and became an ardent Ohio State Buckeye fan. In 2003 he moved to Canton, Ohio to attend Malone College and study English. While there he began dabbling in short stories and novel writing while studying some of the greatest authors in history. Some of his favorite authors include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Neal Stephenson, and he’s even a sucker for JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. He still lives in Canton with his wife Tricia and ferocious twenty-pound miniature pinscher, Sable. He’s honored to be a part of New Works Review and welcomes any thoughts concerning his writings. Visit Stephen's New Works Review fiction page.
		Shaylen Maxwell graduated from York University with a degree in psychology and a minor in education. She emerged from the womb penning novels, and is presently working on two: Turtle Bones, and Dante & the rest of what never happened. An excerpt from the latter appeared in the Winter 2007 edition of Wild Violet. Her work has also been published in Reflection’s Edge. “The Playground of Imagination” is loosely based on her own creative process ... Yes, she really made the rabbits! Shaylen currently resides in Southern Ontario with her menagerie of wild animals: her boyfriend Jonathan, her Irish red wolf, her silly foolish cat, her four rabbits, and her collection of muse sculptures. She can be reached @ http://iamshaylen.livejournal.com/ or via email: shaylenmaxwell@yahoo.com. Visit Shaylen's New Works Review fiction page.
		Penelope Weiss writes: "I started to write poems when I was a teenager and began to write stories about ten years ago. Meanwhile, to earn a living, I’ve been a proofreader, a copy editor, and an editor. I also take photographs of the natural world (rural and urban). I grew up in New York City and now live with my husband, John, in Connecticut and Vermont." Visit Penelope's New Works Review fiction page.
		Sean Orlosky is a junior at Ball State University majoring in English. In his spare time he enjoys reading biographies, doing artwork for clients, and watching/researching classic cinema. Writing gives him the belief that “we all have something to share with the world. We may have to search deep within ourselves to discover the gifts we have to offer, but how much better we will leave the world once we’ve taken that leap of faith.” Visit Sean's New Works Review fiction page.
		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 for New Works Review. Visit Lynn's New Works Review fiction page.
		Katy Zeilinger grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. She received her BA in psychology from Salisbury University. She returned to Pennsylvania after graduation and has lived there since. Although she started writing while she was in college, “The Lion and the Unicorn” is the first of her stories that has been published. Visit Katy's New Works Review fiction page.
		Juan Carlos Reyes is the author of a number of short stories, publishing several of them in the online periodicals Tertulia Magazine and The Lit Review. One of his short stories was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006. He is a recent alum of the PEN USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowship in Los Angeles, CA. Originally from New York, he now lives with his wife in Seattle, WA, where he is currently finishing his first novel. Visit Juan's New Works Review fiction page.
		Joyce Sterling Scarbrough is an intelligent Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. She’s lived all her life in southern Alabama, she’s the mother of three gifted children, and she’s been married for twenty-five years to the love of her life. Joyce is currently shopping her third novel to agents while writing her fourth. Samples of all her work can be read on her pages at AuthorsDen. Visit Joyce's New Works Review fiction page.
		Dell Pendergrast grew up in the Chicago area and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A Foreign Service Office for 32 years, he served in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Poland, Belgium and Canada, and then was the Director of the George Mitchell Scholarships program for six years. In retirement, he lives in McLean, Virginia, and pursues both writing and genealogical research, including study of his family’s roots in central Illinois. Visit Dell's New Works Review fiction page.
		Amber Sabo is a student at Ball State University who says she's been trying to find herself for years now. All she knows is she enjoys parks, writing, smokes and coffee. Visit Amber's New Works Review fiction page.