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Oct 08 2007
Blog Maintenance Today
We are in the process of upgrading to the latest version of WordPress this afternoon (Monday, Oct. 8). During this process, some blog features may not be accessible. Please check… read more
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Oct 05 2007
Pennies from Heaven
A couple of weeks ago, while my husband and I were in Conway, Arkansas, visiting his mother, we stopped by our friend Gene Hatfield’s house. Gene is a retired professor… read more
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Oct 04 2007
On the Weight of What We Do
A little light reading. That’s a good way to describe the idea behind an item which appeared in Harper’s index in July, which reported that all the information transferred through… read more
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Oct 01 2007
An Interview with Jude Nutter
Katy Didden talks with Jude Nutter, winner of the 2003 Larry Levis Prize in Poetry.
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Sep 29 2007
Editors' Prize Archives: "Coney Island in Winter" (1999)
The 2000 fiction winner of the Editors’ Prize was “Coney Island in Winter” by Dana Kinstler Standefer. It’s the story of a woman, who, concerned for her weight, drinks only… read more
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Sep 28 2007
Editors' Prize Online Deadline Extension
Due to reported online delays experienced by some submitters to the Editors’ Prize contest, TMR is extending its online submission deadline to Friday, October 5, 2007. We will continue to… read more
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Sep 28 2007
Editors' Prize Archives: "Tad Lincoln's Ladder of Dreams" (1998)
The story opens with the imagery of death–a small boy dying in bed, the sound of rain from an opened window. A mother and father experience a great loss, presented… read more
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Sep 27 2007
Editors' Prize Archives: "Bad Scouts and Nervous Indians" (2005)
Our Editors’ Prize winners in the Essay category have pretty much been about serious subjects. We’ve given the prize to heartfelt elegiac memoirs about parents, childhood or the quasi-mythical ’60s. We’ve given it to tense, scary essays about grueling medical dramas. We’ve given it to indignant travel essays . . .
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Sep 26 2007
Editors' Prize Archives: "Chrome Horse" (2000)
I discovered Martin Scott’s “Chrome Horse” (our current online “Poem of the Week”) while leafing through old Editors’ Prize issues, and found myself reading that poem again and again. Part… read more
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Sep 26 2007
Editors' Prize Archives: "Settled on the Cranberry Coast" (1993)
Michael Byers’s winning story from our 1993 contest is another first publication. “Settled on the Cranberry Coast” tells the mid-life story of solitary characters in the Pacific Northwest. The story’s… read more