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(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020); PUSHCART poetry finalist

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Spring 2012

WaterMaine: Photography by Pippi Ellison

JUNE UPDATE: As a Best of the Net award-winning online literary magazine, we feel honored to present our third annual 2012 Solstice CONTEST AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS: $1,000 FIRST PRIZE IN FICTION: AMY L. CLARK for “Rheumatic Fever;” RUNNER-UP: CAMERON MACKENZIE for “Ruffy Like Christmastime;” Finalists: MORGAN SMITH, JANET HILLIARD-OSBORN, and SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA.

$500 FIRST PRIZE for the STEPHEN DUNN POETRY AWARD: MIKE NELSON for “Via Dolorosa;” RUNNER-UP: EMILY VAN DUYNE for “I Blame the Ronettes;” Finalists: DON COLBURN, KRISTEN HAVENS and READ TRAMMEL.

$500 FIRST PRIZE IN NONFICTION: DAWN HAINES for “Aleotorik;” Finalists: GAYNELL GAVIN and DEBORAH TAFFA.

All winners and finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue, due out in August.

We offer our sincere thanks to all who submitted to our contest. There were many intriguing, fine pieces, which we read carefully, and we lingered over our decisions. Contests are always subjective, so we encourage you to read our award-winners in the SUMMER CONTEST ISSUE. We thank our final judges, Jennifer Haigh and Jerald Walker, as well as Richard Hoffman, our nonfiction editor, and our poetry editors, Kathleen Aguero, Danielle Georges and Betsy Sholl. Also, thanks to our readers. And we thank again Michael Steinberg for donating our first nonfiction prize.

Also, please do become acquainted with the sort of work that we publish by looking at this current terrific Spring Issue. The nonfiction includes a new piece by Best of the Net winner, Michele Cacho-Negrete, as well as Everett Cox’s moving letter to Afghan and Iraqi war vets. Also, a historical take on Ploughshares magazine by Dewitt Henry, and some lit crit by Baron Wormser, as well as a piece about ethnic identity by Alejandro Ramirez.

In fiction, we have a terrific eclectic issue, with pieces by established writers such as Roland Merullo, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Steven Huff, Perle Besserman, and John Solensten, also new work by Jonathan Curelop and Leslie Johnson, as well as debut fiction by Laura Snyder.

Our poems showcase a wide range of voices and strategies. We welcome work by one of our new poetry editors, Danielle Georges. And highlight pieces by Charles Coe, Carol Hobbs, and Wendy Mnookin, Teresa Sutton and Brian Fanelli.

 

And in photography, we offer Pippi Ellison’s series titled WaterMaine, evocative water imagery in black and white.

 

Also, welcome to our new consulting fiction editor, Helen Elaine Lee. And to our new assistant business manager, Siobhan Smith!

Do read this amazing Spring issue and leave comments. The authors often respond. As Solstice moves toward an enhanced multimedia Website, we are promoting community more than ever before! Join our diverse literary world, read on.

 

Warmly, Lee Hope

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • June 2012 Editor’s Note
    by Lee Hope

Fiction

  • Narrowed Passages
    by Laura Snyder
  • Horse Crazy
    by John Solensten
  • Valencia
    by Roland Merullo
  • Just When I Think I’m Ready To Leave
    by Leslie Johnson
  • Life Is Brief
    by Steven Huff
  • The Cliffs
    by Jonathan Curelop
  • This Is A Success Story
    by Jaimee Wriston Colbert
  • Triple X
    by Kashana Cauley
  • Unbridled
    by Perle Besserman

Nonfiction

  • An Open Letter to Afghanistan and Iraq War Vets
    by Everett Cox
  • Shamrocks and Salad Days
    by DeWitt Henry
  • It’s Complicated
    by Alejandro Ramirez
  • In Praise of Quentin Anderson
    by Baron Wormser
  • Hair
    by Michele Cacho-Negrete

Photography

  • WaterMaine
    by Pippi Ellison

Poetry

  • Boardwalk Rhapsody
    by Wendy Mnookin
  • Winter Evening
    by Carol Hobbs
  • Elegy for Tim Johnson
    by Danielle Legros Georges
  • The Gods
    by Wendy Mnookin
  • Exposures
    by Teresa Sutton
  • Schadenfreude
    by Paul Hostovsky
  • Question
    by Paul Hostovsky
  • The Museum of Broken Relationships
    by Julie Danho
  • Exhibit
    by David O'Connell
  • A Poem to be the Poem that Was
    by Danielle Legros Georges
  • Three Takes on Spring
    by Charles Rafferty
  • A Poem for Happy Endings
    by Charles Coe
  • Dangerous Children
    by Carol Hobbs
  • Before He Enlisted
    by Brian Fanelli
  • The Asylum Seeker
    by Barbara Boches


Contributors

avatar for Alejandro RamirezAlejandro Ramirez
avatar for Barbara BochesBarbara Boches
Avatar photoBaron Wormser
avatar for Brian FanelliBrian Fanelli
Avatar photoCarol Hobbs
Avatar photoCharles Coe
avatar for Charles RaffertyCharles Rafferty
Danielle GeorgesDanielle Legros Georges
Avatar photoDavid O'Connell
Avatar photoDeWitt Henry
avatar for Everett CoxEverett Cox
Avatar photoJaimee Wriston Colbert
avatar for John SolenstenJohn Solensten
avatar for Jonathan CurelopJonathan Curelop
avatar for Julie DanhoJulie Danho
avatar for Kashana CauleyKashana Cauley
avatar for Laura SnyderLaura Snyder
avatar for Leslie JohnsonLeslie Johnson
Avatar photoMichele Cacho-Negrete
Avatar photoPaul Hostovsky
Avatar photoPerle Besserman
avatar for Pippi EllisonPippi Ellison
Roland-MerulloRoland Merullo
Avatar photoSteven Huff
Avatar photoTeresa Sutton
Avatar photoWendy Mnookin

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