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In their Spring 2011 issue, the Review of Contemporary Fiction featured BOA author Anne Germanacos's collection of short stories, In the Time of the Girls, published Fall 2010. The reviewer notes that each story within the collection consciously collects "small yet luminous moments into some larger mosaic." Germanacos's prose is lauded for "the sharp glimmer" which each mosaic-like story possesses, further lending "an entire universe of meaning" to each individual tale. Among other praise for the book was the following: "Germanacos's evocative prose delivers precise and lasting images in a series of vignettes, each carefully crafted with a minimalist's patience...

Dear Short Fiction Writers, Time to print those pages and peel those stamps! There's only 13 days left to mail in your submssion for the 1st BOA Short Fiction Prize. The winner receives publication by BOA Editions in the American Reader Series in Spring 2013 and a $500 Honorarium. All submissions will be read by BOA Publisher Peter Conners who will also make the final selection. Here are the complete guidelines: [BOA Short Fiction Prize] We hope to read your submission soon! Sincerely, BOA

Head West out of Rochester on Interstate 90 and within an hour you'll hit Buffalo. Or you can just click on the below link and get a taste of literary Buffalo through the eyes of R.D. Pohl of the Buffalo News. This week, R.D. celebrates the Best Translated Book of the Year Award for The Book of Things by Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, translated by noted poet and translator Brian Henry: "BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester, New York based small press with an outsized literary reputation, added another honor to its collection last month when University of Richmond based poet Brian Henry's English-language translation of Slovenian...

[caption id="attachment_1038" align="aligncenter" width="241" caption="Barbara Jane Reyes. BOA Poet. Photo by Peter Dressel."][/caption] In Craig Santos Perez's recent interview,  Barbara Jane Reyes, author of Diwata,  discusses with her trademark candor and precision the origins of her poems, her relationship with the traditions of story-telling, and her ever expanding vision of poetry. The interview begins with an exploration of Barbara's cultural concerns in which she acknowledges that she is "always looking for someone other than [herself] to 'tell the story,' or to be the speaker," exploring those stories "within the context of these larger cultural and historical narratives." The scope of...

The literary blog We Who Are About to Die not only sports one of the best titles in lit blogdom, but they have good taste too. Witness this excerpt from Michael Costello's review of Ennui Prophet by Christopher Kennedy: "Not only is Ennui Prophet a bastion of cool, it is a true pleasure of craft and originality. Christopher Kennedy writes a world at turns emotionally haunting, descriptively vibrant,  and at times the literary equivalent of an unnerving smirk. There is an uneasiness about and an anxious thread stitching together line to line, poem to poem. These are the surreal scenarios of a...