ISSUE 09: The Originator

The Tavern Lantern

• Letter from the Editor (Mike Joyce)
• Cody Boland: Poor Men Abroad
• Best of the Net: Nominations
• Write to Survive: an Interview with James Claffey
• Tiffany Hearsey: Dancing on the Edge of Difference
• SUBMIT: Ireland & the Irish (note: general subs are open too!)

Art

• Diana Cretu – Artist Profile
• Peter Lamata – Artist Profile

Anna March’s Foundlings
Anna March’s Foundlings is a new column in each issue of Literary Orphans that is an exploration of who we are as we discover ourselves.  It is an ongoing look at aspects of our identity. The column features author conversations and interviews, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and assorted other forms. In this inaugural edition of the column, Anna March brings you non-fiction from Shannon Barber, Laura Bogart and Brian Spears.  Please click this link to learn more about it!

• Shannon Barber – My Life is No Minstrel Show
• Laura Bogart – Peep Show
• Brian Spears – Meandering Away From Damascus

General Fiction

• Bud Smith – Seven Stars Around the Moon
• Stephen V. Ramey – “Doing Laundry with Aphrodite” & “Attraction”
• Robin Bullard – I Don’t Want to Hear Your Story
• Joe Kapitan – Who Wants to Live Forever?
• Erika D. Price – On Psychopharmaceuticals
• h. l. nelson – Martyr Complex
• Kathryn M. Barber – Fruit Jars
• Nikita Gill – Closure in Hopscotch
• Refe Tuma – Pushing Through
• Simon Rogghe – Stockholm Syndrome
• Eric Nicholson – Eson’s Nose
• Gary Powell – Like a Spring Morning
• John Welsh – Nursery of Women
• Christopher DiCicco – In Your Father’s Backyard
• Jonathan Scott – More Weight
• Matthew Kabik – The Breaking of Salt
• Megan Beals – Ahuizotle Learns to Fish
• Allen Kopp – Mr. Fatty is Dead
• Tara Abrahams – Creation Myth

Staff pieces:

• Mike Joyce – The Monroe Arms

General Poetry

• Eric Blanchard – Three Poems
• Michael Dwayne Smith – L.A. Three Ways
• Shauna Osborn – Two Poems
• Pamela Hirte – Three Poems
• Frankie Concepion – Two Poems
• Matthew Drew Williams – Breech
• Molly McCormack – Three Poems
• Annie Lee – Three Poems
• David Wong Hsien Ming – Three Poems
  
  Staff pieces:
• Peter Marra – three dimensions of pain
• Justin Langford – Days in Wake

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