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                2nd Annual
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
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Winners Announced
  • 1st prize $200 plus five copies
   Don Hagelberg for 3 poems:
   "Billed to Death," "For Those of You
   Who Know," and "The Rent Was
   Due."

  • 2nd prize $50 plus five copies
   Wendy Anderson for nonfiction:
   "Growing Up 'Woods Queer'"
   
  • 3rd prize $20 plus five copies
   Wendy Anderson for 3 poems:
   "Little Miss," "Same Old," and "Can't
   Go Home Again."

  • 4th prize five copies
   Lynn Veach Sadler for 3 poems:
   "Anna's Sisu Shop," "Feathers in
   Fortaleza's Cap," and "Giraffe
   Quintet."
   
  • honorable mentions awarded
   Fran Wiideman for 3 Poems:
   "Järvellä" / "On the Lake," "Time
   Change," and "Upon Crossing the
   River--Over There."

   
Michael Leroy King for 3 poems:
   "Melinda's Forest Escapes," "When
   Lily Rode to Court," and "River Trail."

   
Sheila Packa for 3 poems:
   "Across the Border," "Garden
   Labyrinth," and "My Father."

   
Kaarina Brooks for one poem:
   "A Poem for Emma, from Gramma."

   
Daniel McGlone for 3 poems:
   "B Minor," "The Veil," and
   "Shepherd's Pie."

   
Brian Keith Foreman for fiction:
   "Eevi."

   
   The issue also includes additional
   works by these authors:
  • Ernest Hekkanen
  • JoEllyn Belka
  • Jim Heikkinen
  • Christopher Linforth
  • Michael Leroy King
  • Bill Vartnaw
   
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Conferences of Interest

May 26-27, 2010--Finn Forum IX  
Finland and the World:  Past and Present   
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Send your proposal for a presentation or
panel, (150 word limit) along with a short C.V.,
to Shirley Kauranen, skaurane@lakeheadu.ca
or Ron Harpelle, harpelle@lakeheadu.ca. The
deadline for submissions is December 15,
2009.

The conference website is here:
www.finnforumix.ca

See the conference flier here for more
information.

June 9-13, 2010 NAES-FINSSE 2010:
English in the North conference
University of Oulu, Finland
Submissions are invited on linguistic,
literary or cultural topics in any area of
English Studies (papers focusing on English
in the North are particularly welcome).

Conference link and CFP:
http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/english/naes-
finsse2010/

Conference secretary email:
Riikka Mikkola (riikka.mikkola(a)oulu.fi).
POKKARIT.FI
Lähes 1000 suomen-
kielistä pokkaria
Web:
www.pokkarit.fi  
Email: info@pokkarit.fi
Who's Where? What's Up?

A spoken word performance and
reading by
Josef Aukee  with music
featuring vocalists Laurie Amat and
judy b., drummer Jimmy Hobson and
guitarist/keyboardist John DuPerry.

7:00 p.m. Wed., February 17, 2010,
Beale Street Bar & Grill, 133 Beale St
(nr Mission), San Francisco, CA 94105,
415-543-1961, No cover, $5 suggested

7:00 p.m. Thurs., February 18, 2010,
No Name Bar, 757 Bridgeway,
Sausalito, CA 94965, 415-332-1392
No cover, $5 suggested

Hear samples from the forthcoming
recording,
Afterbeat here:
www.josefaukee.com

See photos from Donna Salli's
play, The Rock Farm/Kivistön Tila, here.

Michigan’s Columbus: The Life of
Douglass Houghton
by Steve Lehto
is listed in the Library of Michigan's
2010 Michigan Notable Books.
Congratulate Steve when you see him!

Kaarina Brooks has translated a new
children's
Kalevala by Kirsti Mäkinen
and illustrated by Pirkko-Liisa
Surojegin. It is fabulous! Click
here  for
a review. This translation has earned
the
2009 Award from the American
Folklore Society.
Congratulate
Kaarina when you see her!

G. K. Wuori has published a play,
Wendy's Friend. You can find it here:
http://www.blackbird.vcu.
edu/v8n1/gallery/wuori_g/play_intro.
shtml

Jim Johnson's, Driving Gravel Roads
is available. Read a review
here.

Josef Aukee published Town and
Country
. Read a review here.

Greg Watson published The Distance
Between Two Hands.
It's wonderful.
See review:
here.

Diane Dettmann has a blog. Check it
out:
http://quillandthought.blogspot.com

Read a review of Kate Laity's Unikirja:
Dream Book
here. The book is
wonderful.

K. Alma Peterson has a new mini-
chapbook out titled
Befallen. It's
published by Alternating Current. It's
fabulous--
read a review here. She also
has a larger book forthcoming. I am
looking forward to reading it. Look for a
review here.  
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