Fifth Wednesday Journal

Spring 2009

Fifth Wednesday Journal is published twice a year by Fifth Wednesday Books in Lisle, Illinois. Our spring 2009 issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and photography from around the world. Learn more ...

Guest Fiction Editor: J. C. Hallman
Guest Poetry Editor: Nina Corwin
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J.C. Hallman

J.C. Hallman's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many venues, including GQ, Tin House, Salon, Boulevard, and others. His books include The Chess Artist, The Devil is a Gentleman, The Hospital for Bad Poets, and In Eutopia. He has taught creative writing at a number of colleges and universities. He lives in St. Paul, and can be reached through his website, jchallman.com.
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Nina Corwin

Nina Corwin is the author of one collection of poetry, Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints (Puddin'head Press, 1999). Co-editor of Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women (Moon Journal Press, 2002) and curator of literary events at WomanMade Gallery, she has performed her work throughout the country, collaborating with musicians, dancers and other poets, including the CUBE contemporary chamber ensemble, Chicago DanzTheater and Serendipity Percussion Ensemble. Recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry appears or is forthcoming in ACM, Bayou, Hotel Amerika, Mudfish, New Ohio, Poetry East and Southern Poetry Reviews. She has received awards from the Illionois Arts Council and Illinois State Poetry Society. She lives in Chicago, where she has a private practice of psychotherapy.

The fall 2009 issue is now closed for submissions.

Guest Fiction Editor: Bret Anthony Johnston
Guest Poetry Editor: Laurence Lieberman
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Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He is the director of creative writing at Harvard University. For more information, please visit www.bretanthonyjohnston.com.
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Laurence Lieberman

Laurence Lieberman is professor emeritus of English, University of Illinois. He serves as advisory editor for the Caribbean Writer magazine. He founded the Illinois Poetry Series in 1971 and has served as the poetry editor of the University of Illinois Press since that time. He has published l4 books of poetry and three books of criticism, most recently Carib’s Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean (Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, England, 2005), Hour of the Mango Black Moon (Peepal Tree, 2004), Flight from the Mother Stone (University of Arkansas Press, 2000), The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems (University of Georgia Press, l999), and Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poetry (University of Missouri Press, l995). His poems have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The South Carolina Review, The New Republic, Sewanee Review, Colorado Review, Five Points, and Shenandoah, as well as in anthologies such as The Body Electric (Norton, 2000), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 200l), Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark Press, 2007), and The Best American Poetry.

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FWJ's advisory editor, James Ballowe, pens new book: A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton. Learn more...
J.C. Hallman's story collection,The Hospital for Bad Poets, gets great reviews. Learn more...
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Fifth Wednesday Journal

Defining literature. In real context.

Spring 2009

J.C. Hallman

Nina Corwin

Bret Anthony Johnston

Laurence Lieberman

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