News and Events
Fifth Wednesday Journal is dedicated to supporting our growing community of editors, contributors and other literary friends. Check back often for news worth celebrating and events you won't want to miss.
Upcoming Events
- J. C. Hallman reads
from his latest work, In Utopia, out from
St. Martin’s Press in August of this year. Combining rollicking
intellectual history and playful journalism, In Utopia explores
and interprets a concept as influential as any in the history of
mankind. Mark your calendar. You will not be disappointed.
- Monday, August 9th at Barbara’s
Bookstore
1218 South Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607 - Saturday, August 28th at Jane
Addams Book Shop
208 N. Neil St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Monday, August 9th at Barbara’s
Bookstore
News
- Lina ramona Vitkauskas' new book, In the Range of Your Amazing Nothing, is out from Ravenna Press. Learn more...
- Elizabeth J. Colen wins Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry with her new book Money for Sunsets. Learn more...
- Kathleen Kirk's new chapbook, Living on the Earth, available from Finishing Line Press is part of the New Women's Voices Series. Learn more ...
- Poet Susanna Lang's collection of poems, Even Now, published by The Backwaters Press, is available now. Learn more ...
- The Daily Herald talks with Vern Miller about FWJ, including the literary event at Lisle Library on March 31, 2010. Read the article at the Daily Herald.
- Adam Gallari's collection of short fiction We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now will be out in April from Ampersand Books. Learn more...
- New book out by FWJ Feature Poet (Spring 2010) Reginald Gibbons. Learn more …
- FWJ announces Editor's Prize winners! Learn more...
- New book out in October 2009 from contributor Sherry O'Keefe. Learn more...
- Find new books from Bottom Dog Press by contributor Jeff Vande Zande. Learn more...
- Poet Jared Smith to publish new collection, Looking into the Machinery, in spring 2010. The title poem first appeared in FWJ. Learn more...
- FWJ's advisory editor, James Ballowe, pens new book: A Man of
Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton. Learn more...
- Read about FWJ in the Daily Herald!
- Review of reviews of FWJ. Learn more...