Howard Fellowship/Bard Fellowship for travel in Cuba and Nicaragua!

Guest-editing next issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal.

5-part intermediate writing workshop to be offered, Tuesday evenings in June, 6-8 pm, at new store dedicated to the importance of the documentary act, both visual and textual: Wing and Clover, on Market Street in Rhinebeck. Write marla@wingandclover.com for more information.

All-day writing workshop on an upcoming Saturday in Rhinebeck. Email highwayfive@gmail.com for more information.

Novels by Edie Meidav

Novel adapted as screenplay

CRAWL SPACE adapted for screen by Lisa Rosenberg
Screenplay of CRAWL SPACE

New stories in Conjunctions, Fifth Wednesday, and Chattahoochee Review
A story narrated by an Iraqi vet; an excerpt from forthcoming novel; a fabulistic story in "Betwixt and Between", current issue of Conjunctions; a story written in 20 minutes "Kingdom of the Young"; a story set in upstate New York

Next novel: published by Farrar Straus

LOLA, CALIFORNIA
A contemporary novel set in California concerning death penalty, motherhood, dystopia

Fiction

CRAWL SPACE: Editors' Pick, NY Times, L.A. Times
An exploration of the mind of evil. "He is quite a creation indeed, this aging anti-Quixote with his residual windmills to tilt at." -- Thomas Kenneally, The Washington Post

THE FAR FIELD: A NOVEL OF CEYLON Winner of the Kafka Award; A Best Book of the Year (L.A. Times et al)
An epic, intimate novel in which a blundering westerner goes east. "Complex, imaginative."

--Chitra Divakaruni