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Jeremiah Chamberlin

Editor-in-Chief/Publisher

Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches at the University of Michigan. He is also a Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine. His fiction, criticism, literary interviews, and essays have appeared in such places as Absinthe, Flyway, Glimmer Train, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Vagabond, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.


Articles

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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Fimbul-Winter

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Fimbul-Winter, by Debra Allbery, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Ashlie F. Harper (@ashliefharper) margie at justbooks (@justbooks) David (@notsolinear) To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!


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Book of the Week: Fimbul-Winter, by Debra Allbery

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Debra Allbery’s new poetry collection, Fimbul-Winter. The book was published last year by Four Way Books and was the recipient of the 2010 Grub Street National Poetry Prize. Allbery is also the author of a previous collection of poems, Walking Distance, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh. New poems are forthcoming in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Kenyon Review. She lives near Asheville, NC, and is the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is also a recent contributor for […]


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Journal-of-the-Week Winners for A Public Space

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured A Public Space as our Journal-of-the-Week, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Kelly Luce (@lucekel) Kristy Strick (@cstrickwrites) Maureen Sherbondy (@msherbondy) To claim your free subscription, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Angel Makers

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured The Angel Makers, by Jessica Gregson, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Pamela Cook (@justwritetoday) Amanda DeMarco (@Readuxreads) Wendy Chen (@wendywchen) To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!


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Book of the Week: The Angel Makers, by Jessica Gregson

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Jessica Gregson’s debut novel, The Angel Makers. Originally published in 2007 in the United Kingdom by PaperBooks, the novel has been released this week in the U.S. by independent publisher Soho Press, which specializes in literary fiction and international crime series. Gregson is also the author of The Ice Cream Army (PaperBooks, 2009). She currently lives is Glasgow, Scotland, where she is working towards her PhD in International Development at Glasgow University. In the opening of her recent review of this book, Contributor Cyan James writes: Time for an embarrassingly personal admission: while reading Jessica Gregson’s […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: East of the West

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured East of the West, by Miroslav Penkov, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Jane Roper (@janeroper) Janet Somerville (@janetsomerville) Theo Ward (@theopward) To claim your free subscription, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!


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The 2011 Sozopol Fiction Seminar: Part II

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Step two: engage. Sozopol coverage continues with Molly Antopol’s conversation with Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov and Lee Kaplan Romer’s meditation on writing as an act of defiance and grace.


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Book of the Week: East of the West, by Miroslav Penkov

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Miroslav Penkov’s debut collection, East of the West, published this year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria and came to the U.S. to study in 2001. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Psychology followed by an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas, and now teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is a fiction editor for the American Literary Review. His stories have won The Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in or are forthcoming from A Public Space, One-Story, Orion, […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Quarantine

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Leonard Nash (@LeonardNash) Jennie Coughlin (@jenniecoughlin) N. Hao Ching (@hao) To claim your free subscription, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!


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The 2011 Sozopol Fiction Seminar: Part I

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Step One: Leave home. Three fellows from the Sozopol Fiction Seminar consider questions of travel, culture, and translation. Part I: John Struloeff on international diplomacy and collaboration, Jane E. Martin on finding home abroad, and Michael Hinken on how we rediscover home by leaving it. Later this week: Molly Antopol and Lee Romer Kaplan.




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