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Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose « Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner » How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if not whole, how does she piece together some kind of coherent self out of fragmented half-truths? The eighteen narrative poems in Imago, Dei bear witness to the emotional and psychological weight amassed from a girlhood fraught with vexed messages about what it means to be “good.” Narrated in third-person, lyric vignettes, these are poems about a daughter’s desire to be the son her well-meaning, but deeply damaged father thinks he needs; about an adolescent world filled with cute boys, predatory church leaders, Lakes of Fire, and broken girls who beg to be reborn; about the bad-girl specters of Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah that haunt her into adulthood and wreak havoc on her intimate relationships; about dirty dancing, Bible study, Lacanian theory, and crying after sex; and about what happens when a recovering evangelical becomes a mother to her own daughters.   From the Author I grew up in the Church, and by that I mean in a fundamentalist, evangelical home where we spent Sunday dinners debating things like the meaning of the Greek word “Baptismo,” whether it meant you had to be fully immersed or whether a sprinkling was sufficient to keep you from the gates of hell. Because Jesus was “the word,” and because I spent so much of my youth analyzing the “good word,” it’s fitting that I wound up pursuing a degree in English and becoming a writer. Ironically, the close-reading skills the church taught me was what ultimately undid my faith. Thank God.​   Sample Poems • “Her Father Calls to Explain …” in Rattle (online)   Reviews “With a comma that interrupts a Latin phrase etched in Christian history, Elizabeth Johnston Abrose’s Imago, Dei offers disjunction to give worn tropes new context. This deliberate juxtaposition rejuvenates the flat and

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History What is the Griffin Poetry Prize? The Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the world’s most generous poetry awards. The Prize, valued at C$130,000, is awarded annually for a first-edition poetry collection written in, or translated into, English by a living poet and/or translator from any country. Additionally, a C$10,000 prize is …

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In 1979, Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for Pélagie-la-Charette. She was the first Acadian, and in fact the first non-European writer, to receive the prize. In her acceptance speech she said: “I have avenged my ancestors.” We mourn the passing of Antonine Maillet but celebrate her life and her work and the worlds that she released through her words.

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southeastreview.org

Southeast Review, a national literary magazine since 1979, publishes literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews, and art.

shenandoahliterary.org

“Excited?” she asks. You tilt your head, wondering what your answer should be. You are excited about the prospect of moving on. You are also fearful that those hoops of sorrow still sitting upon your torso may never leave.

vestalreview.net

Flash fiction by Daniel A. Olivas, Eric Bosse, Jennifer Macaire, Michael LaRocca, Jack Fisher, Beverly Carol Lucey, Paula Grenside, Mary McCluskey.

fatalflawlit.com

Read our brand new issue, Vol. 11: PARADOX! Fatal Flaw is an international online literary magazine publishing unexpected, topical prose, poetry, and visual art that considers the world through a cracked lens.

theontariopoetrysociety.ca

The award honours those who contribute to the arts in Vaughn.