Awards, books, and articles (and a seminar, too!)

Posted on August 1, 2013 by tadbartlett

Lots of great Peauxdunque news lately, all of it of the exclamation-point variety:

Maurice Carlos Ruffin‘s “Catch What You Can” was named as an Honorable Mention in the May 2013 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers!
Arion Berger’s novel It’s Made to be Broken has been accepted for publication by Ellora’s Cave Books! It will be available as an e-book soon, with the print book to follow soon after.
Tad Bartlett‘s latest “Food and …” essay, on food and family and loss, has posted to the Oxford American website!
Janis Turk has teamed up with several of her travel writing colleagues to launch a travel writing seminar series, Try Travel Writing, with the next seminar scheduled for October 18-21 on Mackinac Island, Michigan! Like them on Facebook, too!

Peauxdunque publication update

Posted on August 17, 2012 by tadbartlett

Peauxdunquian Arion Berger has released the first of three New Orleans-set paranormal romance thrillers, entitled “Darkness Eternal,” now available as an e-book on Amazon.com.

Peauxdunque’s Tad Bartlett has published the second of his “Food and …” series of essays on the Oxford American website, titled “Food and Memory: A Barbecue Homecoming,” wherein he goes back to his childhood home of Selma, Alabama, to revisit three barbecue joints while exploding the walls he had built between himself and the aftermath of a series of protests he participated in his senior year of high school.

New Peauxdunquian-extraordinaire L. Kasimu Harris continues his series of written and photographic essays inspired by the style and fashion to be found on New Orleans streets in his Parish Chic column on the Oxford American website.

Peauxdunqians in the world …

Posted on June 8, 2012 by tadbartlett

Another few weeks have passed since the last Peauxdunque update, and that means another few weeks’ worth of good news:

Peauxdunquian Liz Gruder has recently learned that her YA novel, Starseed, has been accepted for publication by WiDo Publishing. We’ll update as we learn more about the anticipated release date, but this is fantastic news about a fantastic project.
Arion Berger, who along with Tom Carson was recently published in Black Clock Issue No. 15, has also just had her work included in Gargoyle Issue No. 58!
Tom continues his work at GQ and The American Prospect, recently including this insightful look at the ratcheting down of print publication of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Emily Choate continues her incredible traveling ways, recently selected to attend the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
L. Kasimu Harris continues his Parish Chic column for the now-incredibly-redesigned Oxford American website, including this beautiful and startlingly honest odyssey in seersucker. Kasimu also recently published this piece in the Times-Picayune.

More Peauxdunquian news is in the pipeline. Stay tuned for further updates!

Publications and more! By Peauxdunqians and Friends of Peauxdunque

Posted on March 30, 2012 by tadbartlett

Another month, another set of publications and other writing recognition for the fine folks of Peauxdunque and their good friends …

Terri Stoor and Maurice Ruffin have had work selected for the upcoming New Orleans By New Orleans book project, which should come out at the end of this month. Joselyn Takacs, currently in Baltimore working on her MFA at Johns Hopkins, has the Story of the Week at Narrative, “Flares of Little Warning.” Also, Arion Berger and Tom Carson both have stories in the latest issue of Black Clock. Tad Bartlett has been admitted to the MFA program in fiction at UNO’s Creative Writing Workshop, where he will begin this fall.

Friend of Peauxdunque L. Kasimu Harris has launched a new column, Parish Chic, at The Oxford American’s online site, using fashion as a lens to illuminate the human condition.