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!