CONTRIBUTOR NEWS: Books and Radio Shows

Author of A Thousand and One Nights (Harcourt), Lara Tupper ("Belly Dancing" from the Songs and Cacophony Issue), will be on the Joey Reynolds Radio Show LIVE this Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Tune into WOR New York 710 from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM (May 22/23)! And call in with questions: 1-800-321-0710 !

Irina Reyn's ("Baba Yaga" from the Crossroads and Weigh Station Issue) first novel, What Happened to Anna K. is forthcoming from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.

Tom Whalen's ("Southern Childhood" from the Portraits and Snapshots Issue) new book, An Exchange of Letters, is now available from Parsifal Press. Be sure to pick up a copy!

Sue O'Doherty's ("New York: Passing" from the 50 States Project) new book, Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: Outsmarting Obstacles to Living a Creative Life: A Woman's Guide (Perseus/Seal Press), is now available!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Sin and Redemption

The fourth issue of Ballyhoo Stories will be arriving at the home office in days. "Sin and Redemption" features seven fantastic stories and six outstanding comics.

In the issue you'll find:

Love Falling by Susan Woodring
The King and the Beast by Ray Fenwick
Goatsuckers by Stephanie Dickinson
Please Forgive Me by Corrine Mucha
Cuff by David Barringer
A Fall Apart by JP Coovert
The Landlord and Jeanne Hebuterne by Charles Antin
May the Bones You Have Crushed Rejoice by Joseph Holsapple
The Regular by Charles Haverty
The Rise and Fall of Yip the Wonder Dog by Andy Hartzell
The Dream by Mary Grabar
The Carrot and the Sausage by Simone Lia
Bunker's Chirstmas by Will Nixon

The issue also features front and back cover art by Paul Pope.

We'll be debuting this issue at MoCCA 2007 in New York City and hope those in the area can attend. For those of you who can't make it to MoCCA be sure to order a copy at the Ballyhoo Store for only $8.

We are currently accepting submissions for "Particles and Galaxies."

ANNOUNCEMENT: The 50 States Project

Ballyhoo Stories is pleased to announce that Kenneth Calhoun's story, "Animal Past," has been chosen as the California story for our online 50 States Project. His story will be added to our site this summer.

Currently we are accepting submissions for all states except California, New York, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Ohio, and Indiana. Stories should be no more than 5,000 words and have the state as either the subject or the setting. Please be sure to read one or two of our current stories for an idea of what we are looking for. Stories can be e-mailed to fifty states at ballyhoo stories dot com. Please put the state you are submitting for in the subject line.

EVENT: Conversations and Connections

On May 5 Ballyhoo Stories ventured outside of Brooklyn to our nation's capital for the Conversations and Connections at the Writer's Center in Bethesda. We had a great time talking to writers and participated in a lively panel about publishing on the Web. After the conference we attended the launch for Issue Four of Barrelhouse. We'd like to thank Dave Housley of Barrelhouse for getting us involved in Conversations and Connections. Dave's story "Thorn" is the Pennsylvania story for our 50 States Project.

Ballyhoo's Suzanne Pettypiece checks out the competition.
Ballyhoo's Joshua Mandelbaum suffers from content envy The good people from Columbia Journal and Barrelhouse model the Columbia schwag