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About Mitchell Waldman
Mitchell Waldman is the author of the short story collection, PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART (originally published by Wind Publications), a 2015 BookBzz Prize Writers Contest finalist. Regarding the book, one reviewer has commented that "Faulkner said that an author's job is to make the extraordinary seem ordinary and to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, and in PETTY OFFENSES this is what Waldman accomplishes." Stories in the collection include a Pushcart Prize nominated story and a First Prize winning story from 13th Story Magazine.
Waldman is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON (Writers Club Press, 2000), with regard to which one commentator has stated that "with more novels like his debut tale that demonstrates Mitchell Waldman's tremendous talent for genuine characters in real life settings, the author will not remain faceless for very long."
His stories, poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including, among others, Bewildering Stories, The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Fictive Dream, Spelk, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Potato Soup Journal, Anser Journal, The Fear of Monkeys, The Magnolia Review, Furtive Dalliance, Whatever Our Souls, The Soft Cartel, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Literally Stories, Corvus Review, the Machinery--A Literary Collection, the Bond Street Review, Baby Lawn Literature, Peachfish Magazine, the Avalon Literary Journal, Random Sample, Crack the Spine, Fiction on the Web, Alfie Dog Fiction, The Faircloth Review, The Battered Suitcase, Epiphany, Foliate Oak, Waterhouse Review, Eunoia Review, The Brooklyn Voice, The Big Stupid Review, The Houston Literary Review, Milk Sugar, The Legendary, Litsnack, Connotation Press, Red Fez, Wind Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Eclectic Flash, eFiction Magazine, Poetpourri, Mobius, Hazmat Review, Poetry Motel, The Advocate, Desperate Act, The Rochester Times-Union, and in the anthologies, BEYOND LAMENT: POETS OF THE WORLD BEARING WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST (Northwestern University Press, 1998), AMERICA REMEMBERED (Virgogray Press, 2010), MESSAGES FROM THE UNIVERSE (iUniverse, 2002), LOOKING BEYOND (Scars Publications, 2011), PROMINENT PEN (Scars Publications, 2011), and GREEN (MLM, 2010).
Waldman is also the Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review (http://bluelakereview.weebly.com), and was co-editor (with Diana Waldman) of the anthologies WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and HIP POETRY (originally published by Wind Publications).
His book reviews have appeared at Scribes World and Midwest Book Review.
His new story collection, BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS is due out from Adelaide Books in the fall of 2021.
Waldman studied with Mark Costello (author of THE MURPHY STORIES and MIDDLE MURPHY) and Paul Friedman (author of AND IF DEFEATED ALLEGE FRAUD and SERIOUS TROUBLE) at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana).
MItchell lives in Rochester, New York, with his partner, Diana Waldman, author of the poetry book, A WOMAN'S SONG.
For more information on Mitchell's and Diana's books and writings, see their web page at: http://mitchwaldman.homestead.com
Waldman is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON (Writers Club Press, 2000), with regard to which one commentator has stated that "with more novels like his debut tale that demonstrates Mitchell Waldman's tremendous talent for genuine characters in real life settings, the author will not remain faceless for very long."
His stories, poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including, among others, Bewildering Stories, The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Fictive Dream, Spelk, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Potato Soup Journal, Anser Journal, The Fear of Monkeys, The Magnolia Review, Furtive Dalliance, Whatever Our Souls, The Soft Cartel, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Literally Stories, Corvus Review, the Machinery--A Literary Collection, the Bond Street Review, Baby Lawn Literature, Peachfish Magazine, the Avalon Literary Journal, Random Sample, Crack the Spine, Fiction on the Web, Alfie Dog Fiction, The Faircloth Review, The Battered Suitcase, Epiphany, Foliate Oak, Waterhouse Review, Eunoia Review, The Brooklyn Voice, The Big Stupid Review, The Houston Literary Review, Milk Sugar, The Legendary, Litsnack, Connotation Press, Red Fez, Wind Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Eclectic Flash, eFiction Magazine, Poetpourri, Mobius, Hazmat Review, Poetry Motel, The Advocate, Desperate Act, The Rochester Times-Union, and in the anthologies, BEYOND LAMENT: POETS OF THE WORLD BEARING WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST (Northwestern University Press, 1998), AMERICA REMEMBERED (Virgogray Press, 2010), MESSAGES FROM THE UNIVERSE (iUniverse, 2002), LOOKING BEYOND (Scars Publications, 2011), PROMINENT PEN (Scars Publications, 2011), and GREEN (MLM, 2010).
Waldman is also the Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review (http://bluelakereview.weebly.com), and was co-editor (with Diana Waldman) of the anthologies WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and HIP POETRY (originally published by Wind Publications).
His book reviews have appeared at Scribes World and Midwest Book Review.
His new story collection, BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS is due out from Adelaide Books in the fall of 2021.
Waldman studied with Mark Costello (author of THE MURPHY STORIES and MIDDLE MURPHY) and Paul Friedman (author of AND IF DEFEATED ALLEGE FRAUD and SERIOUS TROUBLE) at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana).
MItchell lives in Rochester, New York, with his partner, Diana Waldman, author of the poetry book, A WOMAN'S SONG.
For more information on Mitchell's and Diana's books and writings, see their web page at: http://mitchwaldman.homestead.com
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is a print and digital publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Issue 16 Fall 2020 features the work of 35 contributors from all around the world.
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Wounds of War: Poets for Peace
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Wounds of War: Poets for Peace brings together, in poems, stories, and essays, the voices of those personally affected by war.
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Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
Feb 11, 2019
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PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART includes stories of ordinary people engaged in ordinary lives until betrayals, accidents, and misfortune put the puzzles of their weak choices and unfair chance into stark relief, leaving them with a kind of clarity they may have been happier not to have. Threads of danger and emotional trauma run through the fourteen stories in this collection. In crime, love, marriage, or friendship, it's the little things that matter most. It's the small betrayals or mistakes that often result in our downfall. Among the stories in the book are the Pushcart Prize nominated story "The Duke of Broad Street," and a 13th Story Magazine First Place Award winning story.
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The Battered Suitcase Summer 2010
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Nancy Calef
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The Battered Suitcase Summer 2010
Volume 3, Issue 1 of The Battered Suitcase, a literary journal of intelligent and imaginative prose, poetry and art exploring the human experience.
Prose by Naomi Silva, Scott Lininger, Eric Fershtman, Rita Rubin, Eric Hawthorn, Holly Schwartz-Coginat, Jamie Guiney, Jon Morgan Davies, Josh Howatt, Ken Tighe, Kevin Winter, Matthew Hamilton, Mitchell Waldman, GK Wuori, Nicola Monaghan, Kipp Wessel, Mike Herndon
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Narrative Non-Fiction by Mary Whitsell, JM Huscher and Jodi Eichelberger
Poetry by Alison Ross, Brianna Thompson, Anne Bastow, G Malin Wagnon, Jake Walters, Sarah Connell, Brandon Wallace, Danny P. Barbare, Janann Dawkins, Kent Leatham, Kirsten A. Gwin, Satnrose, Justin Hamm, Lindsay Wilson, Elizabeth Ashe, Lyn Lifshin and Steve De France.
Artwork by Claudio Parentela, Mhairi McGhee and Louise Elmslie, Nancy Calef, Meredith R. Krell, and Alireza Taheri Araghi
Edited by Fawn Neun, Maggie Ward, Alice Bigelow, Deb Perry and Apythia Morges.
Volume 3, Issue 1 of The Battered Suitcase, a literary journal of intelligent and imaginative prose, poetry and art exploring the human experience.
Prose by Naomi Silva, Scott Lininger, Eric Fershtman, Rita Rubin, Eric Hawthorn, Holly Schwartz-Coginat, Jamie Guiney, Jon Morgan Davies, Josh Howatt, Ken Tighe, Kevin Winter, Matthew Hamilton, Mitchell Waldman, GK Wuori, Nicola Monaghan, Kipp Wessel, Mike Herndon
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Narrative Non-Fiction by Mary Whitsell, JM Huscher and Jodi Eichelberger
Poetry by Alison Ross, Brianna Thompson, Anne Bastow, G Malin Wagnon, Jake Walters, Sarah Connell, Brandon Wallace, Danny P. Barbare, Janann Dawkins, Kent Leatham, Kirsten A. Gwin, Satnrose, Justin Hamm, Lindsay Wilson, Elizabeth Ashe, Lyn Lifshin and Steve De France.
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Edited by Fawn Neun, Maggie Ward, Alice Bigelow, Deb Perry and Apythia Morges.
A Face in the Moon
Apr 26, 2000
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A FACE IN THE MOON is available through iUniverse, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, numerous other online book sites, and may be ordered through any bookstore. A FACE IN THE MOON is a look back at those lost days when colors seemed more vivid and when being in love seemed the only thing that mattered. The narrator, Jack Lohman, is an inexperienced twenty-two-year old, who was recently dumped by his first real girlfriend, and is soon to leave graduate school for who knows what. Enter Loni, a bright-eyed, free-spirited seventeen-year old who has had more than her share of experience -- she lost her virginity on her fourteenth birthday, has had more boyfriends and drugs than she cares to remember, as well as a mental breakdown that she's trying her best to forget. From the moment Jack meets Loni, his life begins to change. She teaches him how to laugh, and makes him feel, for perhaps the first time in his life, that he can be loved without judgment. Yet, ironically, it is Loni's harsh self-evaluation that paralyzes her at times, turning the carefree, uninhibited woman/child into a speechless, listless teenager who laments the days when life used to be more fun. She promises to tell Jack some day about her breakdown of the summer before but for now it's still too painful for her. Meanwhile, Jack loves her, but wonders if she'll ever fully let him into her life. A FACE IN THE MOON is a story about two young lovers struggling to find each other and their ways in the world. And when a series of events keeps them apart longer than expected, it becomes the story of whether their new love can survive the pressures of separation and emotional disturbance.
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