We’re proud to showcase recently published members in our “DWW Members at Work” article in our emailed newsletter as well as here on the blog. Congratulations to all mentioned!
Linda K. Sienkiewicz (https://lindaksienkiewicz.com/) recently had six blackout poems in Peninsula Poets, published by the Poetry Society of Michigan. She will be selling and signing her books (poetry, fiction, children’s books, and an anthology) at the West Bloomfield Township Public Library Author Fair on Sunday, May 5, 1-4pm, at 4600 W. Walnut Lake Road.
Richard Stiennon announced that IT-Harvest is presenting at a conference booth in San Francisco, May 5-10, where he’ll sign copies of Security Yearbook 2022 and 2023. His Security Yearbook 2024 will be published by Wiley on June 5.
Jean Alicia Elster (https://jeanaliciaelster.com/) will be the featured speaker at the May 16th (10a.m.) meeting of the StoryTime Guild, presenting on her Joe Joe in the City series as well as her other books for young readers. This free event is open to the public and is located at 38651 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Meg Chorzempa’s lyric essay has been published in the Atticus Review. Anotheressay is a finalist for the Fugue’s 2024 Prose Contest and has moved forward in the competition.
Linda Nemec Foster recently had work published (or forthcoming) in the Paterson Literary Review, The Banyan Review, The Memory Palace (an international anthology of ekphrastic prose poems), Presence, Dunes Review, and The Rock and Roll Anthology (Cervena Barva Press). She recently read at the University of Wisconsin, Aquinas College, Leelanau Public Library, and Hackley Library in Muskegon (as a presenter for the Poetry Society of Michigan’s spring conference).
In May, Linda will be interviewed by Shelley Irwin for Michigan Public Radio. On May 4, Linda was the keynote speaker at Grand Rapids’ Fountain Street Church in a program to benefit CASA of Kent County (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children), where she was introduced by the Michigan Senate Majority Leader, Winnie Brinks.
Phyllis Green has a painting in the latest issue of Superpresent magazine.
Grace Grogan (https://grace-grogan.com/) has published two articles with photos in Family RVing: “Dawson Creek to Dawson City,” March 2024 issue, and “Small Wisconsin City Packs a Punch about Chippewa Falls,” April 2024 issue; two articles in Freshwater Reporter: “The troubling persistence of Michigan’s Ku Klux Klan,” front page, January 24-March 19th edition, and “Happiness of handwritten letters,” page 3, April 30- September 19, 2023; and in Grace’s column for The Lakeshore Guardian, “Genealogy Pitfalls,” page 3, April 2024 edition and “Memorial Day and Researching Civil War Family History,” page 10, May 2024 edition.
Linda Laderman had poems published in Burningword Literary Journal and in One Art Journal of Poetry in April. A third poem appears in Quartet Journal this month.
Michelle Morouse received her first Pushcart nomination for “The first thing the new people did was to tear down that chicken shed,” a fiction published in The MacGuffin, and for the poem, “Cottonwood Ward, Pontiac State Hospital,” published in Gemini.