Jon Thrower (jthrower@girlswithinsurance.com) has published poetry, criticism, reviews, and pedagogical work in various print and web venues including Blaze Vox, Knock, Storysouth, and Atropos Press. He wants work that addresses the person in the political, cultural, and social area and their reactions to a world which is operating for, against, and in spite of them; poetry that exhales a surrealist breath on the windows of reality; figurative expressions crossing the line into reality and the similar slippage in reverse; success and failure as metaphorical and metaphysical experience; the joy, and the sadness, of epiphany. Listen to his interview.
Tommy Dean graduated from Valparaiso University with a double major in Creative Writing and Criminology. He has been published in Pens on Fire and Tuesday Shorts. His aesthetic tastes stay close to realistic, literary writing focused on three dimensional believable characters struggling with understanding the world around them. Some of my favorites are Raymond Carver, Charles Baxter, André Dubus, and Dan Chaon. Read his interview. Submit to tdean@girlswithinsurance.com.
Send me the thing you wrote
when you stopped wondering
what you should write
and wrote the thing
your inner voice insists upon
over and over and over again instead.
Send me the wretched rejected manuscript
twenty editors have read.
(Reports of my GwI retirement have been greatly exaggerated--mainly by me. Send to dcorrigan@girlswithinsurance.com. <1000 words in the body of the email; >1000 as an rtf file, please.)
P. H. Madore is the primary operator of our parent organization, disproductions. He prefers words that surprise him. A list of his work can be found at phmadore.com. He is especially interested in receiving obituaries and column pitches. You may submit to Madore using phm@girlswithinsurance.com.