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The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction.

Winner: The Ladies by Sara Veglahn

Finalist: The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

SEMIFINALISTS

There Are Other People In The Dark, Though by Michael Shelichach

TSK by Caroline Picard

Partners And Strangers by Michael Don

Trouble Will Save You by David Crouse

Polyester Vocabulary by jill darling

The Perception of Partially Occluded Objects by Stephen Tuttle

The Moon Below by Nathan Oates

When The Time Came by Gabriel Houck

Strike a Prose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire by Tim Jones-Yelvington

The hybridity of Starlight in Two Million lends itself at least in part to assisting in Catanzano’s depiction of 4th person narration. In particular, her poetry (“U+F+O+L+A+N+G+U+A+G+E”) suggests a sense of malleability and nonspecificity, power in disruption and deviation from the linear hierarchy. Take for a specific and more focused example, the TAZ (temporary autonomous zone) located “where the poetic imagination is free to reign.” The site of poetry is a catalyst for a chain reaction that moves outward, uncoiling, asking questions that produce yet more questions. Inquiry expands into infinite space and non-linear time: “In TAZ the practice of framing a rule as a ruin makes even more ruins, as anyone familiar with the latest studies has been informed.” The prose form overlaps with the poetic, the hybridity presenting scientific inquiry within a framework of imaginative speculation and the powerful disruptive force of deviation from traditional form.

Read the rest at Queen Mob’s Teahouse.
Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella is a spacetime ship that travels. Unlike ships of the sea or rockets to outer space, my book moves by warp drive. What this means is that my book achieves travel through space and time by being stationary while moving spacetime around it. This is how ships move when traveling at warp drive in Star Trek, and scientists are now exploring warp drive for travel in our solar system and beyond.

Read the rest at Entropy.

In May 2015 Jace Brittain and Rachel Zavecz interviewed me about my third book, Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella (Noemi Press, 2014). The book combines narrative fiction — in which three characters, two of whom are named for Greek concepts, join forces to stop a war — with lyric poetry, visual poetry, and memoir. We discuss the book’s cross-genre form, ’pataphysics, quantum poetics, fourth-person narration and the fourth dimension, and more. In addition to talking with me about Starlight in Two Million, Jace and Rachel wrote a collaborative review of the novella for the online arts magazine, Queen Mob’s Teahouse.

Read the rest at Jacket2.

The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction. We received about 300 fiction submissions this year and thank all the writers who submitted for trusting us with their work.

Winner

Uncountry: A Mythology by Yanara Friedland

Finalist

A Manual for Nothing by Jessica Anne Chiang

 

Fiction Semifinalists

Gary Oldman Is A Building You Must Walk Through by Forrest Roth

Patchwork: Stories by Cynthia Hawkins

Waters to Swim in Before We Die by Meredith Luby

ANSWERING MACHINE: a novel out loud by Edward Herring

The Rolodex Happenings by Dennis James Sweeney

Project MADAM by Evelyn Hampton

A More Active You by Meagan Cass

These Are Our Demands by Matthew Pitt

One of the most fascinating traits of Beilin’s prose is the way that words tumble into each other, dissolving their distinctions into portmanteaus: “‘Just drive,’ Olivia told her mother, and Mrs Knox — who was usually too frail, sick, and tired, to drive, or love — drove.” Elsewhere repetition and assonance causes clotting: “Beth kneels, devout to it, devout to kneeling, but needing reasons.” Descriptions of female anatomy in particular are characterised by a constant drift towards the figurative: Olivia’s hand is “a small splayed bouquet of bones”; a breast is “the weight of bread forgetting itself”; the clitoris is “a rooster’s drip of throat,” “a rodent’s red liver,” “the flower of guts,” “the bedraggled lung of something waterous, a barracuda’s ripped reason for breathing, hanging in the open, with rancid coral hueing.” Like Antigone as a child, rolling around in a park, flashing her underwear, The University of Pennsylvania seems to speak “in a language parallel to language.”

Read the rest at Full Stop.

Rachel Gray reviews Caren Beilin's The University of Pennsylvania at Front Porch:

Beilin creates a mixture of striking and strange imagery. In the The University of Pennsylvania, kidding is “unsexual, sisternal,” the sunset has “ripe red horns,” cum is a serum all the way from London, and the children of doctors sniff cocaine—or perhaps gelatin. Never before had I considered the similarity between violet and violent, but this book asks its readers to ponder the relationship between the two.

Read the rest at Front Porch.

Kathleen Rooney reviews Suzanne Scanlon's Her 37th Year, An Index, in the Chicago Tribune. Here's a sample:

One of the many brilliant aspects of this book is that the form permits Scanlon to offer a built-in answer. For an index is a guide, an imposition of a pattern on something that does not necessarily suggest that pattern, in this case, the life of Scanlon's protagonist, who is attempting to catalog her life so far: attending university, being in a mental institution, having affairs, getting married, giving birth to a child and so on. This structure lets Scanlon capitalize on the by-turns fun, wry and melancholy juxtapositions of entries in an index due to the happy accidents of alphabetical order. In this way, she emphasizes how such indices can lead to inadvertent insights merely by letting a reader see one alphabetical name or phrase preceding or following another.

Read the rest at the Chicago Tribune. (Warning: you'll have to register.)

Suzanne Scanlon's Her 37th Year, An Index is #8 on the SPD bestseller list for May and June!

Amy Catanzano’s Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella is a mind-full, mine-filled, field of literary, aesthetic, scientific, and imaginative constructs that take forms as collage, cultural allegory, anti-war expression, epistolary conversation, and song-of-joy-in-risk-taking, to list merely a few.

Read the rest at Rain Taxi.

Gabriel Blackwell (Critique of Pure Reason) and Robert Kloss "discuss the similarities between their books, historical nonfiction, blurbing, and more" over at MonkeyBicycle.

Dear friends and followers of Noemi,

We had a banner year with our fiction and poetry contests! We received 251 submissions for fiction and 363 submissions for poetry. We'd like to thank all contest entrants for trusting us with their work.

Finalist for the 2014 Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction

The winner is Beasts You'll Never See by Nate Liederbach. Nate will receive $1000 and publication of his collection in Fall 2015. We will also publish A Fragmentary Study of the Animals by Colleen Hollister; her book will be published in Spring 2016.

Congratulations to Caren Beilin, whose manuscript, The University of Pennsylvania, is the winner of the 2013 Noemi Book Award for Fiction.

We will also be publishing Her 37th Year, an Index by Suzanne Scanlon.

Finalists for the 2013 Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction: