12/06/2006-01/31/2007
The Allegany Arts Council, the Garrett County Arts Council, and the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing are pleased to announce the release of the 2007 issue of the Backbone Mountain Review, a new bi-county literary journal. Copies of the inaugural issue, which features poetry, plays, fiction, and creative non-fiction by twenty-seven local writers, are now available at NO COST to all members of the Allegany Arts Council (while supplies last)! Stop by the Allegany Arts Council today to pick up your FREE copy of this wonderful new publication!
The editorial board for the 2007 journal consists of three editors from Allegany County—Justin Dyke, Jim Ralston, and Karen Zealand, and three editors from Garrett County—Jack DuBose, Susan Haydel, Melodee Hill. The steering committee for the project is comprised of Andy Vick, executive director of the Allegany Arts Council; Steve Schlosnagle, executive director of the Garrett County Arts Council; and Gerry LaFemina, director of the Creative Writing Center at Frostburg State University.
Congratulations to the following writers who had work accepted to appear in the inaugural issue of the Backbone Mountain Review:
Poems“Duet” by Tricia Knight“The Flats” by Tricia Knight“417HS” by Jennifer Blatchley“Where We Meet” by Catherine Noonan“Beautiful #2” by Shea Marshall“Daydream 1” by Shea Marshall“The Black Hole” by Miriam Smith Drelich“Four Causes and a Cure” by Rob Rumburg“Stills” by Terri Engnoth“Hope” by Terri Engnoth“If we were in Las Vegas” by Terri Engnoth“Generalization” by Lori Yoder“American Prayer” by Lori Yoder“Sunday Morning Small Talk” by Lori Yoder“My Poems” by Ellen McDaniel-Weissler“Prayer for Black and White or Bosnia” by Ellen McDaniel-Weissler“My Side of William” by Wilma Yocom Ford“When I Compare You to a Rainy Day” by John N. Thrasher, V“Thoughts of MDA Camp” by Shane Crawford“Eterni-Tea” by Donna Walbert“Voice of the Moon” by Danna Walbert“Foot Therapy” by Blair Llewellyn“On Killing a Moth” by Maude McDaniel“Centre Street, Cumberland Street” by Richard Maslow“October” by Megan Lahman“Old age is the cause of memory loss” by Allen Murphy“Whitetail Haiku” by Jack Watson Spencer, Jr.“This Existential Morass” by Jack Watson Spencer, Jr.“Invasion” by Eric S Smith“Crop of Bitterness” by Erica Carlson Mowbray
Fiction“Musician's Apprentice” by Miriam Smith Drelich“Ride the Snake” by Greg Jenkins“Algorithms of Carpooling” by Carolyn Wiebrecht Bond“Clandestine Inamorato” by Sarah Beth Schaller“Rosie” by Wayne McCaughey
Creative Non-FictionHunting: A Ritual or a Joke” by David Knotts“A Day at the Vet’s” by Miriam Smith Drelich
Drama“Sharp Intellect” by Greg Younger
Funding for this year’s edition of the Backbone Mountain Review is made possible in part by a contribution from the NewPage Corporation and by a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council with additional funding from the Allegany Arts Council and the Garrett County Arts Council.
