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HFR's 50th Issue: Send Us Your Artifact Submissions
(Aug. 1, 2011) - To celebrate Hayden's Ferry Review's 25th anniversary, we've got a special theme in the works. We'd like to receive work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, art, mixed-media—that addresses the theme of "artifacts," as described (somewhat vaguely, on purpose!) here.
Art is, by its nature, a record. Literature, photographs, paintings, music: all these seek to catalogue the world just as they seek to elevate and transform it. A piece of art is also then, by its nature, an artifact: an object with unique meaning both within its context and apart from it. For HFR's 50th issue, we're interested in investigating how fragments and relics from our history help to shape our current state of being. What happens when you wrest an object from its homeland (in time, place, state of mind)? Why do we trust remnants of the past as distinctively truthful, and how do we inevitably misunderstand them? Send us writing and art that engages with the theme of "artifact" in whatever way you see fit. Consider the fact that writing itself—the writing, for instance, in HFR's 49 past issues—becomes a slightly different object upon publication and perusal. Consider that work banned in one country develops a new set of meaning in other places. Consider how artifacts shape the identities of people, nations, cultures. Consider the lives of fraudulent artifacts, objects that create invented histories and narratives. And hey, consider something that we haven't. Tell us all about ourselves: we trust you.
To submit, go to our Submishmash page here. Choose the genre you're submitting under, and mention that you're submitting in response to our "artifact" call in the comments section. The deadline for this call is January 1, 2012. We look forward to reading your work!
More Praise from NewPages
(July 15, 2011) - We are once again thrilled about kind words from NewPages, this time about Hayden's Ferry Review #48. Reviewer Hazel Foster raved about the fiction of Robert Warwick, the poetry of Shayok Chowdhurry, and the photography of Robert Ballen. She also recommended the special section on Short Forms. Many thanks to the staff at NewPages.
Click here for the complete review.
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NewPages Praises Issue #46
(Aug. 1, 2010) - We're thrilled about this glowing review of Hayden's Ferry Review #46 from NewPages, which called it "one big, bold, brilliant effort" and one of our "most exciting issues ever." Reviewer Sima Rabinowitz raved about our cover art, Halina Duraj's heartbreaking essay, our international section and the diversity of our contributors, among other things. Many thanks to the staff at NewPages; we're so glad this issue has struck a chord.
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Congratulations to Contributor Carolyne Wright
(Jan. 11, 2010) - A poem by contributor Carolyne Wright appears in The Best American Poetry of 2009, ed. David Wagoner (guest editor) and David Lehman; and in the Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (2010).
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High Praise For Issue #45
(Dec. 15, 2009) - Hayden's Ferry Review Issue #45 (Fall/Winter 2009-10) earned a "overwhelmingly positive" review from the online publication The Review Review. Issue #42, the last they reviewed, also earned high praise from the publication. The new review begins:
You would do well to judge the latest issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review by its cover. The front and back cover art, from Hong Hao’s photographic series “My Things,” was made “by using the scanned images of thousands of items from the artist’s everyday life.” It can take minutes for you actually to open the magazine, as the objects, “which appear almost as satellite-like representations,” continue to draw you in. Just when you think you’re finally ready to open the cover and start reading, what should fall out but a sturdy bookmark decorated with a detail from Hao’s very cover art. This is a class opening act that sets the bar high for content. Fortunately, Hayden’s Ferry Review is up to the challenge.
Read the whole review here.
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Jericho Brown Earns Whiting Writers' Award
(Oct. 30, 2009) - Poet Jericho Brown is one of the ten winners of the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award, which honors writers of exceptional talent early in their careers with $50,000. Jericho's poetry book, Please, is his first, published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2008. His poem Track 3: (Back Down) Memory Lane appeared in HFR #41. Visit the HFR blog to read the poem.
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Congratulations to Urban Waite
(Oct. 7, 2009) - HFR contributor Urban Waite just sold his two novels, The Terror of Living and Dead if I Don't at auction in New York City to Little Brown. The story collection is next. The Terror of Living he wrote while on a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center about a drug deal gone horribly wrong on the Washington/Canada border, and in the aftermath, an ex-con trying to make a good life out of a bad past. There is even a guest appearance in the novel from Eddie Vasquez, the criminal friend in "Don't Look Away," the story that appeared in HFR #42, now anthologized in Best of the West. The second novel, set in Arizona around Maricopa County, is about a cartel hitman trying to repent, but ending up deeper and deeper in sin.
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HFR Well Represented in "Best of the West" 2009
(Oct. 6, 2009) - The just-released 2009 edition of the Best of the West anthology is a collection of stories that, “…seem to tell us that the possibilities of the West are as expansive as the landscape.” HFR is pleased and honored to have two stories in this year's volume: Stephen Tuttle's "Amanuensis" and Urban Waite's "Don't Look Away," both from issue #42. Our fiction editor from that issue, Aimée Baker, also has a story included: "The Persistence of Memory," from Gulf Coast. They're joined by Joyce Carol Oates, Dagoberto Gilb, Annie Proulx and many more fantastic writers.
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Call for Translations
Hayden’s Ferry Review is looking for translations that pay close attention to cultural bodies, the way they identify themselves, interact, and maintain their distinctions. HFR’s international section wishes to explore these living arrangements as perceived by the inhabitant writer. Our intention is to provide a venue for writers who have not been recognized by the dominant literary communities; workers outside of tradition, or so deep in tradition that what they do no longer fits the literary mold.
As the international section means to respect the full dimensionalities of language—how cultures organize concepts into figures of sound, what those sounds are—there are also these elements:
An introduction by the author. Perhaps how an experience has been translated, how conditions have shaped the experience. Perhaps considering the linguistic or ethical complications of coordinating the languages, demonstrated by a specific passage of the work.
An audio component. The writer reading his or her work in the original language, accessible on HFR’s website.
Contact the international editors of HFR.
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