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Vol. 11 No. 2             Vol. 1 No. 2  
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        2nd Annual
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
  • 1st place:   Don Hagelberg for 3
    poems:   "Billed to Death," "For
    Those of You    Who Know," and
    "The Rent Was Due."

  • 2nd place Wendy Anderson for
    nonfiction: "Growing Up 'Woods
    Queer'"

  • 3rd place Wendy Anderson for 3
    poems: "Little Miss," "Same Old,"
    and "Can't Go Home Again."

  • 4th place Lynn Veach Sadler for 3
    poems: "Anna's Sisu Shop,"
    "Feathers in    Fortaleza's Cap,"
    and "Giraffe Quintet."

  • honorable mentions
   Fran Wiideman
   Michael Leroy King
   Sheila Packa
   Kaarina Brooks
   Daniel McGlone
   Brian Keith Foreman

The issue also includes additional
works by these authors:
  • Ernest Hekkanen
  • JoEllyn Belka
  • Jim Heikkinen
  • Christopher Linforth
  • Michael Leroy King
  • Bill Vartnaw
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Conferences of Interest

June 9-13, 2010 NAES-FINSSE 2010:
English in the North conference
University of Oulu, Finland
Submissions are invited on linguistic,
literary or cultural topics in any area of
English Studies (papers focusing on English
in the North are particularly welcome).

Conference link and CFP:
http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/english/naes-
finsse2010/

Conference secretary email:
Riikka Mikkola (riikka.mikkola(a)oulu.fi).
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“A Free Afternoon of Finnish-
American Poetry" in Berkeley
"An Afternoon of Finnish-American
Poetry" with Paula Erkkila, Johanna
Rauhala, Bill Vartnaw, and Don
Hagelberg will be presented on Sunday,
Oct. 24 at 2pm, at Finnish Kaleva Hall,
1970 Chestnut St. (at University Ave),
Berkeley, CA, in the hall's basement
meeting room. Free Attendance. The
poems will be read in English, with
some translated work read bilingually.



Steve Lehto has another book out. It's
about turbine cars and has a forward
by Jay Leno, See a flier
here.

Gary Kaunonen's new book is out. A
review is coming soon.

Read a review of
Ernest Hekkanen's
collected short stories, vol. I,
here.

New work by
Lorraine Esala is
available. Read a review
here.

Hear samples from the forthcoming
recording by
Josef Aukee, Afterbeat
here:
www.josefaukee.com

See photos from Donna Salli's
play, The Rock Farm/Kivistön Tila, here.

Michigan’s Columbus: The Life of
Douglass Houghton
by Steve Lehto
is listed in the Library of Michigan's
2010 Michigan Notable Books.
Congratulate Steve when you see him!

Kaarina Brooks has translated a new
children's
Kalevala by Kirsti Mäkinen
and illustrated by Pirkko-Liisa
Surojegin. It is fabulous! Click
here  for
a review. This translation has earned
the
2009 Award from the American
Folklore Society.
Congratulate
Kaarina when you see her!

G. K. Wuori has published a play,
Wendy's Friend. You can find it here:
http://www.blackbird.vcu.
edu/v8n1/gallery/wuori_g/play_intro.
shtml

Jim Johnson's, Driving Gravel Roads
is available. Read a review
here.

Josef Aukee published Town and
Country
. Read a review here.

Greg Watson published The Distance
Between Two Hands.
It's wonderful.
See review:
here.

Diane Dettmann has a blog. Check it
out:
http://quillandthought.blogspot.com

Read a review of Kate Laity's Unikirja:
Dream Book
here. The book is
wonderful.

K. Alma Peterson has a new mini-
chapbook out titled
Befallen. It's
published by Alternating Current. It's
fabulous--
read a review here.
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K. Alma Peterson has a new book.
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