WINNERS OF THE 2008 LIFE LONG PRESS PUBLICATION CONTEST!

I am pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Life-long Press publication contest! Join us to celebrate the release of the publication and the two year anniversary of Back Room Live at Mc Nally's Irish Pub in Oakland on Dec. 6th 2008 and at Book Zoo to hear the contributors of /BRL Editor's Choice Edition/ live on January 8th 2009 (further info. about both events to follow). The editions will be available live, on line and at Bay Area Book Sellers. Thank you so much to those of you who sent me pages; I am excited to announce that Back Room Live will be going on line Saturday January 29th 2009 at 7pm! I'll be launching a new blog to post the work of four writers the last Saturday of each month and will be requesting/ accepting submissions beginning Feb 1st (details to be posted).
Congratulations ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! HARMONY HOLLIDAY ! SARA MUMOLO !
Harmony Holiday is a graduate student in the MFA program at Columbia University. She teaches dance and writing part time in New York and is currently completing her first collection "Negro League Baseball" and working a chapbook entitled "Scripture for the Perverts" based on Freud's "Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality."

Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.
Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press. She has also edited Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, where she is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry. She is involved in anti-war activism with CodePink. These pieces are from Practical Water, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2009.
Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press, 1998, pbk. 2000), among many other works of criticism and theory. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing for the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Modern Review, Parthenon West, and New American Writing,. She is the current recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Award, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007) and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Sara Mumolo works at Studio One Art Center in Oakland CA and runs the Studio One Reading Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shampoo, Hoboeye, Dusie, Typo & others. Find her chapbook Brain in a Vat at Stormy Petrel Press.