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Charles W. Pratt, author of Still Here, was featured on New Hampshire Chronicle on WMUR TV (Channel 9) Monday September 29 at 7:30 pm.

Charlie and Joan Pratt have been running Apple Annie's orchard for 25 years and they're marking the occasion

with the release of Still Here, inspired by the setting. WMUR's Jennifer Crompton will conduct the interview.

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The New England Poetry Club was founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aikens. It has members all over the world. And conducts the oldest reading series in the country. The New England Poetry Club also give the Golden Rose, reputed to be the oldest literary award, annually to the poet who has in a lifetime, or in the past year, done the most for the art of poetry.

Previous award winners have included Northrop Frye, Umberto Eco, and Flannery O'Connor. The 2005 Book of the Year was Susannah Brietz Monta's Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press), while in 2006 the award went to Arthur Kirsch's Auden and Christianity (Yale University Press). Last year, the committee presented two awards: one to Lori Branch and Baylor University Press honoring Rituals of Spontaneity and one for original literature to Tanya Runyan and Finishing Line Press for Delicious Air.

The CCL, an interdisciplinary association allied with the Modern Language Association (MLA), has been engaged since 1956 with exploring the relations between Christianity and literatures throughout history and across national traditions. The Conference now includes hundreds of active members from a variety of religious traditions (Catholic and Protestant) and academic institutions in the United States, Canada, and more than a dozen other countries; it publishes the quarterly journal Christianity and Literature.

Please note that Finishing Line Press publishes people of all faiths and cultural backgrounds.

FLP AUTHORS: Please let us know if you will be attending the 2009 AWP conference,

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Congratulations! Charles Pratt on PBS

Charles Pratt featured in National PBS documentary profiling New England writers workshop.

Finishing Line author Charles Pratt, joins other members of the long-running, Skimmilk Farm writers workshop in the half hour documentary MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK: 30 YEARS OF WRITERS AT WORK. Released in 2008, through American Public Television, MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK has aired all over the PBS system, and continues to pick up air dates. The film celebrates the wit and wisdom of some of New England's top writers, mostly poets, in interviews and workshop scenes from Skimmilk Farm, the summer home in southern NH, of poet Jean Pedrick. Founded by members of the Alice James Books press in the 1970's, the workshop attracted many writers, nurturing the careers of several noted poet laureates of NH, essayist Nancy Mairs, and Pratt, who became the first male member of the group.

Boston Globe called MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK a " fitting tribute" and current NH Poet Laureate Pat Farignoli called the film "exquisite....a joy to watch". For more information and to order a DVD of the film contact: skimmilk@kbprods.com
or call Ken Browne Productions at 212 240 9044.

Visit : www.kbprods.com/skimmilk

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Concord Festival of Authors

Charles W. Pratt, author of Still Here, winner of the 2008 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, will be reading at The Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, on Sunday, November 2 at 3 p.m. He will be joined by 10 other Concord Poetry Center members who have published with the press:

The event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors. A reception and book signing will follow. Directions at www.concordpoetry.org.

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Check out this great site which features Heather McNaugher, author of Panic & Joy :

The link to a blog run by Karen Lillis, a Pittsburgh librarian who also runs Lillis Distributor/Pittsburgh: A SMALL small press Distributor & Info Provider.

Check out this great site which features George Held , author of THE ART OF WRITING AND OTHERS :

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• Congratulations to Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others; GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott, author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY; Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW! Poems from their FLP books were recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. (These titles are available on amazon.com) The Writer’s Almanac is a daily radio program produced by American Public Media (APM). In each program Mr. Keillor presents a list of cultural events and anniversaries, many associated with literature and literary figures, then ends with the poetry reading. APM currently distributes the program for broadcast to about 320 non-commercial public radio stations around the country. The program audio is also streamed and podcast from and archived on the APM website at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org and may be streamed, archived on carrying station websites as well.

• You can hear Julene Tripp Weaver read her poetry: Julene Tripp Weaver and Ellen Bass read their poetry on Talking Earth: KBOO, 90.7 Portland, Oregon Radio,. Broadcast live on the web! And The Moe Green Poetry Hour, a World Wide Word Radio Network. David Rowe from New Orleans reads first. It aired Sunday April 6th, it is available to listen to at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword

• World Wide Word Radio Network , Michille Biting author of Blue Laws was a featured guest on the Moe Green Poetry Hour hosted by Rafael FJ Alvarado and Corrie GreatHouse: March 16 show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/page/3

• Edythe Haendel Schwartz, author of Exposure, was Jeffrey Callison's guest on "Inisght,",

The podcast of the program is available at www.capradio.org/insight. March 6, 2008 show
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ABIGAIL GRAMIG! Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO ) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology. Available at amazon.com.

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