Thanks to everybody who bought a copy of OH NO No. 1, signed up for our mailing list, and came to the OH NO reading/Bebe Zeva screening; thanks to all of our contributors who read at said reading, our friends who refilled our water bottles while our tongues flapped through pitch after pitch, and our table neighbors who overheard our flapping tongues all day; and really most of all, thanks to Becca Wadlinger and Kirby Johnson for organizing the whole festival. We met a lot of excellent people and drank a number of beers (also excellent) and hung out in ...
We’re delighted to pass on some wonderful news: issue one contributor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won the Red Hen Press poetry contest, and her first collection, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, is forthcoming in 2012. If you’ve read her poems in OH NO (all three of which appear in the manuscript), you know her work is inventive, funny, and tough (or more like, TUFF), and like us, you can’t wait to have the book on your shelf.
OH NO is now available at Domy Books in Houston, which is kind of great since we’re going to be there in early April for the Houston Indie Book Fest.