Meet the finalists for the 2015 FLASH SUITE Contest
We are honored to announce our finalists for the
only at Defenestrationism.net
Daily posting of the Suites begins December 25th, 2014
Fan voting begins January 3rd, 2015
Winners announced, January 19th, 2015
What is a FLASH SUITE, you may ask?
And the finalists are…
In order of First Submission:
Indigenous Trinity by Misty Ellinburg
Misty Shipman Ellingburg is a Shoalwater Bay Indian from the coast of Western Washington. Her passions include teaching English (writing & rhetoric), social-justice blogging, and participating in Tribal Journeys. Currently, she is blogging about Ferguson at mfaconfessions.wordpress.com, curating for an American Indian literary journal, Four Winds (fourwindslitmag.org), and desperately cramming for finals at the University of Idaho, where she is obtaining her MFA in writing, class of 2016.
THEATER STAR by David Giannini
David Giannini’s most recently published collections of poetry include AZ TWO (Adastra Press,) a “Featured Book” in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival; RIM/WAVE in 2012;, and five chapbooks in 2013, including INVERSE MIRROR, a collaboration with artist, Judith Koppel; and his full-length book of selected prosepoems, SPAN of THREAD, will be published before the end of this year. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies. Awards include: Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida; and a 2009 Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, as well as preschoolers and high school students, among others; and he worked as a psychiatric case manager for 31 years. He lives among trees in Becket, Massachusetts with his wife, Pam.
winter(verb) by Laryssa Wirstiuk
Laryssa Wirstiuk is a writer and writing instructor based in Jersey City, NJ. She teaches writing and digital media at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her collection of short stories The Prescribed Burn won Honorable Mention in the 21st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards (Mainstream Fiction category). Her writing has been published in IthacaLit, Hamilton Stone Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature and is forthcoming in Barely South Review. You can view all her work here: http://www.
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