Riddle Fence contributor Danielle Devereaux interviews Signal Editions poet Shannon Stewart, author of Penny Dreadful, on the website of Maisonneuve. Read it here.

Click here to read Zachariah Wells’ Quill & Quire review of James Langer’s Gun Dogs. Three of the poems from Gun Dogs appear in issue number three of Riddle Fence.

We’re proud to announce that Jeramy Dodds’ Crabwise to the Hounds has been nominated for this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. Dodds’ Old Norse translation, “Brynhild’s Ride Down Hel-Way,” appears in issue number three of Riddle Fence. Click here to see Dodds’ profile page on the Griffin Trust website.

On Monday, April 6, 2009, we’ll be launching the third issue of Riddle Fence. The launch will take place at 8PM in the storied Ship Pub on Solomon’s Lane with readings by contributors Monica Kidd, Edward Riche, Russell Wangersky, and at least one poet surrogate, free food and wild revelry. If you’re in town, be [...]

Here’s a nice little mention of us on the blog of Canadian poet rob mclennan: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/03/ongoing-notes-some-canadian-journals.html, along with notes on recent issue of The New Quarterly and Descant.

and failing that, Riddle Fence. Here’s another little mention of us on the Véhicule Press blog. God bless those Montrealers.

Riddle Fence is pleased to be the current featured project on the website of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. The NLAC has been a great supporter of our journal, having already given us two $3,000 grants with which to pay our contributors. Follow this link to read an interview with managing editor Mark Callanan.

Winter getting you down? Well, I’m afraid there’s no remedy that isn’t pharmaceutical and highly addictive. What I can offer, though, is new poetry by Danielle Devereaux and Zachariah Wells from our forthcoming third issue. As for winter… well, you’ll just have to wait it out. Sorry.

after Angela Ball

To have red lipstick for a mother
is to pray for straight teeth.
To have a rice cake for a mother means
pouring skim milk over Special K.
To have a curling iron for a mother
is to long for blonde hair.
To have a streetlight for a mother
is to travel only in pairs.
To have a bible for a [...]

Here’s a little notice for you fiction writers out there. Our friends at Rattling Books are looking for more short fiction to use in their innovative Earlit Shorts audio fiction series. Here’s the call:

Rattling Books invites submissions of previously unpublished short fiction for EarLit Shorts, a new audio short fiction series launched in Fall 2008.
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