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 sure to come down and see us.

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 mother means
impeccable posture.

If your mother is a blue flame, you suck
ice cubes. Leave candles unattended.

My mother is a Sunday dress. I own
a spring-form pan, keep boxes of
graham crackers on hand.

My mother is a garden party. I shop
at white elephant tables, drink
tea from chipped china.

My mother is a carnival. I grow a
beard, try my luck with the
strong man.

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Danielle Devereaux is presently at work on a manuscript of poems and a PhD.

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.

Tors Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador – March 3, 2009- Rattling Books is seeking previously unpublished short fiction for EarLit Shorts, a series of audio anthologies. Stories will be available on-line, singly or collectively, as digital downloads. Anthologies may also be published in MP3 CD format.

The series was launched in the fall of 2008 with works by Jessica Grant, Steven Heighton, Joel Thomas Hynes, Kathleen Winter, Russell Wangersky and others.

To be eligible, submissions must

· be previously unpublished between the covers of a book (i.e. stories which have appeared in periodicals are eligible);

· be between 500 and 8,000 words in length.

There are two ways to submit:

1. Send previously unpublished stories and covering letter to Rattling Books, General Delivery, Tors Cove, NL, Canada A0A 4A0.

2. Send your story or stories and covering letter to earlit.submissions@gmail.com.

Entries must be postmarked on or before March 30, 2009.

Submissions will not be returned.

Stories included in the EarLit Shorts series are subject to a royalty based publishing contract.

Website: rattlingbooks.com