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Photo credit Brandon Markin/Brandon Markin Photography

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Grace Vest Speaks at 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival

May 1, 2018

What an outstanding 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival! Thank you to all who came out for Grace Vest’s reading and talk on Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories. Cover boy, “Champ,” had a great time greeting fans.

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The 2018 Arkansas Lit Fest brings authors together! Below left, Grace Vest and publisher Erin Wood with poet Karen Hayes of Dogtown Poetry who will be featured in Wood's Spring 2019 Women Makers of Arkansas project. At right, Vest meets Brandon Markin of Brandon Markin Photography, chosen by Arkansas Arts Center Director Todd Herman as winner of Et Alia's 2018 Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest for his series on the Helena Boxing Club.

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Image from Helena Boxing Club by Brandon Markin of Little Rock, winner of the Et Alia Press Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest's Art/Photography Category.

Image from Helena Boxing Club by Brandon Markin of Little Rock, winner of the Et Alia Press Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest's Art/Photography Category.

Congratulations to the Winners of our Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest!

March 5, 2018

 

Manuscript Winner

(Judge HK Hummel)

Megan Blankenship of Melbourne for her poetry collection, Mount Olive

Runners-up

Wendy Carlisle of Eureka Springs for her poetry collection, Neglected Histories

Bethany May of Little Rock for her essay collection, Poser

 

Art/Photography Winner

(Judge Todd Herman)

Brandon Markin of North Little Rock for image #9808 from his photography collection, Helena Boxing Club

Runners-up

Meikel Church of North Little Rock for his collage, “Assemblage,” from his collection, Meikel Church Collage

Matt White of Little Rock for “After Pop Passed” from his photography collection, Strangers Along the Way

 

Judge’s Honorable Mentions

Laura Raborn of Little Rock for her collection, People and Places: Paintings of My Home

Chelsey Becker of Conway for “My Black Cohosh” from her collection, My Ozark Granny

 

Thank you to all who entered!

It was an honor to have your enthusiastic participation, experience your creativity, witness your bravery, and enjoy your work. The winners in each category will receive $125 each, publication, and five copies. Runners-up will receive $25 each, publication, and two copies. Due to the wonderful quality and variety of entries, Et Alia will also include select other submissions in this collection, forthcoming in print in 2018. 

Et Alia's Honorable Mentions, to be published with the collection contingent on author consent:

Saira Khan of Little Rock for her poetry collection, Bird Girl

Ed Madden of Columbia, South Carolina (originally of Newport) for two poems from his collection Burning the Fields

Joanne Meeks of Hot Springs for select works from her Cherokee Roots Art Collection

Maxine Payne of the Arkansas Ozarks for her photography collection, Untitled Arkansas

Jeannie Fowler Rodriguez Stone of Russellville for select works from her collection, Liminal Landscapes

 

a huge round of applause to our judges, Todd Herman and HK Hummel, for their effort, time, and expertise. 

 

And a special thank you to Et Alia's Spring intern, Victoria Mays.

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