Upcoming Stonewall Release: Kathi Wolfe

BrickHouse Books is pleased to announce the upcoming fall release of Love and Kumquats: New and Selected Poems from 2014 Stonewall Prize winner, Kathi Wolfe.

Stonewall is an imprint of BHB that uplifts and amplifies the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community. The name honors the history of the Stonewall Uprising, a turning point in the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement. This weekend marks the 50th anniversary. You can read more about the Stonewall Uprising in this New York Times article.

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Wicked Woman Release Event: Linda Quinlan

Brickhouse Books is proud to present Linda Quinlan, whose manuscript Chelsea Creek won the Wicked Woman Book Prize. Linda will receive her prize and read from her work at a luncheon at the Arts Club of Washington on September 12, 2019. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required at www.artsclubofwashington.org/events.

Linda Quinlan has been published in numerous literary journals, some of which include Pudding, New Orleans Review, Sinister Wisdom, and the North Carolina Literary Review. She was Poet of the Year in Wisconsin and had a play entitled When I Go to Sleep performed at the Players Theater in Waitsfield, Vermont. She lives with her partner in Montpelier, Vermont.

Judge Selected for 2019 Wicked Woman Book Competition

Katherine E. Young

Katherine E. Young has been selected as the judge for the 2019 Wicked Woman Book Competition! The contest opens in September.

Katherine is the author of Day of the Border Guards and two chapbooks. She was a 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Subtropics, and many others. She is the translator of Farewell, Aylis by Akram Aylisli, as well as Blue Birds and Red Horses and Two Poems by Inna Kabysh; her translations of classic and contemporary Russian-language writers have won international awards. Young was named a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow and from 2016-2018 served as the inaugural poet laureate of Arlington, Virginia.

Submissions Update

We are temporarily closing the submissions queue for BrickHouse Books and our imprints beginning tonight at midnight, EST.  Submissions will reopen on June 1st. We are eager to catch up on reviewing all of your thoughtful submissions, and we are so thankful for your patience.

Announcing the Winner of the Wicked Woman Book Prize

Brickhouse Books is proud to announce that Linda Quinlan has won the Charlene Kushner Wicked Woman Book Prize for her manuscript Chelsea Creek.  Judge Rose Solari lauded the manuscript for its “beautifully controlled but deeply felt elegiac tone.”  We look forward to publishing this work, and hope to make it available in September.

Other finalists were Rasma Haidri for Blue Like Apples and Alex Stolis for The Knife Thrower’s Wife.  Thank you to all who submitted and gave us the chance to read their work.

An award ceremony and reading from Chelsea Creek will take place at the Arts Club of Washington on September 12th.

Sandra Evans Falconer and Michael H. Levin Reading

Poets Sandra Evans Falconer and Michael H. Levin will appear at the Kensington Row Bookshop for a reading on February 27th. This event was arranged by Judith McCombs and M.C. Nancy Allinson. Visit kensingtonrowbookshop.com for directions and other information on this local, independent bookstore.

Katherine E. Young at the Arts Club of Washington

Katherine E. Young, poet laureate of Arlington, VA and NEA translation fellow, will be appearing at the Arts Club of Washington on January 31st for a reading as part of the Club’s First Poetry Lunch. For tickets and more information, visit the Arts Club of Washington.