NEWS

For Immediate Release
Date: January 8, 2008
Contact: Elizabeth L. Hodges
     ehodges@stpetersburgreview.com

St. Petersburg Review: Contest Deadline Extended; Table at AWP; Skidan Reads

The fall was busy for St. Petersburg Review. Old friends Laura Censabella, Fiona McCrae, Dawn Raffel, George Saunders, and Matvei Yankelevich dropped by our booth at the Brooklyn Book Fair in September, as well as a host of new friends. On October 25, the gala launch at Alibi Bar in the West Village went off without a glitch, aided by Standard vodka, salmon, caviar, sushki, and Russian chocolates. And in November, we were part of the CLMP book booth at Kenyon Review Literary Festival and the Miami International Book Fair. We continue to receive positive reviews from our growing list of readers. SPR is now in 25 bookstores across the United States and abroad. For a bookstore near you, check our website, http://stpetersburgreview.com/Bookstores.html; to read a recent review (December) by newpages.com, click the link below: http://newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/2007_12/litmagreviews_2007_12.htm.

Poetry contest deadline extended: For a number of reasons, coinciding holiday season, non-existent recession, etc., SPR editors have decided to extend the deadline for the poetry contest from January 15, 2008 to February 15, 2008. All contest entries will be considered for publication. For guidelines: http://stpetersburgreview.com/Events.html. As a reminder, the unsolicited manuscript reading period closes January 15.

Associated Writers Programs Conference: SPR has reserved a table at the AWP Book Fair from January 31 to February 2. We’d love to have you stop by and visit, buy a copy of the journal, or just sample Russian chocolate. Who knows, there may even be tea. In any event, it promises to be a really fun time. Our table is in Americas Hall I, 3rd Floor, Table 333. See you there.

Aleksandr Skidan Reads in the United States: Aleksandr Skidan was born in Leningrad in 1965. He is one of Russia’s most important contemporary poets and cultural critics. His poetry collections include Delirium, In the Re-Reading, and Red Shift. The latter was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in 2006 and has been translated into English and published by Ugly Duckling Presse under the title Red Shifting. Skidan will be in the United States from January 25 to February 15 to participate in a reading tour sponsored by Ugly Duckling Presse and St. Petersburg Review: On January 27, he will read at Unnamable Books in Brooklyn, and on January 28, he will read in the Between A and B Reading Series at the 11th Street Bar in Manhattan. See his entire schedule at Ugly Duckling Presse: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/events.html.