Richard Peabody• Three of Richard Peabody's stories have been published lately: "Meeting in the Air," "Popsicles on the Moon" and "Night Golf." • This is fun - check out Dave Housley's reaction to works by Gargoyle's Richard Peabody here. • The Washington Post Magazine published what a colleague has called "a lovely and long-overdue profile of (Gargoyle publisher) Richard Peabody, who does so much and then some to tirelessly promote, publicize and shape Washington writers and writing." Read it here. • To hear interviews with Richard from the DC-area public TV station (WETA-TV), download this link: http://schoolwaxtv.com/op_video/1693/embed • It's a mystery to us, but here's someone doing a live reading of Richard's work - without Richard. • Read Richard's Getting Lucky in Literal Latte. • Richard's poem "Are There Any FBI Agents in Heaven?" is in Margi.n. • A letter to Richard is quoted in the intro to the Library of America collection of Paul Bowles short stories. • Listen to Richard read poetry at Stain Bar July 27, 2007. • Read Richard's High Five in the summer 2007 issue of the JMWW review. • Richard to judge the F. Scott Fitgerald short story contest. • See Richard read poetry in New York City in 2005. • See Richard in USA Today, where he's the baseball poet. • Read a recent interview with Richard at http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue2/peabodyinterview.html or a different one at http://www.writethis.com/z7.html. • Read Richard's thoughts on the DC Literary Scene. • Read an interview with Richard in the Mainstreet Rag.
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Poetry• Read a recent poem of Richard's at Poetic Inhalations. • Read Richard's recent poems in Todd Swift's Times
New Roman: Poets Oppose 21st Century Empire anthology, Last of the Red Hot Magnetos, 2004 Rain
Flowers - e-chapbook - 2002 Buoyancy and Other Myths - 1995 Sad Fashions - 1990 Echt & Ersatz - 1985 |
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FictionAnd read his most recent stories: Getting Lucky - 2007 A More Level Playing Field in Fallujah - 2006 The Rain in Eritrea - 2005 Use as Needed, at Potion - 2005 "Stop the war or giant amoebas will eat you" - 2003 "pas de deux " - 2003 Essence of Mitchum - 2000 Sugar Mountain - 2000 Open Joints on Bridge - 1999 Paraffin Days - 1995
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As EditorStress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 50 DC Area Guys, ed. by Richard Peabody (forthcoming April 2008) Electric Grace: Still More Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. by Richard Peabody (forthcoming November 2007) Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, ed. by Richard Peabody ltd. to 1000 cc 2007 Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women -- ed. by Richard Peabody 2006 Sex & Chocolate: Tasty Morsels for Mind and Body ed. by Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody, ltd. to 1000cc, 343pp 2006 Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland, ed. by Richard Peabody ltd. to 1000cc, 319pp, 2005 Conversations with Gore Vidal (Literary Conversations Series) (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 2005, University of Mississippi. Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women -- 2004 31 Arlington Poets 2004 A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation - 1997 Mondo James Dean (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 1996 Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 1995 Loose Change by Tina Fulker - 1995 Mondo Marilyn (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 1995 Mondo Elvis (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 1994 Mondo Barbie (w/Lucinda Ebersole) - 1993 Mavericks: nine independent publishers - 1983 D.C. Magazines: A Literary Retrospective - 1982 Gargoyle Magazine - #1-51 (1976-ongoing) |
& etc.Manuscript Assessment/Literary ConsultationContact Richard at gargoyle@gargoylemagazine.com I charge $1 a page to read a manuscript sans red pen and simply tell you what I think. I send along a short 1-2pp critique and don't return the manuscript. I charge $2 a page to read and critique manuscripts. Poetry/fiction/nf. Book length or individual stories, essays, poems. I red pen the document and send a much longer written critique. All manuscripts are to be double spaced. Booklength manuscripts should be in Courier font (as that's what agents and editors expect). Checks should accompany your manuscript. |
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