POWDER NEWS

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6/18/10 Kore Press plans to travel the Tucson roads this fall with Coming in Hot: The Civil Discourse Tour.

 

5/4/09: "Emerging Authors" interview with Christy Clothier in Denver Examiner

https://www.examiner.com/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Emerging-author-profile-Christy-Clothier

3/3: Adoring review in the Spring '09 issue of Bitch: feminist response to popular culture:

http://bitchmagazine.org/

3/1: Article in Stripes Guam:

http://www.stripesguam.com/epaper

1/13: Glowing review on the "Girlbomb" site:

http://girlbomb.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/powder-a-book-review-by-georgia.html

11/30: Trailer and blurb in "Book Screening:"

http://bookscreening.com/2008/11/30/powder-writing-by-women-in-the-ranks-from-vietnam-to-iraq-edited-by-lisa-bowden-and-shannon-cain/

11/14: Powder reached the top 50 on Amazon.com's List of (100) Hot New Releases -- help it rise!

http://www.amazon.com/Powder-Writing-Women-Ranks-Vietnam/dp/1888553251/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226956298&sr=8-1

11/12: Piece in the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base News:

http://www.aerotechnews.com/davis-monthanafb/commentary/POWDER--Writing-by-women-in-the-ranks--from-Vietnam-to-Iraq

11/11: Article in the Arizona Daily Star:

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/266651

11/11: Featured on KOLD News, Channel 13:

http://www.kold.com/global/story.asp?s=9333082

11/11: Entry in the popular book-centered blog "galleycat:"

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/new_upcoming/stories_for_veterans_day__100336.asp

11/11: Blurb about the Chicago event on NBC:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/around_town/the_scene/What-Youre-Doing-Tonight-11-11.html

11/11: Blurb about the Chicago event in the Illinois Coalition for Justice, Peace and the Environment:

http://icjpe.org/calendar/showevent.php?eventID=1088

11/10: Piece on Powder and Elizabeth Keough McDonald in the Gallup Independent:

http://www.gallupindependent.com/2008/11november/111008poetofwar.html

11/10: Piece on Powder and Judith K. Boyd in the Rocky Mountain Telegram:

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/community/book-by-women-veterans-features-nc-wesleyan-grad-233868.html

11/9: Charlotte M. Brock had an interview on NPR; listen to the podcast:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96793488

11/7: Alt Weeklies mentioned Powder:

http://www.altweeklies.com/books/powder_writing_by_women_in_the_ranks_from_vietnam_to_iraq/Topic?oid=683430

11/7: Attention from the Gotham Writers' Workshop:

http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyExcerptByInstructor.php?ExcerptID=77

11/7: "The Brainpan" blog promoted the Tucson event:

http://thebrainpan.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/powderwriting-by-women-in-the-ranks/

11/7: Listing for Women & Children First event in Gapers Block:

http://www.gapersblock.com/slowdown/archives/literary/

11/6: Tucson Weekly spoke of Powder and named it their "Pick of the Week:"

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/CityWeek/Content?oid=oid:118142

11/5: Article about book and event in the "Front Page" section of Tucson Citizen:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/frontpage/101788.php

11/1: Pima County Public Library (host of the Veteran's Day event in Tucson) had a blurb for the launch:

http://www.library.pima.gov/about/news/?id=1039

10/22: Powder promoted on the New Pages literary magazine's blog:

http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

10/20: Reviewed by Crosscut: News of the Great Nearby:

http://crosscut.com/2008/10/20/military/18573/

Coming up: Powder will be taught as part of Sociology 462 (Women in the Military) at the University of Maryland University College Asian Division, which offers undergraduate courses on military bases throughout the Pacific.  If the course is successful they’ll offer it at other locations and online.

 
   

 

POWDER READINGS

 

November 11, noon: Charlotte M. Brock, Christy L. Clothier and Elizabeth Keough McDonald read at the Powder Launch Party in Jacome Plaza (see above.)

 

November 11, 3:00: Terry Hurley, Anna Osinska Krawczuk, Cameron Beattie and Judith K. Boyd had a booksigning at the entrance to the Women's Memorial Ceremonial, just after WIMSA's annual Veteran's Day festivities.

November 11, 7:30: Sharon D. Allen, Elaine Little Tuman and Dhana-Marie Branton read at the Women & Children First bookstore, which now carries numerous copies of Powder.

     Women & Children First

     5233 N Clark St
     Chicago, IL  60640