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    Web Exclusive #3 Is Here!

    We’re pleased to announce that our third Web Exclusive is now available. To describe essayist Lauren Johnson’s style would be to cheat the reader of the quirky and delightful surprises within. Let’s just say it takes place in Stockton with imagery such as “pregnant women double-fisting pickles and brownies into their mouths” and “frozen-booger cold.” [...]

    WHAT’S YOUR EXIT? Featured in “Inside Jersey” Magazine

    Check it out here!

    Web Exclusive #2 Now Available!

    We are pleased to present our second Web Exclusive here at the official What’s Your Exit? online companion: two poems by Ray Brown, a proud and formidable New Jersey writer whose work captivates readers by regaling them with poignant–but never unnecessarily gilded–stories via a comforting, familiar voice ripe with wisdom. For more of his work, [...]

    What's Your Exit? Cover Art Revealed!

    Cover design by David Barringer. Cover photography by Lauren Vallese.

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    WHAT'S YOUR EXIT?'s first Web Exclusive Is Now Available!

    We are pleased to announce that our first web-exclusive work is now available for your reading pleasure.

    Richard Goffman’s short story The Thickening is the perfect inaugural piece for our online anthology companion. Set in the Great Northwest (of New Jersey, that is), Goffman’s prose is as tranquil and sharp as the mountainous terrain that serves [...]

    Robert Pinsky on Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick

    Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky has a new column up at Slate about kvetching poets:

    Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky

    The Yiddish verb for complaining, kvetch—literally to squeeze or to crush—has an onomatopoetic quality to my ear. All of those consonant sounds, squashed into a single syllable, surrounding the explosive grunt of the short [...]

    Maureen Egen Writers’ Exchange Award

    Attention New Jersey (resident) writers! Here’s an excellent, no entry-fee contest through Poets & Writers.

    http://www.pw.org/files/WEXApplication09.pdf

    Video: Junot Diaz on why N.J. makes for good writing

    At a recent visit to Bergen Community College, Junot Diaz talked to The Star-Ledger’s Brian Donohue about the role New Jersey plays in his writing:

    Ledger Live: Author Junot Diaz's New Jersey

    Official author list for WHAT’S YOUR EXIT?

    Susanne Antonetta
    Alicia A. Beale
    Jason Biggs
    Laura Boss
    Susan Briante
    Darin Ciccotelli
    Jackie Corley
    Dave Della Fera
    Louise DeSalvo
    Mary DiLucia
    Lorraine Doran
    Denise Gess
    Maria Mazziotti Gillan
    Edvige Giunta
    Josh Goldfaden
    Stuart Greenhouse
    John Hennessy
    Mark Hillringhouse
    James Hoch
    Erica Kaufman
    Lee Klein
    Jeffrey Ethan Lee
    J. Robert Lennon
    Paul Lisicky
    Timothy Liu
    Farid Matuk
    Joyce Carol Oates
    Alicia Ostriker
    Tom Perrotta
    Robert Pinsky
    Dominic Preziosi
    James Richardson
    Michael Aaron Rockland
    Susan Fox Rogers
    Dan Rosenberg
    Sandy Solomon
    Donna Steiner
    Gerald Stern
    Jackson Taylor
    JC Todd
    Ed Valentine
    Joe Vallese
    Timmy Waldron
    BJ Ward
    Joe Weil
    Sung J. [...]

    In Memory of Denise Gess 1952-2009

    Denise Gess, one of our wonderful WHAT’S YOUR EXIT? contributors, has passed away. We wish her loved ones our deepest condolences on behalf of the Word Riot Press family during this sad and difficult time.