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“Ghost Stories,” by Michael Collins and Annie Kim, is lovely and—appropriately enough—haunting, with the two voices echoing and playing off each other yet appearing seamless. Simultaneously dark and lyric, musical and surprising, it is everything I would look for in a collaborative sequence.
—Judge Ruth Foley

 

Ghost Stories by Michael Collins and Annie Kim

Ghost Stories

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Annie Kim

Annie Kim’s first poetry collection, Cyclorama, won the 2015 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Southern Indiana. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Mudlark, Asian American Literary Review, DMQ Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers and the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship, Kim works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the Assistant Dean for Public Service.

Michael.CollinsMichael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 50 journals and magazines, including Grist, Kenning Journal, Pank, and Smartish Pace. His first chapbook, How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water, won the Exact Change Press Chapbook Contest in 2014. A full-length collection, Psalmandala, was published later that year, and a second chapbook, Harbor Mandala, appeared in 2015. Visit www.notthatmichaelcollins.com for more.


First Runner-up: “The Dose” by Lissa Kiernan & Kim Peter Kovac

Second Runner-up: “Old Man Blue Fairy” by Dustin Michael & Neesha Navare

Honorable Mention: “Every Day a New Death” by Lisette Alonso & Janelle Garcia

Read letter from our guest judge, Ruth Foley


 About our Guest Judges

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERARuth Foley lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two greyhounds, one of whom sometimes gets mistaken for a cow. Her work is easy to find online and in her chapbooks, Dear Turquoise (dancing girl press, 2013) and Creature Feature (ELJ Publications, 2015). She is easy to find at fivethingsthatdontsuck.blogspot.com or by looking at her sofa. She serves as Managing Editor for Cider Press Review.

Patrick BagleyPatrick Shawn Bagley‘s debut crime novel Bitter Water Blues was published in January 2015 by Snubnose Press. His stories of hardscrabble life and rural mayhem have appeared in Crimespree Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Spinetingler, The Iconoclast, and the anthology Uncage Me. He was one of the founding editors of The Lineup: Poems on Crime, an annual anthology. Bagley lives and writes on a dead-end dirt road in a one-stoplight town. During the day, he works at a nonprofit community support program for adults with intellectual disabilities.

 

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Interview with our 2015 In Cahoots Guest Judge Patrick Shawn Bagley

Patrick Shawn Bagley, the novelist in our Poet-Novelist judging duo for cahoodaloodaling‘s 2015 In Cahoots contest, shares with us a little about his recent book, collaborating, and his co-judge, Ruth Foley.

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Raquel Thorne: Your book, Bitter Water Blues, came out earlier this year, one review calling it a “redneck noir”. Can you describe your take on the classic hitman mob noir?

Patrick BagleyPatrick Shawn Bagley: There are more hitman stories out there than any sane person could ever want to read. For me, the main consideration was figuring what I could do to make my guy stand out in such a huge crowd. Joey grew tired of the life and did his best to get out of it, going back to the mob only when he had no other choice. Another difference is my choice of setting. Most of the novel takes place in rural Maine, not exactly a hotbed of gangland activity. I think that setting shapes the characters and directly affects the plot. Noir doesn’t have to mean “big city.” Life in the country is just as brutal, with men and women who doom themselves day by day.

Raquel Thorne: What does collaboration mean to you as a writer?

Patrick Shawn Bagley: That’s a tough question, as I haven’t done any collaborative work in about 20 years. Communication and shared vision are key. You have to trust your creative partner, and trust your own instincts so you can let yourself play off whatever that person brings to the project.

Raquel Thorne: While she’s not looking, can you tell us something cool about Ruth Foley that she’d be too shy to share herself?

Patrick Shawn Bagley: In grad school, Ruth got her gang of poet-thugs lit up on absinthe and black Lebanese hash, and led them in an all-out assault against the creative nonfiction writers.  They wiped out the entire CNF program in less than 45 minutes. The university covered it up, of course, and paid off the families of the dead and maimed.

Also, Ruth sees the poetry in everything. That’s a rare gift. Rarer still, she has the ability to out those ideas down on paper and make her readers feel them. Ruth’s a true poet, and—despite the number of writers who claim that title for themselves—there aren’t many of those around anymore.

Read our interview with Ruth Foley
and stay tuned for our 2015 In Cahoots Contest results, out later this winter.


Patrick BagleyPatrick Shawn Bagley‘s debut crime novel Bitter Water Blues was published in January 2015 by Snubnose Press. His stories of hardscrabble life and rural mayhem have appeared in Crimespree Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Spinetingler, The Iconoclast, and the anthology Uncage Me. He was one of the founding editors of The Lineup: Poems on Crime, an annual anthology. Bagley lives and writes on a dead-end dirt road in a one-stoplight town. During the day, he works at a nonprofit community support program for adults with intellectual disabilities.

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Guest Staff Announcement: Ruth Foley & Patrick Shawn Bagley

2015 In Cahoots Collaboration Contest – SUBMISSIONS OPEN

In Cahoots Flier 2015

About guest judges Ruth Foley & Patrick Bagley:

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Ruth Foley lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two greyhounds, one of whom sometimes gets mistaken for a cow. Her work is easy to find online and in her chapbooks, Dear Turquoise (dancing girl press 2013) and Creature Feature (ELJ Publications 2015). She is easy to find at fivethingsthatdontsuck.blogspot.com or by looking at her sofa. She serves as Managing Editor for Cider Press Review

 

Patrick Bagley

Patrick Shawn Bagley‘s debut crime novel Bitter Water Blues was published in January 2015 by Snubnose Press. His stories of hardscrabble life and rural mayhem have appeared in Crimespree Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Spinetingler, The Iconoclast, and the anthology Uncage Me. He was one of the founding editors of The Lineup: Poems on Crime, an annual anthology. Bagley lives and writes on a dead-end dirt road in a one-stoplight town. During the day, he works at a nonprofit community support program for adults with intellectual disabilities.

 

More on how to submit here.

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