Fifth Wednesday Journal

Spring 2010

Fifth Wednesday Journal is published twice a year. Details of our current edition are below. For previous editions, use the menu on the left.

Guest Fiction Editor: Edie Meidav
Guest Poetry Editor: Monica Berlin
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Edie Meidav

Edie Meidav is the author of Crawl Space (FSG/Picador), The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner), and the forthcoming Steal Me (FSG). She has received for her work a Lannan Fellowship, a Bard Fiction Prize for Writers Under 40, the Kafka award for Best Novel by an American Woman, a Fulbright in Sri Lanka, and her work has been cited as an editors' pick by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Litblog Coop, The Electric Review, and elsewhere. A former director of the MFA in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California, she teaches at Bard College in New York.
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Monica Berlin

Monica Berlin's recent poems have appeared in Diagram, Rhino, Tammy, Fourteen Hills, New OrleansReview, ThirdCoast, Dislocate, Artful Dodge, The MissouriReview, and After Hours. Her critical work has been published with MLA’s Profession, Black Warrior Review, and Dalkey Archive Press. In addition to a handful of nominations for Pushcarts, she was awarded an Illinois Arts Council grant in 2005. Recently, she won the Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize from Passages North for her essay, “The Eighteenth Week,” which is forthcoming. Berlin is an Associate Professor of English at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where she teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, and serves as the Associate Director for the Program in Creative Writing

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Contributors:

Greg Bathon, Marianne Boruch, James Carpenter, Reginald Gibbons, Dale M. Kushner, Marge Piercy, Michael Ravitch, Rob Shore, Leigh Wells, Michael Zapata, and others.

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Fifth Wednesday Journal

Defining literature. In real context.

Spring 2010

Edie Meidav

Monica Berlin