Susanna Moore to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Susanna Moore, the American author who is currently the writer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide, who has written novels including “My Old Sweetheart”, (published in 1983 as the first part of a trilogy, and which won the PEN Hemingway Citation and the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), “In the Cut” (made into a film, directed by Jane Campion), and “The Big Girls”, and also non-fiction books about her native Hawaii, “I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii” and “Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii”, and who in 1999 was awarded the Prize for Literary Achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 8.

A.C. Grayling to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, here talking about “Darwin, Humanism and Science”, and author of many works including “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness” , “The Choice of Hercules” and “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Society and Enlightenment Values”, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 8.

Poetry by Tsvetanka Elenkova and Pascale Petit published in Summer Issue of “Poetry Review”

“Pain”, a poem by Tsvetanka Elenkova, the Bulgarian poet who contributed an example of her poetry to Issue 5 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, has been included, in an English version by Jonathan Dunne, in the Summer (”Cosmopolis”) 2009 Issue of “Poetry Review”, the UK Poetry Society’s magazine, edited by Fiona Sampson. The issue also includes “The Little Deer” by French/Welsh poet, Pascale Petit, a contributor to Issue 6 of Interlitq.

Interlitq contributors and Consulting Editors to give various readings at the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute this July

Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate, is not the only contributor to “The International Literary Quarterly”  who will be giving a reading (July 6th) at the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs). Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of the review, will be giving a fiction reading from “them” and “We Were The Mulvaneys” on July 10th in the Gannett Auditorium. Furthermore, at the same event, two Consulting Editors of Interlitq will be reading from their work: Campbell McGrath, a Consulting Editor with effect from Issue 7, will be reading from “American Noise” on July 8th; and Caryl Phillips, a Consulting Editor with effect from Issue 8, will be reading from “A Distant Shore” and “The Nature of Blood” on July 9th.

Frances Spalding to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Frances Spalding, the art historian, critic and biographer, a Professor of Art History at Newcastle University, author of many works including “Roger Fry: Art and Life” , “British Art since 1900″ ,  “Duncan Grant: A Biography” and “Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections”, and whose biography “John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art” will be coming out later this year, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 8.