2016 Pushcart Nominations

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

I am so proud of our 2016 issues, and it was very difficult to choose only six pieces for the Pushcart Nominations. Congratulations!

A Quick Lunch from the Noodle Stand by Lisa Stice (Volume 2, Issue 1)

A Straight Line through the Labyrinth by Elisha Holt (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Into the Ease by Joshua Daniel Cochran (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Penny Altars by Teressa Rose Ezell (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Pinning by Lindsay A. Chudzik (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Spark Plugs by Scott Blackburn (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Issue 5 Deadline–November 15

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The deadline is approaching!

We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme. (The theme is optional!)

The theme: Depression. Show us the diagnosis, dealing with depression, overcoming depression, anything to do with depression. Give us artwork, stories with depressed characters, poems with depressed speakers, comics, and so on. Interpret it yourself and show us what you created.

Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates
We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme.

The theme: Depression. Show us the diagnosis, dealing with depression, overcoming depression, anything to do with depression. Give us artwork, stories with depressed characters, poems with depressed speakers, comics, and so on. Interpret it yourself and show us what you created.

Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

Phil Temples

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Phil Temples lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and works as a computer systems administrator at a university. He has published over one hundred works of short fiction in print and online journals. Blue Mustang Press recently published Temples’s full-length murder-mystery novel, The Winship Affair. And his new paranormal-horror novel, Helltown Chronicles, has just been accepted by Eternal Press.

Those Two Legs, Volume 2, Issue 2

Susan Speranza

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Susan Speranza is in her last year of the MFA Writing program at Lindenwood University. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals, including The Literary Yard and The Voices Project. In 2012, she was a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The same novel was on the short list of finalists in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition. It was subsequently published as The Tale of Lucia Grandi, the Early Years by Brook House Press. It has since garnered favorable reviews and has been compared to the American classic, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Lord of the Song, Volume 2, Issue 2

Hannah Robison

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Hannah Robison is a junior in the Creative Writing conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts located in Santa Ana, California. She is also part of the Los Angeles-based program “WriteGirl” and Cottonwood Church’s Youth Unleashed Creative Writing program. Her dream is to be a professional songwriter, but she also loves writing scripts and nonfiction pieces.

The Eighth Grade Graduation Speech I Never Gave, Volume 2, Issue 2

Quinn Ramsay

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Quinn Ramsay is a native Oregonian and graduate of the University of Glasgow. His prose and poetry have been published in Paragraphiti, From Glasgow to Saturn, Santa Clara Review, PLUM, and Gemini, and he has been a recipient of the Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing. He was recently a co-editor and designer of Williwaw: an Anthology of the Marvellous.

As We Are Married, my thoughts run backward, Volume 2, Issue 2

Fabrice Poussin

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Fabrice Poussin is assistant professor of French and English. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in France at La Pensee Universelle, and in the United States in Kestrel, and Symposium.  His photography work has also been published in Kestrel and is scheduled for upcoming publications.

Dreaming, On the Hill, and Quijote’s King, Volume 2, Issue 2

Painter’s Heaven, Conflict, Abandoned, Earth’s Palette, Last Hope Lost, So Far My Love, Loner, Mystery, and Purity, Volume 5, Issue 2