David B. Dale: Short Novel-ties

by David Brennan

David B. Dale teaches writing to international students at several colleges in and near Philadelphia. He irregularly posts 299-word fictions to his Wordpress blog, Very Short Novels. Since his days at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, David has written under the name David B. Dale (or on the web, davidbdale) to honor his parents Beatrice and Dale.

Featured Works

Very Short Novels
The Paperboy,
Trolley Problems, and
The Cutting Board

On Poetry with O’Shaughnessy

by David Brennan

Keith O'Shaughnessy teaches English at Camden County College in southern New Jersey. His poems have recently appeared, or will soon be appearing, in Columbia Magazine, Measure, Sixty-Six: The Journal of Sonnet Studies, and Able Muse. He has published two chapbooks, Carnaval and The Devil's Party, both with Pudding House Publications. Another, Snegurochka, is forthcoming this spring. He lives in Princeton.

Featured Works

Poetry
Message in a Bottle,
Incommunicado, and
Il Mio Tesoretto

Carla Spataro: Writer & Publisher

by John Schoen

Carla Spataro is co-publisher and fiction editor of Philadelphia Stories. For over five years, PS has showcased fiction, poetry and art from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, serving as the region's venue for emerging and established artists alike. First and foremost a fiction writer, Spataro is also the program director for the Rosemont Writers' Retreat, an adjunct professor at Rowan University, and the midwife of 322 Review.

Featured Works

Short Fiction
What I Did On My Summer Vacation by Simon Willcox, Jr.
The Opposite of Winter and
Tweak

Publishing
Philadelphia Stories

Interview with Mimi Schwartz

by John Schoen

Mimi Schwartz is the author of five books; the most recent is Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Echoes of My Father's German Village, a winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Memoir for 2008.

Featured Works

Creative Nonfiction
More Than Luck
The Power of the Cap and
Small Decencies

322 Review publishes provocative emerging and established artists. Conceived and operated by former Rowan University graduate students of the Master of Arts in Writing Program, 322 Review is aggressively seeking the best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and mixed media works of visual art.