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Dora Malech's Shore Ordered Ocean on the long-list for the Dylan Thomas Prize   The long-list for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and we are delighted to report that Dora Malech's Shore Ordered Ocean, published by Waywiser in November 2009, is one of the 16 books selected. The full list is shown below. The shortlist will be announced in September, and the eventual winner will receive £30,000. Ex Nihilo by Adebe D.A. (Frontenac House) Watering Can by Caroline Bird (Carcanet) Clamor by Elyse Fenton (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) One Eye’d Leigh by Katherine Kilalea (Carcanet) Shore Ordered Ocean by Dora Malech (The Waywiser Press) Cailleach by Leanna O’Sullivan (Bloodaxe Books) American Volunteers by Johnny Meyer (City on a Hill Productions) The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Granta Books) In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw (John Murray Publishers) The Road to the Sea by Ciara Hegarty (Macmillan New Writing) And This is True by Emilie Mackie (Sceptre) Family Planning by Karan Mahajan (Harper Perennial) Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (Harper Collins) The Still Point by Amy Sackville (Portobello Books) The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw (Atlantic Books) Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (Windmill Books (Random House)   For forther information about this announcement, please click on the link below:   http://www.thebookseller.co.uk/news/124025-page.html

New Titles   On July 17 2010, we published two exciting new titles. The first of these is Joining Music with Reason, a 440 page anthology of poems by British and American poets edited by Christopher Ricks. For further information about this book, click on the cover below       The other book we published on July 17 2010 is Chris Preddle's Cattle Console Him, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, hailed by Michael Schmidt as the work of "a wonderful new presence". For further details about the book, please click on the cover.

Dora Malech interviewed by Gregory Lawless   If you would like to read "I though I was new here: If You Are Reading This You Can't Be Nearly Close Enough To Me: An Interview with Dora Malech", please click on the link below: http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-you-are-reading-this-you-cant-be.html

Philip Hoy, Waywiser's Editor-in Chief interviewed by The Bow-Wow Shop   Issue No 5 of the online literary magazine The Bow-Wow Shop, edited by Michael Glover, contains interviews with the editors of a number of small literary presses, who were asked to say how they choose what they publish. To read Hoy's contribution, and the others, please click on the link below http://www.bowwowshop.org.uk/page19.htm

Dora Malech's Shore Ordered Ocean a finalist for the ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards, 2009   Dora Malech's Shore Ordered Ocean is a finalist for the ForeWords Review's Book of the Year Awards in the poetry category for 2009. For more information, please click on the link below: http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/finalists/2009/category/poetry/   http://www.bowwowshop.org.uk/page19.htm

Dora Malech featured on Verse Daily Dora Malech's poem "Let Me Explain" was featured on Verse Daily on 10 March 2011. To read this poem, please click on the link below: http://www.versedaily.org/2009/citybeach.shtml

Robert Conquest in the news   Cynthia Haven sees Robert Conquest, author of Penultimata, receive the Order of Merit from Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Read her blog at the Bookhaven: http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2009/11/conquest/

Change of Address   The Waywiser Press and its imprint Between The Lines have relocated. Our new contact details are shown below:   Bench House, 82 London Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5FN Tel: +44 (0)1608 644755   Our other contact details will remain unchanged. Any mail sent to our old adress in Surrey will be forwarded to the new address automatically.

Joseph Harrison receives Guggenheim Fellowship Joseph Harrison, Waywiser's Senior American editor, and the author of Someone Else's Name and Identity Theft, is one of nine poets to be awarded a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2009. The announcement was made public in the New York Times for April 9th 2009. http://www.gf.org/news-events/List-of-2009-Fellows-United-States-and-Canada/