Linda Addison - Dark Poet/Author

Awesome news-my poetry collection, BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL, won a HWA Bram Stoker award! Making me a two-time Bram Stoker winner (very kool).
It was a tie with the book Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon. This was a happyness because I love their work!
For the official HWA press release of all the winners go to: [http://www.horror.org/news-2007stokerwinners.htm]
Also check out my pictures from WHC2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah for the World Horror Convention and the Bram Stoker award presentation.
BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL is available at:
- Horror Mall
-Amazon
- Space and Time Books .
LATEST NEWS:
ONLINE INTERVIEW AT IROCKTALK RADIO:
Listen to my interview online at iRockTalkRadio with Jerry Royce:
-scroll down the page to the Online with PrimeTime section
-scroll the list of interviews down (the list starts with LA Banks) to “Linda Addison Show”
-select my interview by clicking on “Linda Addison Show”
-the interview is about 45 minutes long and begins with an introduction by Jerry Royce.
-ASIMOV’S SF MAGAZINE, JULY/2008 issue: There is a wonderful review of my book in the On Books section by Paul Di Filippo.
The April/2008 issue of ESSENCE MAGAZINE has a reprint (page 195) of my poem, After The Fire, from my collection "Being Full of Light, Insubstantial".
Check out my online essay on History & Writing .
An online interview MARCH 1, 2008 with George Cook:
Let's Talk Honestly
A video of my reading three poems from my latest collection is on Fearzone
What's being said about my new collection:
“There is something otherworldly and magical about Linda Addison's poetry, as though she is a primordial force of nature who can see to the very bottom of the oceans and to the very end of the universe. From "Falling Away": Falling away from Earth/releasing time and pain/an exhalation of demons/wait to chew at bones left behind/ … begins one of the finest contemplations of the end of corporeal existence I've ever encountered.
BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL is a major poetry collection by a major American poet whose talent seems to grow exponentially with each collection she's published. Includes breathtaking photo-art by Brian James Addison.” —J.L. Comeau, award winning short story writer; read more at http://www.countgore.com/Tomb.htm
"With an unusual blend of lyricism and concentrated detail, Linda Addison offers up her distinctive poetic skills that are unlike any you've encountered elsewhere. BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL is poetic achievement as solid and well-founded as a palace cornerstone. And that palace rings with the thrum and cadence of voice, weaving tales and songs full of fantasy and myth that will sweep you down from the eaves and up to the towers."--Tom Piccirilli, author of THE MIDNIGHT ROAD
My first two collections are still available, Animated Objects (fiction and poetry) & Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (poetry, received the HWA Bram Stoker award-I'm the first African-American to receive the Bram Stoker).
My most recent publications are: poetry in the hardcover release edited by Gerard Houarner, DEAD CAT TRAVELING CIRCUS OF WONDERS AND MIRACLE SHOW, featuring fiction by Tim Lebbon, Gary Braunbeck, Brian Hodge, Michelle Scalise, Jeffrey Thomas, Wrath James White, and Jeffrey Thomas, among others.
I am also the only author with fiction in three landmark anthologies that celebrate African-Americans speculative writers: the award-winning anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction (Warner Aspect), Dark Dreams (Kensington), and Dark Thirst (Pocket Book).
“Linda Addison pours heart and soul upon the page ...” —Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine
“Linda brings a tight focus to small, intimate details which in turn illuminate and echo larger concerns.” —The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Member of HWA (Horror Writers Association), SFWA (Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), SFPA (Science-Fiction Poetry Association) and BAIP (Black Americans In Publishing) & founding member of CITH (Circles In The Hair).
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