Verb announces winner of 2006 fiction contest. Joseph Rogers' story, "Let Me Go, Give Me Your Hand was selected by our judge, Thisbe Nissen. Special thanks to our contest coordinator, Laurel Snyder.

Verb: An Audioquarterly named one of Library Journal's Top Ten Magazines.

Verb is Founding Sponsor of AJC-Decatur Book Festival

Severance, a collection of stories from our patron saint, Robert Olen Butler, is getting fantastic coverage from the old grey lady.

Whale Season, the outrageous novel from NM Kelby (Her story Subtitled kicks off the latest issue) has been picked up by Dwight Yoakam's production company. This is not an option--this is the real thing. Big name casting details to come soon.

E.O. Smonk, the meanest guy in Southern Alabama, made his first appearance in Verb last year. Currently, he's tearing up the country.

Julianna Baggott, poet, novelist, children's author and verb contributor has just released a new poetry collection, Lizzie Borden in Love.

Peter Case is posting segments of his unpublished book on his website. I know he has a reading planned in Atlanta, as part of his acoustic tour. Check his site for tour dates. He's one of the best in the business, and we're proud to have him on issue 2.