Linda Eisenstein Poetry & Fiction

Awards

 

Second Prize

2000 Ohio Poetry Day

The Persistence of Memory Contest

"A Tale Retold"

 

Third Prize

Best of Ohio Writers Poetry Contest (1995)

Ohio Writer, Jan./Feb. 1996

"Sonnet for my Brother"

 

Third Prize,

WritersBloc Fiction Contest (1996)

"Her Mouth, In Which I Drowned"

 

Honorable Mention

Bicentennial Competition

Sestina: My Grandmother Laughs"

in Voices of Cleveland

(CSU Poetry Center, 1996)

 

Second Prize,

Creative Writing Contest

Cleveland State University, Fall, 1992

 

Publications (Selected)

 

"Ode to the Middle of the Road"

Gayety Zine, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2003

 

"Books Are Bombs", "Lutheran Doctrine", "Night Cafe"

Painted Moon Review, Winter Solstice, 2002

 

"Praise Songs"

Whirligig, Winter 2001

 

"Her Mouth, In Which I Drowned

BEST BISEXUAL EROTICA 2000

 

"Books Are Bombs",

Fireweed, Winter 2000

 

"Hints to Earthly Hosts and Hostesses"

The Listening Eye, Summer 1999

 

"There MEGO Again"

ICON, 1998

 

"F2F"

Blithe House Quarterly, fall, 1998

 

"Her Mouth, In Which I Drowned"

Paramour, Fall, 1996

 

"To Playwrights"

Market InSight, Feb. 1996

 

"The Pigeon Lake Accords"

"The Kitchen"

Whiskey Island, Winter 1996

 

"Ode to the Middle of the Road"

Lesbian Exchange of New Drama , Fall, 1995

 

"Untitled"

"Gemini Lover"

"To a Winter Flasher"

Amelia #27, 1995

 

"Coming Out at Parties"

Kalliope, a journal of women's art, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (1994)

 

"Four Cats Are Too Much With Us"

Cumberland Poetry Review, Fall, 1994

 

"Domestic Tragedy"

Kinesis, September 1994

 

Chapbooks

 

A Private Language Speaks in Public

Herone Press (1992)

 

Fellow Travelers

Herone Press (1993)