New Feathers Anthology (Gold Star Program) Gold Star

We believe art is a means of exploration and understanding, a way to play, to discover, and to communicate ideas and perceptions relevant to matters of the day (and beyond the day). In New Feathers Anthology, we hope to include and encourage a variety of types of literature, giving both emerging and established writers and artists a place in which they can share ambitious literature and art. We like writing and art that takes chances, risks failure, that explores both the big and the small, the social, personal, and aesthetic, that experiments and plays with forms, that is serious about playful subjects and playful about serious subjects.
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The New Feathers Award
Writers and artists are vitally important, and we want to support them outside of the usual commercial venues. New Feathers Anthology is our way of doing that. New Feathers Anthology is not a commercial venture but a gift, entirely supported through our own funds and through donations. Donations go first to expenses, but all donations over the cost of expenses will add to the New Feathers Award. At the end of the year, we will give these awards to authors or artists, selected from among our published contributors, whom we feel we want to support.

Our Editors

Wade Fox is an editor, writer, and teacher, living near Denver with his wife and two children. As an editor, he worked on the staff of Occam’s Razor, a small literary journal, edited and wrote reviews for The Whole Earth Review, was a copy editor and project editor at Ten Speed Press and Tricycle Press, and was a project editor and senior editor for Lonely Planet Publications. Besides these staff positions, he has worked for many other publishers as a freelance editor, including Chronicle Books, University of California Press, North Atlantic Press, Oakland Museum, California College of the Arts, and others, editing hundreds of books, from novels to cookbooks to children’s books. Among the more notable authors whose writing he has worked on are George Harrison, JK Rowling, and Kamala Harris. As a writer, he has published poetry and short stories in numerous literary magazines and journals. Currently, Wade works as an English professor, teaching writing at Community College of Denver.

Caroline Chapman is an artist, teacher, and writer. Like most creative writers, she began composing a book before the age of ten. A few years later, she became a student of the ballet arts and eventually enjoyed a thirteen-year career as a professional ballet dancer. Following her dance career, she began her writing career in earnest: first, earning a master's degree in rhetoric at Michigan State University and interning on the editorial staff for Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction and, following that, teaching and tutoring college writers. Caroline recently earned a second master’s degree in creative writing from the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. When she's not working with writers or reading and editing submissions for New Feathers, Caroline still enjoys taking the occasional ballet class.

John O’Leary is a writer who lives and works in the Denver area. He is particularly interested in the performative aspect of writing. John's master’s dissertation, “The Possibilities Within Silence,” investigated the philosophical ontology of the films of Buster Keaton. He has written several short plays that have been performed by The Bovine Metropolitan Theatre, and he is currently working on a book of poems. He is also a professor of humanities and English at the Community College of Denver.

Brian Dickson lives by the Charles Simic saying that “The vision of our life is a work of art.” This idea permeates gardening, cooking, worm farming, writing, and basketball. He has two chapbooks, In a Heart’s Rut (High5 Press, 2009) and Maybe This Is How Tides Work (Finishing Line Press, 2014), and one book, All Points Radiant (WordTech Editions, Cherry Grove Press, 2015), in addition to numerous journal publications. He teaches at the Community College of Denver.

Dawn Spelke is a retired English professor and writing center director who lives in the Denver area. She has also worked as a newspaper editor, reporter, and freelance writer. In addition to her latest obsessions with protecting pollinators and gardening with native plants, she enjoys helping writers explore and develop their voices.