http://gwinstonjames.com/content gwinstonjames.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:00:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Top Pen Press Inaugural Title, Shaming the Devil, Named Multiple Literary Award Finalist   HOLLYWOOD, Florida (March 19, 2010) – In February 2009 Top Pen Press introduced the collected fiction of noted poet, author, editor G. Winston James, and thereby set as its mission to establish itself alongside other ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2010/03/19/shaming-the-devil-selected-multiple-literary-award-finalist/ Top Pen Press is proud to announce that Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories by G. Winston James has been mentioned as one of "The Best LGBT Books of 2009" by the blog BandofThebes.com in an article for which the blog's editors "asked a few dozen authors ranging from eminently established prizewinners ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2009/12/04/shaming-the-devil-one-of-2009s-best/ http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2009/07/23/fire-ink-iii-cotillion-invites-attendees/ You wolf me in ways that brisk blood loiters too briefly to know This distension an agony of requests for attention Permission to want to moisten you across lips, behind ear there Where howling waits to murder me liquid, languid Slender beast I am begging you “Break me with your dark hair” Brand me Sully me at the sty Crook my knees to hooves Bay me profligate ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2009/06/09/saintsinner/ Saints and Sinners Literary Festival for everyone interested in reading, writing and publishing Posted by mcmontoy May 14, 2009 12:00PM Steven Forster / The Times-Picayune Archive Saints and Sinners Literary Festival founder Paul Willis says the festival is for everyone interested in reading, writing and publishing. The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival holds ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2009/05/18/g-winston-james-inducted-into-the-saints-and-sinners-literary-festival-hall-of-fame/ It's now been just over a month since my new book, and first book length fiction collection, SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, was released from Top Pen Press. I couldn't be happier with the responses I've received from readers who've referred to the book as "erotic," "ravishing," "disturbing" ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2009/04/06/bringing-sexual-back/ Today, more than almost any other day, I awoke feeling as if something profound had shifted in this country, the world and in myself. It's perhaps a sad commentary on my previous lack of faith that I did not believe that the day of an African-descended President of the ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2008/11/05/obama-the-us-the-world-and-me/ After spending 4 1/2 hours in line yesterday in order to cast my vote for Senator Obama, it comes as no surprise to me that--as is true of most of the people around me on line yesterday in Hollywood, FL--the whole world recognizes the positive change that Barack Obama ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2008/10/21/world-citizens-prefer-obama-to-mccain-nearly-4-to-1/ While this is a site dedicated to the promotion of writing and art, I won't pretend that I am not a political person and writer. Further, I am one whose support is now firmly behind Sen. Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In his appearance on Larry King, I thought Chris Rock ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2008/09/26/chris-rock-on-the-election/ Sadly, Reginald Shepherd -- poet, essayist, anthologist and blogger -- passed away on the night of Wednesday, September 10th.  An incredibly talented writer and thinker, I met him in 2002 when he generously participated in the inaugural Fire & Ink Festival for LGBT People of African Descent.  Reginald was forty-five years old and died ... http://gwinstonjames.com/content/2008/09/14/we-mourn-the-loss-of-our-poet-reginald-shepherd-1963-2008/