Hello again all,
First off I want to thank everyone who participated in the open call for submissions to our yearly anthology “An Honest Lie”, we had about 3,000 submissions this year, and the competition was fierce with so many wonderful interpretations of this year’s theme “Delusions of Insignificance”
With so many great stories to go through it was a hard decision, but luckily there were 10 new authors and three alumni authors from our first volume of An Honest Lie who fit our vision for this volume completely
So without further adieu, your Roster for volume 2 of “An Honest Lie” is as follow
Alumni Author: Eric Trant
Alumni Author: Bob Clark
Alumni Author: C.B. Calsing
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Author: Raleigh Dugal
Author: Patrick Scalisi
Author: Terry Sanville
Author: Rob Rosen
Author: Claire Ibarra
Author: Jessica Sticklor
Author: Jessica Dunn
Author: Cynthia Witherspoon
Author: William Walton
Author: Dennis Thompson

Congratulations, to our chosen authors, and to those not chosen thank you for taking the time to submit your works to us. Now the real works begins. Who will be chosen as the next author to receive a publishing contract with Open Heart Publishing?
Go vote for the current authors of Volume 1 of An Honest Lie, the contest isn’t over yet, so head over to http://ahlvol1vote.debrincase.com and vote for your favorite volume 1 author today.
Volume 3 opens its doors for submissions in November 2010, with a brand new wacky theme, and I want to invite everyone that tried before, and those who have not tried just yet to be sure not to miss this opportunity when it opens up again.

So until the fall, I am sincerely wishing you all the best of success in everything you experience in your life, and a heartfelt well done to our contributing authors.

Debrin Case
Publisher: Open Heart Publishing

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference in Kerrville, Texas.

The first full day was hectic, since I participated in the Feature Writing and Copy Editing live competitions. That meant I arrived at noon to get my feature writing assignment, and had three hours to find a story and interview sources before reporting back for an hour of supervised writing. During one and a half of those three hours, though, I was tying for second place in the copy editing competition.

The next day, I ran for president of TIPA, and was elected! I’m very excited about the ideas the officers have already started implementing, such as working on a student portion of the TIPA website to encourage discussion between college newspapers year-round. I’m lucky to work with such a wonderful group of officers: Vice President Corey Benson, Secretary Jessica Huseman, and Parliamentarian Nahum Lopez.

The most memorable part of the TIPA conference, though, was the time I spent hanging out on the Guadalupe River with Brookhaven Courier Editor-in-Chief Kristin McKenzie, Courier Photo Editor Charlie Mills, and Eastfield College’s cartoonist and photographer Cody Richeson. When the sun went down, we found ourselves surrounded by birds making strange little shrieks. We soon realized the birds were bats, and watched them swooping and diving to eat insects from the river’s surface.

At the awards ceremony, Moulin Review, a literary journal I founded at Brookhaven College, was given an honorable mention for an essay by Elena Harding titled “Religious Disagreement” and for a short story by Brit Naylor titled “Hulking Leviathan the Sun.” The Brookhaven Courier was given 14 total awards, including an honorable mention for general excellence for Division 4.

Next year’s TIPA conference will be held in Fort Worth, TX. I know the other officers and I will be working hard in the meantime to make it a good one.