Saturday, August 26, 2017

RUMORS AND BORDERS: EIGHT WESTERN PLAYS, by Red Shuttleworth





Rumors and Borders:
Eight Western Plays

by

Red Shuttleworth



Red Shuttleworth's Rumors and Borders, available as a Humanitas Media Publishing paperback from Amazon, presents eight plays set in the American West.

Shuttleworth is a 2017 Tanne Foundation Award Recipient.  His Woe to the Land Shadowing won the 2016 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Poetry Book.  A three-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Poetry, Shuttleworth was named "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007 by True West magazine.


Red Shuttleworth



Shuttleworth's plays have been presented widely, including at State University of New York at Fredonia, Saddleback College, Sundance Playwrights Lab, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Rumors and Borders contains the following plays:

Days of Daring

The Only Waco Delaney

Rooster and Ponytail

More Honky Tonk Scars 

Rangeland's Gone

This is Dead Level

Farewell the Catastrophe Works

The Genuine Love of the Kid's Life



Thomas W. Loughlin, Jason Ostrowski, and Melissa K. Miller in the SUNY-Fredonia production of The Only Waco Delaney.



Many thanks to the actors and directors who helped develop and then present these eight plays.  Thank you...  Susan Bailey, Danny Beaupre, Tara Bialy, Kim Danser, Peter Dimas, Chris Esparza, Todd Espeland, Kymm Gant, Bradley Goodwill, Evan K. Harrington, Michele Helberg, Jim Henry, Mary Kennedy, Kristine Leslie, Amy Livingston, Toni Loppnow, Thomas W. Loughlin, Stephanie I. Ludes, Davey Marlin-Jones, Shawn Martin, Jeff McConnell, Evan McDonnell, Melissa K. Miller, Matt Osterhaus, Jason Ostrowski, Matthew C. Ralyea, Mary Regan, Cathy Reinhemer, Dean Rutherford, Steve D' Smith, Laura Tompkins, Gina Torrecilla, Lauren Volette, and Maggie Winn-Jones.



Rumors and Borders: Eight Western Plays
Red Shuttleworth
(trade paperback, 168 pages, $14.99)
ISBN: 978-0-615-95331-1
Humanitas Media Publishing
Available on Amazon


Sunday, August 13, 2017

AUGUST 2017, A Red Shuttleworth Chapbook





August 2017

Poems

Red Shuttleworth



Red Shuttleworth's August 2017,  a chapbook published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition, presents five new poems:

Time... Phantoms

We'll See

August Pain-Ride

After Never-Mind

Shower Clouds to the South



Red Shuttleworth



Red Shuttleworth received the 2016 Western Heritage "Wrangler" Award for Poetry for Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press).  Red is a three-time winner of Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Poetry.  True West magazine named Red "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007.

Red's latest poetry collection is Straight Ahead (Blue Horse Press, 2017).  He has published poetry, fiction, and drama in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Concho River Review, Desert Wood, Hayden's Ferry Review, Open Range, Prairie Schooner, Roundup, San Pedro River Review, South Dakota Review, and Weber: The Contemporary West.