World Audience publishes books and a quarterly journal and review.
World Audience publishes books and a quarterly journal and review.
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Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her stories, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in many printed anthologies and journals, and have won several awards. She is the author of The Art of Assessment, and Quark Soup. Her debut novel, Sleep Before Evening is being released by BeWrite Books on the 24th of July.
 
A.G. Bennett was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 1960, A.G. Bennett spent his early childhood sailing with his family up and down the east coast of Australia on a yacht his father had built. Finally settling in northern New South Wales, he attended schools in Yamba and Maclean where his talent for writing first became apparent. He later attended the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales where he completed a double major in English Literature and Modern History. He spent his university breaks working in Brisbane in Queensland, and country Victoria, as his family constantly moved to different parts of the country. After finishing university, he came to Sydney and worked in various occupations until he joined the telecommunication industry where he was employed for twenty years. The job was mostly enjoyable and his co-workers friendly, but he would have been much happier as a full time musician. As a self-taught guitarist, he composed music and lyrics for numerous songs over the years but later swapped his guitar for a pen, took up poetry, and for the last three years of his employment, in his spare time, composed a large assortment of poems. He took voluntary redundancy in 2003 and has since worked in various occupations on a part time basis. On leaving the telecommunication industry, he returned to his earlier love of writing and changed from composing poetry to writing short stories and longer works of fiction. It was only then he discovered his true vocation in life, one he would have pursued much earlier if not for economic constraints. He is currently overjoyed to be publishing his first book of short stories. In 1996, he married his long-term girlfriend, Phyll, and they now live in Sydney’s inner western suburbs. His sister, Sara Mackenzie, is a successful and well-respected writer of romantic novels and shares his passion for writing.    
Jack Cooper has written for television, film and the stage. His poetry was chosen runner-up, Georgetown Review's 2006 writing contest, and winner, Palabra Productions 2006 National Poetry Month Contest. His poem, 'Dry Lighting', was selected as a 'strong finalist' in The MacGuffin's 2007 National Poet Hunt Contest, and 'Vice Versa' was nominated by www.poeticdiversity.com in 2006 for 'Best of the Net.' Cooper's recent work has appeared in many national and regional journals including The Evansville Review, Georgetown Review, The Meridian Anthology, Poesia, Tundra, Poet Lore, Runes, Audience, The Aurorean, and The MacGuffin. He received a Bachelors of Science at the University of Redlands, a second Bachelors in psychology and English literature at the University of Trondheim, Norway, and attended graduate school in alpine botany at the University of Colorado, Boulder.    
 
Fred Ferraris is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. His recent work has been published in, among many others, Broken Bridge Review, The Café Irreal, Caveat Lector, Cold Mountain Review, Mad Blood, Marginalia, Orbis, Poetrybay, and The Worcester Review. He is the author of two chapbooks, Marpa Point (Blackberry Books, 1976) and The Durango Chronicles, Book One (Blue Marmot Press, 2004), and a full-length book, Older Than Rain: Early & Recent Poems (Selva Editions, 1997). His book length manuscript, Loose Canons, was a finalist in the 2003 National Poetry Series. His film collaboration, Even the Door Must Open, won the 'Award for Cinema Poetics' at the 2005 Nolita Film Festival. He was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. Visit him at: www.fredferraris.com. Ferraris poetry tracks are available for listening or downloading at: http://music.download.com/fredferraris.    
Jay P. Granat, Ph.D. is a Psychotherapist with twenty five years of experience. He has shown thousands of people from all walks of life how to get into the zone. Dr. Granat writes a weekly newspaper column on sports psychology, sports, humor, parenting, stress management, psychotherapy, relationships, nostalgia, marriage counseling and family issues. He has authored articles for professional journals and developed a half a dozen self-help programs. Dr. Granat, who is an avid tennis player himself, has appeared in many media outlets including Good Morning America, The New York Times, The British Broadcasting Company, The Canadian Broadcasting Company, The Associated Press, ESPN Radio, ESPN Magazine, Golf Digest, Tennis Magazine, The Iowa Golfer and Executive Golfer. He writes a weekly column for three newspapers and has authored articles for professional journals and developed a half a dozen self-help programs including: How To Get In The Zone And Stay In The Zone With Sport Psychology And Self-Hypnosis, How To Lower Your Golf Score With Sport Psychology And Self-Hypnosis, 101 Ways To Break A Hitting A Slump With Sport Psychology Techniques, How To Conquer Test Anxiety and Long-Term Weight Control. Many of these programs are available at www.StayInTheZone.com. A new book Get Into The Zone In Just One Minute: 21 Simple Techniques To Improve Your Performance is published by World Audience Publishers and is available at www.Amazon.com and at www.Barnes&Noble.com. A former university professor, he received his Ph.D. and M.A. from The University of Michigan. Dr. Granat has lectured at some of America’s largest corporations including Hyatt, Schering Plough, Paine Webber and MFS. He is the Founder of www.StayInTheZone.com and can be reached at: info@stayinthezone.com or at 888 580-ZONE.  
Harold L. Gray left rural West Salem, Illinois in 1938 to attend college at Kansas State Teacher’s College in Pittsburg, Kansas. After graduation, he taught high school business courses for one year before joining the Navy. During World War II, he had been stationed at a Navy hospital in French Morocco and San Francisco. After the war and marriage to Margaret Orr of Anthony, Kansas, he earned a master’s degree from New York University in accounting, management and industrial safety/driver’s education, as well as having been involved in a special personnel management/labor and wage economics study at Cornell University. He began but had never been able to finish a divinity degree. He also taught business related courses at what was known as Packard Junior College in lower Manhattan, while hawking hot dogs on the beaches at Fire Island during the summers and taking care of the hot dog company’s books at night. He became a professor at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, followed by a move to Richmond, Virginia in 1955, where he worked in a variety of businesses as an accountant, bookkeeper and office manager until his retirement and return to Kansas in 1986. After having left his poetry behind, his passions had been his family, service as a lay minister, the Boy Scouts, and taking cross country trips by car. For more information, please visit: http://totheprairieandtogod.com/, http://totheprairieposters.googlepages.com/home, and http://www.myspace.com/totheprairie.  
Kevin Gray, a 30-year English/journalism classroom veteran, began and ended his teaching career at Paola High School in Paola, Kansas. He left the classroom behind in May 2007 to pursue personal interests, such as publishing a book of his father’s poetry called To the Prairie and to God: Poetry of the Plains Written Between 1936-1941 by Harold L. Gray (http://www.worldaudience.org/) and venturing into his own writing projects. Waking Up in the Studebaker, book one of a two book memoir, began as his thesis for a master’s degree in Creative Nonfiction earned from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 2000. Book two, On the Strand, should publish in 2009. He has also contributed guest columns to the Miami County Republic in Paola, Kansas, since 1989. In May 2008, after having taken off a year to finish his book and begin other projects, he asked the Miami Republic for a job as a driver to deliver bundles of papers two mornings a week. The hours were few, it sounded like good exercise, and he figured to earn a little spending money. Instead, they asked, “Wouldn’t you rather have a part time journalism job? You’d be able to take pictures, write some stories, do some features and continue writing your column.” His response was, “Can I do both?” And so, he became what he calls a stringer-driver and enjoys not knowing what his next story or photo assignment will be. Nor what to expect on his paper route! He likes the unexpected aspect of news writing and photo journalism. Gray is also marketing his father’s poetry book at http://totheprairieandtogod.com/ and offering book reads and presentations about the poetry he never knew his father had written until after his father’s passing in 1997. In conjunction with his dad’s poetry, Gray used his own photography skills and his dad’s poetry to create 11 X 17 sized posters. The posters contain prairie images, all except two black and white photographs taken by his father while stationed at a Navy hospital in French Morocco in 1943. The posters can be found at http://totheprairieposters.googlepages.com/home. For more information about Waking Up In The Studebaker, please visit http://www.wakingupinthestudebaker.com.  
 
Hugh Fox is a widely published writer. He was born in Chicago, 1932, B.S. (Hum.) and M.A. from Loyola U. in Chicago, Ph.D. from the U. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He was prof. of American Literature, Loyola University (L.A.), 1958-1968; Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University (1968-1999).  Now retired,  Professor Emeritus. He was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies/Literature, U. of Hermosillo, Mexico, 1961, U. Católica and Institúto Pedagógico, Caracas, 1964-1966,  U. of Florianópolis, Brazil, 1978-1980. 1 yr. studying Lt. Am. culture at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with Mariano Picon-Salas. Organization of American States Grant to study Latin American Studies/Argentinean Literature, U. of Buenos Aires, 1971. John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown U., 1968 (Studies in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish economics and avant-garde literature). OAS grant as archaeologist, Atacama Desert, Chile, 1986. Lectures in Spain and Portugal 1975-76. Founder and Board of Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. Editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, 1968-1995. Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review, during 60’s. Former contributing reviewer on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc. He is currently contributing reviewer to SPR and SMR.  In Who’s Who, The Two Thousand Most Important Writers in the Last Millennium, Dictionary of Middlewestern Writers, The International Who’s Who, etc.  
 
Hareendran Kallinkeel resides in Taliparamba (Kerala) with his family. He owns a farm of rubber, coconut, pepper, and areca nuts. He helps U.S. college students online, improving their writing skills. He owns a company: http://www.kallinkeelconsultancy.com/. He is published in literary print journals, and in numerous online ezines. 'audience' is the brainchild of Harendran Kallinkeel and M. Stefan Strozier.    
 
Abdul Karim Khan (pen name: Ernest Dempsey) was born in Hangu, a small town in Pakistan. His new book is Two Candles! As a child, he enjoyed two things: The joyful company of his brother and Khan’s best friend, Shais; and, making airy castles with lots of characters in his mind. These two things pervaded through his spirit so much that he has given up valuable scholarships to pursue them. At twelve, he began his career by writing detective stories, horror, thrillers, and whatnot). However, a career in writing held no bright prospects in his society. So he studied geology. But his literary spirit demanded more attention and he started studying classics, alongside writing. The Internet reached his hometown in 2003, whereupon he began submitting his work to literary ezines. In just the last year, he has seen publication of his poems, essays, short stories, and literary reviews. He has been published in audience literary journal, and other literary journals, as well as other magazines. His reviews appear in The audience Review, and other places. Email: dempsey87@yahoo.com.  
 
Pamela Laskin Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at The City College, where she directs The Poetry Outreach Center. Many of her poems, short stories and children's stories have been published in journals and magazines. Plain View Press recently published REMEMBERING FIREFLIES, a collection of poetry. CENTRAL STATION, her first book of poetry, was the winner of the Millennium Poetry Prize, and three poetry chapbooks, two young adult novels and five picture books have been published as well. She edited THE HEROIC YOUNG WOMAN, a collection of original fairytales. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Ira. Her children, Craig and Samantha, are away at school, completing their degrees.  
 
CHARLES MAROWITZ is the author of over thirty books, including works on acting and theatre as well as plays, reviews, memoirs and biographies. His works include: ‘HOW TO STAGE A PLAY’ (Amadeus-Press, Limelight Editions); and by imprint Applause Books: THE OTHER CHEKHOV, the first English-language biography of Michael Chekhov, ROAR OF THE CANON: KOTT & MAROWITZ ON SHAKESPEARE, PROSPERO’S STAFF, ALARUMS & EXCURSIONS, STAGE DUST, THE OTHER WAY, SEX WARS, etc. etc. MAROWITZ was a close collaborator with Peter Brook at the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY acting as Assistant Director on the Paul Scofeld KING LEAR and Co-director on the 'THEATRE OF CRUELTY SEASON at LAMDA. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of The OPEN SPACE THEATRE in London and one of the few people to successfully combine drama-criticism, playwriting, and a career in stage-direction. His play SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE, after winning the Louis B. Mayer Playwriting Award was presented on Broadway starring Frank Langella. His free adaptations of Shakespeare collected under the rubric THE MAROWITZ SHAKESPEARE, are performed worldwide. His play MURDERING MARLOWE premiered at the Malibu Stage Company, a theatre originally founded by Marowitz in 1990. It received its British premiere in 2008. His latest work for the stage, SILENT PARTNERS, an adaptation of Eric Bentley’s ‘The Brecht Memoir”, premiered at the Scena Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 2006 and is being published by Dramatists Play Service. Marowitz is currently a regular columnist on http://www.SWANS.com.  
   
Blair Oliver lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Front Range Community College. In addition to his story collection, Last Call, his work has appeared in numerous magazines, including 5280, Yellowstone Journal, The American Fly Fisher, Yale Anglers' Journal, Matter, Cimarron Review, CutBank, Talking River Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Red Rock Review, and Dickinson Review. He's founding editor of Front Range Review, a literary journal. His Web site is: http://www.blairoliver.com.  
   
Louis Phillips is a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer has written some 35 books for children and adults. Among his works are: two collections of short stories–A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE (SMU Press) and THE BUS TO THE MOON (Fort Schuyler Press; HOT CORNER, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I.P ( a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; THE ENVOI MESSAGES, a full-length play (Broadway Play Publishers  His books for children include: THE MAN WHO STOLE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN (Prentice Hall & Camelot Books), THE MILLION DOLLAR POTATO (Simon and Schuster), and HOW TO WRESTLE AN ALLIGATOR (Avon). His sequence of poems–The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of the Place–was the co-winner in the Swallow’s Tale Press competition (l984). Among his published books of poems are: THE KRAZY KAT RAG (Light Reprint Press), BULKINGTON (Hollow Spring Press), THE TIME, THE HOUR, THE SOLITARINESS OF THE PLACE (Swallow’s Tale Press), CELEBRATIONS & BEWILDERMENTS (Fragments Press), IN THE FIELD OF BROKEN HEARTS, and INTO THE WELL OF KNOWINGNESS (Prologue Press). He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.  
 
Lynda D. Prouse is a best-selling author and media personality, who has won awards in Canada and the United States for her writing. Before beginning her career as an author, Lynda was a fashion and print model, and then held administrative and executive positions in public relations, marketing and event planning. During her corporate employment she wrote for trade publications and designed and wrote company brochures, marketing material and press releases. Throughout her career, Lynda worked as a freelancer writer, and continues to write for advertising agencies and corporations, and articles for magazines on a variety of subjects. In 1996, her first book “To Catch a Dream” with Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Brasseur and Eisler, rose to national best-seller status. The following year, the book was released in trade back. After collaborating with Olympic Medalist and popular professional skater, Jozef Sabovcik, “Jumpin’ Joe” was published in 1998 and went on to receive high praise from critics in the United States and Canada. More than 10 years later, an updated version is being considered for a television movie and release in Europe. Two more books were published in the fall of 1999 including, "Brasseur & Eisler -– The Professional Years” and “As I Am”, with Olympic Medalist, Elizabeth Manley. In 2002, “All That Glitters” with Canadian National Champion, Josee Chouinard was published. A book written with Alexei Yagudin, the Olympic and World Champion and current headliner of “Stars on Ice” was released in Japan in 2004. “The Alexei Yagudin Story” went on to reach number three on Amazon.com and an updated version was released in Russia in early 2008. In 2005, “Timeless Beauty”, written with prominent Canadian dermatologists and surgeons about beauty and cosmetic procedures was published in Canada. “The Tonya Tapes”, an extensive book about Tonya Harding and the 1994 Olympic scandal was released in the United States in May, 2008 and is drawing media attention from around the globe. Lynda is currently writing a novel and collaborating with other sports celebrities on their biographies. With numerous television and radio appearances, including several years on ‘The Shopping Channel’ as a fashion and accessory commentator, interviews with international figure skaters and personalities such as Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and regular contributions to internationally distributed magazines, Lynda is a well-established figure in the sports, entertainment and fashion industry.  
 
 
Mordecai Roshwald holds Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He has also held appointment at universities in Israel, England, Canada and Taiwan. His publications include numerous articles, both scholarly and popular, in English and Hebrew, some of which were translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Arabic and Chinese. Mordecai Roshwald has published the following books: Non-fiction: Adam ve-Hinukho (Man and Education), Tel Aviv 1954 (in Hebrew); Humanism in Practice, London 1955; Moses: Leader, Prophet, Man: The Story of Moses and His Image through the Ages, New York and London 1969 (Co-authored with Miriam Roshwald); The Transient and the Absolute: An Interpretation of the Human Condition and of Human Endeavor, Westport (Conn.) and London 1999; Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope, Westport (Conn.) and London 2000; The Half-Truths by Which We Live, Baltimore 2006; Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction 2008; Modern Technology: The Promise and the Menace, World Audience Publishers, New York, 2008. Fiction: Level Seven, London 1959 and New York 1960 and fourteen translations; A Small Armageddon, London 1962 and New York 1976 and five translations. Fictional Non-fiction: Biblical Revisions and Para-Biblical Visions, World Audience Publishers, New York, 2008.  
 
Frank Romano earned a PhD at University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, and a JD at Golden Gate University, Faculty of Law, San Francisco. He is a Ma”tre de conferences (assistant tenured professor) at the University of Paris X in the Anglo-American Literature and Civilization Department and a member of the California and Marseille Bars. At present, he teaches and practices law in France and in the United States. The author actively organizes and participates in interfaith events involving Jews, Moslems and Christians in Israel and Palestine. Mr. Romano has authored a book entitled Globalization of Antitrust Policies (Mondialisation des politiques de concurrence), published by LâHarmattan in French and has published many articles in Europe and in the United States where he is often invited to speak at conferences. He can be reached at: frankfro@aol.com.  
 
Lee Stringer lived on the streets from the early eighties until the mid—nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York. He is the author of Sleepaway School, Like Shaking Hands with God/ (with Kurt Vonnegut), and Grand Central Winter.  
 
 
M. Stefan Strozier lives in New York City. He is the founder and artistic director of La Muse Venale Acting Troupe. His plays, Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats, The Whales, The Tragedy of Abraham Lincoln, and The Green Game, were performed in lengthy runs, off-off and Off-Broadway, in the Midtown International Theatre Festival and other festivals. He has directed five plays and one musical, and produced fifteen. His novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays, etceteras, are on his Web site: M. Stefan Strozier. He has been published in literary journals (online and in print), magazines, and newspapers. He is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of World Audience Publishers.  
 
Kyle Torke is a writer of the most eclectic variety, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction essays while winning awards for his screenplays.  He lives in Colorado Springs with his two young sons, Conrad and Coover, where they spend a great deal of their time hiking the canyons, climbing rocks in the Garden of The Gods, skiing, walking along cottonwood creek with their two dogs, skiing, and jumping on the trampoline.  Kyle currently teaches at The Colket Fellow in Reading and Rhetoric at Colorado College where he is also a visiting Associate Professor in the English Department. Previously, he taught for seven years and directed the creative writing program at Elon University in North Carolina.  Kyle graduated from Grinnell College, IA, with a BA in Anthropology before earning his graduate degrees at the University of Denver.  Kyle plays pick up basketball, lifts weights, swims, and, generally, finds motivation for the spiritual richness of the world in the physical elasticity of an active engagement with sweat, dirt, and living things.  
 
Matthew Ward's new collection of short stories, Her Mouth Looked Like a Cat's Bum, is humorous, poignant, and contains much local color, of the Australian kind. Readers will be happy to read these unusual and witty stories, with their unique characters, placed in strange situations that seem altogether real, as written by the expert hand of Mr Ward.  
Burton H. Wolfe's new book, The Case Against 'Jesus' is published by World Audience.

After graduation from George Washington University with special honors in journalism and service in the U.S. Army at Stars & Stripes, Burton H. Wolfe became in turn an award-winning reporter for the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press and International News Service; publisher of The Californian (the periodical that touched off the "Alternative Press" as it existed from 1960 until 1980); featured writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1968-1980; and founder and principal director of the Homosapiens Educational & Legal Project, 1985-2001.

Presently Wolfe produces two online newsletters: one for the San Francisco Bay area entitled The Bay Area Haloo, and another that has an international readership, The Wolfe's Lair. If you would like to be on the mailing list for either or both, send your request to Burton H. Wolfe via this e-mail address: bhwolfe@msn.com Wolfe's published books include The Hippies (New American Library), Hitler and the Nazis (Putnam), Pileup on Death Row (Doubleday), The Devil's Avenger: A Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey (Pyramid Books), Lucifer's Dictionary of the American Language (Wild West Publishing House), and The Case Against 'Jesus' (World Audience Publishers).

For more information type "Burton H. Wolfe" in a Google search field (but be advised that much of what shows up is inaccurate, an ongoing problem with search engines); and/or consult biographical sketches of Wolfe appearing in editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in California, The International Dictionary of Biography, The Bluebook of Magazine Writers, Contemporary Authors, and Outstanding Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century. Profiles of Wolfe can be viewed on the Authors Den, Bowkers, Search Warp, and Zoom Info web sites. Or just click on the following URL: http://www.authorsden.com/burtonhwolfe. For samples of Wolfe's essays and provocative interviews with controversial thinkers, visit the following web sites: http://wolfejournal.googlepages.com, home page of The Wolfe's Lair; "Wisdom of the West," http://wwpublishing.googlepages.com, home page of Wild West Publishing House; and "Provocative Interviews with BHW," http://interviewswithbhw.googlepages.com. For information on how to sign up for a subscription to The Wolfe's Lair and to obtain Wild West Publishing house e-books, log on to the web site for the online division of the house - http://www.ebooks.wildwestpublishing.com.
 
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