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The Beat Movement and its Influence on Music

I’ve been obsessed with the Beat movement for a couple of years now, and I’ve always had a love for music. As I began to read Kerouac and Ginsberg, I started to notice similarities both in the style and the subject matter of the writing of some of my favorite artists from the 1960s and 70s. I got so wrapped up in this that I started to do a little bit of research to see if these ideas could be credited in any way.

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Our Editors: They're Readers Like You

So surely anyone on this blog has a love for lit magazines, especially Hayden’s Ferry Review. Our editors at HFR do too, and they were happy to share their personal favorites. Each one is its own unique publication, and great examples of the wider range of journals we all have from all over the country accessible to us thanks to the internet.

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If You Need Me, I Will Be Over Here Listening to “Slide It In” on Repeat: Flash-Prose Contest Honorable Mention

Here at HFR, we were so pleased when judge Catherine Dent selected Amy Rossi as an honorable mention for our "500 for 500" Flash-Prose Contest. Amy's story is heartbreaking and surprising in its honesty. Enjoy!

Also, we are only a month away from our launch of Hayden's Ferry Review: Issue 55. It's looking awesome, and we're excited for you to see it.

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This Week in Writing

Former Navy SEAL Team member Matt Bissonnette, writer of No Easy Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is under criminal investigation for allegedly publishing classified material on his book.

Profile writer Clive James, current leukemia patient, continues to publish his poetry work as well as other projects such as Collected Poems scheduled to be published next year, aside from finishing another volume of memoirs.

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This Week in Writing

Writer Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White, has announced The Book of Strange New Things, will not only be his new but also his last novel to write and publish. 

Ali Mazrui, scholar and author of The Africans: A Triple Heritage passedaway on Oct. 12th at 81 years old. Meshack Asare is the 2015 recipient of the NSK Neustadt Prize granted by World Literature Today, a magazine of the University of Oklahoma, making him the frist African to win the award for Children’s Literature.

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Local Artist Spotlight: Tom Leveen

This week, Hayden’s Ferry Review had the opportunity to talk with writer Tom Leveen, an Arizona native writing in the competitive and demanding Young Adult genre. Instead of writing fantasy fiction, which is currently popular with teenagers and fans of YA lit, he bases his work in reality and focuses on real-world problems a teenager might experience. His stories reveal the complexity of seemingly minor issues in teenagers’ lives.

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