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Luanne Castle

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July 20

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Luanne Castle’s chapbook Our Wolves was First Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize 2024. Her award-winning full-length poetry collections are Rooted and Winged (Finishing Line 2022) and Doll God (Kelsay 2015), and her chapbook, Kin Types (Finishing Line 2017), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luanne Castle’s Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, TAB, Verse Daily, Saranac Review, Bending Genres, The Ekphrastic Review, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, Feral Poetry, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Does it Have Pockets, South 85, Roi Fainéant, River Teeth, The Dribble Drabble Review, Flash Boulevard, and many other journals and anthologies. Luanne lives with five cats in Arizona ...more

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	Doll God 4.69 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Wolves by Luanne Castle (Goodreads Author), Alien Buddha (Contributor) 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	What Sort of Fuckery Is This? by Dianne Pearce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bill Ayres, Maureen McVeigh 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Treasures 4: In Touch with Nature by Kaye Lynne Booth (Goodreads Author), Robbie Cheadle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colleen Chesebro 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
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“[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.”
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“The tongues of hell are dull.”
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“But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.”
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