Tast:2013

by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (Editor), Sara Biggs Chaney (Contributor), Dennis Etzel Jr. (Contributor)

A writer's manuscript is ultimately their heart. It should be treated with respect, and the author should have some control over the process. It's their book. It's their words. Every page should be treated with respect, held high, preserved for each and everyone that picks it up. Taste: 2013 is a literary collection providing a sample of all the ELJ Publications titles released in 2013. The collection includes work by Leah Sewell, Allie Marini Batts, Laura McCullough, Jamie L. Moore, M.E. Silverman, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Jillian M. Phillips, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, Dennis Etzel, Jr., Andrew Ruzkowski, Jake Russell, and Sara Biggs Chaney. This collection explores a myriad topics, including growing up with same-sex caregivers, coming of age, the power of female identity, autism, Jewish heritage, suicide, and relationships. Get a taste of what ELJ Publications has to offer, curl up with this collection, perhaps fall in love and read more from anyone of our authors.

158 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2014

About the author

Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in the Hudson Valley where she is a wife and mother of two. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her family and every once in a while sleeps. She is the author of three collections, including Wayward Lines (RawArt Press, 2015), the chapbooks Forgetting Aesop (Bandini Books, LLC, 2011), Naked Animal (Flutter Press, 2012), My Father Had a Daughter (Alabaster Leaves Publishing, 2013), Hatched from Bone (Flutter Press, 2014), On This and That (Bitterzoet Press, 2015), On Coming of Age and Stitches (Origami Poems Project, 2014), Strangest Sea (Porkbelly Press, 2015), Beautiful Wreckage (Flutter Press, 2015), Unsent (Origami Poems Project, 2015), The Peace of Wild Things (Porkbelly Press, 2015), Knee Deep in Bone, (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2015), Birds Never Sing in Caves (Dancing Girl Press, 2016), and Even the Statue Weeps (forthcoming, Sylph Press, 2016), the novelette Finger : Knuckle : Palm (LucidPlay Publishing, 2014), an experimental memoir, prosthesis (Lummox Press, 2014 print) and (Zoetic Press, electronic, forthcoming 2016), and the crime novellas, Dark Water (Number 13 Press, 2015) and Red Hands (Midnight Frost Books, 2016). She is the founder of ELJ Publications, LLC, a small press with big things to offer, home of Emerge Literary Journal, scissors & spackle, Amethyst Arsenic, and other fine journals.