Noir Nation No. 7: The Golden Fedora Poetry Prize Issue

by Eddie Vega, Deborah Pintonelli, J.J. Toner

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the internationally recognized home of crime fiction. With this issue, it will also be a home for noir poetry. Noir Nation’s content is often dark, sometimes creepy, and sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination as it explores the darker regions of human experience, where the only crime is weak writing.

In this issue: Fiction by Deborah Pintonelli, Nahary Hernandez, JJ Toner, Barbie Wilde, David James Keaton, Ava Black, Simon Rowe, D.V. Bennett, Frauke Schuster, Gerald Heys, and BV Lawson;

Poetry by Bianca Bellová, Adam Ward, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Bonny Finberg, and Shawn Stibbards; Nonfiction by Michael Gonzales; and a staff interview with police detective and writer George Beck;

And the winners of the First Golden Fedora Poetry Prize: George Perreault, Michael Zimecki, Timothy Ryan, J.D. Smith, Craig Kenworthy, Frank De Blasé, James Gardner, Joe Cortinas, Barry Nathan, and Timothy Tarkelly.

149 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 9, 2019

About the author

A former merchant seaman, Eddie Vega is a Cuban-born writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous news and literary venues, among them The Washington Post, The New York Law Journal, Parnassus, Little Havana Blues, and Cool Salsa. His poem "Translating My Grandfather's House" has become a standard reading assignment in many primary schools across the U.S. and is showcased on the Web site of the Philadelphia Historical Society. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Columbia University in English literature, creative writing, and journalism. He lives in New York City and currently serves as head editor of Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime Fiction.