PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Contact: Christina Madsen (501) 852-2659; christinam@uca.edu
Mark Spitzer (501) 450-3339, toadsuckreview@gmail.com
February 20, 2015
UCA’S TOAD SUCK REVIEW LAUNCHES HOT NEW ISSUE & READING
By Benjamin Garrett
UCA Department of Writing
CONWAY — To conclude this year’s UCA Department of Writing ArkaText Festival, the award-winning literary journal Toad Suck Review will hold its fifth annual “Launchapalooza” on Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Faulkner County Library, 1900 W. Tyler St., Conway.
The Launchapalooza, free and open to the public, may include adult language.
“This is our most infernally combustive issue yet, and worth obtaining for the images alone,” Chief Editor Mark Spitzer said. “From its explosive cover, to the whacko pictures of bizarre signage in the Toad Suck area, to photos of noodling gals in Oklahoma wrestling behemoth catfish, this issue is a revolutionary smorgasbord of both written and visionary spectacles gone wild.”
Toad Suck Review #5, the “Hot-found” issue, features written works by celebrated authors such as Jack Kerouac, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn and Jericho Brown, as well as many promising new talents. Some contributing authors are from as far away as Sweden and the United Kingdom. Copies can be purchased now on Amazon, spdbooks.org, Wordsworth and River Market Books in Little Rock, Hastings and the UCA campus bookstore.
“Launchapalooza” will feature readings from UCA Assistant Professor of Writing Stacy Kidd, a local poet; UCA alumna Lisa Ference, who works in the division of Outreach and Community Engagement at UCA; local author Tim Lepczyk, a Hendrix College Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy and editor of the online literary journal Scintilla Magazine; and Nate Jordon, infamous editor and publisher of Monkey Puzzle Press, who now lives in Harrison.
Discount copies of the new issue, contributor publications and other merchandise may be purchased during and after the reading, which will end about 8:30p.m.
For more information, visit toadsuckreview.org or contact Spitzer at toadsuckreview@gmail.com or (501) 450-3339 or Nancy Allen at the Faulkner County Library at (501) 327-7482 or nancy@fcl.org.
The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Mass Communication and Theatre, Music and Writing. The college’s primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators and communicators. For more information about CFAC, visit www.uca.edu/cfac or call (501) 450-3293.
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