Three Middle West Press titles now make up something of A NON-FICTION TRILOGY FOR WRITERS AND READERS OF MILITARY THEMES and topics. As such, they make GREAT SEASONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GIFTS...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2023/12/great-books-for-military-service.html
In the new Kindle e-chapbook TWELVE O’CLOCK HAIBUN: PARABLES & POEMS FROM A CLASSIC TV SHOW , humor-loving soldier-poet (and former “Army lessons-learned analyst”) Randy Brown invite...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2023/02/new-on-kindle-soldier-poet-targets.html
In a cheeky critique of the classic American air power narrative “Twelve O’Clock High,” AWARD-WINNING SOLDIER-POET, ESSAYIST, AND HUMORIST RANDY BROWN explores what it means to be ...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2022/09/through-classic-ww2-movie-humorist-poet.html
“Every poet,” warns journalist and poet Randy Brown , “has a heart filled / with shrapnel.” In his new chapbook SO FRAG & SO BOLD , the former U.S. Army “brigade staff jester” take...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2021/10/former-red-bull-citizen-soldier-writes.html
Editor’s note: As previously noted on this blog, April is National Poetry Month ! This essay originally appeared in the April 2020 on-line edition of Consequence Magazine (recently r...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2021/04/poetry-war-and-places-they-meet.html
The writer of the Red Bull Rising blog will be one of six speakers featured at this year's NORWICH MILITARY WRITERS' SYMPOSIUM , OCT. 7-8, 2020. Hosted by the Norwich University centers for...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/10/free-mil-writers-event-includes-get.html
Fifteen captivating tales of humor, horror, and other wartime experiences are presented in the forthcoming 250-page comics anthology "True War Stories." The 250-page hardcover, co-edited by Al...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/08/red-bull-to-be-featured-in-war-stories.html
PHOTO BY: U.S. Army Sgt. Ken Scar This post, written by the author of FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire, originally appeared on the Red Bull Rising blog April 6, 2016. It also was ...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/04/listen-up-maggots-it-national-poetry.html
Darron L. Wright PHOTO: Line of Advance Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance have announced an EXPANSION OF THE COL. DARRON L. WRIGHT MEMORIAL WRITING AWARDS...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/03/mil-writing-contest-expands-to-include.html
Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance have announced a forthcoming print and e-book anthology will collect the winning entries from the first five years (2016-20...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/02/anthology-to-celebrate-darron-l-wright.html
Author Steven L. Moore , a former Iowa National Guard citizen-soldier who deployed with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (B.C.T.), 34th Infantry "Red Bull" Division (2-34th BCT) to Afghanistan in 2...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2020/01/bull-author-to-speak-in-iowa-city-des.html
Featuring more than 60 leading and emerging writers of military- and war-themed fiction, non-fiction, journalism, poetry, and more, the anthology "Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War" lau...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2019/12/two-bull-soldier-writers-featured-in.html
In a one-of-a-kind anthology, MORE THAN 60 LEADING AND EMERGING WRITERS—novelists, essayists, journalists, poets, podcasters, playwrights, and more—offer their PROFESSIONAL HOW-TO SECRETS, ...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2019/10/mil-writers-anthology-to-be-published.html
FICTION BOOK REVIEW: "STILL COME HOME" BY KATEY SCHULTZ Katey Schultz is an educator and author based in North Carolina. In 2013, Schultz delivered "Flashes of War," an award-winning collec...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2019/09/book-review-come-home-novel.html
The writer of the Red Bull Rising blog will be presenting as part of a panel at the 2019 National Convention for Americans for the Arts , Minneapolis, Minn. "Changing and Honoring the Narrati...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2019/06/solider-poet-to-speak-at-americans-for.html
PHOTO BY: U.S. Army Sgt. Ken Scar This post, written by the author of "FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire," originally appeared on the Red Bull Rising blog April 6, 2016. When pac...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2019/04/listen-up-maggots-it-national-poetry.html
Five Iowa military veterans—four of them alumni of 34th Infantry "Red Bull" Division —will share stories of their respective military experiences in the last installment of the Des Moines...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/12/red-bull-veterans-others-to-share.html
When military reporter Tom Philpott first encountered the tragic story of an Army family that lost its way during the wartime captivity of its patriarch, Floyd James "Jim" Thompson , he cou...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/11/pow-book-turned-opera-comes-to-des.html
Author, actor, and former U.S. Marine Benjamin Busch signs a copy of his 2012 memoir "Dust to Dust" at the 2018 War, Literature & the Arts conference conducted September 20 and 21 at the U.S...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/09/notes-from-war-literature-arts.html
Editors of "Flyway: The Journal of Writing & Environment" have announced that poet Randy Brown is the winner of their 2018 "Untold Stories" contest. The annual competition focuses on amplify...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/08/red-bull-poet-wins-iowa-state-lit.html
Duluth-based author and U.S. Air Force veteran Eric Chandler signs a book after a Q&A discussion at the Spirit of the North Theater, Duluth, Minn., June 2. The free public event was part of ...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/06/notes-from-civil-military-writing.html
Randy Brown, author of the 2015 collection "Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire," was recently named a poetry finalist in the 2018 Col. Darron L. Wright awards . The award reco...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/05/red-bull-poet-finalist-in-2018-darron-l.html
Jeff Sharlet during service in Vietnam The submissions window for a fourth Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans writing contest opens Tues., May 1, 2018 and closes June 1, 2018. The con...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/04/iowa-review-writing-contest-for-vets.html
U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Briana Popp donned her drill sergeant hat during a graduation ceremony at Fort Jackson, S.C. March 8, 2017. Popp earned the titles of Iron Female and Distinguished...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/04/wanted-women-warrior-poets.html
In her second electric collection, "Permanent Change of Station," poet, mother, and U.S. Marine Corps spouse Lisa Stice lovingly interrogates and illuminates life in a modern military family. ...
http://www.redbullrising.com/2018/04/sun-tzu-sneetches-new-war-poetry-now-on.html