Rob Woodard
Encyclopedia
Rob Woodard is a novel
ist, poet
and painter
based out of Long Beach, California
.
in 2005. What Love Is, his second novel, is scheduled to be put out by the same publisher in late 2007/early 2008. Burning Shore Press will also be publishing King Of Long Beach, a volume of his poetry.
His work also appears on several internet-based literary journals, including Scotland's Laura Hird's website, England's Scarecrow, Ireland's Dogmatika and the UK's The Guardian
.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
based out of Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
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Works
He is the author of the novel Heaping Stones, which was published by Burning Shore PressBurning Shore Press
Established in 2005, Burning Shore Press is a publisher of serious "underground" literature and is based in Long Beach, California. It has thus far published the novel Heaping Stones, by Rob Woodard, and the play Don Giovanni, by Dan Fante, and Songs From The Shooting Gallery, the debut book of...
in 2005. What Love Is, his second novel, is scheduled to be put out by the same publisher in late 2007/early 2008. Burning Shore Press will also be publishing King Of Long Beach, a volume of his poetry.
His work also appears on several internet-based literary journals, including Scotland's Laura Hird's website, England's Scarecrow, Ireland's Dogmatika and the UK's The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
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External links
- Blog page of Rob Woodard
- Rob Woodard's articles for The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- Jim Hall interviews Rob Woodard
- Burning Shore Press, Rob Woodard's publisher
- Review of Heaping Stones by Rob Woodard on Scarecrow
- Rob Woodard's Poetry on the Laura Hird Website
- Scarecrow Magazine Featuring Works by Rob Woodard and other Burning Shore Press Authors