getkidnapped.com gets a Best of Baltimore City Paper Award

http://citypaper.com/bob/arts/best-fake-app-1.1553661

http://www.getkidnapped.com/

Houston Arts Alliance grant

The Texas book tour is official paid for thanks to The Houston Arts Association, Poets and Writer's Magazine (posted earlier about that), and the Houston Indie Book Fest. Many thanks to Kirby Johnson of Nano Fiction and the great Ryan Call. 

Poets and Writers Magazine grant

Thanks to a grant from Poets and Writers Magazine, the Texas leg of my book tour is nearly paid for. A big thanks goes to Kirby Johnson on Nano Fiction and Ryan Call. Both of them head up the Houston Indie Book Fest, which will be my first stop on my way across the Lone Star State. 

Falcons on the Floor excerpt nominated for a Pushcart

The editors over at Dark Sky Press and Magazine nominated Falcons on the Floor for a Pushcart. Here's the complete nominee list:

* Tom Williams — The Mimics Own Voice (novel excerpt)

* Justin Sirois — Falcons on the Floor (novel excerpt)

* Jason Larson — The Burts (fiction)

* Roxane Gay — We Are Magnificent (fiction)

* Wendy Xu — If You Aren’t Busy I Think I’m On Fire (poetry)

* Mike Young — Is That It’s You (poetry)

http://darkskymagazine.com/pushcart-prize-nominations/

Baker Artist Awards gave me a "B" Grant

Very happy. The board at the Baker Artist Awards gave me a "B" Grant. MOREHERE

Understanding Campaign gets Best of Baltimore!

Best Campaign

Local writer/designer Justin Sirois and Egypt-based Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy previously collaborated on the novel Falcons on the Floor. Since the beginning of this year they have been collaborating on another project, the Understanding Campaign. The goal: to get everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic—fhm (pronounced “fuh’hem”), which means “understanding”—in hopes of getting people to consider opting for understanding over conflict. To date, a number of other artists—including Baltimore’s Post Typography and Squid Fire and Egyptian calligrapher Ahmed Kandil—have created their versions of fhm written in Arabic, and Sirois and Haneen launched their Kickstarter drive for the campaign Sept. 20, hoping to raise funds to start a nonprofit organization that promotes literary projects that bring the Arab- and English-speaking worlds closer. Shukran.

http://citypaper.com/bob/arts-and-entertainment-1.1023680

Maryland State Art Council Grant 2010

Just won a $3,000.00 grant from the Maryland State Art Council.
Thank you Salim and Khalil and especially the lovely Haneen Alshujairy.

:)

And congrats to Jackie Milad, Joseph Cashiola, Emily CD, Mary Helena Clark, and Stephanie Barber!

Baltimore Office for Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) 4/08

Narrow House receives $1000 Baltimore Office for Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) grant to publish an i.e. Reader. 4/08

archive 25: Ric's Narrow House project gets best of in the Baltimore City Paper

Best Whatever it Is

There Were One and It was Two: Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum, by Ric Royer

Nothing is ever what it appears to be in the performance art of Ric Royer. An expert in using a casual observation to turn an otherwise quotidian anecdote into a rabbit-hole digression into the uncanny, Royer applied his curiously perceptive mind to the genuinely odd for his Narrow House recording debut: the idea of doubling as it appears in both intellectual history and nature. And what he concocts is one of the most unusual artifacts to come out of Baltimore--no stranger to the outlandish--in some time. Part faux lecture performance, part experimental text, part spoken-word recording, and part experiential sound art (thanks to the sax noises of John Berndt on the CD), There Was One and It Was Two is and isn't a sound recording of a performance event, is and isn't an aural accompaniment to written text, is and isn't a visual artifact of a wild-hair idea. It's all of these and none of them, and somehow still manages to hold the attention throughout its meandering ride.

archive 24: ie series (best poetry series in CP)

Best Poetry Series

i.e. Reading Series

Michael Ball's i.e. reading series moved from Clayton Fine Books to Dionysus in the summer of 2006, and over the past year it has brought numerous noteworthy, high-profile language, flarf, and otherwise avant-garde poets to Baltimore., including Rod Smith, Chris Nealon, CA Conrad, Rachel DePlessis, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Jessica Grim, and M. Magnus, alongside locals Daniel Higgs, Chris Toll, and David Franks. In January the series held a memorial for poet Kari Edwards, who passed away last December, and this sustained level of activity has given the city a place in underground/academic poetry circles. The series moved again at the beginning of this month, to a lower Charles Village carriage house, to accommodate its growing audience.

http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=14510

archive 22: won first place in the Desert Moon Review Spring Poetry Contest 5/07

Won first place in the Desert Moon Review Spring Poetry Contest.

archive 18: Maryland State Art Council poetry grant 2007 (highest honors) 1/07

$6,000
serious.
http://www.msac.org/docs_uploaded/iaa07list.htm

archive 2: 2nd place in Baltimore Writer's Alliance poetry contest 2003

This was sometime in 2003 -- I can't remember when. Frank Lima judged it. The BWA has since disbanded.

Maryland State Art Council grant 2003

$1,000 individual MSAC grant; used this to start Narrow House 6/1/03

http://www.msac.org/docs_uploaded/IAA%20Recipient%20List03.htm