Wheelhouse Wins 2 Best of the Web Awards: Ron Tanner for My Small Murders and Amy L. Sargeant for Shotgun. Both will be published in the Best of the Web anthology from Dzanc Books this year. Congrats to our authors and thank you to Dzanc Books and their judges.

Wheelhouse and The Evergreen State College host PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference May 24-25. Submissions for prose, poetry, and essays to be read at the conference and published in an anthology are now open.

In this issue: poetry by Leonard Schwartz, Andrew Topel, Sally Molini, Frederick Pollack, Sarah Sloat, Skip Fox, Christopher Mulrooney, and others. Prose by CL Bledsoe, Shahar Gold, Jamey Genna, Raud Kennedy, and Eddie Jeffrey. Artwork by Ira Joel Haber. Coming soon: reviews of new work by Chad Sweeney (An Architecture, BlazeVox) and Lourdes Vazquez (Book of Travels, Tse Tse).

Reading and Talking Realism: An Evening with Open City and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood: 7:00 pm, Monday, March 3rd, at The Kitchen (512 W. 19th St, NYC).

Hillary Clinton made much of her fortune busting unions on the Board at Wal-Mart.