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| Updates on Tovli.'s Writings... |
person to have visited Tovli's Humble Habit this year! Tovli's creative non-fiction piece,
The Pieces of Ester,
was nominated
for a Push Cart Prize
by Raving Dove Magazine...
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Tovli's
Biographical Statement:
Tovli (“Linnie”) began writing at age ten, when
The Adventures of Little Red Pussy Willow was featured in Mrs. Bond's Anthology of Rebellious Sixth Graders.
Tovli is an award winning writer currently living in West Virginia with her husband, Yosif. The Simiryan family came to America as refugees
from the former Soviet Union (Moldova)
in 1992.
Tovli’s writings have appeared in a variety of publications. She has published two books of poetry:
The Breaking of the Glass and Fixing
the Broken Glass. A collection of short fiction, Ruach of the Elders—Spiritual Teachings of the Silent was published in January, 2009 by HDM Publishers.
The rest of the family consists of cats: The Big Ike,
Francios, Naftali and two dogs, Ione and Gerda (Gert).
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Read...
The Tears
of Yefimovich
"Die, but do not retreat." - Joseph Stalin
I know all about you. Like the day you came home and opened our wood-carved gate, clad in government
khaki, your individuality was stripped from your clothing.
Appearing in Jewish Magazine--November 2008
http://www.jewishmag.co.il/
By Tovli “Linnie” Simiryan (© 2008)
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| Yefim and Yefimovich |
Read
Ester bat Shmuel- Yosif v’ Branah—A Memoir. in Jewish Magazine—May 2006. (click on Ester's picture)
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| Ester Simiryan (click for Jewish Magazine) |
Excerpt from Ester bat Shmuel Yosif v’ Branah—A Memoir
Rebbenu
( z”l) taught: “We are obligated as Jews to tell the world
about the Shoah (Holocaust). There are two ways of teaching about this sadness: one, the way the world likes, is to tell how bad the other side was to us; the other
way is to teach the world who the six million were.
Mama sits in her big chair, the one we bought at a garage sale because she would never have accepted
a new one. “Money is for saving, you never know when we might be deported.”
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS,
PROJECTS AND AWARD
- Ideals has included an essay by Tovli, entitled "Melodies of Old Women"
- Raving Dove has published Pieces of Ester. (nominated for a Push Cart Prize)
- Glimmer Train has awareded "Walking Away" a finalist in their Family Matters contest
2008
- Damazine has published "Proselyte", a short
story by Tovli
- Jewish Magazine has published "The Tears of Yefimovich--A
Memoir" and tribute to Haim ben BenTzion, Yosif's father
- Babel Fruit-Protest Poems has published "The
Day Pappa Surrendered His Passport" -a tribute to Haim ben BenTzion
· Raving Dove has published the award
winning short story, "Sarah" in their Fourth Anniversary Edition
· "Beautiful Days" was published in Raving Dove
Literary Magazine and nominated for a PushCart Prize for 2007
· Somewhere They'll Love You, Pink Cup, Mixed Drinks....are
short stories appearing in 6S
· FutureCycle Poetry Magazine ......is showcasing
Tovli's poetry
UPDATE:
CONGRATULATIONS--RAVING DOVE...
THE FOLLOWING APPEARED IN
Literary Magazine Reviews
Raving Dove: (4th Anniversary edition Number 13 Summer 2008)
Review by Micah Zevin
Raving Dove is like an impressionist painting that you have continuously observed in order to
view obscured or distant images or ideas that you may have missed at first glance. Its literary sensibility seems to be one
of simple and precisely written elegance to evoke serious political ideas, such as the affects of war, a central focus in
this issue, and how it defines our “humanity,” whether it is in the form of nonfiction, poetry, fiction or photography.
TO READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW.....
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Tovli's poem, Bourgeoisie received
an award in West Virginia Poetry Society's annual poetry contest in the "Art With Words" category.
Tovli received two Awards in Short
Fiction in the 2006 West Virginia Writers' Awards.
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"Sarah" and
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"Escaping the Cacoon"
received awards along with
the work of other West Virginia Poets and Writers in a variety of categories.
CLICK ON TEXT AND SCROLL DOWN TO RAVING DOVE
to read Somewhere They'll Love You, or Pink Cup click on this link...
to read Mixed Drinks, click on this link...
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Other Publications:
Poetry:
Beautiful Days, Appearing in Raving Dove; Tribute, appearing in Chabad Magazine; The Lost Fathers--appearing in
Grimm Magazine; Departing Moldova, The Darkening Sky --appearing in Writ-Oracle Convert,
Hevrah Kadisha,
Shabbat Candles--featured at Ariga Grafton, North Dakota—appearing in The
Penpoint View
Short Fiction:
City Bus; The
Kabbalah of Lullabies; The Survival of Saplings ; Holy Beggar; Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
Dead Man's Gulch, Bigotry 101, Celebrating Ram-Heveshvan, The Summer Winds, Homeland; Traveling; Ice; Eighteen Rubles,
Savior, The Devaluation of Tulips, Gossip, Matriarch , Escaping the Cacoon, Ex-Patriate; The Patriot; Relocating
the Dead; Reflection of a Stranger; The Pallor of the Unexpected.
appearing in a variety
of print and on-line periodicals--permission to use links pending)
Novels:
Follow--currently
under review by HDM publishing
Ignatz (currently
out of print--may be reprinted in 2009)
The Tzaddik
of Kafar-- 2005 project under (currently revision)
Non-Fiction:
Surviving
the Dome; AmeriCorps Revisited; The Price of Good-bye; The Art of Memory and Belonging
Memoirs:
Walking Away;
The Tears of Yefimovich; Ester bat
Shmuel Yosif v'Branah--A Memoir (Honorable Mention--West Virginia Writer's 2005 Writing Competition); Scheduled for Publication
in 2006--Jewish Magazine, Path
to Purpose
Just for Fun (Humor):
Make it
Up as You Go; Expressing
the Arcane: Poetry, Essays and other Blog Material
Projects Pending:
Ruach of
the Elders—Spiritual Teachings of the Silent (publication 2008)
North of
the Soul (chap book--available fall 2006)
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