July 11th

Hello all!

Here are my newest updates:

Recently published stories:

"My Girl" in Newtown Literary.

"A Different Street" in Exterminating Angel.

"1998" in Freshly Unhatched. 

Blog Tours:

My reflections about writing on Newtown Literary's Blog.

As part of their blog tour, Sucker Literary will be posting my thoughts about young adult fiction on July 24th. 

Other news:

I recently completed The Legacy of Lost Things, the prequel to my novel The Hollowing Moon.

I have two short stories that will be featured in the upcoming months. "The Art of Trying" will be published in an anthology about first-generation immigrants and their experiences in America. "Wind and Glass Behind Us" will be published in Bleeding Heart Publications.

Looking beyond 2013, I will be the featured writer in March at the First Tuesdays reading in Jackson Heights.

My reading series, Boundless Tales, is participating for the second time in the NYC Poetry Festival! 

February 7th, 2013

Upcoming readings:

Hamazkayin American-Armenian Writers
Friday, February 22nd
8pm
Waltz Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Blvd
Astoria, NY 11105

Fireside Reading at LIC Bar
Thursday, April 4th
(details to follow)

Oh, Bernice!
Saturday, June 15th
(details to follow)

December 4th

Niche Magazine published my piece "A Passing Season" several months ago.
http://www.nichelitmag.com/

Theurgy Lit will be publishing my piece "For the Good of the Whole" by the end of the month.
http://www.theurgymagazine.co.uk/

My reading series Boundless Tales will be hosting writers from the inaugural issue of Newtown Literary (http://newtownliterary.org/) on Friday, December 14th. Go to Boundlesstales.blogspot.com for more details. 

July 2012

Wonderful and chaotic. Let me organize this cohesively....

Boundless Tales news:
We are part of the NYC Poetry Festival this year! Our featured readers are: Gabriel Cabrera,        Michael Alpiner and Jill Parshley.
      Sunday, July 22nd
      12pm
      Governor's Island at Chumley's stage
      http://poetrysocietyny.org/new-york-city-poetry-festival/info-for-this-year/

Boundless Tales is also celebrating its one year anniversary in September. If Boundless Tales was your first public forum for reading your work please submit to be featured in September. Go to Boundlesstales.blogspot.com for more details.
We were also given a write up in the Greenpoint Star: http://www.greenpointstar.com/view/full_story/19569798/article-Writers-reunite-for-Queens’-reading-series-?instance=lead_story_left_column


My novel (untitled):
     I am half-way through with my novel! I am hoping to have it done by the early winter, revise and edit before the spring and start querying agents and small presses shortly after.

The reading at the Armenian Center was given a lovely write up in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator
(pg. 10-11) http://www.mirrorspectator.com/pdf/063012.pdf


New story published
      Niche Magazine accepted my piece "A Passing Season" for their fall issue to be released in September 2012.


Newtown Literary
      My fellow writer Tim Fredrick founded a Queens-based literary journal, Newtown Literary. As a new member of the editorial board I encouraged writers to submit their work! Go to www.newtownliterary.org for submission details.

April 2012

I will be reading this Thursday evening April 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

at The Armenian Center, 69-23 47th Avenue, Woodside, NY

LITERARY GEMS AND WINE with Nora Armani, Lucine Kasbarian,

Lola Koundakjian, Aida Zilelian-Silak

February 2012

I am probably one-third deep into my new novel. It doesn't have a title yet.

My story "In My Innocence" that was published in the anthology paniK: Candid Stories of Life Altering Experiences Surrounding Pregnancy is now available as an ebook, on iPad, iPhone, and

iPod touch:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/panik/id501140851?mt=11

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/panik-melissa-ferina/1108259087?ean=9781105513206&itm=1&usri=panik

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/HelpInspireOthers

The anthology is also available at the Huntington Book Revue.

December 10th

The results are in - my novel THE HOLLOWING MOON is one of five finalists for the 2011 Mercer Street Books Fiction Prize. Selected from more than 500 entries, the winner is Dorette Snover for THE CITY OF LADIES. Find the excerpt from the winning novel, along with the list of five finalists at:

http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/andernovelcontest-02.html

My story "The Festering" will be featured in the inaugural issue of Sucker Lit in the upcoming months.

"The Weight of Emptiness" was recently accepted by Halfway Down the Stairs for the winter issue. This journal published my piece "Almost There" two years ago, and both pieces tell the same plot through the eyes of two different characters.