Press Release for Legally Ted by Joseph Chinnock

Joseph Chinnock has had two short stories published in respected publications  (Grinding Machines in The Dirty Napkin and Legally Ted in The Gettysburg Review) and is awaiting the publication of his first novel.

One piece of Joseph Chinnock’s short fiction to be published in 2012 is Legally Ted, the dark, funny and multilayered story of a parolee, Ted, who is trapped in a Clock-Work Orange-like system while trying to keep his sanity, his sexuality, and his retro-reunion band, Styxian Revival, going through it all. 

Legally Ted is being published in The Gettysburg Review. The Gettysburg Review, published by Gettysburg College, is recognized as one of the country’s premier literary journals. Since its debut in 1988, work by such luminaries as E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, James Tate, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall has appeared alongside that of emerging artists such as Christopher Coake, Holly Goddard Jones, Kyle Minor, Ginger Strand, and Charles Yu, whose short-story collection, Third-Class Superhero, was selected recently by Richard Powers as one of the National Book Foundation’s “Five Under 35.”

More than one-hundred short stories, poems, and essays first published in The Gettysburg Review have been reprinted in the various prize anthologies—The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Best American Poetry, Essays, Mystery Stories, and Short Stories, New Stories from the South, as well as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards—or have reappeared in such esteemed publications as Harper’s. In addition, The Gettysburg Review’s editing, elegant design, and stunning graphics have earned numerous prizes, including a Best New Journal award and four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.

The editors of The Gettysburg Review express their deep commitment to the arts and humanities by seeking out and publishing the very best contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, essay-reviews, and art in issues as physically beautiful as they are intellectually and emotionally stimulating. Joseph Chinnock is very proud to be included in this esteemed publication, which is highly selective, publishing only two percent of manuscripts submitted annually.

Joseph Chinnock is a freelance writer, writing coach, and world traveler.  He has had an eclectic career as an entrepreneur, including a three-year stint in Kathmandu working with traditional healers to bring Tibetan Medicine to the United States. The last three years he has been the director of Wordsmiths, a consortium of Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates who collaborate to mentor aspiring writers.