Writers & artists in #1
Fiction
Ed Shannon, Mark Rainey , Dave Stall , Glenn Rahman , Mary
Elizabeth Counselman , Roger Dale Trexler, Matt McGregor, Carl Jacobi
Non-fiction
Marge Simon , Dave Page , Ed Shannon, John Brower
Art
Mike Odden, Joe West, Lee Odden, Mat Rouch, Jim Boden,
M. B. Simon, Jon Arfstom, Roger Gerberding,
Poetry
A.M. Decker, Carl Jacobi, Audrey Parente, Phillip
Rainbird, M. B. Simon, Scott Wyatt, Ruth Berman
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Volume 1 # 1 Oct 1987
cover art Mike Odden
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Volume 2 # 2 Oct 1988
cover art Roger
Gerberding
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Writers & artists in #2
Fiction
Gerald Houarner, Kathryn Sullivan ,Margaret B. Simon ,Roger
Dale Trexler ,John B. Rosenman ,Thomas D. Sadler ,B. R. Parks, Bobby G.
Warner,Donald W. Hornbostel, Bruce G. Trait
Non-fiction
R. Dixon Smith,Roger Gerberding, Dave Page,John Brower,
Ed Shannon
Art
Mat Rouch ,James Jamison, Roger Gerberding, Hans
Werner, Roberet Pasternak, Joe West, Karen L. Bellmont, Judith A.
Holman, Mike Odden
Poetry
Dwight P. Humphries, W. Gregory Stewart, Joseph Payne
Brennan, Wayne Allen Sallee, Joey Froechlich, Audrey Parente, Joyce
Olson, A. M. Decker, Janet E. Udden Ed Shannon
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Another member of this group was
composer Paul Dice, who went on to become manager and marry Gao Hung
Chinese internationally famous Pipa Soloist
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The Minnesota Fantasy Review was the brainchild of Ed
Shannon,poet and writer and Mike Odden visual artist. Both were
involved in "Minn-Con" a Minnesota based Fantasy Convention Group. They
wanted to make a classy venue forwriters and artists. In the summer
of1987 they sponsored a extra mini-convention in Sauk Centre Minnesota,
dubbed "Sin-Con" at the famous 'Palmer House' Hotel
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Photo of Gordy
Dickenson recieving 1989 Minnesota Fantasy Award
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