Book Publications

2015

  • “Mississippi Profiles”  24 biographies
  • "Katrina Memoires," a collection of 50 memories, stories, and poems from survivors of this devastating story.

2014

  • “Princess Priscilla’s Dragon at the Door” – Tween Fantasy
  • “On a Mission” – Photo-journalism of being a Missionary in Kenya

2013

  • “Mississippi Coast and Neighboring Sites”  Essays of 25 Mississippi Coastal Historical can tourism Sites
  • “Altered Perspectives” – Historical Fiction based on Old Testament stories

2012

  • “Stories From Our Past” – Historic Fiction / Memoir Audiobook
  • “Angie’s Revenge” – Science Fiction Audiobook
  • “Doctor’s Dreams 2 – Medical Stories Audiobook
  • “Love” – A collection of my father’s poetry
  • Doctor’s Dreams 1 – Medical Stories Audiobook
  • Consuto and the Rain God Audiobook – Chinese Fable Children’s book
  • “Rocking Chair and Afternoon Tales” Co-editor and contributor. ISBN 978-0-9834396-2-2
  • “Consuto and the Rain God” Audio-book. ISBN 978-0-9834396-1-5

2011

  • “Ndovu the Elephant – An African Tale. ISBN 078-0-9834396-0-8. Children’s Photobook. Photos and story composed by Philip L. Levin

2010

  • “Magnolia Blossoms and Afternoon Tales” ISBN 978-0-937660-68-3 Editor-in-chief. Includes story “Blue Eyes.”

2009

  • “Sweet Tea and Afternoon Tales – More Stories From the South” ISBN 978-0-937660-56-0. Editor.  Includes story “Motorcycle Mama”

2008

  • “Teacakes and Afternoon Tales – New Stories from Mississippi.” ISBN 978-0-937660-43-0. Editor. Includes two of my stories, “The New Washer and Dryer” and “Mississippi Farmer.”
  • “Consuto and the Rain God” Children’s Fable, Photo Illustrations. ISBN: 978-1-4343-7399-1

2007

  • Inheritance, ISBN 0-595-43688-9, A suspense novel. iUniverse, New York, 242 pg.

Anthology Publications

2014

  • “You’re Going to Die,” Coastlines, The University of Southern MS Gulf Coast, Pg 16

2013

  • “Heart Broken,” It’s a Crime, Florida Writers Assn. pg 134

2012

  • “Jack and Bertie Get Married,” My Wheels, Florida Writers Assn. Pg 24
  • “The Flood,” Coastlines, The University of Southern MS Gulf Coast, Pg 87
  • “A Missed Plane,” “A Night of Passion,” “Flowers on the Grave,” and “My Desk Drawer,” Poetry in Mississippi Milesontes, The Mississippi Poetry Society Anthology
  • “Christmas Day in the ER,” and “The Flood,” Collected Words From Writers of the Southern Coast.  Second Edition,
  • “Home Delivery” in “Rocking Chair and Afternoon Tales”

2011

  • “Christmas Day,” “Hanukkah Poem” in MS Poetry Society South Branch’s “Christmas Poetry Anthology”
  • "Extermination" in Florida Writing Association 3rd Annual Anthology; "Let's Talk."

2009

  • “Non-Western Medicine” in “From Our Family to Yours” Florida Writers Assoc. ISBN 978-1-936051-21-2.
  • “Christmas Eve in the E.R.” in “Thanksgiving to Christmas” editor Dixon Hearne.  ISBN  978-0-937660-58-4
  • “The Admiral” in “2009 Brick Streets Press Winners’ Circle” ed Charline R. McCord.  Bricks Street Press
  • “Motorcycle Mama” in “Sweet Tea and Afternoon Tales” ISBN 978-0-937660-56-0

2008

  • “The Overdose” in “Mad Dogs and Moonshine”  ISBN 978-0-9786628-7-5
  • “The New Washer and Dryer” in “Teacakes and Afternoon Tales – New Stories from Mississippi.” ISBN 978-0-937660-43-0.
  • “Mississippi Farmer” in “Teacakes and Afternoon Tales – New Stories from Mississippi.” ISBN 978-0-937660-43-0

2007

  • “Angie” in Fireflies in Glass Jars, Anthology.

1996

  • “Not Ever,” short story in Emergency! True Stories from the Nation’s ERs. Mark Brown, MD, Villard, New York.

Magazine Publications

July 2015

  • "Summer Reads" in Gulf Coast Woman
  • "Um, um, Good" about Ms. Audrey's Restaurant in Gulf Coast Woman

December 2014

  • “Delightful Cora’s is elegance rebirthed”, White House Restaurant Review, Playing the Coast Restaurant, Pg 20
  • “Ambience & Seafood,” 200 North Beach Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine. Pg 68

July 2014

  • “The Shed, Gulfport, touts award-winning Barbeque,” Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 50

Summer 2014

  • “Windance County Club,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg 94

June 2014

  • “Harrah’s opens Magnolia House,” Restaurant Review, Playing the Coast Restaurant, Pg 18

May 2014

  • “A Fine Mexican experience,” Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 66
  • “Pull up a chair, enjoy these local authors,” Summer Reads, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 50

March 2014

  • “Bacchus, synonymous with great food and drink, Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 54

February 2014

  • “Comfortable Goodness,” Hook Restaurant Review, Playing the Coast Magazine, Pg. 18

January 2014

  • “Stay Healthy by Keeping Clean,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg 6
  • “Experience a great meal in a special place at Old Cuevas Bistro,” Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 51

December 2013

  • “Aztecas offers authentic Mexican Experience,” Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 18

Holiday 2013

  • “52nd Annual Christmas Tour of Homes,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg 123

Summer 2013

  • “Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, A Very Special Place for Children,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg. 78

June 2013

  • “Changes in Pregnancy: ‘The “Glow’,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg 9

May 2013

  • “What I learned from my mother,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg. 7
  • “Mississippi Coast School Clinics,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg 11
  • “Steaming Up Deliciousness!” Beach Blvd. Steamer Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 48

March 2013

  • “Sweet and Tasty,” Sweetwater Deli Restaurant Review, Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Pg 51
  • “Summer Camp Allergies, Educate and Perpare your Kids Now,” Parents and Kids Magazine, pg. 12

Spring 2013

  • “Aaron Jones Family Interactive Center,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg. 182

February 2013

  • “Head Injury in the Young Child,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg 8

January 2013

  • “Trouble Writing?  Difficulties in School?  It May be Dysgraphia,” Parents and Kids Magazine, Pg 12

Winter 2012

  • “Bay St. Louis Little Theatre,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg 100
  • “Institute for Marine Mammal Studies,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg 82
  • “Harrison County Playhouses,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg 51

Summer 2012

  • “Welcome to Long Beach,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg. 75
  • “Ballroom Dancing on the Gulf Coast,” See South Mississippi Magazine, Pg. 146
  • “Newcomers Magazine” “Beatline Drive,” “Ballroom Dancing”

Spring 2012

  • “Newcomers Magazine” “Diamondhead in the Spring,” “Jeff Davis Blvd, Long Beach’s Main Street”

Winter 2011

  • “Beach Blvd.” Featured story about Ndovu the Elephant
  • “Newcomers Magazine”  Diamondhead in the Winter

Fall 2011

  • “Newcomers Magazine”  Diamondhead in the Fall

June 2011

  • “Southern Writers Magazine” 2 page interview

May 2011

  • Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society:  “Impressions of Rural Medical Care in Kenya.”  Pg. 159

January 2011

  • Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society:  “My Own Country—A Doctor’s Story”  a Book review.  Pg. 23

November 2010

  • “The Oxford So & So”  “The Importance of Being Frank” pg. 24

September 2010

  • Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society:  “Willard Boggan, MD:  A Giant of Mississippi Medicine” Pg. 214

August 2010

  • Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society: “A Year Ago in Mozambique – The African Medical Mission Trip”

Winter 2006

  • Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society: 8 page article about my experiences as an E.R. doctor during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

Online Publications

November 2011

  • Turning Photography into Profit” www.SouthernWritersMagazine.com

September 2011

  • “Quiche” recipe in www.SouthernWritersMagazine.com

June 2011

  • "Southern Writers Magazine" www.SouthernWritersMagazine.com  2 page interview

July 2010 to June 2011, Monthly Blog at "Art Scene" http://www.googinsgallery.com/ArtInLife_Archives.html

  • “The State of Art on MS Coast”
  • “Promoting Gulf Coast Functions”
  • "Local Marketing for Authors and Artists”
  • “Have your work Judged!”
  • “Marlin Miller, Gulf Coast Artist”
  • “Gallery 782”
  • “How to Make Money with your Art”
  • “Mississippi Gulf Coast Art Scene”
  • “Funding your Big Event”
  • “An Artist’s Website – as important as a Business Card”
  • “Romy Simpson – Negrotto’s Gallery”
  • “Self Publishing your Literary or Photography Book”
  • “Summer Art Camps for Children”

October 2007

  • “Watching the Beach Workers” – “The Spill” – West Florida On-line Journal - WFLF1@AOL.com . http://sites.google.com/site/wflfwebsite/

December 2007

  • “Quaker”  Baby Boomer Contest.  www.leeannrubsam.com/contest.htm (won 2nd place)
  • “The Devil’s Profile” http://southeasternwriters.com/newsletter/

November 2007

  • “Zipporah” part two.  “The Infinite Writer,” November issue. http://mysite.verizon.net/resockeb/e-zine/id123.html

July 2007

  • “Zipporah” is the midlife part of the Moses story written from his Midian wife’s perspective.  It has just come out in the magazine “The Infinite Writer,” October issue.  http://mysite.verizon.net/resockeb/e-zine/id107.html

August 2006

  • Sam and Harry Carrot. \ Honorable mention in HumorPress.com Aug/Sept 06 http://www.humorpress.com/results/Essays-200608-09/a-Finalists/LevinPhilip-Essay-200608-09-SamAndHarryCarrot.htm

2006

  • “In the Fine Print” http://gcwriters.org/in_fine_print.ht

Magnolia Quarterly

The Magnolia Quarterly is a Gulf Coast Writers Association publication. I have served as President since May 2005.

Letters from the President. Each issue features one.

Fall 14:              Requiem for a Mensch

Summer 14:      Travel Diaries

Spring 14:         Dream Big

Winter 13:         Ngorongoro Crater

Winter 13:         Write for GCWA

Spring 13:         The Joys of Self Publishing

Summer 13:      Work Those Fingers

Winter 12:         Meeting the Family

Winter 12:         Writing Conferences

Fall 12:              Letter from the President

Fall 12:              A Missed Plane

Summer 12:      Produce your best Work

Spring 12:         Musings

Fall 11:               Obesity in the E.R.

Fall 11:               Marketing My Books

Summer 11:       Letter from the President

Spring 11:          Southern Expressions

Winter 10:         Mission

Autumn 10:       Write On!

Summer 10:      Hitting the Wall

Summer 10:      Publishing your Book

2010                 "Let’s Write" Ed. Letter from the President

Spring 10:         Letter from the President

Winter 09:        Measuring Life’s Successes

Winter 09:        Essentials of a Short Story

Autumn 09:      The Character in Fiction

Spring 09:        Brave Heart

Autumn 08:      The Old Green Truck

Summer 08:     The Medical Examiner

Spring 08:        Super Cockroaches

Winter 07:        Mississippi Farmer

Autumn 07:      Rebecca

Spring 07:        The Devil’s Profile

Winter 06:        In the Spotlight: Terry Miles

Winter 06:        Katrina Story

Autumn 06:      In the Spotlight: John Freeman

Autumn 06:      The Great Spirit’s Gift

Autumn 05:      The Spider in the Corner

Summer 05:     In the Spotlight: Nancy Beeler

Spring 05:        In the Spotlight: Philip Levin

Spring 05:        The New Washer and Dryer

Winter 04:        Terminex

Autumn 04:      Death by Committee

Autumn 04:      Sam and Harry Carrot

Summer 04:     Space Leprechauns

Spring 04:        Tax Deductions

Speeches/Seminars

December 2011

  • “Keumbu Kenya Hospital Project” Chef’s Banquet, Island View Casino

October 2011

  • “Publishing Your Book: Conception, Construction, Production, Distribution”         Southern Expressions Writing Conference. Ocean Springs, MS
  • “Keumbu Kenya Hospital Project”  Rotarians at Gulfport Yacht Club

September 2011

  • “Publishing Your Book: Conception, Construction, Production, Distribution” Keynote Speaker at Picayunne Writing Conference
  • “Publishing Your Book: Conception, Construction, Production, Distribution” 3 hour seminar for Davidson County Writing Group, Davidson, NC

June 2011

  • Story Reading.  Negrottos “Fusion” event

May 2011

  • “Authors and Characters”  Bay St. Louis Library Series

May 2010

  • “Creating Your Novel”  Southern Expressions Writing Conference, Ocean Springs, MS

November 2010

  • “Writing Techniques”  Pass Christian Writing Society, Library

August 2010

  • “Self-Publishing your novel”  Picayune MS Writing Society Keynote Speaker

October 2008

  • “Free-lance Writing,” Davidson County Writing Society

September 2008

  • “Medical Missionary Work in Mozambique” for the Biloxi, MS Rotary Club

November 2007

  • “Case Study,” Speech at Neurologic Conference: “Selected Topics in Multi-Trauma & Cerebrovascular Injury,” MH

Movie Roles

2007

  • Interviewed in “Mississippi Son.” Documentary about Hurricane Katrina. “Best Feature Documentary, Best Cinematography winner,” Remi Award at the 28th Annual Telly Awards.

Newspaper Articles

August 2011

  • “ER physician:  Heat sickens, kills most vulnerable” Sun Herald

August 2008

  • “Hospital still met needs of Katrina-stunned Coast.” Sun Herald

April 2005

  • “Offering a helping hand in Honduras,” about my missionary trip to Honduras. Sun Herald, Biloxi, MS, Page B

Special Projects

2006

  • Love Poems – A collection of my Father’s poetry
  • Autobiography: My parents autobiographies

2005

  • All class Westchester High School Reunion, a 32 page memorial publication.

Photographs

September 2011

  • "Flamingos Taking Flight," Winner of Photocontest, South Mississippi Living, pg 161

May 2011

  • White on White – C of C, BSL
  • Shots from around the world – Negrotto’s Gallery
  • OSAA Spring Juried Competion – 2 photos
  • Africa Wildlife, 16 photos – Mary C in Ocean Springs

April 2011

  • Perspectives – Negrotto’s Gallery
  • Flowers – C of C, BSL

March 2011

  • China Shots – C of C, BSL

February 2011

  • “Legacy” 7th annual African American Art and Heritage Collection

October 2010

  • Ocean Springs Art Associations 39th Annual Fine Art Show (Juried)

September 2010

  • African Exhibition – Negrotto’s Gallery

August 2010

  • “Mr. September” – 2011 Health Care Hotties, Bethel Free Health Clinic Calendar

2009

  • “Chinese Girl with Ribbon” First Place. Vancleave Public Library.

2006

  • “Consuto and the Rain God” a children’s fable with 24 photos I took in China.

1981

  • Five cover photos on “Coastal Bend Medicine,” the Publication of the Nueces County Medical Society (TX)

Contest Successes

2013

  • Second Place  “Know Not – Want Not”  Arizona State Poetry Society
  • Second Place  “The Burned Patient”  Springfield Writer’s Guild
  • Second Place  “Rain Wouldn’t Come” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • Second Place  “The Case of the Stolen Jackpot”  Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • Second Place  “A Nature Trail” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • First Place      “The Magic Formula of Emile von Frankenstein” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • Honorable Mention   “The Corpse Who Wasn’t Dead” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • Honorable Mention   “Going to the Dermatologist” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • Two Finalists  “God’s Plan” The Royal Palm, Florida Writing Association

2012

  • 2nd Place, Contemporary Fiction    “Shattered Lives,” The Royal Palm, Florida Writing Association
  • 1st Place (1), 2nd Place (2), 3rd Place (1), “Staying Home,” “All According to Plan,” “Coming Home,” and “The Headache” Writers Unlimited, MS Poetry Society
  • "The Duffy"   Heather Graham’s NOLA for Best Query Letter

2011

  • 2nd Place (2), 3rd Place (1), Hon. Mention (1), 40th Annual Literary Competition of MS Poetry Society, S. Branch

2010

  • First Place, “Andrew Comes Home” Contemporary Fiction, Dixie Kane Classic
  • Grand Prize, “Andrew Comes Home” Dixie Kane Classic, RWA, NOLA
  • Second Place, Picayune Writers’ Group 2010 Writers Contest
  • Third Place, “Take Your Medicine” MS Poetry Society
  • Hon. Mention, “Heart Broken” MS Poetry Society

2009

  • Second Place, “You’re Going to Die” MS Poetry Society
  • Third Place, “The Rash” MS Poetry Society
  • Hon. Mention, “Home Delivery” MS Poetry Society
  • Hon. Mention, "The Admiral" Brick Streets Press

2008

  • First Place, “Brave Heart” MS Poetry Society.
  • Second Place, “Motorcycle Mama” MS Poetry Society
  • Second Place, “Quacker” Baby Boomer Contest.
  • First Place, “Andrew Comes Home” The Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, Inc.
  • Semi-finalist, Theatre Oxford’s 2008 national 10 Minute Play contest. Of 259 entries in Round One, 70 made it into Round Two