Saturday, January 31, 2009

DICKEY DEW. WIGLEAF

(This is what happened when I Yahoo imaged Dickey Dew)



Check out the latest story at WIGLEAF.


DICKEY DEW
BARRY GRAHAM
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200901dickey.htm


It's a very short piece from my collection THE NATIONAL VIRGINITY PLEDGE.


Additional info, including how to order, HERE:


http://www.anothersky.org/in-print/the-national-virginity-pledge-barry-graham/

Thursday, January 29, 2009

NEW ISSUES. GHOTI. FRIGG

Check out the latest offerings from two very excellent journals, FRIGG and GHOTI. A few of the authors include:

FRIGG

JOSHUA BEN-NOAH CARLSON
BARRY GRAHAM
TIFF HOLLAND
RAVI MANGLA
MARY MILLER
JENNIFER PIERONI

http://friggmagazine.com/issuetwentythree/contents23.htm

GHOTI

J. HOBART ANTHONY
BARRY GRAHAM
FORTUNATO SALAZAR
MURRAY BROZINSKY
AMBER LEVENTRY
DOUGLAS MILLIKEN
ALEX MYERS
S.V. PATRICK
IAIN STEWART
DAVID STILLWAGON

http://www.ghotimag.com/

NO COLONY 2


NO COLONY 2 is now available to order. For all info, including contributor, publication, and ordering info, go here:

http://www.nocolony.com/

Monday, January 26, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009

DAVY ROTHBART. RUMPUS INTERVIEW

(Yeah, that's an Eastern Michigan University jersey. Ypsi, representing.)

Check out this interview with DAVY ROTHBART over at RUMPUS. ROTHBART is an Ann Arbor native, fiction writer, journalist, filmmaker, and mastermind behind FOUND MAGAZINE.

Excerpt from interview:

The Rumpus: Where are you right now and what are you doing?

Davy Rothbart: I’m holed up in my bedroom in Ann Arbor, logging videotapes of myself at age 20, holed up in the bedroom of another house maybe ten blocks away, bawling over a girl. The footage is somewhat pathetic but also really fucking funny. We’re gonna use some of this old-school home-video in My Heart Is An Idiot, a personal documentary I’m working on with my friend David Meiklejohn.

Rumpus: Before we get to my questions, Stephen really wanted me to ask you how you got two PhD candidates from Bulgaria to show up at a Jewish holiday event for the media elite? It was in Park City, Utah, and said candidates were “stunning women wearing cheetah patterns and four inch heels.” What was that about?

Rothbart: They were just friends of mine who live in Salt Lake. I did get in trouble for inviting shiksas to a Jewish retreat, though I don’t think Stephen minded.

Rumpus: Iverson or Hamilton, who should start for the Pistons?

Rothbart: I’d start Rip. Iverson off the bench, playing with the second unit, is still gonna get plenty of shots, and playing against other teams’ bench he’d be a complete viper.

Rumpus: What makes you tired?

Rothbart: Huffing epoxy glue out of Kroger’s bags.

Rumpus: Have you ever dealt with hecklers while on tour? What did you do about them?

Rothbart: Not too many hecklers, but on our Europe tour last fall, at a bar in England, an old drunk on the sidewalk started peeing on the window just behind the stage where me and my brother were. We brought him another beer.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

Read the interview in its entirety here:

http://therumpus.net/2009/01/the-shorty-qa-with-davy-rothbart/

Links to some really amazing shit DAVY ROTHBART is doing:

MY HEART IS AN IDIOT
http://blogs.lifestyle.aol.ca/bloggers/davy-rothbart/

FOUND MAGAZINE & DIRTY FOUND
http://www.foundmagazine.com/

THE LONE SURFER OF MONTANA, KANSAS
http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Surfer-Montana-Kansas-Stories/dp/0743263057

Saturday, January 24, 2009

MORE STUFF TO READ

LAURA ELLEN SCOTT
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS
JUKED
http://juked.com/2009/01/doyouknow.asp

DRUNK AND LONELY MEN
ISSUE 10
FEATURING
SARAH SILVERS
KYLE HEMMINGS
MICHELLE REALE
LAUREN BECKER
WAYNE SCHEER
DAVE ERLEWINE
and others
http://www.pearnoir.com/drunkandlonely.htm

PETER SCHWARTZ
THE 4 THINGS I'D DO
THE DIRTY NAPKIN
http://thedirtynapkin.com/issue.php?issue=021&page=15

JARED WARD
CHASING TAILS
THE DIRTY NAPKIN
http://thedirtynapkin.com/issue.php?issue=021&page=05

KORA. ISSUE 1
FEATURING
J.A. TYLER
SEAN LOVELACE
BRANDI WELLS
RAY SUCCRE
CHRISTOPHER HIGGS
J. MICHAEL WALGREN
LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS
http://korajournal.blogspot.com/2009/01/kora-issue-1_22.html

DARBY LARSON
ART
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200901art.htm

MYFANWY COLLINS
LET ME GO
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200901letmego.htm

MARY LYNN REED
ON THE WAY TO DEATH VALLEY
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200901dvalley.htm

ONE SENTENCE STORIES
MONKEYBICYCLE
FEATURING
AARON BURCH
MEG POKRASS
TIFF HOLLANDS
KYLE HEMMINGS
BONNIE ZOBELL
and others
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/OneSentenceStories/january2009.html

ROBERT SWARTWOOD
HOW OPRAH TURNED MY RAT INTO THE NEXT JAMES FREY
PEQUIN
http://pequin.org/archives/2009/robertswartwood/howoprahturnedmyrat.php

Thursday, January 22, 2009

AWP. ORANGE ALERT READING SERIES

Mad respect and appreciation to JASON BEHRENDS and the folks at WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT for putting this thing together and for allowing me to be a part of it. I'm honored to read my fiction alongside such talented writers.

More info here:

http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/

EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH

Alright, so J.A. TYLER has them all signed and shipped out, so if you ordered they are on the way. It's a limited edition print run of 50. There are less than twenty left. Order one quick before they're gone. Here's the info:

dying
New chapbooks coming soon from:
dying
LYDIA COPELAND
KIM PARKO
HEATHER BELL
dying
More info coming soon, and as always, THANK YOU to everyone who continues to read, submit, order, and show their support. Much appreciated.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

SHAINDEL BEERS. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME


Check out the latest offering from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend, SHAINDEL BEERS. Here's the publisher's info:
shaindel
A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles—from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.
beers
The characters/speakers in Beers’ poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.
shaindel
For all other info, including how to order, go here:
beers

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

STEPHEN ELLIOTT. JAMES FREY. THE RUMPUS

(this is what happened when I yahoo imaged 'rumpus')

Check out this interview over at THE RUMPUS. STEPHEN ELLIOTT interviews JAMES FREY. Here's a small piece:

Frey: I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

SE: It’s a monster of a city.

Frey: Yeah, in good ways, and bad. Dreams can come true there in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

SE: The book is sprawling, kind of like the city itself.

Frey: By design. The city has no center, no single unifying place. The city grew and was built unconventionally, as was the book.

SE: The city operates as the spine of the narrative.

Frey: It’s a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

Read in its entirety here:

http://therumpus.net/2009/01/the-rumpus-interview-with-james-frey/

STOP. PAY ATTENTION. $10,000 AWARD

Lake Forest College
Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize (Prose)

Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW organization, invites applications for an emerging prose writer under forty years old, with no major book publication*, to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2010) in residence at our campus in Chicago’s northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan. There are no formal teaching duties attached to the residency. Time is to be spent completing a manuscript, participating in the Lake Forest Literary Festival, and offering two public presentations. The completed manuscript will be published (upon approval) by the Lake Forest College Press &NOW Books imprint.

The stipend is $10,000, with a housing suite and campus meals.

Send curriculum vita, no more than 30 pages of manuscript in progress, and a one-page statement of plans for completion to: Plonsker Residency, Department of English, Lake Forest College, Box A16, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Submissions must be postmarked by April 1, 2009 for consideration by judges Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Joshua Corey.

http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/engl/plonsker.asp


*No major book publication. What does this mean?: a chapbook is ok, as are works where the candidate is translator or editor. Yet, most other small press book publications will disqualify. Query andnow@lakeforest.edu with questions.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Saturday, January 17, 2009

THE NIMBLE FEW. 2.3. WINTER ISSUE

Check out the latest issue of THE NIMBLE FEW. It includes work from:

J.A. TYLER
A VOID OF COURSE MOON
http://www.thenimblefew.com/id205.html

HOWIE GOOD
ARIA FOR MY DAUGHTER
http://www.thenimblefew.com/id208.html

HOWIE GOOD
EVERYTHING SIMPLE BECOMES COMPLEX
http://www.thenimblefew.com/id209.html

PETER SCHWARTZ
PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.thenimblefew.com/id193.html

CORDUROY MTN.

Features work from:

Peter Berghoef, Shane Jones, Brooklyn Copeland, Forest Roth, Blake Butler, Mandy Billings, Brandon Shimoda, Sommer Browning, Adam Maynard, Joshua Ware, Drew Kalbach, B.J. Love, Kevin Wilson, Kendra Malone, Jac Jemc, Eric Amling, and James Iredell.

For additional info including how to order, go HERE.

Friday, January 16, 2009

NEW ISSUE. LITnIMAGE

Check out the Winter issue of LITnIMAGE. New fiction from:

No More Tears
Kyle Hemmings

L.
Michael P. Kardos

All I've Got
Ravi Mangla

The Get-Togethers
Corey Mesler

Day of the Renaissance Fair
Meg Pokrass

Time of Death
Shoshana Sumrall

Finds: A Game
M.O. Walsh

Thursday, January 15, 2009

MORE STUFF TO READ WIGLEAF. 971 MENU. ELIMAE

BLAKE BUTLER
RUPTURE
WIGLEAF
http://www.wigleaf.com/

GREG GERKE
NOW COME THE DAYS
971 MENU
http://www.971menu.com/2009/01/gerke_greg_now_come_days.html

THOMAS KEARNES
SLUM
971 MENU
http://www.971menu.com/2009/01/kearnes_thomas_slum.html

J.A. TYLER
& (NINETY-TWO)
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/And.html

RICK MOODY
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Practical.html

MEG POKRASS
FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Accent.html

SARAH JOY FREESE
KALILA
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Kalila.html

ELIZABETH ELLEN
SHE DID NOT IMMEDIATELY GET A CAR
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Cat.html

KYLE HEMMINGS
DYSLEXIA
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Dys.html

HOWIE GOOD
GHOSTS OF BREATH
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Ghosts.html

DREW KALBACH
CATH LAB
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Cath.html

BRAD GREEN
RAT
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Rat.html

DAVE ERLEWINE
MY SON THE RABBI
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/01/Rabbi.html


WHAT AM I DOING. JUST READ THE WHOLE FUCKING ISSUE OF ELIMAE.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

HOWIE GOOD. TOMORROWLAND. REVIEW at WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT

Thank you, JASON BEHRENDS, over at WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT, for reviewing the latest of our chapbooks, HOWIE GOOD's collection, TOMORROWLAND.

Here's a great line from the review:

"If stripping down your thoughts is the nature of the craft then Howie Good is a master craftsman."

Read the full review here:

http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2009/01/orange-spotlight_12.html

Additional information, including additional reviews and how to order, here:

http://achilleschapbook.blogspot.com/2008/11/howie-good-tomorrowland.html

Monday, January 12, 2009

GOLDEN GLOBES REVIEW






WINNER OF THE 2008 KEYHOLE FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST - THOMAS COOPER

Congrats to Thomas Cooper.

Michael Martone selected his chapbook Phantasmagoria as the winner. More details--cover art, release date--will be available soon.

Close seconds (in no particular order):

The Flasher by Adam Peterson
How to Predict the Weather by Aaron Burch
Children, Gamblers, Drunks, and Saints by Chauna Craig

Thomas Cooper lives in Florida, where he writes and teaches. His stories havepreviously appeared in New Orleans Review, Beloit Fiction Journal,Night Train, Quick Fiction, Opium, and elsewhere. He is at work on a novel and short story collection.

WWW.KEYHOLEMAGAZINE.COM

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

THE NATIONAL VIRGINITY PLEDGE - READY TO ORDER

THE NATIONAL VIRGINITY PLEDGE

BARRY GRAHAM

ANOTHER SKY PRESS

100 PGS.

ORDER NOW
http://www.anothersky.org/in-print/the-national-virginity-pledge-barry-graham/

“Barry Graham’s heroes want to love, yet bigger than their love for people and things is their capacity to destroy the objects of their affection. He doesn’t scorn them, though; he treats them with care and a loving tenderness. He turns grief, betrayal, and violence into something close to poetry, and finds beauty in places we should never wish to visit.”
Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived a Girl

“Barry Graham’s stories are little cries for help from way in the corners and deep in the cracks of contemporary fiction.”
Jeff Parker, Ovenman

“Barry Graham’s writing hits hard because it is raw and honest. He will suck you in with equal parts everydayness and voyeurism.”
Aaron Burch, Hobart

“…it remains a funny, reckless, fast paced, and edgy voice from beginning to end.”
Dan Wickett, Emerging Writers Network / Dzanc

Friday, January 9, 2009

NEW ACHILLES CHAPBOOK - JAMES IREDELL - ATLANTA

JAMES IREDELL
ATLANTA
JANUARY 2009
STORIES / PROSE POEMS
4.00

ADDITIONAL INFO INCLUDING HOW TO ORDER:

excerpts from ATLANTA:

"When I moved to Atlanta, thunderstorms blew through the afternoons. I’d tell my friends in Nevada that I’d moved to this tropical rainforest. Clouds of mosquitoes heaved hordes of citizens above skyscrapers, then dropped the husks of their bodies to Peachtree Street. The hulls of destroyed brick rows lurked underground, and above, fiberglass rocketed into the rain. Hardwood floors lined my apartment, and cockroaches scrawled notes across my chest. With the humidity, I inhabited the inside of a mouth, the space between ass cheeks. The cat wailed to go outside, forever and ever."

"Years ago, armies had drug cannon and bodies through the pine needles and mud in these hills while Sherman was fixing to set everything ablaze. The tiny people driving their tiny cars in the tiny towns below grew tinier as we mounted the summit trail. The rocks sat bald as rocks, evidence that even before the North ravaged the South, glaciers had slithered through, eating everything and giving birth to boulders. Our sandwiches were lined with turkey we had not shot nor beheaded. Later, when we left the mountain, we did so in a Toyota made from and powered by paleobotanical remnants. Sarah’s pants, like all pants, modestly covered her ankles. She hummed and sighed when I fumbled through my past: my parents were Yankees, and I came from West to East, and I’d once smoked crack. Maybe more than once. “Just to lay everything out there,” I said. My fingers felt for skin to pick and instead pulled at a tree’s. “I’m only half-Southern,” Sarah said, and she explained that only her mama came from Georgia. That made me feel better."

from BLAKE BUTLER:

"If Mary Robison listened to more punk, grew up in Las Vegas in the 80s before the 80s sucked, did whippits while reading Ben Marcus and scrolling the alternative personals for golden lines to crib, she might have exploded into the post-post-Beat sentence index that is Atlanta. But she didn't. Jamie Iredell did, and in reading this lean but dense meat-eater of a sui generis prose poem cycle, one realizes there might still be a way for chapbooks to compete with porn."

from MIKE DOCKINS:

"What in the hell are these things? Stories? Poems? Stoems? Whatever they are, they have (lucky for us) catapulted from the brain, indeed the life, of this epicurean-poet-goon-maniac from Atlanta-via-Reno-via-northern-California. This book (much like the speaker himself) moves with a moody cat, and resolves amidst (and beyond) the sometimes seedy underbelly of Atlanta with its cavernous tavern dives, its ungodly cockroaches, its lust for excess. When you put down this book, you might suffer a hangover. But these pieces simultaneously achieve a sense of bildungsroman (think Joyce, not Sherwood Anderson). The consistency of voice and style here is remarkable, as is Iredell's knack for creative metaphors (think Richard Brautigan). James Iredell has the skillz to pay the billz. Wait, he's a poet so he can't pay his billz. What I mean to say is, he has the skills to throw out the mail and keep scribbling, which is something he is always doing, and doing well."

Thursday, January 8, 2009

AWP FLASH FICTION CONTEST: GUEST JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT

SEAN LOVELACE has agreed to be the judge for the DOGZPLOT $200 FLASH FICTION CONTEST @ AWP.

He will pick a winner from a handful of finalists chosen by the editorial squads of DOGZPLOT and CELLA'S ROUND TRIP.

Hope to see you all in Chicago.

COMPLETE CONTEST DETAILS HERE

MORE STUFF TO READ

More good stuff I've found online:

WIGLEAF
JAMES IREDELL
ROADTRIP
http://wigleaf.com/200901roadtrip.htm


THE BELIEVER
GARY LUTZ
THE SENTENCE IS A LONELY PLACE
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200901/?read=article_lutz


TUESDAY SHORTS
LAUREN BECKER
HOWIE GOOD
CHARLES LENNOX
http://www.tuesdayshorts.com/8.html


THIEVES JARGON
SEAN LOVELACE
THREE DAYS
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=1287


TULIP
KYLE HEMMINGS
JIM MORRISON IS NOT DEAD
http://tulipweekly.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/jim-morrison-is-not-dead/


ECLECTICA
J.A. TYLER
ANNE GERMANACOS
http://www.eclectica.org/v13n1/fiction_list.html



DOGZPLOT $200 FLASH FICTION CONTEST - INFO HERE

Sunday, January 4, 2009

ROSE METAL PRESS. HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS. SEAN LOVELACE

from ROSE METAL PRESS website:

HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS by SEAN LOVELACE has just been selected by Sherrie Flick as the winner of our Third Annual Short Short Chapbook contest!

We will be publishing Sean’s manuscript as a limited edition chapbook this coming summer. In the meantime, you can read more about him at his blog here, and also here.

We would also like to recognize the following contest finalists:

Aaron Burch for Birthmarks
Stefanie Freele for Breathing Oysters
Molly Gaudry for Come See the Monkey & Other Stories
Jac Jemc for This Stranger She'd Invited In
Erika Mikkalo for 26 Letters

And semi-finalists:

Lisa Buchanan for Artifacts from the American Century
Dawn Corrigan for Under the Power Lines
Roseanne Griffeth for Getting There Eventually
Tiff Holland for Straight Out of the CanKate McCorkle for The Last Parakeet and Other Stories

We had received more entries this year than ever before, and we are extremely grateful to everyone who submitted. Thank you, as always, for letting us read your manuscripts, and for reminding us how much amazing short short prose is being written out there.


Congrats to SEAN LOVELACE and all the other finalists and semi-finalists.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

HOBART. NEW ISSUE

January HOBART is live. New work from:

KIRSTEN CHEN
CAITLIN HORROCKS
PAUL SILVERMAN
GRACE ANDREACCHI

Interview:

HANNAH TINTI (by AMY MINTON)

http://www.hobartpulp.com/website/january/tinti.html



DOGZPLOT $200 FLASH FICTION CONTEST - INFO HERE

Thursday, January 1, 2009

$200 DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION CONTEST at AWP 2009

So, here's what we're doing for AWP 2009.

UPDATE: Guest judge for the flash fiction contest will be 2009 Rose Metal Press chapbook contest winner, SEAN LOVELACE.

$200 FLASH FICTION CONTEST

The rules are simple. The contest will be on-site. February 11-14 in Chicago. NO entry fee. One flash per person. Must be previously unpublished. Write a small flash, 200 words or less, and turn it in at the DOGZPLOT table before Saturday, February 14th, at noon. We pick a winner by 2 pm, and hand them the cash.

All entries will be read blind. Only your flash and your phone number should appear on the entry. If you win we call you. If you aren't still around on Saturday at 2pm, we'll mail it. But we're taking $.50 for postage.

We may give some free books to some runners up, depends how we're feeling.

Hope to see you all there. Bring your best flashes with you.

Please help spread the word on this one. Please repost wherever and whenever you can. Thanks.


Also, we reserve the right to publish any of the entries on the DOGZPLOT flash fiction site.