Friday, August 28, 2009

DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 09. order that shit yo

(ORDER HERE): http://www.dogzplot.blogspot.com/

After a long crazy summer. DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2009 is finally at the printer and will be here in a few. Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered and to everyone who took advantage of the free books off my bookshelf offer. I got some good stuff coming your way.

If you haven't ordered the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2009 yet, what the hell are you waiting for? Contributors include:

DAVID AICHENBAUM
C. EDWARD ANABLE
CORBY ANDERSON
BILL BARR
RUSTY BARNES
LAUREN BECKER
ERIC BENNETT
CL BLEDSOE
BEN BROOKS
RANDALL BROWN
AARON BURCH
CHRISTY CALL
DAVE CLAPPER
LYDIA COPELAND
SPENCER DEW
ROBERT A. DOLLESIN
NICOLLE ELIZABETH
KATHY FISH
TIMOTHY GAGER
MOLLY GAUDRY
ROXANE GAY
ALICIA GIFFORD
BARRY GRAHAM
KYLE HEMMINGS
JAMIE IREDELL
ALEXANDRA ISACSON
BRYAN JONES
HARDY JONES
DREW KALBACH
KIP KNOTT
CHARLES LENNOX
SEAN LOVELACE
ANTONIOS MALTEZOS
RAVI MANGLA
CORTNEY MCLELLAN
STEVEN J. MCDERMOTT
KYLE MINOR
KIM PARKO
JENNIFER PIERONI
SAM PINK
TED POWERS
S. CRAIG RENFROE, JR.
FORREST ROTH
EDMUND SANDOVAL
PETER SCHWARTZ
M. BARTLEY SEIGEL
EMILY SIEGENTHALER
ANI SMITH
CLAUDIA SMITH
AUDRI SOUSA
ATHENA STRICKLAND
ROBB TODD
ANIA VESENNY
JARED WARD
BRANDI WELLS
BLYTHE WINSLOW
XTX
ORLO YEAHBLIP
MIKE YOUNG

Yeah, holy fuck, I know... So here's the link to order (PAYPAL link is on the right):
http://www.dogzplot.blogspot.com/

And as always, thanks to everyone who continues to read, contribute, edit, promote, and support DOGZPLOT and the literary community. Keep doing what you're doing and god bless.

MORE STUFF TO READ




PRICK OF THE SPINDLE 3.2

PROSE. POEMS. A NOVEL. - JAMIE IREDELL

HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS - SEAN LOVELACE

Monday, August 24, 2009

AMPERSAND BOOKS. THE THINGS WE DO UNDER STARS.

Ampersand Books is making its debut with Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!, a novel from Joseph Riippi, and Under What Stars, poetry from Ryan J. Davidson.

The press release had this to say:

Like Roth’s Newark, Atwood’s handmaiden, or the most recent work of Joseph O’Neill, Do Something! DO Something! Do Something! conveys an entire people’s existential frustration in the wake of national crises.

With dirty prose evoking Johnson’s Jesus’ Son and a subtlety approaching Carver’s “Cathedral,” Riippi draws the collective tale of American uncertainty into a new millenium—the story of three young people searching for definitiveness and stability in an increasingly volatile and shaky homeland. A critic chants Sontag in a mental hospital; a playwright flees human shrapnel; a starfish tatoo endows a woman with newfound strength. do something!... is a story of great literary power.


Joseph was born in Seattle and lives in New York, where he’s finishing up an MFA. His other work can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, The Bitter Oleander, KNOCK, New Delta Review, Soon Quarterly, and Salamander.

Check out an excerpt at Ampersand Review http://www.ampersandreview.com/A_Good_Critic.html

Pick up a copy here:
http://www.ampersandreview.com/Do_Something!.html

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

DONALD RAY POLLOCK. INTERVIEW. THE SOUTHEAST REVIEW


Good interview. I found these two gems at the end, both cncerning novel writing:

Q: What was the greatest surprise for you in your most recent writing?

A: The greatest surprise that’s occurred in my current project is discovering that one of the main characters is not the ruthless killer I had imagined him to be.

Q: What writerly habit would you most like to break?

A: Going back over the previous day’s work instead of pushing forward.

Read the rest HERE

Interviewd by RICHARD GARN and DAVID RODRIGUEZ

Sunday, August 16, 2009

MORE STUFF TO READ

Start with MARY HAMILTON's featured short IT IS TRUE THAT ME AND THEODORE SWALLOWED POP ROCKS AND PEPSI COLA AND NOW WE ARE DEAD, now live at WIGLEAF.

http://wigleaf.com/

Also, check out KILL AUTHOR issue 2, featuring work from:

Ben Spivey
Donald Illich
Emma J. Lannie

George Anderson
J. Bradley

Jesse Tangen-Mills
Jimmy Chen
K. Walker Graves
Laura Ellen Scott
Lauren Becker
Laurie E. White
Luke Drotar
Nate Innomi
Peter Schwartz
Roxane Gay
Sam Pink
Sarah Layden

Stephen Daniel Lewis
Steven J. McDermott
Vaughan Simons
William Walsh

http://www.killauthor.com/issuetwo/

DZANC's new literary venture, THE COLLAGIST is also live this week, featuring words from:

CHRIS BACHELDER
GORDON LISH
KEVIN WILSON

KIM CHINQUEE
MATT SALESSES

LAIRD HUNT
CHARLES JENSEN

CHRISTINA KALLERY
OLIVER DE LA PAZ

DAVID MCLENDON
ANDER MONSON
RYAN CALL
ANNA CLARK

JOHN MADERA
DAWN RAFFEL
and an introduction from editor, MATT BELL

http://www.thecollagist.com/

Saturday, August 15, 2009

CALIFORNIA LOVE. DOGZPLOT. WEST SIDE TIL WE DIE.

DOGZPLOT West Coast Reading (contributors and friends)
October 11
(tentative)
Venue: Unknown (probably East Bay)
Readers: Greg Gerke, Stefanie Freele, Ethel Rohan and other awesome people

Contact Lauren Becker at lbecker@dogzplot.com if you're in the bay area and want to read. Cool if you're a contributor, cool if you're a friend. Let her know asap.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

KEYHOLE DIGEST. AUGUST

KEYHOLE DIGEST

Keyhole Digest is a monthly printout, distributed for free in Nashville. Each month we'll fit as many stories and poems as possible onto a single sheet of paper, fold it into thirds, and hand it out. The PDFs will be available here indefinitely. Feel free to print, fold, and hand them out yourself, wherever you are.

August stories from:

BEN BROOKS
NICOLLE ELIZABETH
ERIN FITZGERALD

STEPHANIE JOHNSON
CARRIE MURPHY
BEN SEGAL
BEN STEIN

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/digest

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

RAY SUCCRE. AMPHISBAENA


from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend, RAY SUCCRE:
DD
I’m sending out a notice announcing the release of my new novel, Amphisbaena, through Cauliay Publishing. While mass-mailouts are fairly annoying, and certainly impersonal, they’re also somewhat necessary. If I’ve sent this to a submission-only address, I apologize. My address book is labeled well, though things can slip through at times. Also, I offer the obligatory apology to anyone who receives this email more than once.

There will only be this one announcement regarding the book.

So, Amphisbaena is out, available in a variety of places, including Amazon and others. It can also be ordered through your local bookstore:

Title: Amphisbaena

Author: Ray Succre

ISBN: 0955899273

From back cover:
BB
“A sober disinterest in relationships causes Bill Sherman, failing calendarist, to abandon dating for many years. When pressured into a speed dating event by his brother, Bill meets Amy and decides to attempt a relationship again. He learns quickly, however, that Amy is two people: The inseparable Amy and Janine. These two women design to date Bill in tandem, both to his confusion and enjoyment. Where Amy holds Bill dear to her heart, Janine is unable to function outside of physical pleasure. Bill soon discovers that this strange predicament is only the beginning of a much larger system of rules and interaction, and the relationship changes more when Bill realizes that the two women happen each to be one half of an ancient, two-headed black snake. Amy is the alpha head and has subjugated her poison in an attempt to understand human notions of beauty. Bill is not allowed to touch her. Janine is the enticer head and may not be in league with Amy where Bill is concerned."

“Can a man love if there is only appetite? Will he care more deeply for the woman he can never touch? What happens when monogamy becomes taboo and a fine-tuned machine of murder learns the human consequence of going against one's nature for a greater meaning?

“Laden with whimsical depiction and a foraging exposition on gender, occupation, and dating in modern society, Amphisbaena is the story of three people trapped somewhere between nature and culture, through a humorous adventure into the biological mess of love and romance.”

Yes, it’s a modern, experimental romance novel about a man dating a sometimes two-headed snake.

A recent review of Amphisbaena:

http://unlikelystories.org/blog/content/?p=133

More Information:

http://www.raysuccre2.blogspot.com/

raysuccre@hotmail.com

Now, for anyone wanting to read the book without buying a print copy, there is an ebook version, free for anyone and everyone, which includes a large assortment of special features. The download for this is:

http://www.daedalao.com/downloads/Amphisbaena.zip

I have also created a Reviewer's Edition of the book, to send to various people for the purpose of review. I'll provide this free to anyone interested in reading the book for review purposes. It is identical to the above program, but comes on labeled disc with insert art and a little more information. Let me know with an address and I’ll send one out to you.

If there is anyone who would be willing to do me a great favor, I'd be indebted to anyone willing to mention the book to their local bookstore owner. I'm not asking anyone to do this, but if you find yourself in the bookstore and it comes to mind, an idle mention would be wonderful.

Most importantly, I just want people to read it. We all know how that is.

Cordially,

Ray Succre

HOWIE GOOD. VISITING THE DEAD

HOWIE GOOD

VISITING THE DEAD

FLUTTER PRESS

http://www.flutterpress.webs.com/

HOWIE GOOD’s VISITING THE DEAD compresses powerful emotions into a tight little bundle of memorable poetry. The chapbook displays all the traits that have won Good the admiration of readers: elegant brevity, provocative images, witty hints of surrealism, and a candid confrontation with the darker side of

Saturday, August 8, 2009

THE GOOD WORD FROM J.A. TYLER AT ML PRESS

a quick hello to say these things,

the entire mud luscious site has been changed & overhauled. we like the new vibe & hope you will give it a glance (& if you are a mud luscious / mlp author double-check your links, they made need reconnecting).

also, the august trio is now available for purchase:

WHERE WE GO WHEN WE LEAVE by craig davis

FROM THE HIP by mary hamilton

SO DARK IN THE WOLF'S MAW by kevin wilson

$3 each, shipping august 15th.

& if you want to save some cash & get a lot more mlp, buy into a subscription. six months, 18 chapbooks, & the novel(la) WE TAKE ME APART by molly gaudry all for $36.

lastly, we are very pleased to announce our next novel(la), AN ISLAND OF FIFTY by ben brooks, forthcoming june 2010. it is a brilliant book, & we are very lucky to have it.

so go here www.aboutjatyler.com & behold.

& as always, wishing you well.

j. a. tyler

Thursday, August 6, 2009

EVERYDAY BURCH

(this is what happened when i yahoo imaged 'everyday burch')

AARON BURCH has a new new story posted at EVERYDAY GENIUS.

HOW TO
http://everyday-genius.blogspot.com/2009/08/aaron-burch.html

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER

Let us know and you can win a free copy of JMWW anthology iii!

Send us some fiction, 200 words or fewer (theme: summer vacation) by August 15th. The winner(s) will receive a shiny new copy of our latest anthology in their mailbox before they light up the barby for Labor day. We'll also post the winning entries on our Facebook page and fall issue of JMWW; they'll be just too damn good to keep to ourselves.

Send 'em here: jmwweditor@gmail.com; good luck!

The editors at JMWW

ANTHEM. CL BLEDSOE

CL Bledsoe has published work in over 200 journals and anthologies, including The Cimarron Review, Nimrod and The Arkansas Review. Winner of the Blue Collar Review's Working People's Poetry Contest, he is also a 3-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine and the author of a chapbook entitled_______(Want/Need)

"Fresh, funny, hip, anarchic, jaded, secretly hopeful, angry, wry, laid-back: to read CL Bledsoe's Anthem is to enter a world that may make you twitch - but will surely help you keep on keeping on. These songs of punked-out innocence stage-strut across the page, even when they claim they're simply slacking on the couch. Join Frog and Death and the absinthe squirrels on a savvy, consciousness-jolting road-trip through the landscape of right now. I loved this smart and artful book. I bet you will to. Open it. Find out."
-Jeanne Larsen, winner of the AWP poetry book award

"CL Bledsoe's Anthem is succinct, shrewd and contemporary. Bledsoe is a modern-age poet with the unique ability to bring the reader smack into the moment with him ... Anthem's poems are no exception. Often confessional, occasionally biting, Bledsoe proves once again that he is the poet for generation X, Y and whatever lies beyond."
-Patricia Gomes, editor of Adagio Verse Quarterly and poetry moderator of iVillage's Poet's Workshop

Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/index.html#CL Bledsoe

WIGLEAF IS BACK


I'm late on this but so what. WIGLEAF is back. 'Nuff said.
http://www.wigleaf.com/

FRIGG. SUMMER ISSUE

FRIGG summer issue is ready to boil and sip with a spoon. It includes stuff from:

DREW KALBACH
MOLLY GAUDRY
ALEXANDRA ISACSON
CHARLES LENNOX
RICKHEY PIIPARINEN
MATT BAKER
ROBERT BRADLEY
A.E. REIFF

MARY CALDWELL-KANE
PHIL ESTES
JAKE FAJER


You're gonna wanna devour this while its still boiling:
http://friggmagazine.com/issuetwentyfive/contents25.htm

Monday, August 3, 2009

WHEELHOUSE: PRESS - CROSS CULTURAL ANTHOLOGY or DAVID WOLACH'S GUIDEBOOK TO BEING AN ASSHOLE

So... WHEELHOUSE, in conjunction with EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE, released their PRESS anthology.

I was solicited by their editor DAVID WOLACH, I sent them an essay and it was accepted for presentation and publication, I flew out to Washington and presented it, LARINA WARNOCK from THE EXTERNALIST wrote this about it:

"This panel generated some of the best critical discussion I’ve seen in months, largely, I think, because the three panelists (comedian Bill Barr, writer/editor Barry Graham, and writer/student Jeff Konen) were coming at the same subject from three very different directions and, more importantly, so obviously cared about the subject. I was utterly taken in by Graham’s reading—the gut honesty of it..."

So, now the anthology is out, but somehow my essay was discarded, even though he emailed me a few months ago and told me it would be included. I guess there was no room for it, since they had to make room for the work of the editors, including his own...

KEEP YOUR PINKIES OUT

Thanks to everyone who came down to Atlantic City to read and hang out. I would give ya'll a good recap, but I won't. You shoulda been there suckas.