Saturday, October 31, 2009

EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THNKING OF DEATH. J.A. TYLER

I know this isn't gonna quite be up to JUSTIN TAYLOR's standards because nobody with an echapbook works harder than him because he has a real book deal, but THUMBSCREWS PRESS, an imprint of PEAR NOIR, has rereleased J.A. TYLER's sold out chapbook, EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH.

"the pear noir! imprint thumbscrews press has re-released my achilles chapbook EVERYONE IN THIS IS DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH in a free, double-length e-version here" http://issuu.com/pearnoir/docs/everyone.

COMING SOON FROM ARTISTICALLY DECLINED


STORYGLOSSIA 36. MUSIC ISSUE

Haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but its STORYGLOSSIA, they never dissapoint.

http://www.storyglossia.com/


Tracy Bowling
Hedonist

Christopher Bundy
I Wanna Be Your Fan

Tom Burkett
The Moose Head Haus

Alan Stewart Carl
Green-Haired Girl

Joshua Ben-Noah Carlson
Delilah and the Army of Xerxes

Zdravka Evtimova
Music For My Son

Roxane Gay
We Do Not Speak of Graceful Things

Jennifer Greidus
This One, You've Heard Before

G.L. Griffith
A Controlled Burn

Tim Jones-Yelvington
Seducing Adam Lambert

Teri Louise Kelly
White Girls

Scott Lambridis
The Hum of Broken Things

Sean Reagan
Legend

Anne Valente
To A Place Where We Take Flight

James Warner
Juno Broccoli and The Songstealers

Y.G. Yen
The Player

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

TWELVE STORIES. 12.2

HERE:
http://www.readtwelvestories.com/current-issue/


Lydia Copeland
“Across the River”

Roxane Gay
“This Program Contains Actual Surgical Procedures”

John Jodzio
“The Two Malls”

Ben Loory
“The Shield: A Fable”

Larry Menlove
“Wonder Born”

Ross Rader
“A Kiss”

Andrew Roe
“Apology”

Matt Salesses
“Cirque de Recession”

Rebecca Serle
“After the Fall”

Jason Stout
“Paper Boats”

Jacqueline Vogtman
“First Kiss”

Eric Vrooman
“Wedding Vows”

Friday, October 23, 2009

MY HEART DRAWS A ROUGH MAP. HOWIE GOOD

Howie Good’s My Heart Draws a Rough Map proceeds like a softly-spoken B-movie. Not content to just beat, the heart grieves, gives in to melancholy, takes long walks, plays baseball, makes demands like Edward G. Robinson. Drawn outside of the self, the heart doesn’t just get saddled with emotion, but is an observer, a conversationalist, enigmatic. As equally wrought with primary colors and ominous dark as child’s crayon portrait of her parents come to life, My Heart Draws a Rough Map maintains a simple surreality, tongue in cheek, and heart on sleeve (and atop roof, and on board train, and in a hundred other places).

This chapbook is wonderfully complemented with artwork done by the talented and quite sweet Mia Christopher. Please visit her website to enjoy more of her whimsical, wistful work.

MORE STUFF TO READ

NEW ISSUE OF KILL AUTHOR. DOROTHY PARKER
http://www.killauthor.com/issuethree/

NEW ISSUE OF FRIGG. 26
http://friggmagazine.com/issuetwentysix/contents26.htm

NEW ISSUE OF NIGHT TRAIN. 9.2
http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents.php

LYDIA COPELAND
PINDELDYBOZ
TOLL ROAD
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/lctoll.htm

NICOLLE ELIZABETH
ELIMAE
THREE FICTIONS
http://www.elimae.com/2009/10/Dollar.html

XTX
ELIMAE
WE SAY NOTHING ABOUT LOVE
http://www.elimae.com/2009/10/Nothing.html

JIMMY CHEN
ELIMAE
WWII STORIES
http://www.elimae.com/2009/10/WWII.html

KEVIN O'CUINN
ELIMAE
EXIT
http://www.elimae.com/2009/10/Exit.html

MEG POKRASS
ELIMAE
EMERALD
http://www.elimae.com/2009/10/Emerald.html

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

DOGZPANK. PANKZPLOT. AWP TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

We have a tentative lineup for DOGZPANK. Anyone else who wants to sign up we can put on a waiting list because inevitably, something will come up.

Aaron Burch
Anne Valente

Beth Thomas
Tim Jones-Yelvington

Matt Bell
JA Tyler

Erin Fitzgerald
Molly Gaudry

Kathy Fish
Angi Becker Stevens

Matt Salesses
Pedro Ponce

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

PANKZPLOT. DOGZPANK. YOU READY TO LIGHT THIS SHIT UP... WHATEVA MAN


"The editors of DOGZPLOT and PANK are hosting a joint reading at AWP 2010 in Denver. The DOGZPANK reading will be held at Forest Room 5 on Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 pm. We're looking for readers. If you've appeared in both DOGZPLOT (either the quarterly or bi-weekly flash fiction issues) and PANK (either print or online), we'd love to have you join us for this literary extravaganza. If you're interested in reading (5 minutes or so of material), send an e-mail to awesome at pankmagazine dot com."

Cheers,
Roxane

FROM THE GOOD FOLKS AT BLUEPRINTREVIEW


BluePrintReview Issue 22

The new issue of BluePrintReview is live. It's a special issue, based entirely on reprints of previously published pieces. The official theme, derived from the pre-published approach is: 're /visit /cycle /turn'.The issue itself starts in Not Technicolor, moves on to The Birth of the Universe and to Antibodies, picks up on Fragments, a Keepsake, -- and various other things and themes -- , and ends some steps from Eternity in South Bronx.

Every featured text and image also includes the link to the original publication, adding an extra dimension to the interconnections and convergence of texts and images.

Extras include: a list of lost+found online magazines, a further-reading page, memories of the days before the internet, and some notes on the process.

Enjoy the retrospective ~

Dorothee Lang

editor BluePrintReview

Sunday, October 18, 2009

VIPS ON VERY SHORT FICTION. LAURA ELLEN SCOTT

Thanks very much to LAURA ELLEN SCOTT for letting me blab a few words to her students about very short fiction. Here's what I said:

http://vipsonvsf.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-barry-graham.html

Lots of other great stuff from RAVI MANGLA and JASON JORDAN and the likes. Check it out when you get a chance.

NOBODY TRUSTS A BLACK MAGICIAN. XTX

NOBODY TRUSTS A BLACK MAGICIAN
XTX
NONPRESS
http://notapunkrockpress.com/xtx/cnts.html

Holy shit. These are some amazing words. Here's an excerpt from SO MUCH OF THE SAME:

"I want to punch you in the face, make you cry. I want you to punch me back before rape-fucking me. Then I’ll cry too. A Stevie Wonder song will play right then over the smell of a hamster cage and later on, realizing there is blood on the floor and on our hands, we’ll laugh with washcloths in the bathroom—cool-water-washing each other and kissing the pain away so sweetly. I’ll get you a glass of water from downstairs. Just for your thirst because that's how much I love you."

Saturday, October 17, 2009

MAGIC: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

MAGIC

That's right. MAGIC. For the Winter 2010 issue
we are looking for FICTION submissions full of magic.
This can mean anything really, magical realism, magic tricks,
drug addicted failure magicians, surrealism, absurdity, hoaxes,
spoofs, cartoons, mythology, urban legends, supernatural oddities,
superheroes, Willy Wonka type shit. Let's see what you got.
magic
Please send all submissions to: bgraham@dogzplot.com
with the word MAGIC in the subject line. If you have fiction
pending with us currently and have not heard back as of 10/16
please be aware that you're stories are not being considered
for Winter 2010. Sorry for the inconvenience.
magic
Please repost this somewhere. Help spread the word.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

MORE STUFF TO READ

THE NEW YORKER
CHRIS ADRIAN
A BETTER ANGEL
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/03/060403fi_fiction

WRITERS BLOC
PETER SCHWARTZ
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
http://www.writersblocmag.org/archives_04/schwartz_light.html

WRITERS BLOC
ISSUE 4
http://www.writersblocmag.org/index.html

WIGLEAF
NICOLLE ELIZABETH
WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS
http://www.wigleaf.com/

Friday, October 2, 2009

NEWS FROM AARON BURCH. HOBART

Happy beginnings of Fall everyone,

The October HOBART is live now and, granted, we love all updates and issues equally, as if they were our children but, that said, this may be our best yet. One of, certainly. We've got stories from:

Lucy Corin
David Holub
Andrew Roe
Reynard Seifert
, and
Kevin Wilson

And interviews with Molly Gaudry and Patrick deWitt.

http://hobartpulp.com/website/

And, after reading the issue, maybe check out this great "open letter"/review of our very own Matthew Simmons' A Jello Horse by Jim Ruland in the Believer:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200910/?read=review_simmons


That's it for this month. Short and sweet. Although, if you are still reading and happen to be a creative writing teacher or student, maybe shoot us a reply about a project/promotion/idea we are working on.


Thanks.
-hobart.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

NEWS FROM JASON JORDAN. DECOMP

decomP: a magazine that is literary

www.decompmagazine.com

From the Editor-in-Chief

By Jason Jordan

Welcome back to decomP for the October 2009 issue. This month we're featuring new work from Eric Burke, Neil de la Flor, Adam Falkner, Frank Hinton, Laura Isaacman, Tom Mahony, Halli Melnitsky, Sarah Q. Morgan, Andrew Roe, Jon Sands, Raudiel SaƱudo, Karen Sosnoski, Jesse Tangen-Mills, Mimi Vaquer, Jeanann Verlee, and Catherine Zickgraf. Additionally, we have a review of Gary William Murning's debut novel If I Never.

Also, we'd like to congratulate our nominees for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010. This year we nominated one poem, one flash, and one short: Jeannie Galeazzi for "Aeronauts," Stefan Kiesbye for "Home," and Jessa Marsh for "My Motel Week." We wish our nominees the best of luck in the selection process.

Second to lastly, the E-i-C was interviewed by No Teeth, a triweekly digital poetry journal, so read up on the d scoop and then consider submitting your work, poets.

Lastly, we plan to have a revamped Web site up in January. We know it's a few months away, but we're still psyched. See you next month, and thanks for reading.