NEW STUFF AT KEYHOLE

STEVEN J MCDERMOTT

DOG PARK

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/steven-j-mcdermott/dog-park


SEAN LOVELACE

CHARLIE BROWN'S DIARY: EXCERPTS

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/sean-lovelace/charlie-brown-diary-excerpts


I think Keyhole is the best looking journal online. I'm gonna keep bombarding them with stuff until they let me in.

IT'S HERE. IT'S HERE. IT'S FINALLY FUCKING HERE

UPDATE:

So I slept with the anthology last night. At first I was just gonna stick it under my pillow and let its brilliance soak into my brain, and I did, for awhile. But then I grabbed it and tucked it in beside me and gave it it's own place on the pillow. It wouldn't lay still. We sat up and watched reruns of Scrubs and drank 40's of St. Ides all night and passed out on the floor. Ahhhh good times. I woke up before the anthology did and reflected on the night we spent together. It was still erratic, beautiful, ugly, imperfect, I loved it all over again. You will too.


"I go to Dogzplot to find out who put the demon in the vestibule, the atom bomb in the kitchen. We need these stories now more than ever."
– Kyle Minor, author In the Devil's Territory

That's right. I picked the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION 2008 anthologies up from the printers today and they kicked my ass the whole way home. A few of them jumped out of the box and beat the shit out of me with my four way crow bar, others where giving me a hand job. They're out of control. The anthology features work from:

Chad Simpson
Kim Chinquee
Claudia Smith
Elizabeth Ellen
Beth Thomas
Matt Bell
CL Bledsoe
Scott Garson
Aaron Burch
Dawn Corrigan
Stefan Kiesbye

...and so many other rock stars that its ridiculous, nuts, I'm telling you. Order it now. Paypal link is to the right. And if you are a contributor. I'm heading to the post office tomorrow. If you live by me. I'm saving the postage so I'll come see you over the weekend.

I just licked one of the pages. Imagine those magic candy balls in Willy Wonka.

CURTIS SMITH / SOUND + NOISE

CURTIS SMITH

SOUND + NOISE

CASPERIAN BOOKS

"Only occasionally do I read a novel where the characters remain like old friends long after the title and plot have faded away. Curtis Smith creates such characters in Sound + Noise. Jackie and Tom are burdened with the grief and fate of a superb fictional plot, and yet they are real. I felt as though I lived in their town and watched them long before their paths crossed. Combine this visceral reality with poetic descriptions and a good deal of humor, and you find Curtis Smith's novel, a heart-rending exploration of love and loss, residing somewhere between fiction and life." - Lisa Carey, author of Every Visible Thing

"In Sound + Noise, Curtis Smith identifies, examines, and prods the boundaries we create for ourselves, dramatizing complex human beings struggling against the confines of their pasts in order to create their lives anew. His prose is both exacting and evocative; his vision displays a mind willing to take on the moral ambiguities of our day. The result is a masterly portrait of the way we live now." - Kirby Gann, author of Our Napoleon in Rags

ORIGAMI LESSONS W / AARON BURCH

AARON BURCH

PEQUIN

HOW TO FOLD PAPER CRANES

http://pequin.org/archives/2008/aaronburch/howtofoldpapercranes.php

THE CHAD - SMOKELONG INTERVIEW on flash fiction

Check out CHAD SIMPSON's interview at SMOKELONG. He discusses writing and teaching flash fiction, selecting the WIGLEAF 50, and the future of the genre.

Here is a line from his interview that makes a lot of sense to me:

"...pay attention to why each detail matters. What is it evoking? Is this consistent with other details? Is it inconsistent in a good way--because it makes a character or a situation more complex? Is it necessary or is it merely suggesting something that another detail might have already suggested?"

Obviously he's talking about the use of description and adding details to flash pieces. He talks about it in the same way I do to my writing classes, something FRANCINE PROSE calls "putting every word on trial for its life."

Also, check out MATTHEW SAVOCA's story Natural Seismic Phenomenon up now at WIGLEAF.

MONKEYBICYCLE

Check out the latest offerings in Monkeybicycle by a few DOGZPLOT folks.

CRISPIN BEST
Excerpts from "A User's Guide to Ghosts"
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Best/ghost.html

SHAYN NICELY
Signature Plays of the Literary Field
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Nicely/plays.html
my favorite: "Pulling a Bukowski: rambling at a bar, not giving a shit who likes your work (loudly)."

SEAN RUANE
Clouds and Paraguay
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Ruane/clouds.html

WHERE ARE YOU - aaron burch

AARON BURCH

YOU ARE HERE

NIGHT TRAIN

http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/burch_fb.php

MICHAEL PHELPS IN MCSWEENEY'S

MCSWEENEY'S

RAVI MANGLA

A GUY FROM MICHAEL PHELPS'S GUPPY SWIM CLASS MAKES A DRUNK DIAL

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/25mangla.html

A LITTLE SOMETHING TO SMOKE ON / WIGLEAF - AUTUMN PLAYLIST

OPIUM

PETER SCHWARTZ

FIVE COURSE EMPTINESS

http://www.opiummagazine.com/


Check out the AUTUMN PLAYLIST up at WIGLEAF.

Music selections from:

Matt Bell
Myfanwy Collins
Thomas Cooper
Barry Graham ( I went with Hank Jr - All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down. There's something about rednecks picking guitars and drinking whiskey and eating cornbread that will always remind me of Fall)
Tai Dong Huai
Ravi Mangla
Mary Miller
Amanda Nazario
Ellen Parker
Matthew Savoca
J.W. Wang

DZANC BEST OF THE WEB 2009 - nominees

I know. I know. I'm still going through the 2008 anthology, but nonetheless, I got the email last week asking for my 09 nominations, so after careful consideration... here they are:

RAVI MANGLA
popemobile
http://www.dogzplot.com/mangla1.html

AARON BURCH
overcast
http://dogzplot.blogspot.com/2008/02/overcast-aaron-burch.html

ELIZABETH ELLEN
fistful
http://www.dogzplot.com/ellen1.html


CONGRATS to these fine folks.

STORYGLOSSIA 29

Storyglossia is probably the only lit journal I read cover to cover on the first day it comes out. You can always be sure that everything is gonna be amazing. This time around is no exception. Great things from:

(Including, as always, links to DOGZPLOT contributors, and to TJ Forrester, who was kind enough to feature DOGZPLOT on his 5 Star Literary Stories)

Benjamin Buchholz
Peggy Newland
TJ Forrester
Rose Hunter
Sam Pink
Jimmy Chen
Douglas Bruton
Sean Ruane
Kelly Spitzer
Sara Flannery Murphy
Donna George Story

KIM CHINQUEE / WIGLEAF

I have no idea why reviewing these Olympic games has me thinking about KIM CHINQUEE's new story up at WIGLEAF, but it does. Read it now.

Yeah I do. I know why. But it's a secret.

POSH DOLLS
Wigleaf
kim chinquee
http://wigleaf.com/200808poshdolls.htm

OLYMPICS 08 - BEACH VOLLEYBALL REVIEW

OLYMPICS 08 - RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS REVIEW

REMEMBER WHEN...

30 SEEMED SO FUCKING OLD

YA SOU! / PINDELDYBOZ

Check out the summer issue of YA SOU! which includes a few DOGZPLOT contributors and friends:

COREY MESLER
http://yasouezine.tripod.com/id33.html

LUIS C. BERRIOZABAL
http://yasouezine.tripod.com/id36.html


Also, new stories at PINDELDYBOZ.

SHANE JONES
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/sjsheriff.htm

MATT RYAN
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/mrxylophone.htm

BEST OF THE WEB 2008 INVADES THE INTERNET

Best of the Web 2008 Invades the Internet

As the Best of the Web series celebrates online publishing, we thought an online invasion of information was necessary and found many literary bloggers that felt the same way we did. The following links are mainly to guest posts from authors whose work is included in Best of the Web 2008.

You can now hear five of the authors reading the works that they have included in Best of the Web 2008 at the new Dzanc multimedia page!

Large Hearted Boy has a Book Notes up dedicated to the anthology!

The Elegant Variation has a series of posts up from Zachary Amendt.

Okey Ndibe writes about his essay over at the Visiting Hours blog.

Matt Bell has a post up from Ron Tanner.

New Hampshire's The Mumpsimus has a series of posts (combined into one) from Myfanwy Collins.

The Written Nerd was kind enough to come out of an August blogging hiatus to post writing from Sarah Sweeney!

Writing from Benjamin Buchholz can be found both at LitKicks and the Emerging Writers Network.

Maine's own Condalmo has an essay from Maine's own Jacques Rancourt.

Robin Behn's essay about her BotW essay can be found at Syntax of Things.

Fernham has the first of a trio of posts from Michael Bahler up already - keep checking throughout the afternoon for the other two!

Some other sites to look to later in the day include Seth Harwood's blog,

Powells.com's blog, Critical Mass, and No One Does That as they all also have posts at the ready.

TITULAR

Check out new stories at TITULAR from DOGZPLOT contributors:

Ravi Mangla
Weird Science

Robert Swartwood
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Savannah-Louise
Naked Lunch

Maria Anderson
Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Barry Graham
The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

BORE PARADE / KENDRA GRANT MALONE

Check this out. Just read it today on Bore Parade. It is a diaryish thing by Kendra Grant Malone, LOVE YOUR FRIENDS AND NOT YOUR LOVERS.

Small excerpt:

"Last night I was irritable. I had wanted to see Jakub earlier in the day and he wasn’t free until 11pm. I need to be more frank with him about my dislike for staying up all night. So, I had a couple of drinks with Nicole on the couch and bitched about feeling impatient. When I left I felt riddled with second thoughts about Jakub and an unanswerable irritation towards the idea of being in love. Coupled with those feelings I felt a very tiny despair growing and when the train came I felt like running off and finding a small dark damp place to sit and listen to music and be alone.

By the time I was at Jaukub’s door and I heard his voice I was completely washed of those strange feelings I had on my way over. When he opened the door I felt happy and calm. The evening was a quiet one. We just watched movies and giggled, ate ice cream, kissed a lot, fooled around and went to bed in each other’s arms. I’m not sure what I was a mess about on the train. It was the same vague abstractions I have used in the past to talk myself out of being happy with someone.

Jakub cums a lot. It shoots very far and hard as well. This is very sexy. There is nothing worse than when you want someone to cum on you and you get this runny little drip. It makes me feel really beautiful the way he explodes all over me. After he came on my face he was immediately very worried and concerned and apologetic. He says he doesn’t just want to push my boundaries. I tried to calmly and patiently explain to him that my boundaries are far and that I will be vocal about crossing them."

ELIMAE / KEYHOLE

New stories and poems and all that good stuff up from a few DOGZPLOT folks in the latest issues of Elimae and Keyhole:

ROBERT A. DOLLESIN
Elimae
http://www.elimae.com/2008/August/Fried.html

KIM CHINQUEE
Elimae
http://www.elimae.com/2008/August/Kill.html

JIMMY CHEN
Elimae
http://www.elimae.com/2008/August/Michel.html

MEG POKRASS
Elimae
http://www.elimae.com/2008/August/Viking.html

No disrespect to Elimae or its current contributors, but everything is starting to sound the same for me. Month after month, the names change, but the writing all just sounds like Elimae. And maybe that's the point, but fuck, its starting to bore me.

On the other hand, looky looky what's going down at Keyhole, they're out there mixing shit up, snatching up words that demand to be published. Amen.

I'm not comparing the two respective journals, I'm just thinking about their approaches.

HEATHER FOWLER
Keyhole
http://keyholemagazine.com/heather-fowler/catholic-girl-smile

KIM CHINQUEE
Keyhole
http://keyholemagazine.com/kim-chinquee/globe

DUOTROPE SWIFT LIST

I was just told that DOGZPLOT is listed as #4 on DUOTROPE'S SWIFT LIST. Our reported response time is 2.6 days. Fuck. Who's been lying. I've never taken longer than 12 hours. Well, maybe once or twice.

Thanks to everyone who appreciates our swiftiness and reports it to DUOTROPE. I want to get down to minutes. 2.6 minutes.

I want to be the world's foremost Dr. Seuss scholar. I've discovered things. Private, mysterious, unbelievable things.

THIEVES JARGON / sam pink - meg pokrass

Check out latest offerings in Thieves Jargon from a few DOGZPLOT folks:

MEG POKRASS
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=1192

SAM PINK
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=1190