ROBERT SWARTWOOD. DAVE ERLEWINE. REPRESENTIN' ON MSNBC

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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/

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.

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 Sañudo, 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.

BEST OF THE NET 2009 NOMINATIONS

Here are our nominations for the 2009 BEST OF THE NET AWARDS. Thanks again to everyone for everything. Here it goes:

FICTION:

CHRISTINA KAPP
BIRTH

BJ HOLLARS
BRUTES


POETRY:

ALEXANDRA ISACSON
POPPIES

CYNTHIA REESER
ON COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD

JOHN BIANDO
TWENTY-FIVE WAYS OF LOOKING AT JEFF PARKER'S BALLS

NATHAN TYREE
WHAT THE CROWS KNOW

SMOKELONG QUARTERLY. RANDALL BROWN

This issue, as always, contains many great pieces of flash fiction from many great writers.

But it also includes a goodbye letter from SLQ's long time Lead Editor, RANDALL BROWN, who is passing on his duties to take over the reigns as Program Director for the Creative Writing MFA at ROSEMONT COLLEGE in Philadelphia. So, congrats Mr. Brown.

Here's a few words on Randall from the SLQ big dogg, DAVE CLAPPER:

"Although it's seemed like a slow process, the gains flash fiction has made among "serious" literary circles over the past five years are enormous. That a writer who specialized in flash would be asked to run an MFA program five years ago was probably unthinkable. And yet here we are. That Randall is the person who should have achieved that position seems obvious. Rosemont College may not realize what an incredible hire they've made just yet. If they don't, they will soon. They've taken the first step toward putting a little-known school on the map, toward making Rosemont the place writing students think of first when they realize they want to pursue the wildly growing form of flash fiction. I can't wait to start reading submissions here from the graduates who emerge from that program."

http://smokelong.com/letter26.asp

OPIUM. WHERE IN THE WORLD IS LAUREN BECKER

Check out LAUREN BECKER's bad ass story, WHERE IS SAN DIEGO?, up now at OPIUM.
http://www.opiummagazine.com/

PRICK OF THE SPINDLE. 3.3

http://www.prickofthespindle.com/index.htm

MM

Consistently, one of the most solid, well-rounded quarterly journals on the internet. This issue is no exception.

NEWS FROM J.A.TYLER. ML PRESS

mud luscious / ml press is happy to bring you new words:

issue nine is livid & kicking, featuring the work of kate wyer, peter schwartz, christina farella, meg pokrass, bradley sands, mel bosworth, andrea deangelis, zachary tyler vickers, cortney mclellan, richard osgood, david peak, roxane gay, gregory sherl, steven j. mcdermott, & kimberly e. ruth & reviews of ANTHEM by c. l. bledsoe, DAYS OF DESTRUCTION by gary beck, & BIG AMERICAN TRIP by christian peet.

read it all here (www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page474.html)

& the oct. chapbook trio is available now: get MORE INTRODUCTIONS TO A BOOK I WILL NEVER FINISH by mark baumer, I AM RICHARD SIMMONS by ben tanzer, & BOOTS WALKING IN AMERICA FOUND A TROPHY by krammer abrahams, each for only $3.

get one or two or all three here (www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page326.html)

&, if that was not enough, this: mud luscious press is anthologizing; every one of our 4x4 chapbooks from inception through 2009 collected into one brutal and massive print edition. 43 titles in all. $15. releases 1.1.10.

pre-order your copy here (www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page326.html)

& hey, while we are at it, want a little j. a. tyler ? you can now pre-order signed copies of both INCONCEIVABLE WILSON (scrambler books, 2009) & SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press, 2009).

get in early here (www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page346.html)

hoping all of you are well.

best,

j. a. tyler

[ www.aboutjatyler.com ]

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO EAT FRUIT SNACKS

"Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, her publisher said.

"Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project," said Jonathan Burnham, publisher of Harper. "It's her words, her life, and it's all there in full and fascinating detail."

Palin's book, her first, will be 400 pages, said Burnham, who called the fall "the best possible time for a major book of this kind."

The book now has a title, one fitting for a public figure known for the unexpected — "Going Rogue: An American Life."

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, has commissioned a huge first printing of 1.5 million copies."

- from AP

WEST SIDE TIL WE DIE

DOGZPLOT West Coast

Date: Sunday, October 25
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00ish
Location: Beckett's Irish Pub
2271 Shattuck Avenue (between Bancroft and Kittredge)
Berkeley, CA (Walking distance from Downtown Berkeley BART)

Awesome lineup (subject to change): Timothy Crandle, Stefanie Freele, Greg Gerke, Alicia Gifford, Roland Goity, Ethel Rohan and Reynard Seifert

Hosted by: Lauren Becker
Fiction Editor, DOGZPLOT

Drink, eat, drink some more. Bring friends, family, strangers (and money to buy the kickass 2009 DOGZPLOT Anthology and books by some of our readers)

For more information, contact Lauren at lbecker@dogzplot.com

HOWIE GOOD. LOVESICK

HOWIE GOOD's collection, LOVESICK is now available through The Poetry Press, an institution dedicated to the publication of American creative writing and American Studies scholarship, 1900 to present.

More info, including how to order is here:
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/home.htm

HIPPOPANTS. STEFAN AND SANAZ KIESBYE

HIPPOPANTS is the online magazine for graphic flash, illustrated prose poems, literary comic strips, philosophical stick figures, and wordy paintings. HIPPOPANTS. And then some.

www.hippopants.com

MORE STUFF TO READ. LAUREN BECKER. STEFANIE FREELE

STEFANIE FREELE
FEEDING STRAYS
LOST HORSE PRESS
http://www.losthorsepress.org/books/feedingstrays.html


WIGLEAF

http://www.wigleaf.com/

THE HAMBURGER STORY

LAUREN BECKER

MORE STUFF TO READ. STORYGLOSSIA. DECOMP

STORYGLOSSIA 35 is live
http://storyglossia.com/

Hal Ackerman
Josh Capps
B.J. Hollars
Jay Kauffmann
Mary Larkin
Lyz Lenz
John P. Loonam
Marc Lowe
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Gretchen McCullough
Hannah Pass
Amy Pence
Angi Becker Stevens
James Terry
Valerie Vogrin
Ravi Mangla
Angela Woodward

DECOMP MAGAZINE. September 09
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

Z. Z. Boone
Matt DeBenedictis
Tara Laskowski
Ravi Mangla
Veronica Hebard
Michelle Reale
J. A. Tyler
David W. Landrum
Dominic Alapat
CL Bledsoe
Janann Dawkins
Nava Fader
Mat Gould
kj hays
Jen Schalliol
Ajay Vishwanathan
Zachary Whalen

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

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

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

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/

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.

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