LOS ANGELES TIMES - HOBART / MATT BELL / SHANE JONES / KELLY SHRIVER

Congrats to Matt Bell, Shane Jones, Kelly Shriver, and HOBART for their mention in the Los Angeles Times. The LAT ran an article on the storySouth Million Writers Award and of the 167 stories selected as long list finalists, they chose to mention only three of them. I imagine this is due to their excellence. Congrats:

Matt Bell
Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken
Storyglossia

Shane Jones
I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands
Hobart

Kelly Shriver
The Ethical Dilemma of a Sandwich Down the Pants
Pindeldyboz

Additionally, I am honored to have had fiction published in all three of these journals:

Storyglossia 24 & 28
Hobart 9
Pindeldyboz Holiday Home issue 2007

MORE STORIES - MONKEYBICYCLE / DIAGRAM

A few more stories from May that are worth reading. I'm gonna give a shout out to Monkeybicycle here even though I am currently banned for life from submitting or contacting their journal. I suppose the ban is all my fault, it has very little to do with one of their editors acting like a dickhead.

TIME MACHINES CAN BE DANGEROUS
pete reynolds

MY PERFECT YEAR
todd kelly

Not from this month but I stll want to mention them:

MY COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED SEXUAL HISTORY IN 60 SECONDS
shayn nicely

REUNION
scott garson

13 TIMES I'D RATHER NOT REMEMBER
brandi wells


The DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest results have been posted. Congrats to this year's winner, Quell the Mayhem Night, by Debra Di Blasi. Finalists include: Elisabeth Benjamin, Kea Wilson, Amanda Goldblatt, Blake Butler, Mark Leidner, and Amelia Gray.

NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH V

PENTHOUSE PET OF THE YEAR 2008

ERICA ELLYSON

Time is running out to celebrate NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH. I would like to draw your attention to the brand spanking new issue of PENTHOUSE, featuring the June 2008 PENTHOUSE cover girl - Daisy Marie.



Also, please check out some thought provoking and inspirational photography, featured on:

Divini Rae

Jeska Vardinski

Barely Legal

Suicide Girls

Bunny Ranch

RANDOM PHOTOS - CIRCA 2008 - EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE / OLYMPIA

Read about my experience as a guest panelist at Evergreen State College's PRESS: Cross-Cultural Literary Conference.

NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH IV

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NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH III

Yeah, I know there is more in this anthology than just short stories, but nonetheless, it's an anthology that's worth owning. Here's the note from the publisher:

"Dzanc Books is excited to announce plans to publish an annual The Best of the Web anthology series starting in 2008. This print anthology will compile the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that online literary journals have to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner of other broad-ranging anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize anthology, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories."

"The Best of the Web anthology will be the first comprehensive print anthology to represent the vast array of contemporary online literature on an annual basis, bringing the world of web journals to a greater audience. Nathan Leslie, Fiction Editor for The Pedestal Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of The Potomac, and the author of five short story collections, and will serve as the series editor. In addition, each year a guest editor will be selected by Nathan and Dzanc's publishers, Dan Wickett and Steve Gillis. Nathan has sent emails to editors of every conceivable online literary journal, asking for nominations of what they consider their three best works by September 15, 2007. Nathan and the publishers will also be scouring for exceptional writing on the web. Nathan Leslie will answer additional questions from journal editors at Nathanlesliedzanc@yahoo.com."

"Though publishing online provides us the opportunity to present fiction free from economic imperative, permitting us, our authors, and our readers to relish in the experiment of expression, one of our great regrets is forgoing the sensation of binding it, printing it, holding the work we proudly select in our hands. Then along comes Dzanc Books, and this gift of a book, Best of the Web, that feels, to us, like the presentation of an award."- Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose, editors, Hotel St. George

WIGLEAF TOP 50 - THE CHAD

Check out this year's WIGLEAF top 50 (very) short fictions 2008, guest edited by Chad Simpson.

Congratulations to everyone who made the list, including a few DOGZPLOT contributors (not for stories in DOGZPLOT):

KIM CHINQUEE

DAWN CORRIGAN

ELIZABETH ELLEN

COREY MESLER

CLAUDIA SMITH

So thank you to Scott Garson and Chad Simpson for doing this damn thang. Very nice.

Notables (no repeats, you're great... we get it)

CL BLEDSOE

JIMMY CHEN

JAMIE LIN

CHAD SIMPSON

NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH II

In honor of NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH, I am posting a link to the new: MAXIM HOT 100 LIST

TOP 10

10. Ashley Tisdale

9. Lindsay Lohan

8. Christina Aguilera

7. Eva Mendes

6. Elisha Cuthbert

5. Sarah Michelle Gellar

4. Eva Longoria-Parker

3. Jessica Biel

2. Scarlett Johansson

1. Marisa Miller

NOTABLES

66. Christina Ricci

61. Isla Fisher

60. Taryn Manning

46. Amanda Bynes

40. Drew Barrymore

39. Sofia Vergara

34. Jessica Alba

29. Shannon Elizabeth

25. Hilary Duff

16. Megan Fox

12. Vanessa Hudgens

pictured above:

Divini Rae

Jeska Vardinski

Christina Aguilera

NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH

In honor of NATIONAL SHORT STORY / MASTURBATION MONTH I'm gonna post a few links to some of my favorite stories published this month:

"The Peephole Cleaner"
Rene Georg Vasicek
Wigleaf

"Funny Face"
Greg Bardsley
Storyglossia

"Sky Miles"
Caroline Kepnes
Thieves Jargon

"Declawed"
Brandi Wells
Ghoti

RANDOM PHOTOS - CIRCA 2008 - YPSI / ANN ARBOR

1 RANDOM SHEETS OF ACID / LSD

2 JEFF PARKER / TRACY LEE

3 JEFF PARKER / AMANDINE WILLIAMS-ABRAHAM

4 KYLE MINOR / JEFF PARKER

CL BLEDSOE's debut poetry collection

Check out the debut poetry collection

______(want/need)

from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend CL BLEDSOE, just released from Plan B Press.

"CL Bledsoe is the author of Anthem and an editor for Ghoti Magazine http://www.ghotimag.com. He has published work in many journals, newspapers, and anthologies, including Barrow Street, The Arkansas Review, The Cimarron Review, The Potomac Review, Margie, and Nimrod, and been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes as well as winning the Blue Collar Review's Working People Poetry Prize. He currently lives with his wife near Baltimore."

To view the poem, Weight, or to order the collection CLICK HERE

POETRY from J.R. PEARSON

Please check out the latest poetry offerings from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend J.R. Pearson. To say I am a fan of his work would be an understatement. I think everyone should be required to read a J.R. Pearson poem at least once a day. Here's where you can find him:

Ghoti
The Distance Between
Eidolons of Flight 93

Red Fez
The Inevitability of Grilled Cheese

Read This
When the Cello Stops

Ectoplasmic Necropolis
Chapbook available through Blood Pudding Press


While you're at these places, also check out work from Dogzplot contributors and friends J.A. Tyler, Misti Rainwater-Lites, and Cicily Janus

storySouth MILLION WRITERS AWARD

Congratulations is in order for a few Dogzplot contributors and friends whose short stories have made the MWA notable stories list for 2007.

Anne Germanacos
Blackbird
"Until We Go To Sleep"

Jimmy Chen
Prink of the Spindle
"The Unrealistic Philosopher"

Matt Bell
Storyglossia
"Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"

Steve Gillis
Wheelhouse Magazine
"As Dudee Fell"