KEYHOLE. BY THE ARM

I have a new story up at:

BARRY GRAHAM

KEYHOLE

BY THE ARM

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/barry-graham/by-the-arm


Go read that shit... now. Don't wait. It will self-destruct in 5 seconds like Inspector Gadget notes.

THE ART OF FRICTION. STEFAN KIESBYE. HITLERTOWN

THE ART OF FRICTION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

STEFAN KIESBYE

HITLERTOWN

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blafri.html

BEAR PARADE. NOAH CICERO. NOSFERATU

BEAR PARADE

NOAH CICERO

NOSFERATU

http://www.bearparade.com/nosferatu/

OCTOBER. PEQUIN

PEQUIN

STORIES BY:

MARIA ANDERSON

BARRY GRAHAM

BRANDI WELLS

ANTONIOS MALTEZOS

and others

http://pequin.org/archives.php

JA TYLER. THE GOOD WORD ON ACHILLES CHAPBOOK SERIES

from JA Tyler:

(ML Press is putting together a fine line-up of chapbooks, including work from Brandi Wells, Shane Jones, Blake Butler, Jimmy Chen, Ken Baumann, Nick Antosca):


drew kalbach's THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS & ENORMOUS CLIPPERS is an engrossing read. his poetry works its way into a reader, pinching at places that seem normal & good until they are exposed to his bend of langauge, making them surreal & raw & broken.

barry graham's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING is a bulldozer of aggressive & charged stories, showcasing the sexual bent & savvy of graham's enticing & ticklish phrasing.

TINDERBOX LAWN. CAROL GUESS. ROSE METAL PRESS

from ROSE METAL PRESS:

"Set on the margins of Seattle, beneath bridges and on the banks of waterways, in strip clubs and flooded farmland, the prose poems in Tinderbox Lawn illuminate the intersection of domesticity and bohemia, orthodoxy and passion. Each untitled block of prose constitutes a novel-in-miniature, with shadow characters and shards of plot. The intensity of Carol Guess’s poems builds through lyrical language and recurring images, capturing the moment when “the small mad heart at the center of things stalls mid-tick.”

small EXCERPT:

Every morning you walk past the house with broken windows and break another window. The shiny Valentine inside scrubs dishes at the sink. Think hard enough about broken glass and it becomes rain in a tumbleweed town, drowning out the neighbors’ quarrels. You’ve had to invent this life to make it work. Try speaking but no sound comes out, try tenderness but it twists in an instant. Think blood on the mattress. Try running, and not for the scenery.

DOGZPLOT in THE SMALL PRESS REVIEWS

Huge thanks to Marc Schuster from THE SMALL PRESS REVIEWS for posting a review of the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION anthology 2008. The review mentions stories by Joseph Graham, Barry Graham, Dawn Corrigan, and Scott Garson.

Small excerpt from the REVIEW:

"Each piece in the collection is under 200 words, and each, in the immortal words of Spider-Man, really packs a wallop. Among the standouts are two by Florida author Dawn Corrigan titled "Nemesis" and "The Pin," which deal with pathological uncles and unrequited love respectively. Another highlight is Scott Garson's "Accounts Payable," which asks the immortal question, "Why does the ham and cheese croissant cost less than the ham and cheese sandwich?" Rounding out the issue is Graham's "All Together," which arguably presents the definitive ultra-short version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment."

Thanks again to Marc Schuster.

WIGLEAF. NEW STORIES. GREG GERKE

GREG GERKE

SENSELESS

http://wigleaf.com/200810senseless.htm


E.P. CHIEW

CHINESE EQUIVALENT

http://wigleaf.com/200810chineq.htm

FREE KWAME KILPATRICK

Apparently the only way a politician is fined a million dollars and does jail time for lying is if he's a black man from Detroit. Fuck off Wayne County.

WHO'S NAILIN' PALIN. NEW ISSUES. HUSTLER

New issues of HUSTLER. Check out the special WHO'S NAILIN' PALIN issue, which also features a pretty good article in memory of the late George Carlin.

And the new HOLIDAY issue, which has some pretty good things to say about one of my favorite comedians (think The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, not Malibu's Most Wanted), Jamie Kennedy.

MORE FREE BOOKS - UNTIL OCT. 31

Here's the new deal:

Order: DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2008 - $8

Free: SAM PINK - I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT - $12

and vice versa

Order: BARRY GRAHAM - NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING - $4

Free: DREW KALBACH - THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS - $4

and vice versa

Thank you to all the readers and writers who continue to support DOGZPLOT and its mini ventures. Keep doing what you're doing and God bless.

PRESS RELEASE. MUDLUSCIOUS PRESS. JA TYLER. SHANE JONES. JIMMY CHEN. KEN BAUMANN

something new has been born: ml press.

ml press is a print off-shoot of the online journal mud luscious. ml press publishes limited edition, single author, single work, chap style volumes of poetry & prose. each volume costs $2 (includes u.s. shipping), is printed in a run of 25 - 50, and gives 50% of its sales to the author.

here is our initial line-up & a sentence from each:

ken baumann : Y2K
'& our hero finally bends to the oncoming fiscal crisis'

jimmy chen : footnote1
'the wind howls because the dogs whimper'

shane jones : black kids in lemon trees
'our handcuffs are the stitching between the clouds'we are excited. we think this is something new.

buy. read. support. blog. review. etc.

www.mudlusciouspress.blogspot.com
www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com

TEXT SOUND. JOHN BIANDO. URBAN VAGINARY

TEXT SOUND
an online audio publication

JOHN BIANDO

URBAN VAGINARY


also check out CARLA HARRYMAN

REGUARD FOR THE OBJECT


http://textsound.org/

THE LAST GAME WE PLAYED. JO NEACE KRAUSE

I just finished the first two stories in this collection. Jo Neace Krause will eat your face off. Read it. Love it. Embrace it.

from DZANC:

Jo Neace Krause's incredible ear for spoken language is on full display in this collection of stories spanning many different narrators and lives, some accented with Appalachia, all conscious of the omnipresent weight of history. Krause's writing is as instinctive as breathing, whether she is relating criss-crossed family sagas or snapshots of sun-drenched afternoons. Slipping on other lives and voices as easily as clothing, The Last Game We Played is an absorbing collection from a gifted new author.

"A dark and complicated work of literature."
—The Massachusetts Review

"A little classic."
—Rachel Calahan

FRIGG. NEW ISSUE. BETH THOMAS. THREE STORIES

BETH THOMAS

FRIGG

THREE STORIES

http://friggmagazine.com/issuetwentytwo/splashpages/BethThomas.htm

RAVI MANGLA. WIGLEAF. MIRACLE CAKE

RAVI MANGLA

WIGLEAF

MIRACLE CAKE

http://wigleaf.com/200810cake.htm

MOLLY GAUDRY. KEYHOLE. GEORGIA ON MY MIND

MOLLY GAUDRY

KEYHOLE

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

http://keyholemagazine.com/molly-gaudry/georgia-on-my-mind

I'M FULL NOW

ROBOT MELON. DREW KALBACH. PETER SCHWARTZ. MARIA ANDERSON

ROBOT MELON

DREW KALBACH

SLAM

http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/dkalbach.html


PETER SCHWARTZ

A.D.

http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/pschwartz2.html

CALL ME RADIO

http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/pschwartz1.html


MARIA ANDERSON

CHILDREY MERRY

http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/manderson.html

BEHIND THE WAINSCOT. LAURA ELLEN SCOTT. EXOSKELETAL

LAURA ELLEN SCOTT

EXOSKELETAL

BEHIND THE WAINSCOT

http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=228

PHILLIES. 200 CASH PRIZE AT AWP. NEW PRESIDENT. 2009

Phillies will win the world series. Obama will be in office. The National Virginity Pledge will be published. DOGZPLOT will be giving away 200 dollars cash at AWP. 2009 will be a great year. I'm sure of it.

CHAD SIMPSON. WHITE NOISE. TITULAR

CHAD SIMPSON

WHITE NOISE

TITULAR

http://www.titular-journal.com/

NEW ELIMAE

Includes work from a few DOGZPLOT folks:

http://elimae.com/new.html

ANNE GERMANACOS

KIM CHINQUEE

KYLE MINOR

HOWIE GOOD

RAVI MANGLA

ROBERT SWARTWOOD

JAMES IREDELL

JA TYLER

Congrats to JA TYLER on achieving 100 publications in 2008. Not only is his work great enough to merit 100 acceptances, I am amazed by the fact that he has written 100 seperate pieces in a year (10 months, this is October. Will he reach 125 acceptances by the end of 08). That type of discipline / dedication to writing is inspiring. It is an honor to have published his fiction here at DOGZPLOT. Again congrats.

YER BLESSINGS. STORYGLOSSIA. MIKAEL COVEY

YER BLESSINGS

STORYGLOSSIA

MIKAEL COVEY

http://www.storyglossia.com/30/mc_blessings.html

SNOW. SLEEPINGFISH. JA TYLER

SNOW

SLEEPINGFISH

JA TYLER

http://www.sleepingfish.net/N/08.10.13.htm


PARENTHETICAL #3

NIGHT TRAIN

JA TYLER

http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/tyler_8_2.php

5 STAR. KIM CHINQUEE. PAULA BOMER

Up now at 5 STAR LITERARY STORIES is Paula Bomer's review of Kim Chinquee's, DOWN THE ROAD, which appeared in SNOWVIGATE.


Also, check out Paula's latest offering up now at NIGHT TRAIN:

PUSSIES
http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/bomer_8_2.php


And finally, Philly is up 3-1. Fuck off LA Dodgers.

A BUNCH OF THINGS: CHAINSAWS. WIGLEAF. MEG POKRASS

Drew Kalbach was interviewed by the Outside Writers Guild.

New stories on Wigleaf from:

Robert A. Dollesin
Nodder
http://wigleaf.com/200810nodder.htm

Shane Jones
Attics
http://wigleaf.com/200810attics.htm

New stories by Meg Pokrass up at

Pindeldyboz
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/mpvilla.htm

Keyhole
http://www.keyholemagazine.com/meg-pokrass/three-shorts


Phillies got clobbered by the Dodgers last night. FUCK.

FREE BOOKS - THIS WEEKEND ONLY

TODAY through SUNDAY MIDNIGHT we are offering the following BOOK DEALS:

PRE-ORDER: SAM PINK - I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT

FREE: BARRY GRAHAM - NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING or DREW KALBACH: THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS

ORDER: either DREW KALBACH - CHAINSAWS or BARRY GRAHAM - SPECK OF LIGHT and receive the other one FREE

PAYPAL LINKS ARE ON THE RIGHT - if you do not have PAYPAL email me and we can work something out.

As always, thank you to the contributors and readers for your continued encouragement and support. God bless.

POSTING MOLLY'S THINGY / LAMINATION COLONY

New issue of Lamination Colony is live, featuring bad ass work from a few DOGZPLOT folks, including MOLLY GAUDRY. Check her out reading this: the sky as john saw it the night kate sparkled.

The video up top of Molly reading that story is also being featured on HERE EXPLODES MY GIANT FACE.

Read other stuff from:

MOLLY GAUDRY

LAST TIME IT RAINED THIS HARD THE DOG DROWNED

MATT BELL

NON-MEDICAL DEFINITIONS OF AN OBJECT FLOATING IN GLASS

SCOTT GARSON

I TALK WITH THE MERMAID

SHANE JONES

POEM THAT IS 15-20 LINES LONG INCLUDING LINE BREAKS

GOOD LUCK PHILLY

NEW @ HOBART

The October issue of HOBART is live. Check it out:

New work from:

TAI DONG HUAI

ED MEEK

JILL WIDNER

GLEN POURCIAU

interview with:

LENI ZUMAS

BARRY GRAHAM - NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING

PUBLISHER AND ORDERING INFO HERE

NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING

4.00. I know you got 4.00.

Order the chapbook.

Click on the link above for PAYPAL info.

If you ain't got PAYPAL, holla, we'll work something out.

SMOKELONG QUARTERLY - 22

Read it, love it, embrace it. HERE

WANTED - PUBIC HAIR

Please consider donating your unwanted / unneeded pubic hair to us for the release of SAM PINK'S - I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT.

Also, if you would just like to send us a photo of you in the act of shaving your pubes, that will be okay too. Let me know.

p.s. - those are Sam's pubes.

DREW KALBACH - NEW POEMS

Check out the latest issue of THE NIMBLE FEW, which includes poems from DREW KALBACH.

BEGINNING OBSESSION
BEFORE THEY DECIDED
LOOK TWICE THEN LISTEN
HOW TO REMOVE A PAIR OF PANTS WITHOUT CAUSING JEALOUSY

If you like what you read, please order a copy of Drew's chapbook, THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS. I know you got 4 dollars. Help the kid out.

Here's what MATT BELL said about it:

"Drew Kalbach's poems are full of the best kind of danger, subverting our expectations of everyday situations until something else happens, some other unexpected, transformative experience. From their incantatory beginnings to their incongruous endings, these poems are capable of a deep magic where each line is a connection between unlikely dots, each poem revealing truths as terrible as they are beautiful, as revelatory as they are necessary."

Here's what Ernest Hemingway said about it:

KELLY SPITZER INTERVIEWS JACOB APPEL

Read this EXCERPT, then read the ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE.

KELLY:

You’ve amassed quite a list of publication credits, in very reputable journals, I might add. How long have you been writing? Do you have any tips, or secrets, on how to get published?

JACOB:

... I am increasingly confident that the secret to publication is relentlessness. Keep writing, keep sending out your work, respond to rejection by sending out even more work. If a journal sends you a note stating that your style just isn’t what they’re looking for, which has happened to me on multiple occasions, wait until that editor retires and try again. I have acquired more than 11,000 rejection letters and I’ve published fewer than one hundred stories. From a statistical point of view, I have failed abysmally. But I think few writers “fail” because they don’t have raw talent or potential; most aspiring writers don’t publish because they give up too soon.

I love you Jacob.

EMERGING WRITERS NETWORK - PUBLISHERS PANEL

(lifted from MATT BELL)

Dan Wickett at the Emerging Writers Network has just posted an e-panel with the editors of seven new indie publishers, including:

Kathleen M. Rooney and Abigail Beckel – Rose Metal Press

Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen – Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a division of Hobart

Johannah Rodgers and Eugene Lim – Ellipsis Press

Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose – Hotel St. George Press

Giancarlo Di Trapano – Tyrant Books

Victoria Blake – Underland Press

Peter Cole – Keyhole Books

(no longer from Matt)

I read through this a few times and there's some really good discussion going on. It gives me confidence that I really do know what I'm doing, and even when I don't, there are better, more succesful publishers who don't know what they are doing either.