DOGZPLOT NEWS...: 2009

Monday, December 28, 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

SCOTT McCLANAHAN. STORIES II. SIX GALLERY PRESS

SCOTT McCLANAHAN
STORIES II
SIX GALLERY PRESS

ORDER STORIES HERE:
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-scott-mcclanahan/dp/0981009123

STORIES II will be avaikable for pre-order soon.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

FOX FORCE 5
CHAPBOOK COLLECTIVE
PAPER HERO PRESS
160 PGS.

FEATURING:

ELIZABETH ELLEN
ANDREA KNEELAND
BRANDI WELLS
SUZANNE BRUNS
LYDIA COPELAND

Here's what some folks already said:

"Moving from Elizabeth Ellen's aggressively sexual women to Andrea Kneeland's carefully enumerated tragedies, from Brandi Wells' non-realist replacement fathers to Suzanne Burns' witty fantasticism and Lydia Copeland's often second-person dreamings, this collection covers a swath of literary ground as broad and varied as the stylistic variances of its very talented writers. Fox Force 5 is a revelation, both sexy and funny, and from its pages leap forth these five great minds and hearts, shining out from underneath the gleaming surface of their suprising stories and their always inventive language."
--Matt Bell

"A joy to read. Each piece in this collection is its own world, beautifully wrought. Lydia Copeland's prose poetry shimmers off the page."
- Kathy Fish

"I'm drawn to the strong, sensual voice in these lovely, visceral pieces by Lydia Copeland, for the way she loads her prose with physical details that become much greater than their sum. Her unsentimental observations are to be savored - visions of family life, family solidarity, and unexpected violence. She shows us how the living go about the impossible through characters that are equally delicate and strong. The driving rhythm in these prose poems create the effect of music on the reader- the cumulative effect is stunning."
- Meg Pokrass

"If FOX FORCE 5 was a relationship Elizabeth Ellen would be the part where we are breaking, not yet broken but tearing apart, ripping; and Andrea Kneeland would be our aggressive sex, the angry rug-burned knees and all the yelling; Brandi Wells would be the place where we don’t know each other anymore but it seems like there is still something left, something shredded but worth saving; and Suzanne Burns would be that time when we still thought there was love, but it was a kind of beautiful, horrific, frightening love; and Lydia Copeland would then be, in our end and our beginning, coupling as a memory, the way back when our hands first met and there was no way of knowing what was ahead. How mesmerizing it is to live in this relationship, if only as we read it out."
- J. A. Tyler

PRE-ORDER HERE:
http://paperheropress.blogspot.com/

Sorry I'm dragging my ass with this one folks, but these are the kind of ladies worth waiting for.

Also, less than 20 copies of the DOGZPLOT 2009 ANTHOLOGY are left. All contributors copies and orders have been sent out. If you ordered the book during the two free books promo, which I think there are six of you, only one person has reported receiving theirs, so something has gone wrong, I think. If you are one of them let me know and I'll resend ASAP.

Order one of the remaining anthologies here:
http://www.dogzplot.blogspot.com/

PUFFIN CIRCUS

PUFFIN CIRCUS issue 2 is now available to order. It includes poetry and artwork from DOGZPLOT contributors and friends, KRISTINA MARIE DARLING (poetry), PETER SCHWARTZ (art).

Info is here:
http://puffincircus.wordpress.com/issue-2/

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Friday, November 20, 2009

FREEBIRD BOOKS. BROOKLYN, NY. BARRY GRAHAM. GREG GERKE

http://www.freebirdbooks.com/events.html

Sunday, December 6, 7 pm

Greg Gerke and Barry Graham read selected excerpts of their fiction

Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo. His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train, Flash Forward Press 2009 Anthology and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com

Barry Graham teaches writing at Rutgers University and wrote The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press). He is the 2008 recipient of the Jumpmettle Award for excellence in fiction and was recently named a finalist for the NGI Book Awards in Short Story / Fiction. Look for him online at www.dogzplot.com

First 2,000 people get a free Snoop Dogg underground mix cd from his days with 2 Live Crew.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW. FALL 09

Fall issue of the LOS ANGELES REVIEW is ready to order. Still waiting for my contributor copy so I haven't had a chance to dive in yet, but it should be a great one. I'm honored to have work alongside all the amazing contributors:

■Michael Czyzniejewski
■Lydia Davis
■Barry Graham
■Naseem Rakha
■Deborah Ager
■Alex Lemon
■Jee Leong Koh
■Steve Almond

All other info including how to order is here:

http://redhen.org/losangelesreview/issues/issue/issue-no-6-fall-2009/#more-88

Sunday, November 15, 2009

HOSTAGE. PETER SCHWARTZ. THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

New essay up from DOGZPLOT friend, contributor, and art editor, PETER SCHWARTZ. Please check it out over at THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Here's a chunk:

"Wednesday, October 14th, 2009. I'm in my room on Albert Street in Augusta Maine, being held hostage. A woman almost a decade my junior has just told me she was raped last night, but for some reason she is directing all her rage at me. I'm trying to be supportive but she's hitting me with everything she has, making fun of my anthropophobia and bi-polarity. It's actually not the words that hurt so badly, it's the fact that she would go after me like this. If she knew more about me, she'd have even better ammunition."

Read the rest here:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/pschwartz/2009/11/hostage/

Friday, November 13, 2009

RECONSTRUCTION

INFO HERE:
http://greencitynews.blogspot.com/

THE ORANGE SPOTLIGHT

Thanks very much to JASON BEHRENDS for mentioning the DOGZPLOT 2009 anthology over at WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT. And thanks very much Jason for not only generously supporting DOGZPLOT but for being a champion of indie lit as a whole. Thanks for the excellence.

Here's a bit of what he said:

"If I were to force myself to create a list of my 20 favorite small press writer's of 2009 many of them could be found in this collection. From Rusty Barnes to Jamie Iredell to Molly Gaudry to Sam Pink to xTx to Spencer Dew, this collection is overflowing with talent and creativity. Even the cover is done by an artist that I have had much respect for and interaction with this year Christy Call. This collection of flash fiction works well as a time capsule that perfectly represents on-line lit in 2009."

Read it all here:
http://www.orangealert.net/node/483

Friday, November 6, 2009

FOX FORCE FIVE. IT'S ALMOST TIME

FOX FORCE FIVE
CHAPBOOK COLLECTIVE
PAPER HERO PRESS
160 PGS.

FEATURING:

ELIZABETH ELLEN
ANDREA KNEELAND
BRANDI WELLS
SUZANNE BRUNS
LYDIA COPELAND

Here's what some folks already said:

"Moving from Elizabeth Ellen's aggressively sexual women to Andrea Kneeland's carefully enumerated tragedies, from Brandi Wells' non-realist replacement fathers to Suzanne Burns' witty fantasticism and Lydia Copeland's often second-person dreamings, this collection covers a swath of literary ground as broad and varied as the stylistic variances of its very talented writers. Fox Force 5 is a revelation, both sexy and funny, and from its pages leap forth these five great minds and hearts, shining out from underneath the gleaming surface of their suprising stories and their always inventive language."
--Matt Bell

"A joy to read. Each piece in this collection is its own world, beautifully wrought. Lydia Copeland's prose poetry shimmers off the page."
- Kathy Fish

"I'm drawn to the strong, sensual voice in these lovely, visceral pieces by Lydia Copeland, for the way she loads her prose with physical details that become much greater than their sum. Her unsentimental observations are to be savored - visions of family life, family solidarity, and unexpected violence. She shows us how the living go about the impossible through characters that are equally delicate and strong. The driving rhythm in these prose poems create the effect of music on the reader- the cumulative effect is stunning."
- Meg Pokrass

"If FOX FORCE 5 was a relationship Elizabeth Ellen would be the part where we are breaking, not yet broken but tearing apart, ripping; and Andrea Kneeland would be our aggressive sex, the angry rug-burned knees and all the yelling; Brandi Wells would be the place where we don’t know each other anymore but it seems like there is still something left, something shredded but worth saving; and Suzanne Burns would be that time when we still thought there was love, but it was a kind of beautiful, horrific, frightening love; and Lydia Copeland would then be, in our end and our beginning, coupling as a memory, the way back when our hands first met and there was no way of knowing what was ahead. How mesmerizing it is to live in this relationship, if only as we read it out."
- J. A. Tyler

PRE-ORDER HERE:

http://paperheropress.blogspot.com/

Sorry I'm dragging my ass with this one folks, but these are the kind of ladies worth waiting for.

Also, less than 20 copies of the DOGZPLOT 2009 ANTHOLOGY are left. All contributors copies and orders have been sent out. If you ordered the book during the two free books promo, which I think there are six of you, only one person has reported receiving theirs, so something has gone wrong, I think. If you are one of them let me know and I'll resend ASAP.

Order one of the remaining anthologies here:
http://www.dogzplot.blogspot.com/

Thursday, November 5, 2009

CAN SUCH THINGS BE. ADAM ROBINSON. PUBLISHING GENIUS

PUBLISHING TYCOON

Adam Robinson: Baltimore Magazine, Nov 209, p103

Congrats Adam. You're the man. That red coat is the shit.

TALKING THE TALK

Thanks very much to MARC SCHUSTER for reviewing the 2009 DOGZPLOT ANTHOLOGY over at SMALL PRESS REVIEWS. Here's a little something something from the review:

"My favorite piece in the collection is “Dead Ringer” by Ravi Mangla. Its premise is that the narrator has discovered a perfect double for his dead father walking the aisles of a Sam’s Club. Needless to say, wacky highjinks involving a sort-of blind date with the narrator’s mother ensue, and the result is a twisted window into middle-American family values.:

Read the rest here:
http://smallpressreviews.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/dogzplot-2009/

Also, check out MICHAEL KIMBALL's interview with BEN TANZER. Here's a piece:

Michael Kimball: Why are you so funny?

Ben Tanzer: The easy answer is that somewhere not so deep inside of me is a clown who just cannot stop crying. That said, assuming you’re correct, and my children are not, I’m sure it is some combination of being a male of a certain age; growing-up on John Hughes movies, The Jerk, Stripes, Animal House, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip and Raw; watching Benny Hill and Saturday Night Live; reading MAD Magazine and National Lampoon; being Jewish, and from New York, with a father who idealized Lenny Bruce, I also think that I decided early on that humor could be disarming and distracting, useful for avoiding hard conversations and a great tool for not dealing with things you do not want to deal with. So, all of this, and whatever damage was caused at birth when I had to be delivered via forceps.

Here it is in its entirety. MOST VIOLENCE IS INTIMATE:
http://thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2009/11/02/most-violence-is-intimate-michael-kimball-interviews-ben-tanzer/

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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

http://www.artisticallydeclined.net/

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.

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.

Monday, October 12, 2009

ROBERT SWARTWOOD. DAVE ERLEWINE. REPRESENTIN' ON MSNBC

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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 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.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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

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

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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

Friday, August 28, 2009

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.

Monday, August 24, 2009

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

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

RAY SUCCRE. AMPHISBAENA

from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend, RAY SUCCRE:

I’m sending out a notice announcing the release of my new novel, Amphisbaena, through Cauliay Publishing. While mass-mailouts are fairly annoying, and certainly impersonal, they’re also somewhat necessary. If I’ve sent this to a submission-only address, I apologize. My address book is labeled well, though things can slip through at times. Also, I offer the obligatory apology to anyone who receives this email more than once.

There will only be this one announcement regarding the book.

So, Amphisbaena is out, available in a variety of places, including Amazon and others. It can also be ordered through your local bookstore:

Title: Amphisbaena

Author: Ray Succre

ISBN: 0955899273

From back cover:

BB
“A sober disinterest in relationships causes Bill Sherman, failing calendarist, to abandon dating for many years. When pressured into a speed dating event by his brother, Bill meets Amy and decides to attempt a relationship again. He learns quickly, however, that Amy is two people: The inseparable Amy and Janine. These two women design to date Bill in tandem, both to his confusion and enjoyment. Where Amy holds Bill dear to her heart, Janine is unable to function outside of physical pleasure. Bill soon discovers that this strange predicament is only the beginning of a much larger system of rules and interaction, and the relationship changes more when Bill realizes that the two women happen each to be one half of an ancient, two-headed black snake. Amy is the alpha head and has subjugated her poison in an attempt to understand human notions of beauty. Bill is not allowed to touch her. Janine is the enticer head and may not be in league with Amy where Bill is concerned."

“Can a man love if there is only appetite? Will he care more deeply for the woman he can never touch? What happens when monogamy becomes taboo and a fine-tuned machine of murder learns the human consequence of going against one's nature for a greater meaning?

“Laden with whimsical depiction and a foraging exposition on gender, occupation, and dating in modern society, Amphisbaena is the story of three people trapped somewhere between nature and culture, through a humorous adventure into the biological mess of love and romance.”

Yes, it’s a modern, experimental romance novel about a man dating a sometimes two-headed snake.

A recent review of Amphisbaena:

http://unlikelystories.org/blog/content/?p=133

More Information:

http://www.raysuccre2.blogspot.com/

raysuccre@hotmail.com

Now, for anyone wanting to read the book without buying a print copy, there is an ebook version, free for anyone and everyone, which includes a large assortment of special features. The download for this is:

http://www.daedalao.com/downloads/Amphisbaena.zip

I have also created a Reviewer's Edition of the book, to send to various people for the purpose of review. I'll provide this free to anyone interested in reading the book for review purposes. It is identical to the above program, but comes on labeled disc with insert art and a little more information. Let me know with an address and I’ll send one out to you.

If there is anyone who would be willing to do me a great favor, I'd be indebted to anyone willing to mention the book to their local bookstore owner. I'm not asking anyone to do this, but if you find yourself in the bookstore and it comes to mind, an idle mention would be wonderful.

Most importantly, I just want people to read it. We all know how that is.

Cordially,

Ray Succre

HOWIE GOOD. VISITING THE DEAD

HOWIE GOOD

VISITING THE DEAD

FLUTTER PRESS

http://www.flutterpress.webs.com/

HOWIE GOOD’s VISITING THE DEAD compresses powerful emotions into a tight little bundle of memorable poetry. The chapbook displays all the traits that have won Good the admiration of readers: elegant brevity, provocative images, witty hints of surrealism, and a candid confrontation with the darker side of

Saturday, August 8, 2009

THE GOOD WORD FROM J.A. TYLER AT ML PRESS

a quick hello to say these things,

the entire mud luscious site has been changed & overhauled. we like the new vibe & hope you will give it a glance (& if you are a mud luscious / mlp author double-check your links, they made need reconnecting).

also, the august trio is now available for purchase:

WHERE WE GO WHEN WE LEAVE by craig davis

FROM THE HIP by mary hamilton

SO DARK IN THE WOLF'S MAW by kevin wilson

$3 each, shipping august 15th.

& if you want to save some cash & get a lot more mlp, buy into a subscription. six months, 18 chapbooks, & the novel(la) WE TAKE ME APART by molly gaudry all for $36.

lastly, we are very pleased to announce our next novel(la), AN ISLAND OF FIFTY by ben brooks, forthcoming june 2010. it is a brilliant book, & we are very lucky to have it.

so go here www.aboutjatyler.com & behold.

& as always, wishing you well.

j. a. tyler

Thursday, August 6, 2009

EVERYDAY BURCH

(this is what happened when i yahoo imaged 'everyday burch')

AARON BURCH has a new new story posted at EVERYDAY GENIUS.

HOW TO
http://everyday-genius.blogspot.com/2009/08/aaron-burch.html

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER

Let us know and you can win a free copy of JMWW anthology iii!

Send us some fiction, 200 words or fewer (theme: summer vacation) by August 15th. The winner(s) will receive a shiny new copy of our latest anthology in their mailbox before they light up the barby for Labor day. We'll also post the winning entries on our Facebook page and fall issue of JMWW; they'll be just too damn good to keep to ourselves.

Send 'em here: jmwweditor@gmail.com; good luck!

The editors at JMWW

ANTHEM. CL BLEDSOE

CL Bledsoe has published work in over 200 journals and anthologies, including The Cimarron Review, Nimrod and The Arkansas Review. Winner of the Blue Collar Review's Working People's Poetry Contest, he is also a 3-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine and the author of a chapbook entitled_______(Want/Need)

"Fresh, funny, hip, anarchic, jaded, secretly hopeful, angry, wry, laid-back: to read CL Bledsoe's Anthem is to enter a world that may make you twitch - but will surely help you keep on keeping on. These songs of punked-out innocence stage-strut across the page, even when they claim they're simply slacking on the couch. Join Frog and Death and the absinthe squirrels on a savvy, consciousness-jolting road-trip through the landscape of right now. I loved this smart and artful book. I bet you will to. Open it. Find out."

-Jeanne Larsen, winner of the AWP poetry book award

"CL Bledsoe's Anthem is succinct, shrewd and contemporary. Bledsoe is a modern-age poet with the unique ability to bring the reader smack into the moment with him ... Anthem's poems are no exception. Often confessional, occasionally biting, Bledsoe proves once again that he is the poet for generation X, Y and whatever lies beyond."
-Patricia Gomes, editor of Adagio Verse Quarterly and poetry moderator of iVillage's Poet's Workshop

Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/index.html#CL Bledsoe