JA TYLER in LAMINATION COLONY

Check out the latest offering from DOGZPLOT contributor and friend JA TYLER in LAMINATION COLONY, described by LC editor Blake Butler as "a creepy sequence of serial texts." SIX THINGS HAPPENED.

RAY SUCCRE - TATTERDEMALION

Please check out the latest offering, TATTERDEMALION (Cauliay 08), by DOGZPLOT contributor and friend RAY SUCCRE.

publisher's note:

"This is the amazing story of a man trapped in a mad, fantasy world that begins to change against his will... At times, hysterically funny, at other times, incredibly moving. You will have to decide if it is the story of a madman coming to terms with the real, uncaring world, or that of a caring, sane man, in a world gone completely mad."

FLASHQUAKE - JAMIE JONES

Check out the Summer 08 issue of Flashquake. It features a poem from DOGZPLOT poetry editor, Jamie Jones. Read Embers. It's amazing.

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"

STORYGLOSSIA 28 - barry graham & heather fowler

STORYGLOSSIA 28 is live today. It is a special crime/noir issue guest edited by Anthony Neil Smith. Please check out my story THE CIGARETTE STORY and another, THE HUMMING written by Dogzplot contributor and friend Heather Fowler.

While you're there check out other great stories by Vicki Hendricks, Seth Harwood, Greg Bardsley, and others.

"These are the stories that reached inside and really held on. They were determined to be in this issue. And I can't help but oblige them. Maybe they won't be your cup of tea regardless of what side of the literary fence you're sitting on. But I've got no problem walking that fence like a tightrope, ready and willing to fall off over and over again before hopping right back up and tightwalking some more. It's exhilarating, hovering above it all, but not afraid to get your hands dirty when the time comes."

- from Anthony Neil Smith's introduction

And if you're really bored, check out my story in the archives from STORYGLOSSIA 24, ON THE EDGE

STEVE GILLIS - temporary people

Dzanc says, "Dzanc Books imprint Black Lawrence Press is proud to announce the release of its latest title, Steven Gillis's Temporary People. Order Temporary People online at amazon.com (don't mind that "Sold Out" status, the book is in stock and will be shipped immediately) or BlackLawrencePress.com, or pick it up at your local indy bookstore.

As thoroughly dark and thoroughly humane as Vonnegut's apocalyptic novels like Cat's Cradle and Galapagos, Temporary People is a suspenseful tale about history, hope, oppression, and modes of resistance. Gillis's world is richly imagined, his voice is clear, and his plot is intricate, as is his moral. In fact, this novel seems much more interested in probing and dramatizing the deep philosophical paradoxes of revolutionary thought than in providing any pat answer. Here's a fable for our time, and for just about any other time you can imagine.
--Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.! Minimalist-cum-fabulist

Steven Gillis synthesizes nearly every Twentieth Century calamity from World War II to the Balkans to Desert Storm into this fable of the oppressed country Bamerita, which drifts about the seas unhinged from any continent. His idealistic and erudite hero finds his peaceful revolution thwarted and contemplates the holes in Gandhi's many aphorisms while his people are mutilated in grand spectacle on film. Temporary People is a vicious and compelling storyboard for our time.
--Jeff Parker, author of Ovenman

Check it out!

DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2008

Just to give some additional information on the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION 2008 anthology. It is set to go to print in July 2008. All contributors will recieve a complimentary issue and can buy additional copies at the 50% reduced price of $4, which means, yes, original price is $8, $22 if you're Canadian, and yes, I know the current exchange rate.

The anthology will be a beautifully bound 5.5 by 8.5 paperback. Cover art provided by DOGZPLOT contributor and friend Jordan C. Brun.

The current list of flash fiction anthology contributors includes:

rosanna armendariz
ristaa abouradi-hoffman
bill barr
jane timm baxter
shaindel beers
matt bell
luis c. berriozabal
justin blackburn
cl bledsoe
aaron burch
david byron
zachary c. bush
yu-han chao
kim chinquee
jimmy chen
dawn corrigan
mikael covey
todd michael cox
angela davis
robert a. dollesin
verless doran
elizabeth ellen
heather fowler
scott garson
anne germanacos
barry graham
joseph graham
gregory heaney
joe holtaway
jamie jones
rebecca kanner
stefan kiesbye
jamie lin
michele matheson
kevin michaels
shayn nicely
j.r. pearson
brandon potter
andrew powers
erin pringle
misti rainwater-lites
gina ranalli
vita l. sacksby
peter schwartz
chad simpson
sarah smarch
hannah smart
claudia smith
simon a. smith
kim teeple
beth thomas
j.a. tyler
pablo vision
douglas watson
jan windle
amandine williams-abraham
deborah wood

If you're on this list, thank you very much for the contribution. Please email me at dogzplot.press@yahoo.com with the mailing address you wish your copy to be sent to. Again, thanks, this anthology is by you, for you, and without you, the writers, none of this would be possible. Keep doing what you're doing and God bless.

SHAMAN DRUM - ANN ARBOR - READING - MAY 22ND

KEVIN SAMPSELL of FUTURE TENSE PRESS will be reading from his new book CREAMY BULLETS (Chiasmus Press), at the SHAMAN DRUM BOOKSTORE in Ann Arbor on May 22nd at 7pm. Reading along with him will be HOBART editor AARON BURCH, and two contributors, MATT BELL, and me, BARRY GRAHAM. Really, it's on a Thursday and you ain't got shit else to do, so come check us out, it should be a good time.

A PECULIAR FEELING OF RESTLESSNESS - 4 chapbooks of flash fiction by 4 women

A PECULIAR FEELING OF RESTLESSNESS is a collection of four chapbooks: "three of them finalists and one of them the winner of the Rose Metal Press first annual short short chapbook contest, all revel in the succinctness of their form, the underlying tension anchored beneath each story of 1,000 words or less. These stories are peculiar; they resonate with restlessness. They are deft, they are gritty, and they are lyrical. Laughter, Applause, Laughter, Music, Applause by Kathy Fish, Wanting by Amy L. Clark, Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix by Elizabeth Ellen, and The Sky Is a Well by Claudia Smith (the reprint of her sold out chapboook) combine four multi-layered portrayals of beautiful uneasiness into a collection rich with wit, grace, and originality."

- publisher's note

“The four brilliant chapbooks that make up A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness are disarmingly, unabashedly intimate collections by women who know how to tell a story and aren’t afraid to drag the unspoken out into the light of day.” —Pia Z. Ehrhardt

ORDERING INFO HERE

WIGLEAF - joe wenderoth, claudia smith, dawn corrigan

If you haven't checked out WIGLEAF already, please do so, it is an online journal dedicated to flash fiction 1,000 words or less, they also do audio and video recordings, one of which is from Joe Wenderoth, who's video recording My Life is up right now.

While your there, also check out flash fiction from DOGZPLOT contributors and friends, Claudia Smith, Shampoo Commercial and Scout Lantern, and Dawn Corrigan, Pink.

And finally, check out my story on WIGLEAF, This Story is Not About Ham and Cheese Sandwiches.

There is also great stuff from: Darlin Neal, Pirooz Kalayeh, Leah Browning, Corey Mesler, and an interview with Quick Fiction editor Jennifer Pieroni