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.

HTML GIANT

HTML GIANT

This is a new little something something in support of online journals and indie presses. Read the description from BLAKE BUTLER:

"HTML GIANT is a thing Gene Morgan approached me about doing, 'approached,' we wanted to do a website that focuses the indie press and online writing news in a central format, sort of like Pitchfork or Bookslut or Gawker for online writing and indie presses only, bringing the goods and becoming things, it will continue to become things, it will have internet writing related news outside of the big press related news blogs, things will happen, I will eat a sandcastle in my parents' basement,

We will feature writers and journals and such, if you have things to say about it there is htmlgiant [at] gmail [dot] com, I'd prefer no emails to my private email my balls are on top of the Sears Tower, I realized the other day that Gene is the dad of the internet, I will call him Dad from now on, there is a lot on the site already, we are going to slowly leak until we have eaten a conch shell the size of somewhere, more is planned and brimming, there are lots of good writers also blogging the news already, they wear derby hats in their room when they are writing, it is required, they must also wear translucent pants and cry a lot.

Please check it out and bookmark and get fed."

NEW ISSUES - DECOMP / MUD LUSCIOUS

New issues of DECOMP and MUD LUSCIOUS are live.

Check out stories from DOGZPLOT contributors and friends:

DREW KALBACH
DECOMP
LEAVE
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

PETER SCHWARTZ
DECOMP
LAST MEDICINE
http://www.decompmagazine.com/lastmedicine.htm

BARRY GRAHAM
DECOMP
NINE ELEVEN
http://www.decompmagazine.com/nineeleven.htm

HOWIE GOOD
DECOMP
MORE LIGHT
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

STEVEN J. MCDERMOTT
MUD LUSCIOUS
review WINTER OF DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page1839.html

ROBERT A. DOLLESIN
MUD LUSCIOUS
BALLOON SWORDS
http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page1788.html

TYLER ENGFIELD
MUD LUSCIOUS
SOMETHING BEFORE YOU
http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page1703.html

ROBERT SWARTWOOD
MUD LUSCIOUS
from THE LIFE OF A BOY WITH WEBBED FEET
http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page1722.html

PRE-ORDER: SAM PINK - CLONE

Pre-order Sam Pink's full-length collection:

I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT

INFO & ORDERING INFO: CLICK HERE

$12.00

PAPER HERO PRESS

"Sam Pink exists in all things. Sam Pink's tremor is threaded through the dark sections of scenes in the first Back to the Future, the sections we generally think of as 'night.' Sam Pink gored his way to the center of the child Russell Edson and ate all the beautiful / smart / wicked / fucked / riotous / smarmy / unconditional parts about him, then went to incubate and redouble. Sam Pink absorbed the passing souls of Andy Kaufman, Anton LaVey, Klaus Kinski and Shel Silverstein and fried them in his mother's blood. When Sam Pink emerged he wasn't crying, but everyone in the hospital was, tears of whiskey, liquid gold and smegma, and within seconds of his first breath, all our Bibles were ripped in half, prefiguring this book here, this tumor, this thing that should not have a name. It is no exaggeration to say now, with a mouth full of blood, that Sam Pink is dire, is hilarious, is chewing up our future."

- Blake Butler, editor, Lamination Colony; author, EVER.

LOTS OF NEW SHITS

Lots of new shits I just found in the last few days. Check out great stuff from DOGZPLOT folks:


NO POSIT:

JA TYLER
JEFF CROUCH
MATT RYAN
BRANDI WELLS
PETER SCHWARTZ
LAURA LEHEW
MATTHEW SAVOCA

LITnIMAGE:

JA TYLER
PETER SCHWARTZ
BARRY GRAHAM

PEQUIN:

AARON BURCH
BETH THOMAS
SEAN RUANE
JA TYLER
RAVI MANGLA


Also, just got my purchased copy of NO COLONY in the mail today. Can't wait to devour it.

PRICK OF THE SPINDLE - 2.3

The latest issue of Prick of the Spindle is now live. Cynthia Reeser and all the other folks there are bad asses. It's one of my favorites, one of the few I look forward to reading every word of every issue. Mainly because you never know what you're going to find, I mean you know it will be amazing, but that's it. You can't get bored there. In my mind, Cynthia is perfect and maybe we should procreate and begin the era of the superhuman.

Check out new stuff from DOGZPLOT contributors and friends:

Steve Gillis
Hurbestone the Magnificent
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/fiction/2.3/gillis/hurbestone_the_magnificent.htm

Verless Doran
A Million Miles
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/fiction/2.3/doran/a_million_miles.htm

JA Tyler
Hogs
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/fiction/2.3/tyler/hogs.htm

CL Bledsoe
A Poem by Dean Young and Dean Koontz
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/2.3/bledsoe/a_poem_by_dean_young_and_dean_koontz.htm

DOGZLOT CONTRIBUTORS POPPING UP IN WIGLEAF / ELIMAE

Check out what's going down in these places. New work from:

ELIZABETH ELLEN
THE GREAT PLAINS, FOR L
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2008/September/Plains.html

HOWIE GOOD
DOG STAR MAN
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2008/September/Dog.html

SCOTT GARSON
THE DRUNK GUY IN THE CHILD'S BED
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/2008/September/Drunk.html

SEAN LOVELACE
A SIGH IS JUST A SIGH
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200809sigh.htm

JIMMY CHEN
LETTER FROM A MALE FAUVIST
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200809fauvist.htm

JENNIFER PIERONI
LET'S STAY TOGETHER
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200809lets.htm

AARON BURCH
REPAIRMAN
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200809repair.htm

DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY / NOTE TO CONTRIBUTORS

If you contributed flash fiction to DOGZPLOT between May 2007 and May 2008, and your name is on THIS LIST and you still haven't received your contributor's copy, please send me your mailing address so I can get it in the mail.

Thank you.

If you are not a contributor and you would like to get your hands on a copy then use the Paypal link to the right.

THE WHITE ROAD AND OTHER STORIES - tania hershman

TANIA HERSHMAN

THE WHITE ROAD and other stories

"These stories are acute, meticulous, memorable. Tania Hershman is definitely a writer worth watching."
- Toby Litt, author of ‘I Play the Drums in A Band Called Okay’, 'Adventures in Capitalism' and 'Exhibitionism'.

"Incredibly lush, intelligent, seductive, Hershman’s collection reveals a marvelously varied repertoire of narrative styles and subjects that are so compelling, so deliciously readable, it’s impossible to finish one story without quickly beginning another."
- Sunshine O’Donnell, author of ‘Open Me’

"Though Ms. Hershman is willing to go anywhere in her imagination, her stories are anchored by a poignant awareness of sorrow beneath the surface. The White Road is a unique combination of narrative extravagance and human intimacy."
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, author of ‘Strange Fire' and 'A Faker's Dozen’

"Tania Hershman's very short stories manage to pack the punch of fiction many times longer. Her strategy is highly original,consistently interesting, and astonishingly moving. Joining the impersonal facts of scientific research with our human fragility, complexity and tragedy, Hershman extracts poignancy out of the laws of nature."
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 'The Mind-Body Problem' and 'Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel'

SOME STUFF YOU SHOULD READ

AARON BURCH

REPAIRMAN

WIGLEAF

http://wigleaf.com/200809repair.htm


BLAKE BUTLER

alternate ending to my story BAD BEAT

HOBART

http://www.hobartpulp.com/games/badbeat.html

also features excellent artwork from PETER SCHWARTZ


DREW KALBACH

FOURTEEN FEET

6S

http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2008/09/fourteen-feet.html

GOODBYE SNOOPY

Sad news folks, Peanuts television animator and voice (bark and chirp) of Snoopy and Woodstock, Bill Melendez has passed away.

Thanks for the magic Bill, God bless.

HOBART 9

I got my contributor copy of Hobart in the mail today. Thanks Aaron. I cried a little bit when I opened the cover. Not the same kind of crying I do when I watch Snoopy Come Home. This was just a mist, my eyes just got a little watery, no weeping.

The cover is beautiful, the interior is beautiful, everyone's work is beautiful. I feel beautiful today. I'm gonna go scroll through my Monica Lewinsky photo album and eat a ham and cheese sandwich.

Thanks again Aaron, you're the man.

NEW STUFF AT KEYHOLE

STEVEN J MCDERMOTT

DOG PARK

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/steven-j-mcdermott/dog-park


SEAN LOVELACE

CHARLIE BROWN'S DIARY: EXCERPTS

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/sean-lovelace/charlie-brown-diary-excerpts


I think Keyhole is the best looking journal online. I'm gonna keep bombarding them with stuff until they let me in.

IT'S HERE. IT'S HERE. IT'S FINALLY FUCKING HERE

UPDATE:

So I slept with the anthology last night. At first I was just gonna stick it under my pillow and let its brilliance soak into my brain, and I did, for awhile. But then I grabbed it and tucked it in beside me and gave it it's own place on the pillow. It wouldn't lay still. We sat up and watched reruns of Scrubs and drank 40's of St. Ides all night and passed out on the floor. Ahhhh good times. I woke up before the anthology did and reflected on the night we spent together. It was still erratic, beautiful, ugly, imperfect, I loved it all over again. You will too.


"I go to Dogzplot to find out who put the demon in the vestibule, the atom bomb in the kitchen. We need these stories now more than ever."
– Kyle Minor, author In the Devil's Territory

That's right. I picked the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION 2008 anthologies up from the printers today and they kicked my ass the whole way home. A few of them jumped out of the box and beat the shit out of me with my four way crow bar, others where giving me a hand job. They're out of control. The anthology features work from:

Chad Simpson
Kim Chinquee
Claudia Smith
Elizabeth Ellen
Beth Thomas
Matt Bell
CL Bledsoe
Scott Garson
Aaron Burch
Dawn Corrigan
Stefan Kiesbye

...and so many other rock stars that its ridiculous, nuts, I'm telling you. Order it now. Paypal link is to the right. And if you are a contributor. I'm heading to the post office tomorrow. If you live by me. I'm saving the postage so I'll come see you over the weekend.

I just licked one of the pages. Imagine those magic candy balls in Willy Wonka.

CURTIS SMITH / SOUND + NOISE

CURTIS SMITH

SOUND + NOISE

CASPERIAN BOOKS

"Only occasionally do I read a novel where the characters remain like old friends long after the title and plot have faded away. Curtis Smith creates such characters in Sound + Noise. Jackie and Tom are burdened with the grief and fate of a superb fictional plot, and yet they are real. I felt as though I lived in their town and watched them long before their paths crossed. Combine this visceral reality with poetic descriptions and a good deal of humor, and you find Curtis Smith's novel, a heart-rending exploration of love and loss, residing somewhere between fiction and life." - Lisa Carey, author of Every Visible Thing

"In Sound + Noise, Curtis Smith identifies, examines, and prods the boundaries we create for ourselves, dramatizing complex human beings struggling against the confines of their pasts in order to create their lives anew. His prose is both exacting and evocative; his vision displays a mind willing to take on the moral ambiguities of our day. The result is a masterly portrait of the way we live now." - Kirby Gann, author of Our Napoleon in Rags

ORIGAMI LESSONS W / AARON BURCH

AARON BURCH

PEQUIN

HOW TO FOLD PAPER CRANES

http://pequin.org/archives/2008/aaronburch/howtofoldpapercranes.php