A short piece I wrote, GOODNIGHT BAD MORNING, which takes its title from a favorite song by the Kills, won the Press 53 53-Word Story contest this week. I’m certainly honored. Please head over and take a look. Thanks, Christine! And thanks, Meg Pokrass, for the prompt!
EXIT STRATEGIES {IV}: ASYLUM
Part IV of Swoon’s videopoem series based on my Gold Wake Press chapbook, EXIT STRATEGIES, is awake and ready to spend quality time with you. I read you scary stories because I care. I hope you know that.
see: EXIT STRATEGIES {IV}: ASYLUM
STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, LIVE AT AWP CHICAGO
I had the pleasure of reading for Connotation Press at AWP in Chicago. Relive it with me; press play and let me read you a story about Ben Tanzer. Special thanks to Ken Robidoux, the Connotation Press crew, everyone who read and attended, and, of course, Ben Tanzer.
The new DOGZPLOT Ben Tanzer issue is alive and sexy: alive because it’s up, sexy because it’s Tanzer. Read my story, STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, along with stories from favorites such as Ben, BL Pawelek, Ryan Bradley, Dave Housley, and Tom Williams. Thanks, Barry Graham!
Nailpolish Stories did a little “Best of” roundup. I’m happy to say that one of my stories made that list. I’m in good company all around. Thanks, Nicole!
That non-fiction piece I wrote about the time the sky came down to resurrect the body of Amelia Earhart is now live at In Between Altered States. Ok, you got me; it’s (mostly) fiction. Thanks Aleathia!
see: A WOMAN’S SHOE, AN EMPTY BOTTLE, A SEXTANT BOX
Photo Credit: Amelia Earhart. Courtesy of Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.
Happy Halloween, you boils and ghouls! I’m thrilled almost wordless to report that my latest e-chap, THIRTEEN, is available as a free download from Artistically Declined Press. Much gratitude to Ryan W. Bradley for throwing a right Halloween bash!
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Nic Sebastian, Kathy McTavish, and Marc Swoon Bildos Neys have released the latest videopoem triptych, PROPOLIS, featuring poems by Donna Vorreyer, Lisa Cihlar, and me. Some might recognize my piece, THE LIGHTS ARE ON IN THE MUSEUM, as part of a piece Mud Luscious was kind in publishing some months ago. Thank you to all involved in this. I am indeed honored.
see: PROPOLIS
further reading: Mud Luscious 15
Gold Wake Press has published some of my all-time favorite e-chaps, and I am thrilled beyond thrilled that they have added my title, EXIT STRATEGIES, to the list. It’s near criminal to be able to download these gems for free. Please read mine, make your way down the list if you haven’t already, and be sure to purchase some of their excellent print titles. Thank you, J. Michael Wahlgren, Eric Beeny & Caylin Capra-Thomas!
see: EXIT STRATEGIES
Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet is always just that, and it can be found regularly published at Used Furniture Review. Meg kindly asked me to be part of the latest quartet, where I was fortunate to participate in a collaboration which also included Barry Graham and Allison Miller. Four very different writers working only off the cues of the writer(s) that came before them on a single story is bound to be full of explosions and twists; this story is packed with them.
My gratitude to Meg Tuite for including me; Meg, Barry Graham, and Allison Miller for being the literary monsters they are; and, of course, Used Furniture Review for bringing this work to the public. Thanks all!
My flash piece, LOSING SOMETHING, appears at the always fantastic DOGZPLOT. I would venture to guess it will be the single best piece of fictional non-fiction regarding the band MANOWAR that you will read today. In fact, I can guarantee as much. Much love to Barry Graham for his kindness!
On a side note, congratulations to my good friend Michael Seidel, who appears in the same issue!
see: DOGZPLOT
Who doesn’t love Monkey Bicycle, and who doesn’t love their One-Sentence Stories? Give up? Nobody, that’s who. Monkey Bicycle has published a One Sentence Story by yours truly, and I am grateful to them for it. Thanks, MB!
Lots of stuff to read!
Issue 15 of the always superb MUD LUSCIOUS includes my piece, COMPLEX MACHINERY, as well as work by many other fantastic writers such as Helen Vitoria. Read it! My thanks to editors J. A. Tyler and Andrew Borgstrom (whose works you should be reading as well)!
The wildly insane HOUSEFIRE has published my piece, WE SLEEP INSIDE IF WE SLEEP AT ALL. Don’t miss my bio there, written by Riley Michael Parker. As usual, it’s a great piece of writing all by itself. Thanks, Riley!
Don’t miss the stellar fifth issue of THUNDERCLAP, which includes my two poems, WORDS, and STIPULATION CLAUSE, RAPUNZEL_MOREOVER, as well as incredible works by many others such as Len Kuntz, Parker Tettleton, Sheldon Lee Compton, Bill Yarrow, and Scott Alexander Jones. There are just so many, I can’t list them all! Thanks Amanda, and thank you, Robert Vaughan!
see: MUD LUSCIOUS (Issue 15)
see: HOUSEFIRE
see: Thunderclap! (Issue 5)
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