Fictionaut Blog

• Congratulations to Tayari Jones for winning a 2008 United States Artist Grant!
• Elizabeth Crane’s short story Ad aired on NPR’s radio show Selected Shorts. You can download the podcast.
• Kyle Minor’s debut collection In the Devil’s Territory is now available from Dzanc Books.
• Fantastic reviews coming in for Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain: The Washington Post, Time Out Chicago, New York Press.
• Bob Eckstein’s History of the Snowman is being re-released for the holiday season.
• David Ulin provides a sane outlook on the state of publishing in the LA Times.
• Katherine Gleason’s short story Tvorog received Honorable Mention in Glimmertrain’s Very Short Fiction contest [pdf].
• Kim Chinquee’s short story Down the Road was reviewed on Five Star Literary Stories.
• On NPR, Lizzie Skurnick reviews Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News? and Stephen King’s Just After Sunset.
• Mark Haskell Smith will be leading intensive four-day workshops at the Writers Studio in Los Angeles from February 5 - February 9.

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