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Everything I know about what is called the short short or flash fiction or whatever you want to call it, I learned first from reading a small red hardback with a yellow dust jacket I found at a used bookstore in Seattle in the early 1990s called You Know What is Right by Jim Heynen. It had been published years before, in 1985, by a small press named North Point Press that, in turn, was bought by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the nineties where the name continues to exist as an imprint.

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We missed mentioning this last week (even after we were so nicely asked to do so): Hannah Tinti, one of the founding editors of One Story, recently won the PEN/Nora Magid Award for her work on the magazine.

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Ru Freeman’s debut novel A Disobedient Girl chronicles the trials and travails of two Sri Lankan women and their pursuit of freedom. Ursula Hegi calls it “Evocative and moving. Ru Freeman is a marvelous storyteller who sees deeply into the complex layers of compassion and love, of sorrow and betrayal. An amazing first novel.” Keep reading…

Let us know what you think of the redesign, and if you haven’t yet, make sure to add your books to your profile!

This is my new office. I have used this room before, but the setup was very different, and the walls were ice white. I’ve moved my desk four times in the eight years we’ve lived in this house. The last space was very open, and after we did some insulating this past winter, I decided it was time to get a room with discrete walls again.

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Asia Literary Review recently launched its new website.

Shya Scanlon is publishing his latest novel, Forecast, in installments on a series of literary websites.

Southampton Review honors the recently deceased Frank McCourt in their newest issue, available July 15.

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You can now add your books to your profile, and leaving comments on stories sends notifications to the writer. (More on the blog.) We’ve also posted our plans for the weeks ahead to the forum and would love your feedback on which features you’d like us to add next — so drop on by or send us an email. Thank you for being part of Fictionaut.

Luna Park is a review of the world of literary magazines, founded on the idea that journals are as deserving of critical attention as other artistic works. Every Tuesday, Luna Park editor Travis Kurowski will present selected news on the Fictionaut blog. Welcome to Luna Digest.

Literary magazine publishing has always been a risky endeavor, forever skirting the edge of the market. Foundational magazines, such as the Pre-Raphaelite The Germ and high modernists like The Little Review and transition, suffered tumultuous and typically short lives, constantly searching for funding to keep their publications (and, so, their writers) in print.

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Fictionaut is now on Twitter. We’ll be updating with up-to-the-minute site news, links to member publications, and other bits of interest that come our way. You can follow our feed at @fictionaut — we’ll make sure to follow back and retweet noteworthy news. If you’d like even more Fictionaut in your social media, you can also friend us on Facebook.

Recently: Venus Zine Hearts Fictionaut, Writing Spaces: Lauren Cerand.

Laura Castellano wrote a lovely piece about Fictionaut for Venus Zine, the women-centric Chicago-based print and online mag. The article provides an overview of the ideas behind Fictionaut, a few choice quotes from Jürgen, and helpful words about peer pressure from Pia Ehrhardt. Read the article here.

Recently: Writing Spaces: Lauren Cerand, Fictionauts at Large, 7/5.

The most amusing aspect of this photograph to me is that it includes the door to my balcony, the place I’d prefer to write, and where my imagination perhaps resides. But I don’t linger there much, although I do step out momentarily first thing in the morning.

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Recently: Fictionauts at Large, 7/5, Writing Spaces: Stephen Stark, Rediscovered Reading: J.S. Marcus