Fictionaut Blog

We lifted the password curtain and made Fictionaut visible to the world. After a year of private testing, we’re delighted to reveal a thriving community along with the terrific writing posted and discussed over the past twelve months. Keep reading…

Some bigwigs/hoodlums on the advisory board thought it’d be a funny idea to let me run around with a microphone asking our group leaders how things were shaping up in the communities within the community, since we are so grateful they have come to us with their journals, their projects, their discussion ideas for groups, workshopping, editing, and support. First up: Wigleaf editor Scott Garson (who provided us with poetry) and Dogzplot founder Barry Graham. Read Check-In with Fictionaut Groups.

This was a spare bedroom and now it’s my work office. I share it only with my cat (not pictured—he is outside, fighting for the block dominance). I have a good view of the back yard, singing birds, copulating squirrels and pooping deer.

First, has anyone been paying attention to Fairy Tale Review of late? Somehow the magazine’s new press has quietly become one of the best things going; their third book, Lily Hoang’s Changing, just won the 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award.

Keep reading Luna Digest…

Brian Evenson calls Shya Scanlon “a new and vital voice in fabulist fiction.” His novel Forecast, which is currently being is serialized on 42 blogs and literary sites across the web, is “part SF, part noir, part road narrative and part love story [...] tipping its hat to authors like Stacey Levine, China Miéville and Jonathan Lethem.”

“As brisk and refreshing as an ocean breeze,” Booklist said of Beth Bauman’s Rosie and Skate (Random House), a young adult novel about two adolescents on the Jersey shore. Beth is also the author of the short story collection Beautiful Girls, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Barcelona Review and the anthology Many Lights in Many Windows.

Descant offers a preview of their newest issue “Immanence/Transcendence.” Poetry offers up their entire September 2009 issue, with writing by, among others, Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk. And Brevity’s Fall 2009 issue includes a—well, depressing, but insightful short piece from Sherman Alexie, “Somebody Else’s Genocide.” Keep reading Luna Digest.

Here is the luminous, fractious space I call my reading and writing room. I didn’t clean for this photo; it’s the true embodiment of how this space looks when there isn’t any company.

Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate) collects poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from 115 writers and 56 online journals from Action, Yes to zafusy. Says Michael Kimball of the anthology: “The internet machine has been a great boon to innovative writing and it’s wonderful to see so much of it collected here in book form.”

A message from Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics: “Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Author Pia Ehrhardt, a resident before and after the destruction, guest edits this issue.” Keep reading…