Fictionaut Blog

Victoria Lancelotta is the author of the short story collection Here in the World and the novels Far (Counterpoint) and Coeurs Blesses (Phébus). Booklist called her “a razor’s-edge writer with an existential streak and a fascination with the dichotomies of being.”

Keep reading Victoria’s Fictionaut Five…

It has been awhile, but Amsterdam’s beautifully designed English-language lit mag Versal is finally back with issue 7, including new work from Emily Carr, Peter Shippy, Mary Miller, and others. Keep reading Luna Digest…

“There is, in Stephanie Johnson’s stories, a profound, unflashy magic of seeing. She puts you right up to the beating hearts of her people—from which vantage, you see how they miss one another, and you understand as odd, perfect miracles their moments of connection and knowledge.” That’s Wigleaf editor Scott Garson on Stephanie Johnson’s debut collection One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, now out from Keyhole Press. Keep reading…

Also: Jürgen talks about the ideas behind Fictionaut in the Huffington Post.

I asked Zach, co-editor and head excellent at Featherproof to answer some questions for us about Featherproof’s Fictionaut Group and Featherproof in general over email recently and it was lovely to hear from him, he’s what one might call “good people.” Read Checking In With Featherproof.

Also: Jürgen talks about the ideas behind Fictionaut in the Huffington Post.

In the Huffington Post’s brand-new book section, Jürgen talks about the ideas behind Fictionaut. Read “Why Anyone Can Publish On Fictionaut.”

The Digest took a week off and a lot happened, beginning here. Since Fictionaut went public last week, lit mags have invaded en masse the groups section of the site, joining the many magazines already established there. A few recent additions: NOÖ Journal, Barrelhouse, Flatmancrooked, Storyglossia, Gigantic, The Southeast Review, Short Fiction, Bull: Fiction for Thinking Men, Staccato, Prarie Schooner, and Bartelby Snopes. And on the blog, editor Ben White takes a moment to talk about Nanoism and Fictionaut groups. Keep reading…

I generally work in one of four locales: the bathtub, the woods behind my house, my swingin’ 70s Dodge Forester motor home (I camp about 70 days, annually), and the room in this picture, which is my office in (believe it or not) a relatively clean state. Keep reading…

Adam Robinson and Ben White in conversation about the Fictionaut groups they are admins of and how the literary press and journal they are involved with fit in the picture. Keep reading…

Fictionaut is now visible to the world. Read the announcement.

Published in 1995 by Knopf in a tiny chalkboard-colored hardback, In the Year of Long Division by Dawn Raffel can now be had at Amazon or Alibris for about two bucks. Keep reading…

Fictionaut is now visible to the public. Read the announcement.