Fictionaut Blog

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On Fictionaut

• Fictionaut April Fool’s Challenge!
• Jim Hanas leads up to his Significant Object on Fictionaut.

Fictionauts at Large

• At Litsnack, John Minichillo’s “Moving In And Reunited With Her Things.”
• “The House as Rita Sees It” by Ben Greenman at 52 Stories.
• Arlene Ang’s “On the Last Known Destination of a Missing Person” at Staccato.
• Michael Kimball writes Kim Chinquee’s life story on a postcard.
• Women Writers: A Zine with fiction by Katrina Gray, Roxane Gay,Julie Innis, Susan Tepper, Vallie Lynn Watson, and Meg Pokrass.
• “Chocolate gives nose bleeds to children, my grandmother said.” Lisa Lim’s “Beards” at http://wigleaf.com
• “Fifty-One” by Ajay Nair at Bull Men’s Fiction.
• “Obelisk” by Ravi Mangla at Necessary Fiction.
• “What’s on TV? We could watch murder shows.” Two flash fictions by Scott Garson at 3:AM Magazine.
• “Stephen King, Stephen King. You’re afraid of everything.” William Walsh at the Kenyon Review blog.
• New SmokeLong Weekly: “Complicit” by Gay Degani, selected by Tara Laskowski.
• Publishers Weekly meets Publishing Genius.
• “The Man Sitting Behind You Is a Serial Rapist,” by Bess Winter — just up Wigleaf.

Submissions & Contests

• Submit to La Petite Zine before they close submissions for preemptive spring cleaning.
• Win Tom Lee’s Greenfly and Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit at The Short Review.
• Women writers! Submit to A Room of Her Own’s Orlando contests & eMessage competition. $1000 prizes.
• Rick Moody will pick the winner of HTML Giant’s “So Many Books” contest. No fee, and you have till March 21.
• Round-up of writing contests for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash & more at Newpages.
• Matchbook is now accepting submissions for a series of postcards that will showcase both visual art and poetry.

Etc.

• We guessed the literary mystery spot.
• Viral Lipsyte.
• “The first 12 years are the worst.” Ten rules for writing fiction from Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Neil Gaiman &c.
• Edward Hirsch: “Culture can’t absorb that many people trying to make a living in poetry.”
• Spring Indie Preview: Dzanc Books,  Emergency, Featherproof, Softskull, 2$ Radio and more.
• Noted poet C. Dale Young’s first published story in Guernica.
• Weekly translations of “super-short” fiction by Haruki Murakami.