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My daughter has been telling me for some time how I should start a literary magazine for kids, or, at other times, that I should make a children’s section for Luna Park. [Read more]

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I’m a former newspaper reporter from the days just after they’d first started using computers. I’m a dinosaur. [Read more]

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We’re happy to announce Fictionaut’s very first reading and get-together, this Saturday, October 2, at Viracocha SF in San Francisco. [Read more]

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Raíces y Alas (Roots and Wings) is a group for Latino/Latina fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. As you said, this group is all inclusive because there is a lot of love for Latin American culture out there and some of us weren’t necessarily born into it. Thankfully the Latino community is very accepting of what they call “Latinos de corazón” - which is to say, you may not be Latina/o by blood, but if you feel it in your heart, that is all that matters. [Read

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I was 22 when I wrote this. I can’t remember where it came from except that I did actually sell rhodium jewelry on Yonge St. in Toronto in the mid-70s and it was one of those occupations that could make an already crabby person insanely misanthropic. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 9/21
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   Checking in With A-Minor

I consciously seek ways to make big ideas more portable. [Read more]

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Writers at Luna Park examine the present and future of reading. [Read more]

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Fictionaut on Your Kindle or ePub Reader

So here’s what I’ve been thinking: if a story moved you in the first place, if its images struck you hard and its language rocked you gently, if, months later, it is still haunting you, then it’s time to share. This is how I feel about Kari Nguyen’s “Star Anise,” posted on Fictionaut back in July. [Read more]

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I’m just a storyteller. Where I’m from in Kentucky, everybody’s a storyteller. I just write mine down and send them to journals or post them online. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Jane Hammons

Just around the time I stopped posting here last month, news about VQR managing editor Kevin Morrisey’s suicide began to take a strange and I think unhealthy turn. [Read more]

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