Fictionaut Blog

Fictionaut has many talented writers whose work is being published in numerous magazines and literary journals in print and on the web, and people were proudly and rightly announcing their publications on the forums page. I personally couldn’t keep up with all the postings and thought maybe a group could serve as a central location for all the announcements during a particular year. Over 80 people joined the 2011 publications group and began either linking to their work on Fictionaut or providing links to the original publications. This is an open group so everyone should feel free to join and to announce and post their publications.

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   Monday Chat with Bill Yarrow
   Fictionaut Five: Dan Chaon

I wrote the poem a long, long time ago in 1977 when I was 26. I remember the image just coming to me at the time. In fact, that whole stanza just came to me in a rush.

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   Checking in with Paris, France

Here’s one trick: get really drunk or stoned and fall asleep weeping on your keyboard. When you wake up, magical elves will have come in the night and turned your bitter tears into words and paragraphs, just like they made shoes for that shoemaker.
Actually, that doesn’t work most of the time, but I keep trying it.

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   Checking in with Paris, France

Seriously? Never back to Paris again? When I was first going to Paris regularly I might have said that were that the case, I would take a swan dive off the viewing deck of La Samaritaine and be done with it. Such a spectacular view hovering just above the center of the city. It would be quite the last sight to see.

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   Fictionaut Five: Kate Christensen
   Monday Chat with Meg Tuite

All of my lifelong favorite novels contain characters who seem so vivid and complex and real, I remember each novel in terms of them — not the plot, not the stylistic devices, but the people in them. I can’t forget them, I continue to think and worry about them after I finish the book — they burst free of the novel and assume independent lives. I remember them as if they were people I’ve known well and will see again some day. They are their novels.

Recently:
   Monday Chat With Sheldon Lee Compton
   Checking in with Ibbetson Street Press

I’m just a storyteller. There are half a dozen people who live within ten miles of me who can sit in front of a gas station and spin a better story while eating a bag of chips than I can during a three hour session at the computer.

Recently:
   Checking in with Ibbetson Street Press
   Fictionaut Five: Terri Kirby Erickson
   Luna Digest, 7/5

We survived by hustling and devoted ourselves to creating a literary community for people outside of the academy.

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Terri Kirby Erickson
   Luna Digest, 7/5

I find there is always a bit of pathos in the happiest of moments, a dab of humor in the midst of sorrow or at least the memory of happier times that lingers even in our darkest hours.

Recently:
   Luna Digest, 7/5
   Checking In With The Brooklyner

Charles McGrath once noted “the typical lifespan for a literary magazine appears to be roughly that of a major household appliance.” And when asked what the darkest moment in the history of magazine Grand Streetwas, editor Ben Sonnenberg answered simply, “When we ran out of money.”

Recently:
   Checking In With The Brooklyner
   Fictionaut Five: Rusty Barnes
   Monday Chat with Meg Tuite

We believe that the relevant power of social networking is its rhythm of descriptions and accounts which form the basis of storytelling. We want to be part of those cadences, inclusive of technology. The appetite for narrative is pervasive.

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Rusty Barnes
   Monday Chat with Meg Tuite
   Checking in with Couples