Fictionaut Blog

Fictionaut is joining Reddit, Wikipedia, Boing Boing, and many other sites in the strike to oppose the Internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA. Tomorrow, January 18, the site will go dark from 8am to 8pm EST. Fictionaut is committed to creativity, freedom of expression, and a censorship-free Internet, and we hope that the blackout will help to draw attention to this fundementally flawed legislation.

In addition to our regular, 100% handmade @Fictionaut Twitter feed, we are now offering an automated stream of community recommendations called @FictionautRx.

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   Introducing Fictionaut Front Page
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   Fictionaut Five: Alan Heathcock

The first Valentine Day Massacre is now available as a beautiful chapbook from Červená Barva Press. Even better, there’s a new massacre underway now in the Valentine Day group.

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   Fictionaut Five: Erika Dreifus
   Monday Chat with Linda Simoni-Wastila
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The January 2011 issue of The Writer Magazine features an article about Fictionaut by Erika Dreifus. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Rick Moody
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If you have a Kindle, Nook, Kobo Reader or other eReader, you can now subscribe to the latest Fictionaut stories and have them delivered directly to your device in full length. Here’s how. [Read more]

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We’ve teamed up with LitSense, a new advertising network dedicated specifically to literary websites. The ads you’ll see are for books by independent and web-savvy publishers that should — we hope — be interesting to Fictionauts. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Reading @ KGB in New York, Oct. 17

We’re delighted to announce Fictionaut’s inaugural New York City reading, at KGB Bar on October 17 at 7pm. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Brad Watson

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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   Checking In with Raíces y Alas
   

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Password Incorrect figured out an easy way to get your favorite Fictionaut stories onto your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or other ePub-capable device. The solution involves Instapaper, an app that can be used to transfer any web page for offline reading. [Read more]

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   Checking in with Food Writes
   Fictionaut Five: Jane Hammons
   Fictionaut on Mashable

Mashable, “the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture,” profiled Fictionaut for their Spark of Genius series, which highlights unique startups.
What makes Fictionaut special is both the superb quality of the work (see Jane Hammon’s “Making It Right,” for instance) and the community itself. The network [...]