http://blog.fictionaut.com A literary community for adventurous readers & writers. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:21:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Origin Stories, O. Henry Winners, Readings, and Book Releases are just a few Fictionaut highlights this month. "True Conditions" by Michael Copperman is forthcoming at Camera Obscura, and "Reading the Water" will appear in April's The Sun. Heather Fowler's book Suspended Heart received a glowing review from The Short Review, ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/02/04/front-page-february/ To publish: 1) to produce in a format so that a number of people can read it; 2) to produce in the proper venue for achieving authority and prominence. -Mark Wallace Flash fiction is finding a home at last through the free waves of the Internet.  Its deployment as a genre-long overlooked ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/02/02/books-at-fictionaut-damn-sure-right/ Kathryn Kulpa is the author of the story collection Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press) and has published work recently in Monkeybicycle, Northville Review, Metazen, decomP and Stone's Throw. She is the editor of Newport Review, a literary e-zine. She comes very close to living in Rhode Island. Have you had mentors? Do you ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/02/01/fictionaut-five-kathryn-kulpa/ I was asked to read at Fictionaut to select stories or poems that might be worthy of my subjective gaze. I selected stories and poems and I hope you will read them. I also did something self-serving I wasn't asked to do. As an added bonus I selected the stories posted ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/31/editors-eye-john-minichillo/ We don't get many new groups on Fictionaut these days, so it's always good to find a new one, especially one with quite a few members.  Roberto C. Garcia created the group  Letras Caseras, and describes it as: This group is an extension of my tumblr www.letrascaseras.tumblr.com. It is my sincere ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/27/checking-in-with-letras-caseras/ Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel, Sight Hound, and a collection of essays called A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton.  Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/25/fictionaut-five-pam-houston/ Susan Tepper: John, your intriguing story "Along Came Doreen" starts this way like a poem or song lyrics: "Twenty two, reading Camus, feeling blue, life is absurd. Why even try? Live for today, stay blown away. Inherent meaning does not exist in this universe." Immediately I was pulled in by the funky voice of ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/23/monday-chat-with-j-mykell-collinz/ Welcome to the inaugural installment of Editor’s Eye, a new blog series that aims to highlight noteworthy work that might have slipped through the cracks of Fictionaut’s automated list of recommendations. Every two weeks, a distinguished visiting editor scours the site for lost treasures and picks a handful of outstanding ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/17/editors-eye-meg-pokrass/ 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 ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/17/fictionaut-sopa-strike/ Zoe Zolbrod's first novel, Currency, received a 2010 Nobbie Award and was a Friends of American Writers prize finalist. Related short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The Chicago Reader, Knee-Jerk Offline, Fish Stories Collectives, and Maxine, a zine she co-founded in the 1990s. She blogs at the literary website The Nervous Breakdown and lives in ... http://blog.fictionaut.com/2012/01/11/fictionaut-five-zoe-zolbrod/