How much can you say in 1000 words? A lot! Fiction Attic Press is now accepting submissions for its annual Flash in the Attic Flash Fiction Contest. The first place story will receive $100 and publication. The second place story will receive $50 and publication. All stories will be considered for publication in the Flash in the Attic anthology. Deadline: June 30 Submission fee: $5 for one story, or $10 for three stories Submit your stories here.
Litmags
Two From the World of Ink
I met Georges and Anne Borchardt at Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2003. The couple co-founded their literary agency in 1967, and are known for introducing American audiences to the work of Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Pierre Bourdieu, Marguerite Duras, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Eugene Ionesco, Jacques Lacan, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elie Wiesel. When we met, I’d just had my first novel published with San Francisco independent MacAdam/Cage (sans agent) and was looking for representation. Jill McCorkle, a faculty member at the conference, read a chapter of the novel I was working on and set up a meeting....
Writers Reflect
Jason Roberts compiled writers’ reflections on John Updike today for The Rumpus. There are contributions by Andrew Sean Greer, Andrew Foster Altschul, Rick Moody, and yours truly, among others.
vestal 34
Vestal Review Web Issue 34 is up, featuring the flash stories of Marcia Aldrich, Ana Marcela Fuentes, Tammy Guzman, Kyle Hemmings and Ladisa Quintanilla.
Accidentally Finding Your Way
For the June Glimmer Train bulletin, I wrote about how I called it quits 300 pages into a novel I was writing a couple of years ago, and, suddenly freed, I began writing a completely different book, which would become No One You Know. Read it here. I also wrote a longer piece for the May 2008 issue of Writers Ask, called “On Accidentally Finding Your Way,” which is sort of about research. P.S. A subscription to Glimmer Train would make a great Fathers’ Day gift! Subscribe here. Check out the latest issue here. Why I love Glimmer Train:...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
