I’m excited to announce the launch of Fiction Attic Press, which will distribute fiction of exceptional literary merit via the ebook format. The press’s first publication is a collection of short stories in translation by the writers whose work launched the magazine Fiction Attic nearly a decade ago.

Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane, is now available for Kindle, Nook, and all ebook formats.

About the book: Winter in Tirane brings together for the first time twelve interconnected and enigmatic tales of bittersweet love, absurd politics, and comic hijinks, set against the final days of the Albanian empire. The stories chronicle an unnamed narrator–the Deputy Minister of Slogans–and his young friend Leni as they attempt to navigate their way through a landscape of shifting political alliances and complex personal affairs.

About Fiction Attic:

During its three-year run, Fiction Attic featured the work of Steve Almond, Stephen Elliott, Gloria Frym, Katia Noyes, Vanessa Hua, Michelle Tea, Kevin Phelan, Bill U’Ren, and Anita Garner, among others, as well as interviews with such literary luminaries as Kate Braverman and fiction in translation by the celebrated Italian writer Mario Rigoni Stern (translated by Elizabeth Harris).

Fiction Attic’s final issue, #20, devoted entirely to flash fiction, was published in 2004. In the winter of that year, the magazine’s editor, designer, and sole reader had a baby. A rather long silence followed.

In the ensuing years, online literary journals have exploded, and the world of online publishing has become far more vibrant and diverse than anyone might have imagined nearly a decade ago, when Fiction Attic first began accepting submissions.

The goal of Fiction Attic, as always, is to be relevant, interesting, and utterly unique. We refer you to the meaning of attic, which explains pretty much everything:

attic salt (phrase): a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians
attic (noun): a story or room directly below the roof of a building
attic (adj) : characterized by purity, simplicity, and elegant wit