Narrative Magazine Under 30

Narrative Magazine is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, cartoonists, and filmmakers, ages 18-30, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the … Continue reading →

Analog!

So Many Words So Little Time

In 2003, the New Yorker wrote a quirky little piece about Irving Tobin, a man who reads the New York Times from front to back every day. At the time, he was 18 months behind, so for him, the past … Continue reading →

Pank’s Romantic

I have a dirty little secret. It’s raunchy. It’s delicious and I love every single minute of it.       I’m a reader… ok so that fact isn’t necessarily a secret. PANK is a literary magazine… which involves a … Continue reading →

FWD: October Grants & Awards

*October 1* *The Gatewood Prize In Poetry. Switchback Books announces a call for entries for the Gatewood Prize in poetry, an annual competition for a first full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English between the ages of … Continue reading →

PANK’s online submission manager will be down temporarily!

Due to some sysad alchemy we will never understand (and aren’t trying to), the PANK online submission manager will be out of commission from sometime this afternoon until sometime Monday. You have snail mail or patience to fall back on … Continue reading →

Web 2.0 grief debate

What has the web become? Early on the web was used as a vehicle for transmission of information from one source to another not unlike transmission based modes of instruction like the lecture. But now it has become something much … Continue reading →

KCRW

KCRW is an amazing radio station that broadcasts a beautiful array of music, news, and artistic talks.   There are many different programs to choose from, and if you’re ever looking for something to read, check out Bookworm hosted by … Continue reading →

PANK Contributor wins 2008 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship from the Library of Congress

Matthew Thorburn, who has two new poems coming out in PANK 3, recently won one of two Witter Bynner poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress. Matt is one of our favorite poets and one of the nicest guys on … Continue reading →

Things I am Obsessed With This Week

1. Sending out correspondence. If you’ve submitted work to us prior to 9/18/08 and haven’t heard from us, get in touch because we’re all caught up. 2. A few days ago, I talked about Esquire’s 75 books every man should … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Missouri Review

Dear Writer, The October 1st deadline for our 18th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Prize for fiction, essay, and poetry is rapidly approaching. Once again, we’re offering prize amounts of $3,000 per genre plus publication in our spring issue, making this … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – FENCE & SLS

Subject: New FENCE contest: win a free trip with SUMMER LITERARY SEMINARS Dear friend of FENCE, Summer Literary Seminars (SLS: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www .http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://sumlitsem.org) is announcing its annual 2009 unified (SLS-Italy, Lithuania, Kenya) literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Coal Hill Review

Coal Hill is currently sponsoring a chapbook contest for its winter issue. I’d like to encourage any of you interested in submitting a chapbook, to check us out at www.coalhillreview.com and note the  guidelines. We’ll be considering single poems again … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Phoebe

*Phoebe—A Journal of Literature and Art* announces its annual winter contests: The Winter Fiction Contest & The Greg Grummer Poetry Award *$1000 Prize and Publication* Entries must be postmarked December 1st, 2008 and must include a $15 reading fee. Fiction … Continue reading →

Esquire suggests…

Seventy-five books every man should read. At the top of the list, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, one   of my favorite short story collections of all time. It’s a pretty fantastic list though … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Lumina

Dear Friends: *Lumina*, Sarah Lawrence College’s graduate literary journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, is accepting submissions for its 2009 issue and poetry contest, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Deadline: November 15, 2008. For more information, visit slc.edu/lumina. Thank you for … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Narrative Magazine

ENTER TO WIN <https://narrativemagazine.com/2008-fall-fiction-contest> *Open to short stories, short shorts, and novel excerpts.* – First Place $3,000 – Second Place $1,500 – Third Place $750 – and ten finalists will each receive $100 – All entries will be considered for … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Lettre Sauvage

Greetings from Lettre Sauvage! We are a small, family-run letterpress printing studio based in Santa Paula, California. We specialize in printing fine, limited edition broadsides, prints, and chapbooks and we have collaborated on work with writers such as Stephen Dunn, … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Fiction Weekly

Call for Submissions Fiction Weekly is designed and dedicated to offering readers the best in new fiction 52 times a year. Our contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and include both established and previously unpublished authors. Fiction Weekly … Continue reading →

FWD: OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry and the ’09 Charles Wheeler Prize

September is the month! — Don’t forget to submit your manuscript for The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry and The 2009 Charles B. Wheeler Prize! You are welcome to submit your manuscript for the 2009 Ohio State … Continue reading →

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Fresh Pank

We are currently serving fresh writing for your delectation at http://www.pankmagazine.com/online with work by Daphne Gottlieb, Bruce Cohen and Gabriel Welsch. Let us know what you think!

Pretty Books, Just Pretty Books

Gawker has an interesting bit up about the revival of the home library, well-appointed and filled with all the right books. Said books, of course, are rarely read, a sad statement, Gawker laments, on the future of the publishing industry. … Continue reading →

We Do Read What You Write

There was a bit of a bottleneck, but if you have submitted work to Pank, never fear, we are making decisions and enjoying a great deal of excellent writing. If you haven’t heard from us by the end of month … Continue reading →

K-Day

Hooray for a new year and new look for Pank. Thanks to Roxane our new website is up and running, and it looks great! Also, to celebrate the beginning of a new school year, Pank will be at K-Day. You … Continue reading →