Ask the Author: Mark Cunningham

Mark Cunningham offers us several unique specimens to study in the January issue and offers an incisive critique of Jersey Shore among other things in today’s interview. 1. One of my favorite lines in this series is “Hegel was right: … Continue reading →

Congratulations Are In Order

We are pleased as punch to announce that Erin Fitzgerald and Ravi Mangla were both finalists for the third Micro Award for their stories Waiting Room and Ethics, respectively. Congratulations also go to the winner, Michael Stewart. Check out the … Continue reading →

It’s My Two Cents: And We’re Back

And we’re back.   Sorry folks, sometimes a columnist needs to have a nervous breakdown or three before three-dotting his way back to sanity. Onward. Some predictions sprinkled in…Am I the only person who love that the same image of … Continue reading →

The Days Are Long And Cold But In Words There is Comfort

At The New Yinzer, Jen Michalski writers a story about bowling. This week’s Wigleaf features Laura Ellen Scott. Her postcard is also not to be missed. This writer’s playlist also features several PANK contributors including Angi Becker Stevens, Kirsty Logan … Continue reading →

Ask the Author: Geordie deBoer

Geordie deBoer’s writing is hard to categorize and he brings his indefinable talent to the February issue and talks with us about the awkwardness of the first time and much much more. 1. What screenplay writers do you consider an … Continue reading →

PANK 4 Arrival Imminent?

January has been an exercise in patience for PANK, as it awaits the arrival of No.4 from our benevolent printer, for whom billing cycles are sacrosanct, but production schedules are not. Here we sit, end of month, in lotus position, … Continue reading →

Ask the Author: Maureen Alsop

Maureen Alsop contributes a series of poems on divination in the January issue. Today, she talks about the genesis of that work, worries about rhubarb and rain and her preferred method of divination. 1. I notice most poets have a … Continue reading →

HTMLGIANT Readers Take Themselves Apart

How, you ask? We pick our favorites, in order of their appearance: 1. Teresa turns it up loud, takes an acidbath and gets sweaty. 2. Marco tears in with tongs and staple guns. 3. Bob follows the Way and does … Continue reading →

Friday 5!

Much of note, whittled to 5, in no particular order: 1. Bias, I know. Aaron Burch’s HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW. 2. Scott Garson’s AMERICAN  GYMNOPéDIES. 3. Laura Sim’s STRANGER. 4. CAKETRAIN 7. 5. BITCHSLAP … Continue reading →

Greatness and Grandness Everywhere

At Wigleaf, Erin Fitzgerald’s Trumpet Voluntary. The Alice Blue Review brings Matt Bell, Andrew Borgstrom, Kathy Fish, Matthew Simmons, PH Madore, and Jac Jemc. Lit N Image’s Winter issue includes writing from Eric Beeny, David Erlewine, and Jared Ward. Eric … Continue reading →

Ask the Author: Andrew Borgstrom

The January issue features Andrew Borgstrom’s And Then We Were Six. In today’s interview with J. Bradley, Andrew talks about important life lessons learned at the age of six, justifiable homicide and the line between fact and fiction. 1. When … Continue reading →

MLP: The First Year + Giveaways

Mud Luscious Press has compiled the creative works which represent the first year’s output into a gorgeous little anthology. The collection features work from CL Bledsoe, Randall Brown, Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Ryan Call, Jimmy Chen, Elizabeth Ellen, Molly Gaudry, … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Kirsty Logan, The Cost of Creating

Everyone I know has two job titles: the one they get paid to do, and the one they wish they got paid to do. I’m a waitress/writer. My girlfriend is a graphic designer/musician, and my brother is a lighting tech/filmmaker. … Continue reading →

This Whole Wide World

Writers are very interested in the idea of the world. In 2009 alone, countless books invoking the word “world” in their title were released including The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway, World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler, … Continue reading →

Haiti.

We often plead for our readers to support small press literary publishing by purchasing magazines and entering contests and buying the books of the writers they love. We would like to make the same plea today for your support of … Continue reading →

Clay Matthews, Runoff

PANK 3 contributor Clay Matthews’s Runoff is now available from BlazeVox. Clay Matthews currently lives next door to the Bristol Motor Speedway in East TN. He has one previous full-length, Superfecta (Ghost Road Press), and two chapbooks: Muffler (H_NGM_N B_ … Continue reading →

3 of interest

1. The Eli Coppola* Memorial Poetry  Chapbook Contest —  deadline, February 15, 2010! The Eli Coppola Memorial Poetry Chapbook Contest is a prize for poets honoring both the tradition of the chapbook and the memory of beloved San Francisco poet … Continue reading →

New Year, New PANK

Our first issue of the year is quite remarkable and leads off what we are confident will be a year of writing that moves, you, amuses you,   challenges you, inspires you. Enjoy words from Maureen Alsop, Andrew Borgstrom, Doug … Continue reading →

Help Wanted: Reviews Editor

PANK continues to grow. We’re interested in bringing a Reviews Editor on board. Your job would be to write reviews of magazines, books, chapbooks, etc.   for the blog, at least once a week. Some books we would ask you … Continue reading →

What News from the World

Vice Magazine offers up Blake Butler’s Sourcebook. Lakin, Lamia, Lakshmi from Matt Bell in the latest issue of Knee Jerk. Lauren Becker offers a new essay at The Nervous Breakdown. Ben White needs a friend at Right Hand Pointing. Prolific … Continue reading →

Nostalgia’s Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Painting by Randall R. Freisinger

Accessible and engaging, the poems in Randall R. Freisinger’s Nostalgia’s Thread are provocative reconsiderations of the American experience as depicted in ten of Norman Rockwell’s best known paintings. Arguably the only serious collection of poems inspired by Norman Rockwell’s images, … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: YOU Are Still Here: More From Your Cover Letters

You write from Manhattan and Brooklyn and Queens and the other boroughs. You live in Belfast and Nottingham, Prague, Budapest and cities in northern and southern India. You’re in Georgia. So many of you are in Georgia. You’re in California … Continue reading →

New Year, New Writing

At Metazen, Meg Pokrass. The first issue of elimae edited by Kim Chinquee is live and features writing from Michelle Reale, Meg Pokrass, and J. Michael Wahlgren,   among many others. Mud Luscious Ten has gone live and includes words … Continue reading →

Randall Brown has started a new press and journal, Matter, and this week, you can read Hammock, by Sean Lovelace. The third issue of Super Arrow includes writing from Feng Sun Chen, Nick Ripatrazone, twice, JA Tyler, and collaborations that … Continue reading →

The year in PANK

2009 ended, I’m told. Whew. For PANK, here’s what was. PANK 3 sold out, though “sold out” is a bit ‘o reassuring obfuscation. We did run out of copies and for the first time in our brief 3 years sold … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Confessional, I am a Bad Writer

I spend a lot of time talking about all the “interesting” and “quirky” things writers do when they submit to us so for the sake of fairness and in the interest of full disclosure, I will confess the writerly sins … Continue reading →

Ask the Editor: The Editors of WTF PWM

1. Editorial anonymity has been the source of recent discussion in various places. As the editor(s) of wtf pwm, are you choosing to be anonymous, and why? Does the editorial staff really matter? When WTF PWM was first conceived we … Continue reading →

Ask the Author: Michael Jurkovic

In the December issue, Michael Jurkovic waxes poetic on the Pacific Trash Vortex. In today’s interview with Guy, Michael keeps it short, but oh so sweet. 1. Have you ever been the victim of a crime? What was the crime, … Continue reading →