Last chance to win a Kindle Touch from your friends at [PANK]

Last chance! Spend $10+ at the [PANK] Store by the close of today and you’ll be entered to win a free Kindle Touch. And the odds ain’t bad, maybe 1 in 50 last we counted. Get on it! Get on it! … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Stefanie Freele

In September, we published “Scantily Clad Submissive Women” by Stefanie Freele. It will bring you back to summer if you read it. It will bring you back to a lot of things if you read it. If you haven’t read … Continue reading →

Meat is All by Andrew Borgstrom (A Review by Sean Ulman)

Nephew 41 pages, $10.00 The opening line grants “the noise” knowledge and equates sound to smell (“noise like a scent”), and Meat Is All steadily metes out sensory guiding sensors for all five senses, but on my initial read my … Continue reading →

Our 2011 Pushcart Nominees

We’re excited to nominate the following writers for the Pushcart Prize this year: Fourth Year of Marriage, Marie-Elizabeth Mali The Last Time, Christopher Newgent Don’t Hide Your Light Under a Bushel,  Lauren Foss Goodman, PANK 5 Letter to Her, Without … Continue reading →

“between the typeset” by mensah demary

my writing life is different. its previous state outlined in an earlier essay, here–now–is where i note the dissimilarities. it is 5 AM and there’s no time to putter. the urgency to write is here–now–evident inside my blood slowly circulating … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: John McKernan

Two Poems by John McKernan are in the September Issue. It would be good to start your week by reading them. 1. Other than Cinderella, what fairy tale character would you cremate? What would you do with its ashes? I would … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: How to Cross the Street in Saigon by Erik Wennermark

(Not to be attempted after dark.) 1. Don’t look both ways. Don’t look at all. Close your eyes and imagine ponies. Deer, crabs, clouds, a rainbow. Things that scuttle or trot, loom; appear across the sky, on both sides at … Continue reading →

It’s Crazy How Thankful We Are

As PANK grows, so does our gratitude for the very talented writers who are generous enough to allow us to publish their words and the equally generous readers who support PANK by reading the magazine online each month, subscribing to … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Court Merrigan

In the September Issue is “The Cloud Factory” by Court Merrigan. Court answers our questions here. 1. Union or non-union labor – who would you want working in the cloud factory? Non-union. Temp work only.  No benefits, no contracts. 2. … Continue reading →

The Little Bride by Anna Solomon (A Review by Sara Lippmann)

Riverhead Trade 320 pgs, $10 A great novel is everything. To live wholly inside something else for a while  — isn’t that why we read? Yet it can be tough to find works that sustain without the slightest unevenness, that … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: John Jodzio

John Jodzio’s wonderful, resonating piece, “This Is All The Orientation You Are Gonna Get”, appears in the September Issue. Here, John speaks with us regarding hands, eyes and The Bucket. 1. If you were a cookie doctor, what would be your field … Continue reading →

Deliberations Have Been Made! Winners Have Been Chosen!

This year’s contest was particularly competitive and the decisions were, truly, a challenge, particularly in narrowing the field. Our first shortlist had about 25 pieces so creating a list of 10 required the removal of some vital organs. Our winner … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Danielle Shutt

Danielle Shutt’s “Narcotic Winter” is an addition to our September Issue. Danielle speaks with us here about cocaine, dead bodies, and angels. 1. If someone offered you cocaine on the blade of a knife, would you accept? Nah. I have … Continue reading →

How the Days of Love & Diphtheria by Robert Kloss (A Review by Kenny Mooney)

Nephew 50 pgs, $10 Robert Kloss writes like he has a fever. Anyone familiar with his short fiction will know that his work has a kind of delusional quality to it, as though each line has been crafted through blinding … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Teresa Milbrodt

Teresa Milbrodt’s “The Muffin Stand” is a part of our September Issue. Here she answers our questions. 1. Which would you rather run: a lemonade stand or a muffin stand? Muffins, definitely muffins.  They’re easier to convince people to buy … Continue reading →

This Is How It Goes

The November issue of PANK will astound and delight you with writing by Jeanann Verlee, Barrett Bowlin, Andrea O’Rourke, Mike Rosenthal, Grace Hobbs, Eric Ellingsen, Peter Kispert, Keren Veisblatt, Riley Michael Parker, Sarah Malone, Mary-Jane Newton, Jennifer A. Howard, Matthew … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Shira Richman

Shira Richman’s Five Poems appear in our September Issue. Here she speaks with us about interview questions and where these poems came from. 1. How long would you wait for coffee? It depends on how delicious the coffee is and with whom … Continue reading →

Rust Fish by Maya Jewell Zeller (A Review by P. Jonas Bekker)

Lost Horse Press $15.00 Childhood memories, how important they are. The very earliest impressions we experience as children, the places we grow up in, they shape who we are later in life. It seems that, the older we get, the … Continue reading →

Our New Orleans Invasion, Friday, Friday, Friday!

Three Reminders For Your Monday

1. In case you were out, we’re giving away a prize. Spend $10 (including shipping) on the website and be automatically entered into a drawing to receive a free Amazon Kindle. The give away runs the month of November, so … Continue reading →

Gallimaufry: More Plans By Herman Cain

Everyone knows about Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan. But what about his other plans? Here’s your chance to familiarize yourself with them. 3-2-1 Plan Herman Cain will hand out little joystick-like paddles with a red button on top. Simply push the … Continue reading →

Damned by Chuck Palahniuk (A Review by Stanton Hancock)

Doubleday 256 pgs, $14 Madison Spencer has it all.  Rich Hollywood A-list parents, houses all over the globe, private jets to shuttle her wherever she desires to go, all the perks of the super-elite.  There’s just one problem – she’s … Continue reading →

Darkness, Darkness, Everywhere

Jason Jordan’s The Dying Horse, is available for pre-order from Main Street Rag. In Used Furniture Review, the one and only Brad Green, Michelle Reale, and Ravi Mangla. Carmela Starace and Alan Stewart Carl have work in November Hobart. It … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Kit Frick

Kit Frick has Five Poems in the September Issue. Here she answers our questions about the moon, an apocalypse, and Reader’s Digest. 1. Why are all poets so fascinated by the moon? This is actually an idea I’ve been obsessing … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Of Yeats, Ireland, Maud, and Myself by Michael Derby

William Butler Yeats is my Ireland. He is the rocky shores whose froth has yet to kiss my feet. He is the booming Gaelic voice with pint raised high, a hard cheers and the hopps baptizing me in Dionysus’s church. … Continue reading →

Things occasionally come apart

We regretfully announce the cancellation of Nicolle Elizabeth’s Little Book, I Will Speak For Myself. And so it goes. While we wish things had worked out differently, particularly so late in the process, we wish Nicolle all the best in … Continue reading →

A Shiny, Unused Heart by J.A. Tyler (A Review by David Atkinson)

Black Coffee Press 110 pgs, $12.95 I could start out this review by telling you what A Shiny, Unused Heart by J.A. Tyler is about.  Perhaps I would mention that the book is the story of a man who learns … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Kirstin Chen

“After Me Comes the Flood” by Kirstin Chen is part of the September Issue. You should read this story on a rainy day, you should read this story any day. Here, she provides us with an equally engaging interview. 1. … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Tess Patalano

Tess Patalano has Two Poems published in the September Issue. It would do you good to read them both. Here, she answers our questions about poet co-habitation and her writing. 1. How would you cool off between murders? Oh geez … Continue reading →

A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles (A Review by Joseph Michael Owens)

McSweeneys 955 pgs, $24 A Moment in the Sun is a tricky book for me to review. At 955 pages, it’s definitely the longest book I’ve read since McSweeney’s last “big book,” The Instructions by Adam Levin (which I highly … Continue reading →

All You Need in the World

Sarah Hilary has fiction in Friction Magazine. New Frigg and words from Erin Fitzgerald, Jon Rosen, Vallie Lynn Watson, and more. NOO 13 brings Jamie Iredell, Adam Moorad, Greg Gerke, Jenn Gann,Michael J Martin, Melissa Broder, Arlene Ang, and more. … Continue reading →

Ask The Author: Aimee Vitrak

“How To Be A Better Girl” by Aimee Vitrak is part of our September issue. Here, she talks about all kinds of interesting things related to her piece. 1. When you were in seventh grade, were you obsessed with brand name … Continue reading →

Hush, innocence, [PANK]6 draws nigh

[PANK]6, the latest of our regally appointed print editions, is officially in production for a January release. New, white hot writing from Frank Hinton, Matthew Lippman, Ashley Farmer, Christopher Newgent, Keith Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Amy Butcher, Édgar Rincón Luna, Ocean … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Alone in the Dark by Ashley Farmer

I’m no athlete.  My days are spent in front of a classroom or on a laptop: little heavy lifting involved.  But at nine each night I knot my laces, close the building’s iron gate behind me, and hit the street … Continue reading →

Fancy Things and Contests

The fourth title in our Little Book series, I Will Speak For Me by Nicolle Elizabeth is now available for pre-order. At $8, pre-ordering I Will Speak For Me gets you four fifths of the way entered into our random drawing for an … Continue reading →

Baby and Other Stories by Paula Bomer (A Review by Dawn West)

My sister was always the one who talked about getting married, having babies. She wanted six children. That’s always what she said, and it’s always disturbed me. I thought, even when I was very young, that having so many babies … Continue reading →