Author Archive
Our Friends at Black Warrior Review are Having a Contest.
The Ninth Annual Black Warrior Review Contest has begun! Send us your dearest-beloved (stories/poems/essays)! Guest Judges for 2013 are Brian Evenson (Fiction) Jenny Boully (Nonfiction) Kate Durbin (Poetry) To Submit your Work, or for more details and guidelines, please visit: … Continue reading
An Interview with Dylan Landis: Normal People Don’t Live Like This
Dylan Landis’s debut novel, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, offers readers ten chapters that function together as a novel, as linked short stories, and stand-alone stories, creating flexibility in the perspective, tone, and chronologically pushing through large gaps of … Continue reading
The Lightning Room with Jim Krosschell
Jim Krosschell speaks briefly with J. Bradley about his great piece, How to ___ a ___ Lobster ____, from our June 2012 Issue. 1. What can stop The Claw? Nothing can stop the Claw but a continuous onslaught of tourist … Continue reading
It’s Almost March and All That Crazy but I Would Like to Introduce You to February
Have you seen our February Issue? Dependent on approach and disposition it may eat you alive or you will eat it alive all the same. From Nuncio Casanova there are giraffes and illustration and collage and story. Jenny Sadre discusses the … Continue reading
Introducing the First Online Issue of 2013
Welcome to the New Year we hear it will be life-changing and exciting and inspirational. Welcome to Friday (also often touted as exciting and life manipulating, at least temporarily). Welcome to the January Issue (8.1) of PANK. Be sure to … Continue reading
Congratulations, Your Prediction that the World Wouldn’t End Came True
….and as a reward for insightfulness we’re gracing you with the December Issue, live like all of us still are. Start out with Eastward from Rebecca Nison, then move forward and explore.
Digital Americana
Digital Americana, a new-ish, interactive magazine to emerge,  embraces the digital aspects of publishing while valuing print literature all the same, making it a comprehensive attraction, rather than a partisan digital vs. anti digital platform. In all aspects of our mission: … Continue reading
This Modern Writer: An Interview with Vaughan Simons and Joseph Scapellato
The editors of the much-loved online literary magazine > kill author put out twenty issues between June 2009 and August 2012. These editors, who chose to remain anonymous, “wanted writing that took risks: words that surprised us, shocked us and roused … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Rachelle Cruz
Two Poems from Rachelle Cruz, here, and J. Bradley’s final Interview, below. 1. How does it feel to be my final interview before my post as PANK’s Interviews Editor ends? Dang, I wish I brought fireworks and glittery churros and … Continue reading
Autumn Monday Updates
1. How hot is it that we’ve got free shipping on [PANK] 7 for fall? Order here. 2. We’re settling in and returning to the submission pile. We’ve resumed the acceptance of regular submissions, send us your work here. 3. … Continue reading
We Like to Tease
While you await the arrival of your soon-to-be shipped issue of [PANK] 7, which, if you haven’t already can be ordered here, these excerpts should tide over your hunger for the delicious. If you’re not satisfied, check out our Tumblr … Continue reading
Three Excerpts From [PANK] 7 For Your Friday
“It’s suspicious the way the world looks in the first few minutes of morning, the color of circumvention, scattered dots scrambling on a signal-less television screen.” -Excerpt from “Conjecture in Early Morning,” by Kelly A. Wilson, forthcoming in [PANK] 7. … Continue reading
All the Best on Monday
1. The [PANK] August Issue is alive and you should live it. 2. [PANK] is currently accepting submissions for the third annual Queer Issue, but only until September 1, so get your submit on. 3. [PANK] is looking for a … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. The entire, and final, issue of >kill author. 2. All these great Maira Kalman videos at THNKR. 3 . This essay, “Love and Poetry,” from Maura Kelly at The Paris Review. 4. “THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS,” from Nate … Continue reading
Welcome to Monday and the Rest of your Life
1. The July Issue has come. 2. If you haven’t heard, we’re excited to announce the release date for [PANK] 7, September 1 2012. Here you will find the roster of contributors, some snippets of what’s inside, and the fabulous … Continue reading
Friday Five
Five pieces of interest from authors with writing in the upcoming [PANK] 7, to be released September 1, 2012. Pre-order here. 1. Reunion from Matthew Baker in FRiGG. 2. Excerpt from The Ancient Book of Hip by DW Lichtenberg. 3. Poetry from Elizabeth … Continue reading
Friday Five
[PANK] 7 will be released in September. You can pre-order it here. Have you seen the cover art from Elena Duff? It is gorgeous. Below are works from five contributors with work in [PANK] 7. 1. Casket is an American Euphamism, … Continue reading
Announcing [PANK] 7
Marking the first of our move to bi-annual print issues, we are proud to announce the scheduled release of [PANK] 7 for September 1, 2012. [PANK] 7 is a yearbook of literature, a dense periodical filled with the author’s you need … Continue reading
Reminders For Your Week
1. Have you read our June Issue yet? It is amazing and filled with greatness. Take a peek. 2. There’s still time!…but not much, Â submit to our Special Pulp Issue, guest edited by Court Merrigan, Â until July 1. 3. Keep … Continue reading
CLMP Hosted a Great Event
Last weekend saw the annual CLMP Lit Mag Marathon Weekend. The two day event began with a “Magathon” reading at the New York Public Library’s DeWittt Wallace Periodicals Room on Saturday afternoon. It was a pleasure to read with so … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. Red Number One from Rebecca Cook at The Cortland Review. 2. Salt from Issue 03 of The Common by Jane Satterfield. 3. The Rumpus interviewed Emily St. John Mandel. 4. Three Poems from Brian Henry at Conjunctions. 5. RECEIVED from Lily Brown at Epiphany.
For Your Monday
1. Have you ever wondered how a print issue of [PANK] is born? Have you seen our fancy video yet? 2. Stop by and say hello at HousingWorks bookstore, Sunday, June 17! We’ll be participating in the annual CLMP Lit … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. THIS VIDEO. 2. “Live Forever” from B. J. Hollars at The Rumpus. 3. Mel Bosworth Every Laundromat in the World Release Contest. 4. The Collagist Chapbook Contest. 5. “Neighbor,”  poetry from Chad Redden at Punchnels.
For Your Monday Morning
1. If your in New York City, look for [PANK] at the upcoming CLMP Lit Fair, June 17th at Housing Works! 2. While regular submissions are currently closed, you still have just under a month to submit to the Special Pulp Issue. … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. “Memorial Day,” from Raymond Gibson at Fictionaut. 2. “Busy About You,” from M.G. Martin at Conveyor. 3. “Dairy Queen,” from Jennifer Pashley in Smokelong Quarterly. 4. “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” from Ben Marcus at Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. … Continue reading
BROOKLYN INVASION :: TONIGHT
Prepare yourself, get the facts: Co-hosted with Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 7 pm. WORD, 126 Franklin Street. Readings by Mensah Demary, Sean Doyle, Jennifer Pashley, Robb Todd, M.G. Martin, Tess Patalano, and Roxane Gay. See author bios and RSVP here.
For Your Monday Morning Coffee
1. HEY WE ARE COMING TO BROOKLYN. Or, really, we’re already in Brooklyn and Vol.1 Brooklyn, our co-host, is in Brooklyn all the time so we’re just saying you should get your ass to Brooklyn too, or more specifically to WORD … Continue reading
Friday Four
1. “Quiet the Remedies”, fiction from Robb Todd, is a recent obsession of mine. It’s published here at The Fiddleback but also included in his book, Steal Me For Your Stories. 2. “Evening,” poetry from Alex Dimitrov at Memorious. 3. … Continue reading
For Your Monday Morning Coffee
1. THE MAY ISSUE IS ALIVE. 2. Only a short amount of time until we invade Brooklyn again, this time with Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and we couldn’t be more excited. May 23rd, 7pm. WORD, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn. Featuring readings … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. This essay on the cultural relevance of reading from Vouched Guest Contributor Adam Robinson, at Vouched 2. These poems from Claudia Cortese, at DIAGRAM 3. These poems from Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, at Literary Bohemian 4. This letter to Don … Continue reading
For Your Monday Morning Coffee
1. Together with Vol. 1 Brooklyn, [PANK] Invades Brooklyn. May 23. 7pm. WORD, 126 Franklin Street. Featuring readings by Mensah Demary, Sean Doyle, Jennifer Pashley, Robb Todd, M.G. Martin, Tess Patalano, and Roxane Gay. RSVP on our Facebook Page. 2. … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. “Dear Corporation”, by Adam Fell, at Sixth Finch 2. “Building of Unseen Cats”, from Fjords Vol.1 by Zachary Schomburg, at Verse Daily 3. “Night of The Lillies” by Antonia Crane, at The Rumpus 4. “Mercy”, poetry by Layne Ransom, … Continue reading
For Your Monday Morning Coffee
1. We would love to have your support in our Spring Funds Drive. Read about it and donate here. We’re half way through the month, but not quite half way to our goal. 2. The April Issue, it’s alive. 2. Mark … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. OF BIRDS, BINOCULARS & GRADE SCHOOL ANATOMY, poetry by B.J. Love at DIAGRAM 2. Turn Off My Face, poetry by Ben Kopel at La Petite Zine 3. Graphs About Charts and Charts About Graphs, Ben Greenman at McSweeney’s Internet … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Nancy Flynn
Distant Early Warnings, from Nancy Flynn, in the January Issue. 1. How does one unclot a vapor? With the wave of a magic wand? Alchemy? Other dark arts? When I wrote that line, I was channeling the ancient Greek and … Continue reading
[PANK] Went to Mission Creek
and it was awesome. I could sum it up at that, but I’ll go into a little more detail: ten hour drive, bookfair, reading, BBQ, concert, ten hour drive. I can go into further detail still: Dubuque Iowa in the … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. Night at Target, poetry by Ryan Bender-Murphy at elimae 2. Stealing Bic, fiction by Laurence Pritchard at Used Funiture Review 3. As The Hours Grow Smaller the Smaller Grows Flour, poetry by Ben Mirov at Everyday Genius 4. Exits … Continue reading
And Then It Was Monday
1. [PANK] Invades Portland (March 23) and Seattle (March 24th) this week! Be there. 2. The March Issue is live. 3. [PANK] will also be at the Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City, March 30th and 31st. We want to … Continue reading
Friday Five
These poems are good. They are poems that we read this week. They are poems that you should read while you wind down your week. Enjoy. Sasha Fletcher at Notnostrums. Nicholas Reading at Burnside Review. Juan Felipe Herrera was the … Continue reading
Overheard
Things we heard people say while at AWP 2012: Your rejection letter made me so happy. We skew in the direction of poetry and prose. But mostly we publish experimental literature. Are they…children’s books..?? Is this appropriate for teenagers? So … Continue reading
Today Precedes a Great Tomorrow
1. AWP is upon us. The [PANK] crew descends from near and far, some of us tomorrow, some of us later this week. Here is a list of where we plan to be. Follow our live Twitter feed to see … Continue reading
Good Morning, Monday
1.Hey, did you see us, along with some other great magazines, get a little nugget of love from the New York Times last week?! It was in this week’s Sunday print issue, too. Check it out. 2. We can hardly … Continue reading
[PANK] Updates: All Kinds of Excitement
In case you haven’t heard (in which case, where have you been?!), our lovechild was born last week, named [PANK] 6, and now available for sale.
To Make Your Friday Even Better..
We want to know where you are and where you are reading your new [PANK] 6! Post a picture of yourself loving up [PANK]6 to our Facebook page, and you’ll be entered to win a free [PANK] T-shirt. Be sure … Continue reading
For Your Monday Coffee
1. Only 8 more days of waiting until the release of PANK 6! You can still pre-order your copy here. 2. If 8 days is too long to wait for some PANK goodness, order our iPhone app. Send us proof … Continue reading
In Case You Need Reminding
1. PANK 6 is now available for pre-order. Our annual print copy of wonderfulness has a cover that is sure to engage and 280, twohundredandeighty!, pages of awesome writing so dense it may fall through your coffee table. 2. The Science and Fiction Special … 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
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
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
We Got A New Format
PANK got technical. Thanks to the aid of our distributor, Disticor, we are pleased to announce the release of the new PANK app, available for Apple products. $6.99 gets you the app and a digital issue of your choice. Get it, … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Kristen Iskandrian
“Remarks My Immigrant Mother Has Made About Babies” by Kristen Iskandrian was a wonderful addition to our July issue. She answers all our questions in 30 words or less. 1. What remarks would your mother have made about me as a … Continue reading