The February, Almost March Dispatch

February is almost gone. In PANK land, at least in my neck of its woods, that means three things: Blizzards, NEA grant writing, and prepping for AWP. Sigh. Blizzards shouldn’t be news in the winter. It’s one of the things … Continue reading →

The January Dispatch

In regards to Alexandra Petri’s terrible Washington Post column declaring poetry to be dead, gasp, have you heard? It’s my general policy to avoid mocking the afflicted, but Ms. Petri’s misplaced obituary in the wake of Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem was so ignorant … Continue reading →

Spring Funds Drive

Dear Readers, Do you love [PANK]? Do you love what we do, what we stand for? Do you love the writers we publish, their stories and poems that keep you up at night, keep you thinking and guessing, creep you … Continue reading →

Mission Freak!

We’re at the Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City today. Come see us at the Mission Freak book fair at the Mill. Or come to the reading we’re hosting tonight with Draft and Uncanny Valley, 5-6pm at the White Rabbit.

Invasions :: Portland :: Seattle

We went to Portland, Oregon. We went to Seattle, Washington. It was good. Next up, Iowa City on Saturday! Go to there. [PANK] Invasions :: Portland :: Seattle from M. Bartley Seigel on Vimeo.

[PANK]Invasions::Portland::Seattle

SEATTLE, TONIGHT! Join us. RSVP on Facebook.

Out & About

Ian Doherty, a creative writing student at Susquehanna University, recently conducted this Q&A with me for one of his classes. We briefly discuss the origins of [PANK], the state of the magazine, and a few things in between. Doherty: How did … Continue reading →

Out & About

Paper Darts, one of my personal favorites, had a couple nice pictures of our AWP book fair table and some nice things to say about us on their blog. “It’s no surprise that PANK has one of the sexiest displays at … Continue reading →

AWP 2012 Made My Shoes Hurt

Keywords and oft repeated crucial phrasings of the week: hermit walk, cig break, arm wrestle, money wad, whiskey, tubercular cough, crazy dude (he’s still stalking me, Rachel Yoder), poesy fart, skinny tie, love, Geoffrey bag, lap dog, avant pose, death … Continue reading →

AWP :: Gird Thy Loins

The conference itself sold out at 9,500 participants. The book fair exhibitor tables and booths sold out, as well, and while I don’t have the energy to count up the total (something like 500, I think), suffice it to say … Continue reading →

UPDATE :: [PANK] Invasions :: Portland / Seattle

For those of you who expressed interest in this thing, my apologies for dropping off the map. AWP is upon us and, well, AWP is upon us… Anywho…We’re back in the saddle organizing readings for Portland, Oregon, on Friday, March … Continue reading →

Goddamnit, Quick Fiction Closes?!!!

Today, this, from Quick Fiction editor and one of my favorite [PANK]Contributors, Jennifer Pieroni. “Long live the lit mag! But, alas, not Quick Fiction. After many wonderful years, we’re ceasing publication. Thank you for supporting, reading and constantly challenging us … Continue reading →

[PANK]6 Cometh

This week, [PANK]6 begins showing up in bookstores and mailboxes all around our little blue globe. Watch out or order it here now. Look to the February 19 New York Times Style Magazine for a little [PANK]6 love, as if you didn’t … Continue reading →

If the news is to be believed, it’s a new year

Therefore, a recap, a look ahead. 2011 rocked our socks at [PANK]. In our Little Books Series we published Ethel Rohan’s wonderful little collection, Hard to Say. We held Invasion Readings in Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Brooklyn, and New … Continue reading →

Hush, children, greatness draws nigh

[PANK] Goes on Hiatus

Until January 2, 2012, there will be no submissions to [PANK] and you can expect a little less from us. After January 2, it’s back to business as usual. In the meantime, read the December issue. It’s the bomb. Happy … Continue reading →

The $50 [PANK] Saturnalian LitOrgy Basket

Got a surly, hard-to-buy-for Litnerd in your life and them flipping holidays creeping up just around the corner? Four words for you, for you and your children, [PANK]‘s Saturnalian LitOrgy Basket. Just choose their t-shirt size, hit the buy now button, … Continue reading →

Newpages Review of Ethel Rohan’s Hard to Say

HARD TO SAY Fiction by Ethel Rohan PANK, September 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-9824697-6-7 Paperback: 54pp; $6.50 Newpages Review by Michele Finkelstein Hard to Say, recently published by PANK, contains a collection of short personal stories that will pluck at your heartstrings. … Continue reading →

Congratulations, Dan Lundin, of South Pasadena, CA!

Congratulations to Mr. Dan Lundin of South Pasadena, CA. He done just won hisself a free Kindle Touch from his friends at [PANK]! On its way, Mr. Lundin. Enjoy!

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 →

Our New Orleans Invasion, Friday, Friday, Friday!

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 →

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 →

Look sharp, thrice

1. We’re looking for colaborators for a NOLA Invasion reading mid-November. Are you those people? Contact us. 2. We are still accepting entries for our third annual 1,001 Awesome Words contest, guest judged by the one and only Michael Martone. … Continue reading →

Invasion: New Orleans?

Short notice, we know, but this, that and the other have conspired to bring us to New Orleans November 17-19. Why not host an Invasion? Why we ask you? New Orleans peoples and surrounds, PANKsters and traveling language clowns, these … Continue reading →

New Facebook Fan Page

We’ve surpassed firecode on our Facebook profile page, 5,000 strong, and the requests keep on a comin’. So we’ve started a fan page that everyone can “like” instead. Same great way to stay connected with PANKsters the world over, waaaaaaaaaay … Continue reading →

1,001 Awesome Words Contest

We are now accepting entries for our third annual writing competition, 1,001 Awesome Words. We think it suits the PANK ethos to leave it at that. This time, we have a guest judge, the one and only Michael Martone. Not enough, … Continue reading →

PANK Invasion Reading Series: Brooklyn

Sometimes you spend more time traveling than you do in the place traveled to. Sometimes it’s so hot and humid there, so goddamned sticky and uncomfortable and bad smelling, the act of sitting in the shade and breathing becomes an … Continue reading →

PANK’s Invasion Reading Series, Brooklyn Edition

Love! Give us love!

From today’s Oakland Examiner, some PANK love.

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday!

Sightings

Our babies make their way in the world with or without us. Somewhere not here.

Divination in DC

Sorry this took me so long to get situated. But here it is, our madness from the DCAWP. Enjoy. Divination in DC I from M. Bartley Seigel on Vimeo. The first two flights of the [PANK]/Annalemma/Mudluscious reading in Washington DC, … Continue reading →

If you don’t have anything nice to say…

1. Back in August Anis Shivani published a half-baked and perfectly dissmissible essay on the Huffington Post called The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers. There were responses to this, of course, there was handwringing, all of it equally half-baked … Continue reading →

Read this…

Saw Mill, the new online extension of Lumberyard Magazine from Typecast Publishing. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty sweet, with new work from Leora Fridman, Michael Shorb, Christine Kanowick, and Jon Gertz. Start with Sky Poem by Nate Pritts.

The AWP Wrap Up

De rigueur, I guess, given the number of these things I’ve seen posted this past week. Anywho, [PANK] went, of course. It saw, things happened, there were readings and bars and dancing, a pinch of mayhem, a dash of naughty, … Continue reading →

PANKAWPDCOMFG

If you be lookin’ for PANK this week, you may direct your attention to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Washington DC. We will definitely be at all of the following, though you can check out just … Continue reading →

[PANK] Invaded the Mission. It was rad.

[PANK] recently traveled to beautiful San Francisco to give a reading and made a movie of it. Also rad. Lauren Becker, Seth Fischer, Ben Jahn, Ethel Rohan, and me, M. Bartley Seigel, rockin’ the mic with words. Watch it here: [PANK] … Continue reading →

Sightings

City Lights magazine rack, San Francisco, CA Not sure why seeing this still makes me as happy as it does, but it does.

Tonight, PANK Storms The Mission!

Here it comes, coming to get you!

PANK 5 has arrived! Fresh from the printer, smelling of printer, smelling of 251 pages of wicked awesome, PANK 5, saturated in its muchness, dripping in new language from so many great writers. I tremble in the naming. PANK 5 … Continue reading →

New Threads

As you may have noticed, we’re in the process of updating the website. Please bear with us as we work out the kinks and spray for bugs. Also, please let us know what you like/don’t, what works/doesn’t, what you’d like … Continue reading →

PANK wants to have a reading in San Francisco at the end of this month.

Who’s in? Where should we book it? Quickly, quickly now.

A glance behind, a glimpse ahead.

Happy new year, shiny peoples! 2010 was good for [PANK]. 2010 was great for [PANK]. 2010 was grand for [PANK]. Let us, together, count the ways.  Across our print and digital platforms [PANK] reached an audience of approximately 100,000 readers … Continue reading →

PANK 5 to press

PANK 5 is to press, peoples. We should have it in hand toward early January and to you shortly thereafter. It’s so awesome that when we hit send on those files, we jumped up and did this: Seriously, it’s that … Continue reading →

Gray day, everything is gray

and I’m listening to these kids (not kids, really, but…) from PANK’s neck of the woods. Check them out here. Good music to compose by on the first cold day of December.

Is BOOYAH still an appropriate exclamation for anything?

Over at flavorpill: 10 Online Lit Mags You Should Be Reading. Guess who comes in at number three?

Future=Present=Past=PANK

1. PANK 5 will assemble an army. PANK 5 will give birth to a dancing star. Poetry, prose and ecstatic otherness from  Deb  Olin Unferth, Lucas Southworth, Emily Kiernan, xTx, Sheldon Lee Compton, Kaitlin Dyer, S.J. Fowler, Marcus Wicker, Christopher … Continue reading →

PANK seeks iPhone/iPad developer

Dear Hive Mind, PANK is seeking a iPhone/iPad developer for a PANK App. PANK has awesome ideas for its app, but no skills. Any suggestions? Warmest Regards, PANK

Poets & Writers likes us – they really, really…

Actually, I still don’t think P&W knows we exist. Otherwise we would have had a cover by now, no? Regardless, on page 82 of the new Nov/Dec issue, in an article titled “The Journals Agents Are Reading,” Diana Finch of … Continue reading →

Matt Salesses’ OUR ISLAND OF EPIDEMICS coming at you!

Production has been produced, the printers dance concluded, shipments shipped and received and without further ado we release to you Matt Salesses’  Our Island of Epidemics, a PANK Little Book we are exceedingly proud of. The first printing is fast … Continue reading →

MONKEY BARS, Briefly

Monkey Bars by Matthew Lippman Published by Typecast Publishing, 10/06/2010 ISBN-13 (cloth): 978-0-984-49610-5 Pages: 72 Size: 6.5 x 8 I am not going to linger long on Matthew Lippman’s new poetry collection  Monkey Bars because Typecast Publishing is also publishing … Continue reading →

Is there a doctor in the house?

In fact, this morning there is. Congratulations to my partner in all things PANK, Dr. Roxane Gay, on the successful defense of her dissertation, Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse About Students as Writers and Engineering Students as … Continue reading →

PANK News, Updates & Reminders

1. PANK 5 is in production. PANK’s most exciting print issue yet, with new work from Nancy Carol Moody, Gabriel Welsch, Rachel Yoder, Luca DiPierro, Mimi Vaquer, Melissa Broder, Tasha Matsumoto, and many, many others. Pre-order your copy today. 2. … Continue reading →

June Subscription Drive

It’s still June, oh, happy days, and we’re still holding our subscription drive. We know, you’ve already bought PANK. Thanks for that. But have you shilled for us yet? Have you gone out there and canvassed the neighborhood, proselytizing and … Continue reading →

Hello lovely winners…

Last week we held a silly little six-word story contest so people could benefit from the large stash of AWP magazines we hauled home. The following folks won: Dan Burt “” Flynn”â„¢s severed head tells me things. Xtx “” “Truth.” … Continue reading →

PANK is so queer, no?

Submissions are now open for  PANK’s October  special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry & art, guest edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Submit fiction, poetry, art and unidentified or hybrid literary text objects  by September 1, 2010 through the special issue … Continue reading →

Yessssssssssssssssssss…

David Shields on the Colbert Report, assuming you haven’t yet seen it.

We will build a monument for the ages.

Are you a possessor of PANK schwag? A t-shirt or sticker, a pin perhaps? Have you found PANK in some other incarnation?  Send a picture to awesome@pankmagazine.com of you or someone you love wearing or sticking or otherwise claiming space … Continue reading →

Pulitzers, yo-yo, Pulitzers

In Letters, Drama and Music: Fiction – Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press) Drama – Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey History – Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World … Continue reading →

Everyone tired and sore, raise your hand, say AWP.

Another year, another AWP. It was a good one this year, kids, so good I’m still hurting today. Altitude, dry air, endless boozing and the endless boozey hand shaking, a book fair that needed a zeppelin hanger it was so … Continue reading →

Like your mother, we’re lying when we say we love you all the same.

This morning we awoke to 2,491 friends on Facebook. WTF? Who are all you people?  As we have some fondness for having one foot in the profound and the other in the utterly meaningless, we’re giving a free t-shirt to … Continue reading →

PANK would like to remind you lest you forget…

1. PANK and DOGZPLOT are having a reading in Denver during AWP. It’s called DOGZPANK. Get it? It’s going to be bitchin’. You should come. 2. Also at AWP, PANK is hosting a table at the bookfair (Exhibit Hall A, … Continue reading →

Who is the biggest and the strongest?

You are when you wear your brand new PANK t-shirt. PANK builds strong bones and muscle. PANK turns your body and mind into a well oiled machine. Drink one glass of PANK at breakfast, another at lunch, and sport a … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Blurbs of Myself by Marc Schuster

I don’t read books, I just read blurbs, and Marc Schuster’s are the best in the business!  - Lance Caldecott, internet lurker and blurb connoisseur I contacted The New Yorker. I contacted the Times. I even contacted my local paper, … Continue reading →

FWD: To Think. To Write. To Publish.

A program for “next generation” writers of any genre with an interest in science and technology. Learn creative nonfiction techniques. Develop and pitch ideas to book and magazine editors and literary agents. Publish your work. Featuring two intense days of … Continue reading →

DOGZPANK @ AWP!

Have we reminded you recently about the DOGZPANK reading during the Denver AWP in April? Have we done that? Have we? Where:  Forest Room 5 When: Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 pm. Who:  Aaron Burch,  Beth Thomas,  Tim Jones-Yelvington,  JA … Continue reading →

This Modern Writer: Dozing on Awolowo Road by Gbenga Awomodu

Every day I go to work on the bus with the other sleepers, workers whose days begin early, whose commutes are long. We sleep when we can. Some people complain about their working conditions. Some swear never to return to … Continue reading →

Apart/Anew in the news…

From THE BROAD SET WRITING COLLECTIVE  these good words about Aaron Burch’s HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW. From CHAPBOOK REVIEW, a review by J.A. Tyler and his interview with Aaron. Scroll down. Haven’t bought this … Continue reading →

A CAKE APPEARED by Shane Jones

From Scrambler Books. Poems, fables, and scrolls by one of PANK’s favorites, Shane Jones. Check him out in PANK 4. The price is right: $12.00. And domestic shipping on pre-orders is free, free, free. Ha ya like dem apples?

Saturday Surprise!

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday only — Buy  PANK4, Aaron Burch’s  HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW, or any PANK combo,  and receive a super duper surprise with your order. That’s right, a surprise! It’s super duper!  Order … Continue reading →

Did you know that PANK accepts submissions?

Given the number of submissions we get every day, many of you clearly do. What you probably don’t know is that we answered the call today and took off our gloves. You think you’ve got PANK? If it’s PANK, we’ll … Continue reading →

Chapbook Reading Period Open

We are again open for chapbook submissions. PANK is seeking chapbook manuscripts in any genre, cross- or  mixed-. To know what excites us and what doesn’t, read PANK Magazine, then show us something we haven’t seen before. Our first chapbook, … Continue reading →

I Heart Pilot Books

It’s a great day to be beguiled in Seattle. The sun is bright and warm. The mountains are snowcapped and crystal clear on the horizon. Such a beautiful day, in fact, I’m tempted to push a hipster off his single-speed … Continue reading →

Who likes surprises? Who does? Who?

Buy PANK4 or Aaron Burch’s chapbook between midnight 02/17/10 and midnight 02/19/10 and receive a super duper surprise with your order. That’s right, a surprise!

All About Us

In the March, 2010, issue of  The Writer Magazine, Mary Miller offers up “7 hip literary magazines you need to check out.” And whom might that selective cabal include? Why, none other than Keyhole, Kitty Snacks,  NOÖ,  The Normal School, … Continue reading →

Roses are red, violets are blue, I love ARTIFICE and LUMBERYARD, too.

Among the many vaguely articulated PANK policies I will likely break today, three in particular. First and foremost, PANK staff are supposed to eschew self-promotion of their own individual creative works within PANK air-space, insofar as it can be avoided. … Continue reading →

PANK 4 Arrives

Hark! Cue the silver snarling  trumpets… Beginning tomorrow, out go your copies of PANK 4, packaged smartly by our little animatronic snow elves, mailed directly to your door where PANK 4 will emerge from its supple wrappings like a faun, … 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Friday Five!

We do a lot of rounding up on the PANK blog. It has its uses. But my favorite posts are the “writer’s life” ones. Our contributor interviews and ask-the-editor Q&As, the moms and dads and identity exploration posts, these I … Continue reading →

Future PANK in 3

1. PANK 4 coming down the pipe, featuring new work from Jennifer Pieroni, Taylor Mali, Matt Bell, Bill Yarrow, Summer Block, Ethel Rohan, Laura LeHew, Bob Hicok, Karen Gentry, and many, many others. Delicious. Get some. 2. Aaron Burch’s chapbook … Continue reading →

Friday 5.

It’s cold and gray in PANK land today. Very, very gray. Insufferable gloom. Sleet. There is pestilence afoot. There will be no exclamation points. 1. Look. 2. Listen. 3. Touch. 4. Taste. 5. Smell.

Friday 5!

This week’s Friday 5 is brought to you by the flu, which I have. Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle Immunity by Lori Andrews The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Outbreak by Robin Cook Pandemic by Daniel Kalla Now PANIC!

Chapbook Contest Deadline Today!

Here. Deadline of midnight, EDT, today. Last call.

A ‘lil Hicok with your Monday morning coffee?

Bob Hicok has new poems forthcoming in PANK 4 (order it!), one coming out on the website (as Roxane keeps the queue I’ll just say presently), and if you don’t read Hicok, well, you should. Begin anywhere, or here, or … Continue reading →

Friday 5!

1. Sarah Vowell is funny! 2. Mr. Noodle! 3. Short attention spans! 4. Dug from the Dalkey archives! 5. Always with the self promotion.

Friday 5!

1. Chapbook! 2. Stitches! 3. Vice! 4. Mixtape! 5.  Weekend  Reclamation Project!

1,001 Awesome Words Contest – Deadline Today

Last call.

Happy Banned Books Week!

Please, in observation of Banned Book Week, get out there and book-slap a bigot. Just find a bigot, any bigot, and read them a book. Preferably one of these books. You may have to lure them into your van with … Continue reading →

Ask the Editor: Andrew Leland, Managing Editor, The Believer

Today, we trade tough talk on interviews, obscure Spanish vocabulary, fish, awesomeness, and buckets of guts with Andrew Leland at  The Believer. PANK: You’ve done a few of these editor interviews, and I’m sure, like me, you’ve read your share, … Continue reading →

Friday Five

1. In Serbo-Croation, pank means punk. In Estonian, bank. Google images for pank. Among the many oddities you’ll find the Spanish comic book Peter Pank, a fair number of graffiti tags, and some bitchin’ glamor shots of Polish rock band … Continue reading →

Majors, books, blather: A baker’s dozen

1. The New York Times on Where the Wild Things Are. 2. The Washington Post takes on the  neocon Jew. 3. The Boston Globe on used and specialty bookstores. 4. The readers of the Atlanta Journal Constitution evidently don’t turn … Continue reading →

Friday Five

1. It’s all about us. 2. PANK 3 is sold out so stop asking. But… 3.  Subscribe to PANK 4 or more, before 9/15, and you will be entered into a random drawing for a free 8GB iPod touch. 1 … Continue reading →

Upcoming book from a PANK contributor and the glimmer of an idea…

1.  Adding to a list that grows longish, this: BlazeVOX Books is publishing Crying Shame, from early PANK adopter  Jeff Morgan, sometime in early 2010. We’ll update when we get more info. 2. PANK contributors: Have a book out in … Continue reading →

PANK Asks Burning Questions: Deb Olin Unferth

PANK thinks that everything Deb Olin Unferth has written is must read material. Seriously. For a recent salvo, check out her story from the July  Harpers.  She recently granted us a little Q&A so long as we didn’t ask her … Continue reading →

PANK Asks Burning Questions: C.S. Giscombe

If you don’t know Giscombe’s work, we recommend you rectify the situation. He ain’t hard to find, but you have to look. And he’s one of our absolute favorites. If you’re new, start with his most recent, Prairie Style. It’s … Continue reading →

Steve De France is in trouble!!!

Steve De France hopes you are well as he himself is in a great sorrow writing you this note. Steve De France must inform you about something very important. Something very terrible has happened to Steve De France. Steve De … Continue reading →

Heads up. Chapbooks!

Get your manuscripts ready. We’ll be officially announcing PANK’s first chapbook contest sometime in August, deadline October (probably), winner announced in November, with a release coinciding and packaged with PANK 4. Expect a small entrance fee to help us cover … Continue reading →

Missives from the void.

“Cookiebomb” sent us a polaroid. Postmarked Dulles, VA, June 15. No other identifying mark. Perfect. Sky? Thanks, CB.

REAL SIMPLE Essay Contest

First, we are now offering PDFs of PANK 1, 2 or 3 for $3.5o. The awesome t-shirts we had at AWP are also available for sale. Details here: http://www.pankmagazine.com/subscribe.html REAL SIMPLE’s annual Life Lessons Essay Contest Topic: When did you … Continue reading →

Subscription drive?

We’ve never done one. But we probably should. Except that we’re lazy, disorganzined, and lack…well…that particular kind of drive. But when we sent out the call for you to subscribe the other day, a few of you actually did. And … Continue reading →

Your To Do List: Subscribe to PANK

Support of all kinds is great, but you know what it takes to do what we do. Plus, PANK 3 is approaching sold-out status. Buy now if you have any hope of ever getting one. All issues also come with … Continue reading →

PANK To Do List, Week of June 8

1. Block out, repress, bury.   2. Read submissions. 3. Read the new Poetry, Ninth Letter, and A Public Space that showed up over the weekend. 4. Read submissions.   5. Grill something, consume alcohol. 6. Read submissions. 7. Move … Continue reading →

NPR poetry archive

This probably isn’t news to many of you, but it’s been my experience that I’m generally not the only one late to the party. National Public Radio has a page  that pulls together all it’s poetry related stories, including the … Continue reading →

We believe.

The new Believer is in. Interviews with Deb Olin Unferth and Bob Odenkirk. What’s better than that? Nuthin’. Or is there something… Well not better. Different. Close on it’s heals, what should show up in my mailbox? Why, the newest … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions: Best New Poets

Best New  Poets, an annual anthology of 50 emerging writers, is now accepting submissions  for its open competition.   See  www.bestnewpoets.org  for details.   Submission deadline is midnight,  June 1, 2009.     Entering poets cannot have published a book-length … Continue reading →

NEW LETTERS LITERARY AWARDS

$4,500 IN TOTAL PRIZES, PLUS PUBLICATION, IN THE  NEW LETTERS  LITERARY AWARDS Call for Entries for fiction, poetry, and the essay, by  May 18, 2009 Dear Writer, I want to make sure that you know about the chance to compete … Continue reading →

Emerson was the first book slut…

…or so contends JC Hallman in a cute little piece over at Bookslut. We truly mean “cute” as a compliment, not as a  diminution.

Elizabeth Ellen at DOGZPLOT

Finally got around to the spring ’09 issue of DOGZPLOT. Tasty. Elizabeth Ellen, one of the beautiful minds behind Hobart, has a piece of short fiction that is well worth the trip. We won’t spoil anything for you, not even … Continue reading →

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces open call for submissions

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces an open call for submissions for its upcoming Issue 1, to be published in  January  2010.   Submissions will be accepted year-round online at  http://www.artificemag.com/submissions/ Artifice Magazine is looking for previously-unpublished stories, prose works, and poems, pieces … Continue reading →

Submitting to the editors directly…

…uh-uh, no way. Jesus follows the submission guidelines and uses the online form or he doesn’t get that pony poem into the running for PANK. Pulitzer prize winner, ask yourself, what would Jesus do? First time submitter, the same. And … Continue reading →

Spring unfolds, summer approaches…

…and in the coming weeks and months readers and writers should expect a smidge less from PANK. The staff will splinter, editors will depart for foreign shores, and while the machine will run per its usual belching self (we hope), … Continue reading →

Poetry is dead? Long live poetry?

Thanks, NEA, but we just don’t buy it.  http://www.newsweek.com/id/191012?from=rss

The Nietzsche Family Circus

http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=87&q=200

Best one line response to a rejection letter. Ever.

“Perhaps my importance as a poet is exaggerated.”

BOMB’s fiction contest

The deadline is fast approaching for BOMB’s annual Fiction Contest, judged by Jonathan Lethem.  First prize is $500 and publication  in BOMB’s literary supplement,  First Proof. Deadline April 15. Full info here:  http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3254

Northern Lights Film Festival

If you’re local (we suspect you’re not, but just in case), Michigan Tech hosts the 5th annual (?) Northern Lights Film Festival on March 27 and 28. Very, very, very cool. Shouldn’t be missed.  Here.

PANK Magazine welcomes C.S. Giscombe to the end of the northernmost road.

Poet C.S. Giscombe comes to Michigan Tech on Friday, February 27 to give a reading and frolic in the snow. 4pm in 134 Walker Arts and Humanities Center on the campus of the Michigan Technological University. Reception to follow.

BBC’s Big Read?

I can’t tell if this is current or old or very old. The BBC started compiling their information in 2003 which appears to be when the Big Read programs aired. Regardless, at some point in the last six years they … Continue reading →

It’s an interesting month for PANK

Post PANK 3 hitting the shelves, post AWP, and pre grant deadlines, your friendly neighborhood PANKsters (all five of us) are running around like proverbial chickens, sans heads, knocking things over, blood everywhere, and generally making an unnecessary mess. Which … Continue reading →

According to Google:

1. Pank needs to keep an eye on cost. 2. Pank needs coin. 3. Pank needs to refresh. 4. Pank needs to settle. 5. Pank needs a spanky. 6. Pank needs a piggy. 7. Pank needs a million dollars. 8. … Continue reading →

AWP Day 3: The hangover

Yikes. By noon today it was time to barf. Or kill. Does the P stand for pretentious? What’s with all the writerly posturing minus the actual writing? Why the fixation on genre minus concern for actually producing anything worth reading … Continue reading →

AWP Day 2: But by the second day

Hipster zoo at the book fair, NOT awesome. Tongue tacos on Ashland, awesome. Selling lots of copies, totally awesome. The reading at Quimby’s rocking our socks, wicked awesome. Not awesome, 1. Various awesomeness, 3. Awesomeness wins. Thanks Dan, Jennifer, Sheila, … Continue reading →

PANK Reading at Chicago AWP

  Date & time:  Friday,  February 13, 2009, 7pm Location: Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave, in Wicker Park, Chicago. Cost: Free. Jennifer Pieroni, James Grinwis, Sheila Squillante, Daniel Nester, and Rachel Yoder read their work from the pages of … Continue reading →

PANK reading at Chicago AWP!

Friday night, 7pm, at Quimby’s in Wicker Park. More details acomin’. Stay tuned.

PANK Turns 3

Happy New Year! PANK 3, the print anthology, is in production, due out in a couple of weeks. New work from  Rosanne Griffeths,  Michelle Tandoc-Picherau,  R.A. Allen,  Brooklyn Copeland,  Matthew Thorburn,  Erik Wennemark,  Stephanie King,  David Brennan,  Margaret Bashaar,  Cristin … Continue reading →

PANK 3 in no longer accepting submissions.

All submissions that come in after today will be considered for PANK 4, both online and print.

PANK 1 & 2 are out of print.

That’s kind of exciting. We should probably print more. We probably will. But right now we’re enjoying the idea of both existing and having moved the merchandise. A testament to our writers, we thinks. Regardless, we’re still sticking to a … Continue reading →

NPR does its 2008 book dance.

Here.

Your window draws to a close.

There’s still time to get submissions in for consideration for PANK No.3, the print edition. But not much. Reading for online content and for PANK No.4 continues unabated.

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From House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

“There are seven incarnations (and six correlates) necessary to becoming an Artist: 1 Explorer (Courage) 2. Surveyor (Vision) 3. Miner (Strength) 4. Refiner (Patience) 5. Designer (Intelligence) 6. Maker (Experience) 7. Artist.   “First you must leave the safety of … Continue reading →

Where’s Whitey?

A friend and I were recently talking about indie music, indie lit, and whiteness. Again. The former we talk about a lot. The latter less so. The former is written about more than a bit. The latter, not so much, … Continue reading →

Lit Mags Rock

Powell’s Books interviewed Open City editor Joanna Yas (read  here). She said: “I’m afraid that even though more and more people decide to be writers every day, I’m not sure if the same amount decides to be serious readers.” If … Continue reading →

FWD: Bellday Poetry Prize

BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE $2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET   Submission Deadline:  March 16, 2009   CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections:  Magnetic North  (2007),  Waterborne  (2002),  The Woman Who Died in Her … Continue reading →

FWD: ROOMS announces chapbook contest

ROOMS announces its inaugural chapbook contest.  The winning submission, chosen by  ROOMS’  editors, will be published by Articles Press, its parent non-profit organization and publisher.  The chapbook will receive a first printing of 200 copies to be sold for $5 … Continue reading →

Just keep on readin’, keep on readin’, keep on…

OK, so I just finished Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel, Vacation, published by the good folks at McSweeney’s. For the second time. Did you catch that? Twice, that’s right. Because the first time it just freaked me out so I … Continue reading →

Hmm…

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Fwd: Ronald Sukenick/ABR Innovative Fiction Prize

Eligibility The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions  may  include a collection of … Continue reading →

Just in, the new POETRY, October 2008…

From Craig Arnold’s Uncouplings:              in all communication            we count on a mimic            (I am not uncomic)   Tasty.   Great poems this month. Great … Continue reading →

The Poetry of Sarah Palin – From Slate.com

http://www.slate.com/id/2201342/pagenum/all/#page_start The Poetry of Sarah Palin RECENT WORKS BY THE REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. By Hart Seely Posted Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, at 1:25 PM ET Sarah Palin It’s been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet … Continue reading →

From this week’s MTU Lode, in the “Pulse”

Giving literature a serious Panking -Cassandra Brabon, Lode Writer When I arranged to interview the staff of PANK Magazine, I was told to meet them at the KBC. Hearing that, I knew this small group meant business, but knew how … Continue reading →

FWD: From far, far away…

Hi I thought the readers of your website might be interested in our competition and was hoping you could post details on your site. Bookhabit.com, in association with the  New Zealand Poetry Society, are staging an international poetry competition that … Continue reading →

Hungry.

Matt wants to read something bright and young. Sock it to me,  http://www.hu.mtu.edu/SMS.

Analog!

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Unicorns, bunnies, and happy rainbows…

…that’s what PANK is thinking right now.