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 the print issue, and buying our books as well as helping us spread the good word. We cannot thank you enough. We are also grateful for our staff who volunteer their passion and time to the magazine. At the top of that list is Brad Green for whom the title of assistant editor is woefully inadequate. Brad spearheads the production end of assembling our online issues now and also reads submissions and sometimes we have fun e-mail exchanges. His attention to detail, his patience, and work ethic are just amazing and it’s a pleasure working with him. We also have Abby Koski who handles publicity and other such duties and Jason Sommer who did the layout for PANK 6 as assistant editors. Our contributing editors J. Bradley (interviews) and Amye Archer (reviews), are the heart of our blog content. J. Bradley’s interviews are certainly different but we always know we will never be bored while reading his questions or the answers writers come up with. Amye makes sure we know about all kinds of interesting books and soon will be starting a series of reviews of older titles that deserve some critical attention. We would be remiss if we neglected to mention that Amye was preceded by the amazing Kirsty Logan who was our first reviews contributing editor and always made sure we had thoughtful, engaging reviews on the blog. Kirsty has moved on to other opportunities but she remains one of our favorite people. Alicia Kennedy copyedits each print issue and always has our back. Alyssa Friske, our intern, is the one who makes sure you get the PANK merch you order. Last but certainly not least, we have a small but trusted group of readers who help us manage the submission queue as the first line of editorial defense–Sara Crowley, Robb Todd, Joe Stracci, Court Merrigan, Diana Salier, Mairead Case, Eric Shonkwiler, Lam Pham, Hedy Zimra and our newest additions Chris Emslie, JSA Lowe, Grace Hobbs and Eirann Lorsung. For you all, we give thanks!

Andrew Roe has a great story up at Good Men Project.

In fancy news, Patricia Lockwood has a poem in a little magazine called The New Yorker.

At The Rumpus, Alana Noel Voth tells us where she writes and Daniel Nester has an equally powerful essay about Freddie Mercury.

Sandra Simonds has two poems in The Awl.

Used Furniture Review features Notes From a Burning Underground Part II by Jonathan Callahan. You will also find work from Jessica Hollander and Joshua Helms.

The Chicago Reader, by way of Jamie Yates, gives us a great shout out! Thank you, muchly!

The Stamp Stories Anthology is now available from Mud Luscious, for only $10 and features many PANK contributors including James Tadd Adcox, Lauren Becker, Matt Bell, Jesse Bradley, Melissa Broder, Blake Butler,  Jimmy Chen, Kathy Fish, Scott Garson, Molly Gaudry,  Barry Graham, Lily Hoang, Jamie Iredell, A D Jameson, Jac Jemc, Shane Jones, M. Kitchell, Matthew Lippman, Sean Lovelace, Riley Michael Parker, David Peak,  Adam Peterson, Ryan Ridge, Joseph Riippi, Ethel Rohan, Lydia Ship, Matthew Simmons, Amber Sparks, Deb Olin Unferth, William Walsh, and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé among others.

Len Kuntz has two pieces in A-Minor.

Up at Everyday Genius, Rachel Levy, M. Kitchell, and Andrew Borgstrom.

Three poems by Bill Yarrow are featured at Fwriction Review.

New DOGZPLOT, new xTx and Erin Fitzgerald.

Courtney Maum has a story in Anderbo.

Don’t forget! Spend $10 or more in the PANK store and be automatically entered into a drawing to receive a free Amazon Kindle. This promotion runs through the end of November!