A Wintery Week Brings News of the Word
[Roxane Gay / December 10th, 2009 / Young Bright Things ]Daniel Nester has been nominated for a Pushcart by the Indiana Review for his essay “Cousin Mike: A Memoir” (from issue 31.1, Summer 2009). TIM (NOT UNDER THE RADAR) JONES YELVINGTON and Alicia Gifford were nominated for a Pushcart by Storyglossia. The Literary Review nominated Chris Gavaler and Bruce Cohen for Pushcarts.
Tim has joined the fine folks at Big Other. In his first post, he writes about Dennis Cooper. He also has a little something in an activist paper from Chicago. Â Last but not least, he will be reading as part of the Orange Alert series on December 20.
Contributor AD Jameson is also joining the Big Other team.
How Long Can We Be Young? Ani Smith answers at Cookiebomb.
Sarah Harste has a fine short story in Staccato Fiction.
At Abjective, Cami Park writes of a New World.
More news from the new issue of The Battered Suitcase–writing from Valerie O’Riordan, Christina Murphy, and J. Bradley who also has work in Danse Macabre and Mung Being.
Valerie also has a book review at Bookmunch and her story Ready, Set was reprinted in Decongested Tales.
Margaret Bashaar’s chapbook, Barefoot and Listening, is available from Tilt Press.
At the new LitSnack, Ricky Garni has a short short story.
Anne Valente reviews her favorite librarian for Kneejerk Magazine. Also in that issue, Dog by Aaron Burch and Marrow Meth by David Peak.
JA Tyler is now a line editor at Tarpaulin Sky. He also has work in the new chapter of Anemone Sidecar.
Meg Pokrass’s chapbook, Lost and Found with cover art from Cooper Renner, is now available from Bannock Street Books.
Necessary Fiction continues to amaze with Birdman by Gary Moshimer.
HTML Giant is having a Secret Santa gift exchange. Â You have until 12/15 to sign up.
Matthew Salesses has a story, Pup, in the new issue of The Literary Review.
Mel Bosworth brings his charm to Pic Fic and cautions us to not be idiots in Bad Education.
Bookslut has an interesting interview with Kathleen Rooney.
There’s a new issue of One Sentence Stories up at Monkeybicycle with work from Ethel Rohan, Ben White and others.
Mark your calendars. JA Tyler’s The Zoo: A Going will be published by Dzanc in 2013. Catch up on the many books he has forthcoming here. Enjoy “a chipmunk” at Everyday Genius.
Thank you so much for the shout out! You guys do right by your contributors
i’m taking a break from xmas cards to do the robot dance. thanks, pank.