Old News from 2006:
Story
December 28, 2006
Listen
December 24, 2006
Good Reads
December 23, 2006
Nomination
December 22, 2006
Juked is nominating my story
"Virgins" for a Pushcart.
Interview
December 15, 2006
an interview with my former teacher, Stephen Dixon.
story up in Taraxa
December 9, 2006
My story "Ticket" is online at taraxa,
a new Norwegian online magazine for flash fiction and
poetry.
Story
November 30, 2006
Story
November 27, 2006
"Thinking About Seven" is now up at
Luna Negra, a print journal,
along with work by Tiff Holland. There's also an interview with Tiff
I'm looking forward to reading.
Listen
November 11, 2006
to Kim Chinquee's Pretty Eyes
Good Reads
November 10, 2006
November's Hobart
and some Pasha Malla "Love
The Tiger, The Tiger Named Love"
Interview
November 9, 2006
with Ron Carlson
Podcast
October 29, 2006
Listen to author Myfanwy Collins here.
Good Stories
October 19, 2006
Possum Podcast
October 18, 2006
Every week, writer Paul Toth features music, writers reading aloud,
and other various and sundry things. His excellent site is here, and find his blog here. You can hear me
reading here. Check
out some of the other podcasts; Toth has recorded several talented
writers. He's been doing this for sixty-something weeks. I hope he
continues the weekly podcasts until the weeks turn into years.
I'm Reading at BookPeople
October 16, 2006
Some of you already know that I write horror under the name "Cordelia
Snow." Well, I'll be reading as Cordelia Snow on Wednesday, October
25th at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. I'll
be reading along with writer/editor Boyd Harris to promote Cutting
Block Press's anthologyHorror Library Vol.
1
Spooky stuff. I hope to see some of you there.
Spooky stuff. I hope to see some of you there.
Story up
October 14, 2006
News
October 10, 2006
The "Best of" anthologies are out, and Hobart is visible... there's
Jeff Parker's inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, for
his story from Hobart ..5, "False Cognate." Matthew St. Amand's
"Continental Divide" is highlighted as "notable story of 2005." The
issue was also mentioned in the Best American Essays as a "notable
special issue of 2005".
Juked
October 7, 2006
Juked print #4
is now available online, and coming soon to St. Mark's bookstore in
New York, Burke's Books in Memphis, and, with any luck, a bookstore
near you.
This issue has fiction by yours truly, Pushcart winner Kim Chinquee,
and others...
Reading
October 5, 2006
Girija Tropp, whose work has appeared in Best Australian stories, will
be reading for AGNI October 24th
in Boston. If you are anyplace close to Boston I suggest you go - I
wish I could!
October's Hobart
October 2, 2006
Story Up:
September 16, 2006
Good Reads:
September 16, 2006
Smokelong Quarterly's special Flash Fiction Forward issue.
Utahna Faith's Chancing
Opium Prize
August 20, 2006
John Jodzio just won the
Opium Fiction Prize
His story If You Lived Here, You'd Already Be Home will be featured in Opium's .print3
I was one of the eight finalists with my story "Permission."
Story Up:
July 20, 2006
Wildfire
is up at elimae along with
Girija Tropp's
Champagne Floor, Dreams Oh Mine
.
Story Up:
July 10, 2006
Slip
is up at the
Mississippi Review
online along with stories by
Kim Chinquee
and
Pia Ehrhardt
. Take a look at James Whorton's
introduction
.
Horror Library:
July 05, 2006
Anthologized in The Horror Library Vol. 1
as Cordelia Snow, along with some excellent horror writers. Published by Cutting Block Press.
as Cordelia Snow, along with some excellent horror writers. Published by Cutting Block Press.
Good Reads:
June 18, 2006
The new elimae is up, with fine fiction and poetry from Elizabeth Ellen, Kim Chinquee, Alicia Gifford, Tao Lin ...
Smoke Long:
June 16, 2006
Smoke Long Issue 13 is now live! Her Lips
is there, and so are stories by Girija Tropp, Jeff Landon, Kathey Fish, and Joseph Young.
Good Reads:
June 13, 2006
Liesl Jobson and Darlin' Neal have stories up at
Noö.
Some Juked:
June 1, 2006
Bare Ana by Robbie Shapard
Hobart Online:
June 1, 2006
this month's Hobart
I'm proud to say I am now part of the Hobart (online) editorial team. Go, Team!
I'm proud to say I am now part of the Hobart (online) editorial team. Go, Team!
A Sneak Peak:
May 30, 2006
at The New Sudden Fiction
From the Cutting Block:
May 25, 2006
Cutting Block Press
just published two anthologies;
Butcher Shop Quartet and Horror Library Vol. 1. The
Horror Library anthology has published my favorite Cordelia Snow
story, Under the Floorboards. I like it as much as anything Claudia
Smith has ever written.
Book:
May 25, 2006
David Barringer's
latest book
"Johnny Red"
Awards:
May 23, 2006
Girija Tropp just won The Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize
storySouth Million Writers Award:
The winner of the 2006 Million Writers Award is "There's A Hole in the City" by Richard Bowes
Book Deal:
May 23, 2006
From Publisher's Marketplace:
FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER 2005 Narrative Magazine Prize-winner Pia Z. Ehrnhardt's debut short story collection Famous Fathers and novel Speeding in the Driveway, to Karan Mahajan at MacAdam/Cage, for two books, by PJ Mark at McCormick & Williams Literary Agency.
FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER 2005 Narrative Magazine Prize-winner Pia Z. Ehrnhardt's debut short story collection Famous Fathers and novel Speeding in the Driveway, to Karan Mahajan at MacAdam/Cage, for two books, by PJ Mark at McCormick & Williams Literary Agency.
Pushcart!:
May 22, 2006
Kim Chinquee's story, "Formation," originally published in
NOON, just won a
Pushcart!. "Formation" will appear in
the
The Pushcart Prize XXXI:
Best of the Small Presses
.
Colts and other stories:
May 18, 2006
Colts is up at Elimae alongside work by Kathy Fish, Shya Scanlan, Girija Tropp, Julie Ann
Shapiro and others.
Reads:
May 10, 2006
Reads:
May 06, 2006
Darlin' Neal in the Mississippi Review.
The latest Hobart
and this: Revolutionaries by Savannah Schroll.
New Story Up !:
May 04, 2006
Swallow is up at Snowvigate, along with stories by Girija Tropp, Kim Chinquee and Liesl Jobson.
Read:
April 28, 2006
Guest Editing:
April 17, 2006
This month Paul A. Toth and I guest edited Word Riot
New Editor :
April 3, 2006
My friend Elizabeth Cornell is now an editor at
The Cortland
Review An online literary magazine in RealAudio
Million Writers :
April 3, 2006
Here are the top ten StorySouth selections for best
online stories in 2005.
Top Ten
Vote for your favorite!
And my friend Pia Ehrhardt's "Famous Fathers" made the list!
Top Ten
Vote for your favorite!
And my friend Pia Ehrhardt's "Famous Fathers" made the list!
More Million Writers :
March 20, 2006
- "Famous Fathers" by Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Narrative Magazine
- "On a Clear Day You Can See Scotland" by Jim Ruland, dragonfire
Million Writers :
March 16, 2006
The 2005
Notables
are up.
Here are just a few:
- "Kisses on the Forehead" by Liliana Blum, translation by Toshiya Kamei; from the Firsts and Lasts issue of Hobart I guest edited.
- "Feeling Satisfactory" by Girija Tropp, Agni
- "I am Gone" by Laura Hird, Barcelona Review
- "The Roots of a Mulberry Tree" by Avital Gad-Cykman, Danforth Review
- "Snow Squall" by Claudia Smith - that's me! from Fiction Warehouse
- "Know Your Material" by Grant Bailie, FRIGG
- "The Holidays Here" by Roy Kesey, from The Mississippi Review online , Holiday issue edited by Carrie Hoffman
Sudden Fiction ! :
March 15, 2006
Robert Shapard and James Thomas, the editors of the Norton anthologies Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction selected my story "My Robot" for the upcoming W.W. Norton anthology The New Sudden Fiction. It should come out sometime around January 2007. To say I'm excited about this would be an understatement. The story originally appeared in Juked as "My Robot." The title will change to "My Lawrence" for this anthology.
Here's Hobart's March update:
March 6, 2006
Good Read:
February 28, 2006
Jon Swan's Dan the Man
Icicle is up at Juked:
February 23, 2006