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Do You Know Who I Am: On Writing and Identity

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I had a job interview once for a job I sort of wanted. It was going to be a long commute and we needed the money. I interviewed with some peers and potential boss and then one of the founders of the company was going to meet with me. He walked into the room and the first thing he said to me was, “Do … Read More Do You Know Who I Am: On Writing and Identity

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Publishers Weekly reviews I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND

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From the Publishers Weekly review of I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND: “Much of the appeal of Collins’s fiction comes from the idiosyncratic way that the longer stories unfold, their lurch from subject to subject challenging convention, but possessing an inner logic that conforms to character. Typically, initially disjointed subjects dovetail to resonant climaxes.”

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PANK holiday sale — including 25% off I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND

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PANK has a holiday sale on right now (until January 1, 2013). Check it out: HOLIDAY SALE: At least 25% off all PANK merchandise. See the PayPal drop down menu below for sale prices. As a very special bonus, we’re also offering the [PANK] Holiday Bundle for that hard to buy for litnerd in your life. The bundle includes PANK Magazine print editions 5, … Read More PANK holiday sale — including 25% off I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND

+ 2012, books, fiction, flash fiction, I Am Holding Your Hand, independent, literary, short stories, short story, small press

Enter for your chance to win a copy of I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND

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 I AM HOLDING YOUR HAND is forthcoming from [PANK] Books in January 2013. Click here and enter for your chance to WIN one of two signed copies. And please spread the word!    

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Guest Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly for week of 1/9-1/15/2012

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I’m excited to announce that I will be the guest editor at SmokeLong Quarterly for the week of 1/9-1/15/2012. Hope you will please consider submitting your work during that week. I promise I will read it with great care. ETA: if you submit before 1/9, I won’t be able to read it. So if you’d like to submit during my time there, please wait until … Read More Guest Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly for week of 1/9-1/15/2012

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Matter Press: Open Reading for Prose Chapbook (January)

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Saw this on Kathy Fish’s blog: Matter Press: Open Reading for Prose Chapbook (January).

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Hard to Say, by Ethel Rohan

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I do believe that Hard to Say, a painfully beautiful linked collection of stories by Ethel Rohan, will leave you as speechless as it did me. The book begins with a young woman whose own desire not to speak her family’s many secrets chokes her. It is not until she envisions herself speaking, through a dream of bloodletting, that her stories are set free. Long kept hidden … Read More Hard to Say, by Ethel Rohan

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Wild Life, by Kathy Fish

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If you’re like me, when you finish the brilliant new chapbook Wild Life just about every other page will be dog eared. From the prodigal brother eating watermelon in the dark, to the Payless shoe store clerk who may or may not be a child abductor, to the couple with the new bed, you will turn the last page of this book and feel … Read More Wild Life, by Kathy Fish

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Mad to Live, by Randall Brown

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The stories in this new printing of Randall Brown’s debut chapbook, Mad to Live, absolutely sparkle with desire—for life, for love, for something unnamable. They are stories about sons and fathers and husbands and wives and lovers—all burning with want. I found words for this want in one of the “bonus track” stories entitled “Out of Love” in which the narrator says: “The ache … Read More Mad to Live, by Randall Brown

+ fiction, flash fiction, Kathy Fish, Katrina Denza, writers

new at wigleaf

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Two beautiful new stories at wigleaf: Peace, by Katrina Denza & Swicks Rule!, by Kathy Fish

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Big World, by Mary Miller

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I first encountered the work of Mary Mill when I was guest editor for SmokeLong Quarterly and my friend Katrina Denza suggested I check out her writing. I did and asked her to submit for the issue. She sent us this: A Blind Dog Named Killer and a Colony of Bees. All this is to say that before I even cracked the spine of … Read More Big World, by Mary Miller

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A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness — my review at Quick Fiction

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I’m delighted to direct your attention to my review of A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women over at Quick Fiction. I loved the book and so will you. So please do order yourself a copy. I promise you will be captivated.

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