To see your work in print online is thrilling, but there’s something kinesthetically thrilling about holding a ‘zine that houses you or your friends’ work. E-zines are fantastic and I am a frequent reader of some, but I am strictly for keeping my literary arts journal to print and print only. [Read more]

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Fictionaut Five: Adam Robinson
   Luna Digest, 10/26

In 5 years big houses will be trying out some disingenuous-seeming imprint like “HarperAmateur” or something that will accept many more manuscripts, but only for ebook publication. There will be a thousand 24-year-old editors working on bad books. No one will buy these. In 10 years, it will be back to the way it is now, except there will be more small presses doing only digital books. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 10/26
   Checking in with Hopeless Romantic

Electric Literature envisions a new (and “robust”) market for fiction: “Literature, Plugged In“. Editors and publishers are really going to want to read the entire thing: [Read more]

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   Checking in with Hopeless Romantic
   Fictionaut Five: Paula Bomer

The best stories/poems from Fictionaut and other online submissions will be selected for the 2011 River Poets Journal Special Edition titled, “The Hopeless Romantic.” [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Paula Bomer
   Luna Digest, 10/19

I wrote Baby and Other Stories quite some time ago. It’s sort of like looking at old high school pictures for me, reading this book again. That said, I stand by it, stand by the work and what it has to say. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 10/19
   Checking in with the Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest

I want to devote this entire post to potentially the most exciting thing to happen in lit mag reading since Bill Henderson launched The Pushcart Prize in 1976: The new Literary Magazine Club over at HTMLGIANT—hosted and created by Roxane Gay. [Read more]

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   Checking in with the Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest
   Fictionaut Joins LitSense
   Fictionaut Five: Janice Eidus

Our Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period runs from today through December 1, 2010, and our 2010 judge will be Kim Chinquee. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Joins LitSense
   Fictionaut Five: Janice Eidus
   Luna Digest, 10/12

We’ve teamed up with LitSense, a new advertising network dedicated specifically to literary websites. The ads you’ll see are for books by independent and web-savvy publishers that should — we hope — be interesting to Fictionauts. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Janice Eidus
   Checking in With Ramshackle
   Fictionaut Five: Jane Ciabattari
   Fictionaut Reading @ KGB in New York, Oct. 17

My intention while writing The Last Jewish Virgin was to simultaneously honor, subvert, and tweak the traditions and tropes of vampire myth and literature, which has long been a major obsession of mine. I felt as if I were engaging in an ongoing dialogue with all the writers who’ve explored the vampire myth before me, and with all those who’ll explore it after me — as if we’re an endless chain of writers stretching into eternity and beyond. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 10/12
   Checking in With Ramshackle
   Fictionaut Reading @ KGB in New York, Oct. 17

Nice redesign at Dark Sky Magazine—and a first issue for them, available in print and online, with writing from Gabe Durham, Jensen Beach, Molly Gaudry, Rusty Barnes, and others. Plus, there’s a bear on the cover. [Read more]

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   Checking in With Ramshackle
   Fictionaut Five: Jane Ciabattari
   Fictionaut Reading @ KGB in New York, Oct. 17