Titles give me so much trouble, I’ve thought of numbering my stories instead, but then everyone would see how unfruitful I am. Maybe I’m just lazy. [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in with Trailer Park Quarterly
   Fictionaut Five: C.B. Murphy

It’s pretty simple in the long run. I like poems that make sense and stories with plots and characters. Obviously it’s more complicated than that, but it starts there. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: C.B. Murphy

I’ve been to writing classes where people sit around and wonder what they want to write about and I thought, are you kidding me? Look around… everything’s interesting. [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking In With Dire Reading Series
   Fictionaut Five: James Robison
   How to Subscribe to Fictionaut on Your eReader
   Monday Chat with Kathy Fish

Punk is all about attitude and non-acceptance. Bukowski was a punk. I think literature and performance can cross over if the attitude is there. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: James Robison
   How to Subscribe to Fictionaut on Your eReader
   Monday Chat with Kathy Fish

Before you can be a writer you must make it new and the only way to do that is to run a harrowing, fearless, ruthless self audit. A psychological, emotional, moral inventory. You must know who you are, without delusions or self-deception, and what you find is apt to scare the spit out of you. [Read more]

Recently:
   How to Subscribe to Fictionaut on Your eReader
   Monday Chat with Kathy Fish
   Checking in With Blue Five Notebook

If you have a Kindle, Nook, Kobo Reader or other eReader, you can now subscribe to the latest Fictionaut stories and have them delivered directly to your device in full length. Here’s how. [Read more]

Recently:
   Monday Chat with Kathy Fish
   Checking in With Blue Five Notebook
   Fictionaut Five: Bill Yarrow
   Line Breaks: “Gershwin’s Second Prelude” by Charles Baxter

Monday Chat is a new bi-weekly series in which Susan Tepper has a conversation with a Fictionaut writer about one of his or her stories. For this first installment, Susan talked to Kathy Fish about her story “Snow.” [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in With Blue Five Notebook
   Fictionaut Five: Bill Yarrow
   Line Breaks: “Gershwin’s Second Prelude” by Charles Baxter

As of January 2011, Blue Five Notebook will expand the focus of Blue Fifth Review’s publication of poetry and art to include flash as well. I’m excited about this addition. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Bill Yarrow
   Checking in with Moon Milk Review
   Line Breaks: “Gershwin’s Second Prelude” by Charles Baxter

I write about 3 poems per week. At any one time I have between 60-80 poems out at magazines, often with long return times, six months to a year. I’m not in a hurry. When I hear, I hear. If I get rejected, I take the rejection as an opportunity for revision. [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in with Moon Milk Review
   Line Breaks: “Gershwin’s Second Prelude” by Charles Baxter

We tend to enjoy the quirk. Realism with twists, magic realism, surrealism. We’re not a genre market. We’re all about the story. [Read more]

Recently:
   Line Breaks: “Gershwin’s Second Prelude” by Charles Baxter
   Fictionaut Five: Sara Lippmann