Ben Percy - Dogs Contributor - Novel - The Wilding

The Wilding - Novel by Ben Percy - Graywolf Press

One of the Best of the Northwest for fall/winter - 2010 - Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association


http://benjaminpercy.com/the%20wilding.htm

Hobie Anthony - Contributor News - Apparatus Magazine

Read" "It's Next Door" by Hobie Anthony

In Apparatus Magazine

Hobie Anthony (Portland, Oregon) writes flash fiction, and is starting a novel and polishing a collection of linked short stories. He has been published online at Wigleaf, Dogzplot, and Ghoti. The forthcoming print anthology, "Dogs: Wet and Dry," will be his first print publication. In his spare time, Anthony rides his classic Schwinn Speedster through the streets of Portland.

www.apparatusmagazine.com

Editor - Stefanie Freele - Short Story Collection Released - title "Feeding Strays"

Dogs: Wet & Dry Editor News: Stefanie Freele's Short Story Collection titled "Feeding Strays" released by Lost Horse Press.

To order signed copies:
http://www.stefaniefreele.com/id25.html


Back Cover Blurb: A woman hides from her husband in a fish tank and another absently bakes sponges inside her tarts. Appliances drop from the sky, men grapple with chainsaws, women struggle with hormonal violence, and abandoned boys beg on doorsteps. Enter into the territory of broken people and the folks that love them. Sensitive and unruly, sincere and absurd, Stefanie Freele’s Feeding Strays is a collection of fifty short stories, both slipstream and modern, about children, family, relationships, and oysters.

"These expert, graceful mini-portraits of the life-jostled, the uncallused,
and all the others who struggle with familyhood, are moving, sensitive, funny, and true. Stefanie Freele is a writer with a grip on the human spirit. "
—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation

www.stefaniefreele.com

www.losthorsepress.com

Contributor News: Bruce Boston - Bram Stoker Award

Bruce Boston's dark poetry book, "The Nightmare Collection" (Dark Regions, 2008) has received the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writer's Association.

http://www.bruceboston.com/DoubleVisions.html

Also, Bruce's most recent poetry collection "Double Visions" a collaboration with ten other speculative poets has just been released by Dark Regions.

Announcing: Sherrie Flick's New Novel: "Reconsidering Happiness"

University of Nebraska Press presents "Reconsidering Happiness" a novel by Sherrie Flick.

To order:

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Reconsidering-Happiness,674199.aspx

The two silent Ss of Des Moines beckon twenty-three-year-old Vivette with a sexy finger, and a promise. So, in the mid-1990's, she convinces Grandpa Joe-Joe to sell his Buick for twenty dollars, leaves behind her friends, her job at a hip New England bakery, and an affair with a married man, and moves to Iowa. Margaret who left the same bakery years earlier on her own restless quest, offers pointers from her cautiously settled Nebraska life.

In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, dissapointment and desire, stretching from the East Coast to the West, these two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises, shared over pool tables, postcards, and shots of whiskey. Starting up, starting over, slowing down, they crisscross each other's lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course.

MOTEL - Fiction by Stefanie Freele - Bannock Street Books

The innovative new publisher Bannock Street Books presents the artbook/chapbook MOTEL: a short story by Stefanie Freele paired with photography contributed by Sarah Black.

MOTEL will soon be available on the Bannock Street Books website: http://www.bannockstreetbooks.com/

In the meantime, signed copies of the book are available from the author:

$7 plus $2 shipping

Paypal: Babingas@aol.com

Or by check:

Stefanie Freele
1083 Vine St. #352
Healdsburg, Ca 95448

Contributor News - Daniel Olivas -

Daniel Olivas's story, "Gordon," which will be featured in Dogs: Wet & Dry, will also appear in his latest collection, Anywhere but L.A.: Stories, forthcoming this fall from Arizona State University's Bilingual Press. Daniel recently moderated a panel at the AWP Conference in Chicago on his recent book, Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press, 2008), where Daniel brings together 60 years of Los Angeles fiction by Latino writers. Website: http://www.danielolivas.com/.

Contributor News: Barry Graham's The National Virginity Pledge

Now available - Barry Graham's The National Virginity Pledge - Short Stories and other Lies

http://www.anothersky.org/in-print/the-national-virginity-pledge-barry-graham/

Praise for The National Virginity Pledge!

“Barry Graham’s heroes want to love, yet bigger than their love for people and things is their capacity to destroy the objects of their affection. He doesn’t scorn them, though; he treats them with care and a loving tenderness. He turns grief, betrayal, and violence into something close to poetry, and finds beauty in places we should never wish to visit.”–Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived a Girl (Low Fidelity Press)

“…with its clipped, achingly real dialogue, and its effortless and vivid description, it achieves a relentless undercurrent of: “Look closer: there is more.”"–Mary Lynn Reed, 5 Star Literary Stories

“Barry Graham’s stories are little cries for help from way in the corners and deep in the cracks of contemporary fiction.”–Jeff Parker, Ovenman (Tin House)

“Barry Graham’s writing hits hard because it is raw and honest. He will suck you in with equal parts everydayness and voyeurism.”–Aaron Burch, Hobart: Another Literary Journal

“…it remains a funny, reckless, fast paced, and edgy voice from beginning to end.”–Dan Wickett, Emerging Writers Network

Tasty Moments In Great Flash

Oh, but there are so many wonderful examples of fantastic flash fiction.
Here are just a few. These three are also edible.

Matt Bell - Custard's Last Stand - Dogzplot

http://dogzplot.blogspot.com/2008/02/custards-last-stand-matt-bell.html

Spencer Wise - Potatoes - SmokeLong Quarterly

http://www.smokelong.com/flash/spencerwise23.asp

Ravi Mangla - Death By Chocolate Eclair - elimae

http://www.elimae.com/2008/October/Eclair.html

Submission Period Closed

The submission period has closed as of 12/1. The response to the call for submissions has been fantastic and more than expected. Many wonderful stories!
Responses will be sent in the next few weeks.

Randall Brown - 2008 Flume Press Award Winner

Randall Brown, contributor for Dogs: Wet & Dry, won the 2008 Flume Press Chapbook contest with his short fiction collection Mad To Live.

Interview with Randall Brown: http://whidbeystudents.com/fiction/


From Flume Press:

Randall Brown’s flash fiction collection, Mad to Live, exists at the intersection where quirkiness and originality blend into something entirely new: a new voice in fiction that’s rapturous and funny and daring, with many layers of depth floating beneath the lyrical and crystalline surface. This is work of certain genius, raw genius hammered and compressed into short short stories that move us like poetry, that make us long, like the oddball characters in Randall’s collection, to devour life with the gusto with which a pregnant woman crunches down bugs. Raw, beautiful, ugly, supremely funny: Brown’s fiction lures us in then mesmerizes us with its incredible siren songs of loss.

–Terri Brown-Davidson, author of Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight and The Doll Artist's Daughter
With a keen, witty eye and a sensitive heart, the author manages, in the deft brushstrokes of the very short story, to capture the dizzy array of life’s twists and turns, keeping us in wonder and rapture all the while.

– Rob Davidson, author of Field Observations



Flume Press - http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/flumepress/chapbook_23.html

Randall Brown - http://randalldouglasbrown.blogspot.com/

Benjamin Percy - The Whiting Award - Congratulations

Benjamin Percy, contributor for Dogs: Wet & Dry and author of a novel, The Wilding (forthcoming from Graywolf in 2009), and two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), has just won the $50,000 Whiting Award. The award is given to emerging writers based on accomplishment and promise.

When congratulated on his news, Ben responded, "A part of me is still standing on the stage, blinking, completely dumbfounded."

Congratulations to Benjamin!!!


http://www.whitingfoundation.org/


http://www.benjaminpercy.com/

Bruce Holland Rogers - Short Short Stories

Bruce Holland Rogers will be writing the introduction to Dogs: Wet & Dry - A Collection of Canine Flash Fiction.

Bruce Holland Rogers also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Spain's Premio Ignotus.

More info: http://www.sff.net/people/bruce/

"Definitions of flash fiction are often made for editorial convenience. Should these stories be no more than 500 words? Seven hundred and fifty? A thousand? What matters far more than the arbitrary word count is the effect of the story.
Flash fiction is efficient. At its best, the flash of flash fiction is the dazzle of lightning, stunning the reader with both brevity and brilliance."
-- Bruce Holland Rogers

Short short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers can be found on:
http://www.shortshortshort.com/

A recent interview -
http://www.kellyspitzer.com/2008/10/13/an-interview-with-bruce-holland-rogers-by-stefanie-freele/

Dogs: Wet & Dry - What is this? More to follow.

There are many versions of Dog. Man's best friend doesn't just deliver love, licks and loyalty; with the territory come fleas, bites and fights. Dogs: Wet and Dry is an eclectic collection of gutsy, intelligent, fierce, and funny flash fiction -- canine style. Rick Bass provides the foreword and Bruce Holland Rogers an introduction to flash fiction. From heartfelt, to humorous, to quirky, the anthology is filled with the distinctive voices of talented established and emerging writers.

Dogs: Wet & Dry - A Collection of Canine Flash Fiction - INTRODUCTION

The first post of Dogs: Wet & Dry - A Collection of Canine Flash Fiction.


From humorous to heartfelt to quirky - an anthology of short short stories about DOGS.
Foreword by Rick Bass, Introduction by Bruce Holland Rogers.