Aaron Burch first talked to the Writer Profile Project about Hobart, gum, roadtripping and more, on March 7th of last year. Here’s what he’s been up to since then.

Aaron says:

Wow. It’s been a year already! That seemed fast. I think this last year was my best thus far, writing-wise, which was exciting and encouraging. I worked, here and there, on a series of shorts, all called “Overcast,” and had a few of those published, as well as a couple other shorts and slightly longer flash pieces, including one upcoming in the next issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. I had a longer story published in Phoebe (”Perfect” in Spring 2008 issue) and finished a couple other longer stories that I actually like for once that are searching for homes, and I’m now working on some other stuff that I think I am still excited about.

As for Hobart, issue #8 came out a few months ago and was a half regular issue/half Canadian issue, guest-edited by Pasha Malla. That was pretty cool, getting to publish a bunch of really exciting and great Canadian writers who don’t really have very much, if any, exposure down here in the States. The website keeps chugging along, still all in thanks to the web editors. One of the stories from last year (”Overhanded” by Amy Minton) will be anthologized in Dzanc Books’ new and upcoming Best of the Web 2008.

And I think that’s about it. I also grew out a beard and played some Centipede and then trimmed the beard back off so, all in all, a pretty awesome last year.