It’s no secret that I LOVE the Oxford American, and right now, they have a sweet deal on subscription prices. Do NOT hesitate. Sign up today!! Here’s what OA’s Circulation Director says:
For a limited time The Oxford American is offering its lowest subscription rate ever! A one-year subscription is only $10.95 which includes this year’s […]

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The Oxford American Home Issue

The new issue of the Oxford American is out, and get this—it’s a HOME issue! But not a home issue as in a fancy display of products and projects only a few can afford. Nope, this is a home issue about “the real places we live…and the intimate relationships we […]

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“Like a Giant Beacon” by Matt Bell in Juked.
and this:
“Hook” by Claudia Smith in Storyglossia.
and this:
“No More Happy Birthdays” by Suzanne Halmi in Subtropics.

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Hey, all you poets, head on over to BlogTalk Radio and listen to Alaina Alexander interview the “calming” and “elegant” Hilda Weiss. Yes, those are Alaina’s words, but she’s right. Hilda reads her work in a rich, soothing voice—like creamy chocolate—and her pacing is spot on. My favorite thing about Hilda’s speaking, however? She’s comfortable […]

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BEFORE YOU SHE WAS A PITBULL by Elizabeth Ellen, published by Future Tense Books in late 2006, can be purchased through Future Tense or Powell’s Books for $5.
Reasons you should buy this:
Elizabeth’s prose will knock you on your ass.
It will make you uncomfortable.
It might make you blush.
Her stories are full of men, women, and dysfunction.
Also, […]

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My food blog, flavor a deux, is now accepting submissions. Read this poem, “Gastronomic Geographic”, by GC Smith, and look for more of his work in upcoming weeks.

Roy Kesey’s short story collection, All Over, forthcoming from Dzanc Books in October, is now available for pre-order. Kesey’s work is smart and inventive. You won’t be disappointed. […]

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Go read this beauty.


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My flash “Ladies’ Man” was published by 3:AM Magazine on June 15. Go see.

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My writer’s profile appears on Art Springboard. Also check out Antonios Maltezos and Dennis Mahagin’s profiles. And don’t forget to read Per Contra, and UR Paranormal, the two journals associated with this site!

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My prose poem, “Bliss, Idaho,” published in the current issue of flashquake, was chosen by Emerging Writer’s Network as the February 25 Work of the Day. Thank you, Dan Wickett! See what he has to say.

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Roy Kesey, the author of the novella Nothing in the World, will have his short story “Wait” in this year’s Best American Short Stories anthology. “Wait” first appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of They Kenyon Review, and will be included in his collection to be published by Dzanc Books in October. The story was […]

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My flash “Disintegration”, which appeared in issue 26 of Vestal Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Read “Disintegration” here.
Read Katrina Denza’s review of “Disintegration” for Smokelong Quarterly here.
For more information on the Pushcart Prize, go here.

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Roy Kesey, author of Nothing in the World, will publish his first short story collection with Dzanc Books in October 2007. The collection, titled All Over, “presents 19 of his most original and provocative stories,” several of which have previously appeared in Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Other Voices, and The Iowa Review. George Saunders has […]

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Want to read something fun and bizarre? Head over to samizdada and read “Mary Davidson’s Blue Hand’ by Gary Cadwallader. Here’s an excerpt:
There are voices and dogs barking in the distance. The pale blue hand of Mary Davidson does not hear. It is, after all, only a hand, disembodied and rather petite. Still, the fingers […]

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Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie’s second novel, was released in the US by Knopf earlier this month. Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, one of my favorite books. It won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and […]

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“A Woman Who” by Mary Lynn Reed is live at Chick Flicks e-zine. Read it. It’s worth your time.

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Katrina Denza, guest editor for Smokelong Quarterly’s issue 13, reviewed and recommended my flash “Disintegration”, which was published by Vestal Review in July 2006. Read her review here: SLQ Recommends. Thanks, Katrina!

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The online version of Vestal Review’s new issue is now available. Go read my flash “Disintegration”, and be sure to check out Brian Reynolds’ piece, “Raking Summer Leaves”, too! For those of you who want to order the print copy, visit the “Subscribe” page.

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Nothing in the World a novella by Roy Kesey
RELEASE DATE / May 16, 2006
Publisher / Bullfight Media
ISBN / 0-9755220-4-3
$8 US / 116 pages
“Nothing in the World is a war story unlike any other—a dark, surreal, surprisingly funny and offbeat fable of madness, innocence and survival.
Here is the story of Josko Banovic, a lonely schoolboy who, […]

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