The Virginia Project Diaries, by Tina Barry
Welcome to the Virginia Project Diaries. This is the first of four focused interactions with writer Tina Barry, and her upcoming exhibition, The Virginia Project. Tina Barry has long had a fascination with Virginia Haggard, the partner of the artist Marc Chagall, and...
read moreShow Her A Flower by Peg Alford Pursell; Second Edition, WTAW Press
Ever focus so hard on a star that it disappears? The human eye’s anatomical constraints allow for only oblique attention to life’s wonders. The heart likewise skews in relation to life’s calamities. In her collection, Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, Peg Alford...
read moreBending Genres New 50mm MicroFiction Contest
50mm Fiction is our new Bending Genres microfiction contest. The premise of the contest is simple: write a piece of fiction, 50 words or less, using the 50mm photo as a prompt. Here is our photo prompt: This month's contest will be judged by none other than...
read moreBending Genres Q & A with author Lynn Mundell
Lynn Mundell attended our first Bending Genres retreat at Synergia Ranch, outside of Santa Fe last September. We asked Lynn six questions about her experience at the retreat and her writing: What went into the decision to attend the Synergia Ranch September 2017...
read moreKiss, Kiss by Paul Beckman, Truth Serum Press
It’s not especially shocking to find a teenaged narrator playing strip poker with his elderly babysitter in Paul Beckman’s latest flash fiction collection, Kiss Kiss. In fact, that kid is probably better off than the boy who finds his brothers waiting to kill the...
read moreI Don’t Know About You But by Kara Vernor
I Don’t Know About You But by Kara Vernor, [A Craft Essay] I read and write because it’s cheaper than travelling and the second best way I know to surprise myself and feel something new. To remind myself that my daily trappings—showering, running my face through a...
read moreThe Expanse Between by Lee L. Krecklow, Winter Goose Publishing
Wisconsinite Lee L. Krecklow's novel raises interesting questions about storytelling and ethics. He pits the “I saw it, I own it” social media mindset vs individual privacy rights. Thomas Stone, a reclusive writer whose early success never gained traction, is...
read moreA Report on Reports by Brian Evenson (The Cupboard, 2018)
A Report on Reports by Brian Evenson (The Cupboard, 2018) by Jonathan Cardew I was going to write a report on Reports by Brian Evenson—and I still am, it’s still happening right now—but I must admit to a little bit of trepidation in doing so....
read moreAll The Ghosts We’ve Always Had by Jules Archer, Thirty West Publishing, 2018
All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had by Jules Archer, Thirty West Publishing House, 2018 By Robert Scotellaro Here is a gutsy mosaic of moments. Moments masterfully and poetically rendered. Authentic travels through growth and living. Of family fractures and survival....
read moreWe Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida, New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula, edited by Shane Hinton, Burrow Press, 2017
We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida, New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula, edited by Shane Hinton, Burrow Press, 2017 by Jennifer Fliss Burrow Press has curated a collection as weird, wacky, and diverse as that southern spongey mass of terrain and people… in a good...
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Kiss, Kiss by Paul Beckman, Truth Serum PressIt’s not especially shocking to find a teenaged […]- Pretty ThingsThe last thing my mother does before supper is put on […]
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