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BENDING GENRES PRESENTS!!! Meg Tuite interviews Garielle Lutz about writing, life and so much more! So honored to have these two amazing writers in conversation…
by Meg Tuite | May 4, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTIyc9wIjL0 And you can order Gari's new book, WORSTED, from SF/LD here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/worsted
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TURMERIC & SUGAR: STORIES by Anna Vangala Jones; review by Dan Crawley
The debut short story collection, Turmeric & Sugar: Stories by Anna Vangala Jones (Thirty West Publishing House), is a feast for the senses and a tour of the challenges of love, triumph, and regret. Throughout, Jones’s prose is a wonderful mix of magic...
My Fave Five- May 2021
May 2021 Series Curator: Jonathan Cardew May Selector: Andrew Bertaina What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in search of the best hybrid, poetry, and flash writing from the previous month. In this edition, we catch up...
MY FAVE FIVE- APRIL 2021
April 2021 Series Curator: Jonathan Cardew April Selector: Minyoung Lee What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in search of the best hybrid, poetry, and flash writing from the previous month. In this edition, we catch up...
BENDING GENRES PRESENTS!!! Meg Tuite interviews Garielle Lutz about writing, life and so much more! So honored to have these two amazing writers in conversation…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTIyc9wIjL0 And you can order Gari's new book, WORSTED, from SF/LD here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/worsted
My Fave Five- March 2021
March 2021 Series Curator: Jonathan Cardew March Selector: Hannah Grieco What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in search of the best hybrid, poetry, and flash writing from the previous month. In this edition, we catch up...
What Are The Chances? by Robert Scotellaro (review by Paul Beckman)
In Robert Scotellaro’s latest collection of gems, “What Are the Chances” he tells us the chances that way only he could write of lovers, friends, family, and more in a way that leaves you shaking your head in wonderment with these fast-paced stories filled...
Time. Wow. by Neil Clark (review by Jonathan Cardew)
Full disclosure: I am a complete and utter sci-fi nerd. Give me Star Trek. Give me LeGuin. Give me 2001: A Space Odyssey. Give me anything that is not of this planet/ space-time continuum-related/full of stars. So when I first came across Neil Clark’s small,...
Demolition in the Tropics by Rogan Kelly (review by Alina Stefanescu)
Rogan Kelly. Demolition in the Tropics. Lewisburg, PA: Seven Kitchens Press, 2019. 28 pages. $9.00. Some readers expect to be punched in the gut repeatedly. Demolition in the Tropics is not for them. Rogan Kelly's poetic line is wistful, impressionistic, similar to...
Death, Desire and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano (review by Dan Crawley)
Tara Isabel Zambrano’s full-length flash collection, Death, Desire, and Other Destinations (Okay Donkey Press, 2020), illuminates, enchants. I’m awestruck with Zambrano’s effortless talent, her swings from stark realism to inventive magic realism. She is...
Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich (reviewed by Audra Kerr Brown)
Audra Kerr Brown lives betwixt the corn and soybean fields of southeast Iowa with her husband and two children.
Bending Genres Q & A with author Karen Stefano (What A Body Remembers) and Emily Bertholf
Q & A : Interview with Karen Stefano, author of What A Body Remembers. Emily Bertholf: Your latest book is a memoir about the life-altering night in 1984 when you were violently attacked on your way home from work and your long struggle of dealing with...
World Traveller Translation App
I have run out of time on this one... but here is my hermit crab wip which I will continue to work on. Thank you so much to you, Jacqueline, and fellow BG writers. This was a fun challenge (but much too short). I loved how well designed the exercises/samples/prompts...
Where to Publish Flash Nonfiction
Sara C. just asked a good question on Twitter and I thought I'd share the answer here. Sara C. just asked a good question on Twitter and I thought I’d share the answer here. I know of two useful lists, neither completely up to date. Lots of magazines list flash...
alt.backpackalaska (1989)
alt.backpackalaska (1989 edition) ~ everyone fears something: joe the guide Intro: Above the valley floor, Mt Doonerak’s rotting glacier calves, shrugs wet slabs away—not what the Backpack Alaska brochure pictured! Below the treeline, black spruce and willow slip down...
clarification
I feel like I must have done a good job with "India Rubber Ball Bounces" as your comments/feedback suggest that you are reading this piece as CNF. To clarify/reassure, I only write flash 'fiction'. - Karen
Things I Can’t Use
Abecedarians. I can't spell the word without Googling it. And now that I've listed all the letters on this page to write the thing, I feel overwhelmed. The alphabet is so long, and as always, I'm not sure I have enough to say. Bananas. On sale for $0.39 a pound....
Bedtime at Sleepy Ranch
When my younger son was in second grade, I, his psychologist mom, visited his class to talk about sleep. When is bedtime? During the school week it seems second graders are sent to bed anywhere from 7:30-9:30 PM, although some second graders report that they don't...
Hidden Mother
Dear Fellow Writers, I may have gotten carried away here, but this was so much fun! Hidden Mother photographs are a thing; I tried to hyperlink this in the text, but it didn't work (or maybe it did-we'll see when I post): https://www.lauralarson.net/curatorial. The...
Ghost Girl Ballet
After Edgar Degas’ “Dance Rehearsal, 1874” People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but that’s not true. Theaters are haunted by bored ghost girls. They’ve spooked everyone worth spooking. Wandered Paris, Rome, Tokyo. Lasted...
An India Rubber Ball Bounces
An India Rubber Ball Bounces - Karen Schauber - I spot the India rubber ball nestled among dozens of nerf/sponge/tennis/stitched pellet and sand filled hacky sack balls in the rolling/throwing/catching/kicking and dribbling toy bin. I hadn't seen the firm spongy 3"...
Hello World
Please work, oh my golly
Sister Copper Hair
I. My sister tells me that if I stare too long at the clothes whirling around in the washer I will get cancer.A. It takes a while for me to figure...
Fave 5: Taylor Byas
Series Curator: Jonathan CardewJune Selector: Taylor Byas What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is...
Demolition in the Tropics by Rogan Kelly (review by Alina Stefanescu)
Rogan Kelly. Demolition in the Tropics. Lewisburg, PA: Seven Kitchens Press, 2019. 28 pages. $9.00. Some readers expect to be punched in the gut...
Death, Desire and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano (review by Dan Crawley)
by Dan Crawley
Tara Isabel Zambrano’s full-length flash collection, Death, Desire, and Other Destinations (Okay Donkey Press, 2020), illuminates,...
Pat Foran: My Fave Five
Series Curator: Jonathan Cardew June Selector: Pat Foran What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in...
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