I began the Conversation Series because I wanted to learn more about creative folks, their work, and why they’ve chosen to dedicate time to making art. Here are some of my favorite answers from 2013. Much love, respect, and gratitude to Susan Tepper, Robert Carlos Garcia, Meg Tuite, James Claffey, Jen Knox, Matt Potter, Bud Smith, Robert Vaughan, and CS DeWildt. Continue reading 2013 Conversation Series – Favorite Answers
Where I thank a bunch of talented people who made 2013 awesome… Continue reading Where I thank a bunch of talented people who made 2013 awesome…
December’s Community is here just in time for the holidays! Congratulations to Jen Knox, Agnes Marton, Gary V. Powell, Paul Beckman, Susan Tepper, Sara Fitzpatrick Comito, and David S. Atkinson. Happy Holidays! Continue reading Community No. 6 – Dec 2013
Getting real about flash fiction with CS DeWildt, author of The Louisville Problem (Bartleby Snopes). Continue reading CS DeWildt – Conversation No. 9
Take a look at November Community’s Lucky 13 –
Prose, poetry, plays, and award-winning writing, oh my! Continue reading Community No. 5 – Nov 2013
I hit the wall in 2010. The year before, my first story was published in Pank. In May of 2010, I graduated from my MFA program. That summer, I attempted to write new stories. I failed. By November, I was feeling lost. I joined the online writing community known as Fictionaut. The first writer to welcome me to the site was Robert Vaughan. For the next six months, I read stories by Robert and other established and emerging writers and poets. Robert’s pieces were always at the top of Fictionaut’s Recommended Stories list and the notice was well-deserved. As a minimalist writer, I’ve experienced my share of disparaging criticism for my work, but Robert offered me encouragement and for that I’m forever grateful. Continue reading Robert Vaughan – Conversation No. 8
Diverse and intriguing voices are part of October’s Community – enjoy these offerings (I sure as heck did). Big congrats to all these writers and poets and thank you for the inspiration! Continue reading Community No. 4 – October 2013
There’s something about Bud Smith, I’m not sure if it’s the name, which has this film noir appeal to it, or if it’s the sense of humor in his work, which is featured in some pretty awesome places around the internet, or if it’s that he’s that super enthusiastic, intelligent, and kind guy I never met in person. Whatever it is, I like Bud. So … Continue reading Bud Smith – Conversation No. 7
September’s Community page features links to fantastic writing from Stephen V Ramey, Michelle Elvy, David S. Atkinson, Marcelle Heath, Mona R. Washington, Susan Tepper, Derek Osborne, Florencia Milito, Kyle Hemmings, Bill Yarrow, and Cynthia-Marie Marmo O’Brien! Continue reading Community No. 3 – Sept 2013
Last year, I submitted a short piece about my parents to Pure Slush. Matt Potter responded to my submission in record time. If you are a writer (or poet, artist, performer), you are accustomed to the Wait. So when an editor (or other gatekeeper) answers to a submission quickly, you’re grateful. If the response is an acceptance, you wanna shout down the halls of the … Continue reading Matt Potter – Conversation No. 6
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The August 2013 – Community page features some choice writings from: Bill Yarrow, Paul Beckman, Jen Knox, Jim Harrington, Steven Gowin, h. l. nelson, David S. Atkinson, Roberto Carlos Garcia, & Guilie Castillo-Oriard. Continue reading Community No. 2 – August 2013
I first met Jen Knox last September. She read at Susan Tepper‘s Fizz Reading Series at KGB Bar in the East Village. Jen was part of a stellar group of readers, which included Stephanie Dickinson, JP Reese, and Roberto Carlos Garcia. I had an online connection with many writers there that night, but I was meeting most of them face-to-face for the first time. These … Continue reading Jen Knox – Conversation No. 5
July 2013 – Community features links to stories and poems from Neil Serven, Michael Gillan Maxwell, Gay Degani, Marcelle Heath, Gloria Mindock, Susan Tepper, Robert Vaughan, Kyle Hemmings, and Will Lemon. Enjoy! Continue reading Community No. 1 – July 2013
Sometimes writers just click. Perhaps it’s a common artistic sensibility, maybe one writer impresses the other with a ballsy technique, or shows the other writer a new way to approach an old narrative problem. All these things are true for me when it comes to James Claffey. I remember seeing one of his flash fiction pieces in Fictionaut and thinking, Wow, beautiful! And when I … Continue reading James Claffey – Conversation No. 4
I learned about Meg Tuite through Facebook. We had some friends in common. My friends posted links to her publications with frequency. I grew curious and began reading her stories and poems. I immediately felt connected to her work. Encouraged by this affinity, I submitted a couple of flash pieces to Connotation Press where Meg is the fiction editor. She urged me to send more and eventually … Continue reading Meg Tuite – Conversation No. 3
Roberto and I met the old-fashioned way writers meet, through our work. I had just come out of a self-imposed, post-MFA, two-year incubation period. As a way to jump-start my writing, I joined an online community for writers called Fictionaut, and began posting a series of flash fiction on that site. My little stories received a modest amount of attention, but, more importantly, there were a … Continue reading Roberto Carlos Garcia – Conversation No. 2
Last April, I attended a poetry reading at KGB, “a Soviet-era themed bar in the East Village of New York City, which once served as a speakeasy for Ukrainian socialists.” The reading’s host was Susan Tepper. Eamon Grennan, Gretl Claggett, and Steve Griffiths were the featured poets. The crowd was older and serious about their poetry. I strode in and parked myself by the bar and ordered … Continue reading Susan Tepper – Conversation No. 1
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