May Word Riot

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Prose by Patricia Abbott, Linda Boroff, Scott Boyan, Gretchen Clark, Sean Cunningham, Steve Finbow, Heather Fowler, Scott Hughes, Stephanie Johnson, Mike Jones, Anthony J. Mohr, Gary Moshimer, Jill Mountain and Aliya Whiteley

Poetry by Vince Anello, Julia Colterjohn, Linda Delmonico Prussen, Justin Hyde, Steven Kunert, David LaBounty, Dave Morrison, Crisanta Pantoja, Kellie Powell, Jeri Rafter, Douglas Silver, Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau, Allison Tobey and Ami Vaughn

Reviews of Digging the Vein by Tony O’Neill and The Meter Is Running & We’re Almost Out Of Change by Ananda Selah Osel.

Plus, another installment of Your Main Readerman 4: Mad Libs Edition by Timmy Waldron

Pre-order The Suburban Swindle

You can now pre-order my short story collection, The Suburban Swindle, over at my publisher’s site.

Price is $10 plus $2.50 shipping.

My Beautiful Book

I can’t thank David Barringer enough. Look at the beautiful cover he designed for me:

Suburban Swindle blurb

“Sharp, bold, and deeply affecting, Jackie Corley’s stories are like poetry made from the gritty stuff of hard-scrabble life. Dead garden snakes and forgotten video games, gravestone statues that seem to dance in the night: in Corley’s able hands, the mundane, even the ugly, are transformed. The young men and women who struggle through her slim, piercing collection, stay with you long after you’ve finished reading; tough-talking and scarred, tattooed and tender, they search Corley’s dirty, sparkling New Jersey streets for something always just out of reach.

“A fiercely original debut. Corley is a talent to watch.”

-Scott Snyder, author of Voodoo Heart

Bad math

I played around with my calculator and came up with these Word Riot submission stats for April 2008:

Submissions: 195
Rejected: 144
Accepted: 25
Pending/Withdrawn/Jackie’s bad math: 26

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I updated a bunch of pages on this site, including Articles/Interviews, Now (which existed in a state of suspended animation for like a year), Readings, Reviews/Blurbs and Writing.

Also, all posted news on The Suburban Swindle has been tagged and has it’s own page here.

Interviews! News! Etc.!

I did a couple interviews that recently got posted:

1. Pilcrow Lit Fest blog
2. Absolute Write

Also, I went to the KGB Bar on Friday night and caught the tail end of this reading. I met Tony O’Neill, Lee Rourke, Mikael Covey and Mark Edmund Doten for the first time. There were drinks. There was writer talk. There was Mars Bar. Covey did a write up of the evening over at Lit Up Magazine.

Everybody go to Pilcrow

The Pilcrow Lit Fest takes over Chicago from May 22 - May 25. I haven’t been this excited for a lit festival since the 215 Festival, circa 2003.

I think Amy Guth is some sorta marketing genius (in addition to being a fantastic writer). The list of attendees is a who’s-who of the small press world. Pilcrow is probably going to grow up into some mega festival in years to come, so I decided I have to be there when it all goes down in ‘08. (I’m going to be on a couple panels at Pilcrow, so drop by if you’re in Chicago.)

There are so many writers and publishers I can’t wait to meet. A lot of us know each other through email, Facebook, web sites or whatever but haven’t gotten a chance to meet face to face yet. I’m really looking forward to that.

Donate to Pilcrow:

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While in Chicago, I’m going to be doing a reading with Kevin Sampsell (Future Tense Publishing) and James Stegall (So New Publishing) at Quimby’s. Check it out.

Sampsell, Stegall & Corley Read at Quimby’s
We’re not just publishers. We actually write stuff too.
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Quimby’s Bookstore
Street: 1854 W. North Ave.
City/Town: Chicago, IL

storySouth Million Writers Award

Word Riot has four stories shortlisted in this year’s storySouth Million Writers Award:

• “The Mystery of Advertising and the Monkey of God” by Ravsten Cottle
  http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1099
• “This Is Me American Style” by Maria Deira
  http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1340
• “Another’s Table” by Nicholas Hayes
  http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1368
• “Too Much Asia to Wipe Off” by Tom Sheehan
  http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1369

The Million Writers Award is probably the best-known online writing award out there. I got to be one of the judges for the second year in a row. Rockin.

The list of notable stories will be whittled down to 10 and then go up for a poll vote.

But can I get a coffee mug?

Columbia College Chicago has this pretty impressive Publishing Lab to help their students get a feel for fiction and poetry markets, both print and online.

Students research the lit mags and write up market sheets rating them. If you’re new to the writing/publishing game, it’s an invaluable resource.

Book cover

Summer 2008

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