Ed Champion announced today that he will cease blogging at the Return of the Reluctant so he can focus on writing stories and essay.
Sad, sad day. This is like when MobyLives went away. What’s a litster to do?
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In Word Riot news, the December issue is up and I gave the site a wider format. Enjoy.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on December 18, 2007
Word Riot
http://www.wordriot.org
In this month’s issue:
* Fiction by Chuck Augello, Randall Brown, Lawrence Buentello, Andrew Coburn, Maria Deira, David Gianatasio, Drew Lackovic, Mathias Nelson, John Nyman, Mitch Omar, Nick Ostdick, Philip Oyok, Sean Ruane and Corey Zeller
* Experimental writing by Christopher Higgs
* Poetry by Adetokunbo Adetuyi, Zoe Alexandra, Harold Bowes, Doug Cornett, Michael Estabrook, Annmarie O’Connor, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Alaina Schneider and James Ray Scott
* Creative non-fiction by Ryan Michael Commins
* An interview with Jen Michalski by Joseph Young
* Reviews of We Swallow(ed) Spiders In Our Sleep by Zachary C. Bush; ABUSE ART. not children by Robert Pomerhn; and CELEBRATION OF SAMATHA by t. kilgore splake
Social Networking:
http://www.myspace.com/wordriotpress
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5943923626
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on November 26, 2007
Everybody’s lighting a torch to Amazon’s new e-reader before it even gets its bearings. I don’t get the fury against the thing. If I had the money, I’d be snatching up the Kindle in a second.
In the mean time, I’m converting Word Riot Press books into HTML format, putting the files through Amazon’s digital text platform and making them available for sale on the Amazon Kindle store. I’m going to try to get Word Riot’s monthly issues available through the Kindle store (for like a dime an issue or whatever the lowest price is that I can list them for).
A lot of folks seem to read Word Riot when they’re taking a breather at work. Think of other period of downtime when readers might be up for losing themselves in a short story — while commuting, for example. I like the idea that an online magazine could be made available on a hand held machine and read any time, anywhere on a screen that looks like paper. Maybe this can be a means to spread the reach of online lit mags. Or maybe I’m thinking all crazy-like while I’m jonesing for Turkey Day.
This post was written by Jackie Corley on November 21, 2007
I added Digg, del.icio.us and reddit links on Word Riot. I also started a Facebook group for the site. I feel accomplished.
This issue has fiction by Casey Anderson, Vanessa Carlisle, Damian Dressick, Robert Duffer, Christopher Foley, M. Thomas Gammarino, Steven Gillis, J. Conrad Guest, Kilean Kennedy, Jala Pfaff, Christian Rose, Caleb Ross and J. A. Tyler; poetry by Michelle Ashley, Aya Bassiouny, Lisa J. Cihlar, Janie Hofmann, David LaBounty, David Luntz, Shawn Misener, Denis Robillard, Daniel Wilcox and Joshua Young; and creative non-fiction by Kevin Ó Cuinn, Aimee Caruso and Jessica Wheeler.
There is also a review of Winter of Different Directions by Stephen McDermott as well as an interview with Robert Lopez.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on September 18, 2007
Coming soon to Literary Death Match:Timmy “The Enforcer” Waldron
Word Riot Fiction Editor
Repping Word RiotTimmy’s stuff is hella funny and he will totally lay the smackdown on any opponent.
Also, Timmy is from Jersey and Jersey triumphs all.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on July 27, 2007
What: U.S. Launch Party for ‘The Flash’
When: Sunday, July 22 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY
Peter Wild’s “The Flash” is an anthology of flash fiction by 100 writers. (More info here.)
Word Riot Press is sponsoring the East Coast launch party for “The Flash” at the KGB Bar. Readers at the event include Andrew Lewis Conn, Nic Kelman, Nathan Tyree, Paul Blaney, Jackie Corley and a surprise guest or two.
The book will be on sale at the reading for $12 and all proceeds go to Amnesty International.
This is the first WRP-sponsored event since 2003, so come and we’ll make it a time.
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READER BIOS:
Andrew Lewis Conn is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, P (SoftSkull, 2003). Following a starred review in Kirkus, P was chosen as one of the summer’s best books by The Austin Chronicle, Nerve, The Oregonian, Salon, and Time Out New York, and was named one of the best books of the year by The Village Voice and The Austin Chronicle. P was translated into Greek by Electra Publishing and into Portuguese for publication in Brazil by Editora W11.
Conn’s other writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Film Comment, Time Out New York, and The Believer. He has been a resident at the Ledig House International Writers’ Colony and Yaddo.
A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University, Conn recently completed his second book, The Last American Novel and is at work on his third, O, Africa!
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Nic Kelman is the international bestselling novel, Girls, published by Little, Brown and Co. as well as Video Game Art, an art history of video games published by Assouline. His writing and photography have appeared,among other places, in Elle, Glamour, The Village Voice, and Black Book, as well as various anthologies. He holds a B.S. from MIT and an M.F.A. from Brown University.
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Nathan Tyree is a writer from Kansas. His fiction and poetry has appeared in places like Edifice Wrecked; decomP; The Beat; Doorknobsand Body Paint; Flesh and Blood; Problem Child; The Shallow End; Lightning Journal; Journal of Modern Post and too many others to list. In addition to The Flash his work has been anthologized several times. Nathan is the author of Mr. Overby is Falling. He has never mastered the oboe.
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Paul Blaney is a fortysomething British writer now based in New Jersey. He’s had short stories published in numerous UK magazines and journals, but so far America remains immune to his charms. He is co-founder and organiser of Tales of the DeCongested (www.decongested.com) a London-based short story reading event, and of Apis Books (www.apisbooks.com).
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Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She developed Word Riot in March 2002 with the help of Paula Anderson. Word Riot Press,an independent publishing press, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003. Jackie’s writing has appeared on-line at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and SerialText and in print in BOOM! For Real and Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media).
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on July 17, 2007
We’ll have interviews with Jack Pendarvis, Tony O’Neill and Tao Lin in the July issue. Miles Clark interviewed Jack Pendarvis. Tony O’Neill and Tao Lin interviewed each other.
I got snippy with Tao a while ago but later cooled down and made nice with Tao at BookExpo America. He drew depressed-seeming animals in the books he signed for me. Tao draws very well and uses clean, curvy lines. Now you know.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on July 10, 2007
Word Riot: Good writing, no remorse since March 2002.
http://www.wordriot.org
Read Marshall Moore’s “Infinite Monkey Theorem”:
http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=893
Then vote for it in the storySouth Million Writer’s Award:
http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2007vote.html
In this month’s issue:
* Interviews with Nick Antosca and Charles Blackstone
* Reviews of The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla, Your Body Is Changing by Jack Pendarvis, The Fathers We Find by Charles P. Ries and Mad Hatters’ Review
* Fiction by Paula Bomer, Nick Bredie, John Colvin, Will Curl, Dave De Fina, Nick Fair, Katherine L. Holmes, John McCaffrey, Sam Nelson, James Stark and Gavin Tierney
* Poetry by Abraham Gibson, Kenneth P. Gurney, J.D. Heskin, David LaBounty, Lynn Levin, M, Troy Schoultz, Ron Singer, Gary Smillie, Splake , Jade Sylvan and Mauricio Vieira
Other news:
* Map o’ Readings: http://readings.wordriot.org
* MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wordriotpress
* David Barringer’s literary sitcom (litcom!), “American Home Life,” will be out by the end of this month. Find out more here: http://www.sonewpublishing.com/
* Peter Wild’s “The Flash” features flash fiction by 100 writers including Rick Moody, Sam Lipsyte, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Almond, Andrew Lewis Conn, and Word Riot publisher Jackie Corley. All proceeds go to Amnesty International. Order it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0955282934
* Come to a launch party for “The Flash” at KGB Bar (http://www.kgbbar.com) in New York City on July 22, hosted by Word Riot.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on June 16, 2007
(I emailed this out but the I think Doteasy jammed up my php script and didn’t send out more than 100. Bitches. I have yet to find a decent mass e-mailing program.)
Word Riot: Good writing, no remorse since March 2002.
http://www.wordriot.org
In this month’s issue:
* Interviews with author Arnon Grunberg and Bookmuch founder and editor of “The Flash” Peter Wild
* Fiction by Seth Berg, Emily M. Z. Carlyle, Randall DeVallance, Mitch Grabois, Eva Konstantopoulos, Cally Taylor, Jared Young, Bonnie ZoBell, and James Lewelling
* Creative non-fiction by Noah Cicero
* Poetry by Alfred Bruey, Ryan Downey, Joanna Friedman, Jo L. Gerrard, Joey Hoats, Eddie Kilowatt, Chris Major, David Myers, Alveraz Ricardez, Ian Simmons, Tyler Stoddard Smith, Joseph R. Trombatore, and Nicolette Westfall
Other news:
* Word Riot has a slight redesign that should decrease page load time and be easier on your poor little eyes.
* The Map o’ Readings is now actually being updated and uses Google Maps. Take a look: http://readings.wordriot.org
* We’re on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wordriotpress
* David Barringer’s literary sitcom (litcom!), “American Home Life,” will be coming out in June. Find out more here: http://www.sonewpublishing.com/
* Peter Wild’s “The Flash” features flash fiction by 100 writers including Rick Moody, Sam Lipsyte, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Almond, Andrew Lewis Conn, and Word Riot publisher Jackie Corley. All proceeds go to Amnesty International. Order it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0955282934
* Come to a launch party for “The Flash” at KGB Bar (http://www.kgbbar.com) in New York City on July 22, hosted by Word Riot.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 21, 2007
I’m working on a very slight redesign for Word Riot to have up for the May issue (May 15).
It basically makes the homepage less graphics-intensive and will slow down the page load time.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 13, 2007
