News, News, News

First an administrative note. We have responses down to a very manageable 12-72 hours, on average. We’re happy that it is summer and we have the free time to let you know what’s going on with your submission in a timely manner. Having said that, if you receive a rejection, please do try and wait 3 or 4 days between submissions so that we can cleanse our palate and better enjoy your subsequent submissions. We want your best work and we want to consider your work with the best possible attitude. We appreciate your cooperation.

The 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results are in.

Guidelines have been released for the 2009 Micro Awards. Submit nominations between October 1 and December 31.

Catch the Dollar Store Show tour featuring wonderful writers including several PANK contributors past, present and future in a city near you!

In the Denver Post, David Milofsky has great things to say about alternative presses including the amazing Dzanc Books.

A $1,000 coffee table book? Really?

For the month of July, Everyday Genius will be edited by Stephanie Barber.

Tania Hershman, a past PANK contributor, won the Grand Prize in The Binnacle Sixth Annual Ultra Short Competition.

The world’s oldest Bible is now online. (via @God)

You can now get Theodore Worozbyt’s Scar Letters, 2006 Caketrain Chapbook finalist as a PDF, via Beard of Bees.

From Newsweek, an interesting author round table and 50 books for our times.

The Guardian offers the best 50 summer reads ever.

Some interesting insights on getting an agent and earning a living as a writer.

Via Scantily Clad Press, All My Poems by Nate Pritts.

The New Yorker now has an iPhone specific site.

Here is a pretty funny blog from a publishing intern.

A book club for the homeless?

Over at the Storyglossia blog, some nice words about Heather Fowler’s story Let Us Pretend in the June issue of PANK.

Booth is a new online journal sponsored by the Butler University MFA Program.

We Will Take What We Can Get by Matthew Salesses is now available from Publishing Genius Press and you can read it online, too.

There are new issues of Eclectica, Prick of the Spindle, Lit N Image, Willow Springs, The Chapbook Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and we also have the debut issue of The Rome Review.

Artifice Magazine has a wishlist of things they’d like to see in their submission box. Help them out.

Do you have an end of life story?

Don’t forget: We are having a contest.