All Kind of News

Venerable online magazine Eyeshot has come to an end. It is a shame to see that this fine fine publication is calling it quits. We wish Lee Klein all the best in his future endeavors.

At Randall Brown’s new site Flash Fiction.net, Lauren Becker blogs about why she writes flash fiction.

DOGZPLOT is having a three-day reading extravaganza in Atlantic City.

How the NYTBR makes its selections.

ASF has compiled a list of ten free fiction contests.

Shane Jones and Blake Butler are starting a press, two titles per year. Behold Year of the Liquidator and their first title, One Hour of Television, by Kristina Born.

A writer overcomes his online magazine bias.

An index of poetry slam looks.

Dalkey Archive is having a great sale, which ends tomorrow. And here’s an amazing interview with founder John O’Brien: Part 1 & Part 2.

PANK 4 contributor Shanes Jones’s lovely book Light Boxes is going to be made into a movie produced by Spike Jonze.

Some highlights from Granta 107.

A writer speaks on the white washing of her book’s cover.

Erin Hosier discusses how writers can better advocate for book covers.

Joshua Ferris has a story in this week’s New Yorker.

E. Lynn Harris, who wrote about the black gay community and was a New York Times Bestselling writer, has died at the age of 54. His early books were such a fun read. I highly recommend them if you’re looking for some mind candy.

Kindle books will be included on USA Today’s best seller list.

Unpublished Vonnegut short stories will be released as E-books.

New issues of The Lifted Brow, The Foundling Review, Oak Bend Review, and the   Flash Fiction 40 Anthology have been released.

On the evolution of the e-book.

Steve Almond offers 12 steps on how to write sex scenes.

Some unusual calls for submission from Hayden’s Ferry Review.

A chapbook consignnment shop in St. Louis. Can’t wait to visit.

Requited Magazine is having a fundraiser on Friday, July 31.

Coming soon, an iPhone fiction project from featherproof.

Big news for a Dzanc writer.

Randomly, a database of medieval soldiers.