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Do you want to read for PANK in Chicago on October 1 at The Book Cellar? We’re doing a joint reading with Artifice Magazine and are looking for a few good readers. E-mail roxane at pankmagazine dot com if you’re interested.

We’re excited to announce that Jen Percy won the American Short Fiction Short(er) Fiction contest. Her work will be in the next issue.

Let’s kick this week off with Joseph Goosey at Dark Sky Magazine where Even the Garbage Piled Up to the Ceiling.

In the second issue of New Dead Families, there is writing from Amber Sparks and I. Fontana. I. Fontana also has a magnificent story in Juked.

Diane Lockward’s Temptation by Water is now available.

At the Pedestal, Nick Kocz.

Enjoy some storytelling from Kirsty Logan.

The July Writer in Residence at Necessary Fiction will be the one and only and wonderful William Walsh. Meanwhile, my tenure at Necessary Fiction ends with Lauren Becker, Lily Hoang and Lily Hoang, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Jen Michalski, Mel Bosworth, and Amy McDaniel.

Field mouse poems at Robot Melon from Molly Gaudry and Ani Smith.

Troubador 21 features Home Burial by CL Bledsoe.

As always, Metazen is awesome and this week they are channeling that awesome through Johnsie Noel, who has two poems up. Also at Metazen, Proposal by Meg Pokrass. Meg also has Slices up at A-Minor.

Nicelle Davis Bought a Pack of Cigarettes Today at The Fertile Source.

The Summer 2010 issue of Contrary includes work from Laura McCullough and Amorak Huey.

All this week, the fiction of Tania Hershman is featured on BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Reading program. Another bit of news is that  The White Road and Other Stories is now available as an eBook for the Kindle. Her stories will also shortly be available for the iPhone through a new app from  Ether Books.

Read this great Molly Gaudry interview at Dark Sky.

There are four more of Mark Cunningham’s specimens and a horoscope at Everyday Genius.

Kathleen Heil’s story “Night. Good. Pretty” has receieved First Prize in the fifth annual Moleskin Travel Short Story Competition in Spain, in colloboration with the publishing house Ediciones de Viento.  For more information, click here.

Bill Hicok has a new book of poetry, Words for Empty and Words for Full, and you can read a review at Corduroy Books.

Speaking of reviews Alec Niedenthal reviews the prose of Thomas Bernhard.

Issue 66 of New York Quarterly is available and includes work from Thomas Patrick Levy, Kris Bigalk, RA Allen, Patrick Carrington, Bruce Cohen and many, many others.