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Congratulations to Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz who is the recipient of the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Residency at the Kelly Writer’s House at the University of Pennsylvania. Aptowicz plans to use the ArtsEdge residency to work on a non-fiction book about the life and times of Thomas Dent Mutter, founder of the Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum. This is a well-deserved recognition and we cannot wait to read that book.

There is a massive double issue for the 28th issue of Smokelong Quarterly featuring Jenn Gann, Kyle Hemmings, David LaBounty, Michelle Reale, Laura Ellen Scott, Eugenia Tsutstumi, and last but not ever least, xTx. There also interviews with these writers and you can find links on the front page. David also has work in Four Paper Letters.

Teresa Milbrodt has a fine, fine story up at Guernica.

Tender Buttons, a collaborative work including PANK contributors Amy McDaniel, Reynard Seifert, Eric Beeny, and Desmond Kon, is up at Titular.

At Sleep Snort Fuck, Shannon Peil muses. There’s also a great little thing from Ani Smith.

James Tadd Adcox offers good reasons for biking in Chi-town. Tadd’s The Artificial Mountain was also shortlisted for 2010 DIAGRAM chapbook contest.

The tenth installment of You Must Be This Tall to Ride includes a story by Andrew Roe.

1565 is the year in question for J. Bradley.

Nick Kocz is included in Pedestal 58.

The first chapter of Shane Jones’s The Failure Six is live at Dark Sky. In their weekly interview feature, Ethel Rohan interviews Matthew Salesses.

A new piece of Craigslist fiction by Ben White is up at Staccato Fiction. He also has a story in the Thirsty First Bird Review and you can buy the debut issue of that magazine here.

Five shorts from Gabe Durham are up at Monkeybicycle.

Excerpts from The New Adventures of Harriet The Spy by Jen Michalski is up at This Zine Will Change Your Life.

The debut issue of Rick Magazine (formerly The Mississippi Review Online) includes work from Clay Matthews and Meg Pokrass.

JP Dancing Bear has poetry at Improbable Object as part of a pre-launch for Intersections. Got it? Good.

Are you reading the fine fictions William Walsh is posting to Necessary Fiction?

In the first Funny Women short at The Rumpus, Summer Block shares some e-mail from Lorin Stein.

Bonnie ZoBell writes about the Tin House writing workshop.

Foxes, the story not the movie, by CL Bledose at the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.

Robb Todd writes about traveling to Nicaragua for the New York Daily News.

Union Station Magazine features two poems from Ocean Vuong.

Trapeze Magazine interviews Desmond Kon.