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Let’s kick this week off with a fine story from Shannon Peil at vis a tergo. Are you guys reading vis a tergo? It’s an interesting little magazine we would love to see more people reading. Shannon is the editor of amphibi.us which features a poem from Donal Mahoney. The circle of life.

PANK is being hosted by Artifice Magazine for a reading on October 1, at 7 pm, Book Cellar, Chicago, and something shocking is going to happen–both M. Bartley Seigel and I are reading.

Bull: Fiction for Thinking Men needs some staff to help with submissions, social networking, etc.. Details here. Think about lending them a hand. Working for a magazine is an invaluable experience and Bull is a really fine magazine.  Speaking of fine work, have you read the stories currently up there by Jensen Beach and Mel Bosworth?

In fancy, fancy time, Kathleen Rooney has an  article in Air Tran magazine and she name checks Tim Jones-Yelvington, the guest editor of our October issue.

Birkensnake 3 includes  Kate Wyer, AD Jameson,  Andrew Borgstrom, and others.

Acapella Zoo 5 includes writing from Jason Jordan, Kristine Ong Muslim, Tania Hershman, Toshiya Kamei, Mike Meginnis and others.

Over at We Who Are About to Die, Ani Smith gives us a nice  little review.

Ethel Rohan is the  featured writer in Emprise Review 16. She is also interviewed  here. Then Ethel turns the table and interviews Kirsty (Logan, of course) at Dark Sky.

Staccato Fiction  includes a story from Nick Ripatrazone this week. Nick also has work in  Abjective.

Deer, by CL Bledsoe is up this week at Staccato Fiction.

There are  words from JA Tyler in Radioactive Moat

In the September issue of Hobart, you will find a  great story from Nick Kocz.

Micah Dean Hicks tells us  How This Works in Tryst Magazine.

Solo Flight, by Sheldon Lee Compton is  featured at Metazen.

Route 9 is a new magazine out of UMass and the debut issue includes  Jensen Beach,  Gabe Durham,  Christy Crutchfield, and more.

I love Canteen and the  latest issue has an essay from Lincoln Michel.

Congratulations to Sarah Hilary who has made the  short list in the Sean O’Faolain Prize.

I hope you’re reading the great stuff Amber Sparks is throwing up at Necessary Fiction this month. You can find installments from  Anne Valente, Sal Pane, Joe Kapitan and others.

There’s a new issue of Sink Review with poetry from Elisa Gabbert and others.

In the September 2010 issue of Knee Jerk, writing from  James Tadd Adcox,  Simon Smith and a conversation with  Shane Jones.

Clutter, by David LaBounty is featured at The Criterion.

At Everyday Fiction, Powerball by Eric McKinley.

The second August issue of Foundling Review includes a poem from Kirsty Logan.

This week’s Annalemma features Eternal Love by Mark Budman.