May the Sparks From Your Sparklers Burn My Skin

Two new things from Jac Jemc at Joyland and Strange Machine.

The current issue of Knock has work from Eric Beeny, Joseph Riippi, and more.

Hey, we’re having a killer reading in NYC on July 21s at Pete’s Candy Store. You’re not going to want to miss readers like Deb Olin Unferth, Daniel Nester, Sarah Rose Etter, Sean Doyle, Melissa Broder, Amber Sparks, Jeffrey Morgan, Matthew Thorburn, and M. Bartley Seigel.

Sara Crowley has a short story at Beat the Dust.

DIAGRAM. Gabe Durham. Jim Daniels. Other writers.

The Summer 2011 issue of JMWW includes Salvatore Pane, Andrew Borgstrom, Luca DiPierro and Leni Zumas, Adam Peterson, and more.

Emprise Review 19, in case you missed it, features work from Barry Basden, CL Bledsoe, Faith Gardner, Dawn West, Meg Pokrass, and more.

Eric Beeny has essays at The Nervous Breakdown and DOGZPLOT.

There’s no news today from Mel Bosworth.

At The Rumpus, Chloe Caldwell tells us about the last book she loved. She also has work at Vol 1. Brooklyn.

Jensen Beach has writing in the new issue of Ninth Letter. He is joined by BJ Hollars, Jimmy Chen, Kevin Wilson, and others. Jensen also has this and this at Spork which is gorgeously re-designed.

Staccato Fiction, this week, has a story by Eric McKinley.