Finally got around to the spring ’09 issue of DOGZPLOT. Tasty. Elizabeth Ellen, one of the beautiful minds behind Hobart, has a piece of short fiction that is well worth the trip. We won’t spoil anything for you, not even the title — here.

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces an open call for submissions for its upcoming Issue 1, to be published in  January  2010.  
Submissions will be accepted year-round online at  http://www.artificemag.com/submissions/

Artifice Magazine is looking for previously-unpublished stories, prose works, and poems, pieces that are (as the name implies) aware of their own artifice: pastiche, mash-ups, cut-ups, experiments gone awry, sly metafiction with a heart, and whatever other sorts of text machines you can imagine. We want things that will make us:

a. laugh and clap our hands with joy and surprise
b. sob silently and clap our hands, with a different sort of joy and surprise

We do not believe that postmodernism need or ought be heartless. But neither do we require that every story wear its heart on its sleeve.

More information about Artifice Magazine can be found at  http://www.artificemag.com/. Questions not answered there can be directed to  editors@artificemag.com.

Artifice Magazine is edited by James Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman. You can learn more about them at  http://www.artificemag.com/about/.

…uh-uh, no way. Jesus follows the submission guidelines and uses the online form or he doesn’t get that pony poem into the running for PANK. Pulitzer prize winner, ask yourself, what would Jesus do? First time submitter, the same. And really, didn’t it take just as long to track down our personal emails as it would have taken to simply read and follow the guidelines?

…and in the coming weeks and months readers and writers should expect a smidge less from PANK. The staff will splinter, editors will depart for foreign shores, and while the machine will run per its usual belching self (we hope), capacities will diminish. PANK must emerge from its cave for a bit, eat and/or mate with things, must dance under the midnight sun. We appreciate your patience.

Thanks, NEA, but we just don’t buy it.  http://www.newsweek.com/id/191012?from=rss

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“Perhaps my importance as a poet is exaggerated.”

The deadline is fast approaching for BOMB’s annual Fiction Contest, judged by Jonathan Lethem.  First prize is $500 and publication  in BOMB’s literary supplement,  First Proof. Deadline April 15.

Full info here:  http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3254

Poet C.S. Giscombe comes to Michigan Tech on Friday, February 27 to give a reading and frolic in the snow. 4pm in 134 Walker Arts and Humanities Center on the campus of the Michigan Technological University. Reception to follow.