RIP John Hughes. Breakfast Club is the best primer on writing dialogue, ever.

An interesting interview series that offers 10 Questions for Poetry editors. In this installment, Mary Biddinger, editor of the Barn Owl Review.

A note to writers about making their deadlines.

If you pull a literary hoax and no one notices, have you really pulled a literary hoax?

This has nothing to do with writing, but a reporter got to see the Netflix processing center which would be like, a dream come true for me, so read about it.

Jim Baen’s Universe is closing with the April 2010 issue.

Books as flirtation (or is that flotation?) devices.

What rejections mean.

An Emerging Writers Fellowship.

Read, Write, Poem.

Support Emma Straub.

Seven Lies About Lying.

The winner of NPR’s Three Minute Fiction contest was announced.

PANK contributor Laura Marello is now reviewing books for Examiner.

Daniel Nester, another PANK contributor,   has a book forthcoming accompanied by an amusing website. Check it out.

Hint Fiction editor Robert Swartwood reports on the first week of submissions for his forthcoming Norton Hint Fiction anthology.

J.A. Tyler has redesigned the mud luscious site and it’s pretty.

Rocco Landesman will serve as the new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts.

The AWP 2010 schedule is shaping up. Some see us at our panel and visit us at the Bookfair.

Bad news for short story collections?

Congratulations to PANK contributor Kelly Davio who has been selected for Best New Poets 2009.

Dzanc Books is looking for interns.

New issues of Frigg, Letterbox, Rumble, Ghoti, Wigleaf, The Chapbook Review, Danse Macabre, Dispatch Litareview, Sub-Lit, Open Letters, elimae, The Short Review, decomP, and Knee Jerk.

The Booker longlist has been announced.

Americca, by Aimee Bender, is available online at Tin House.

I know the wait for Glee to start is agonizing, but this might hold you over.

A really interesting essay on pricing E-books.

Advice to the poets attending the 2009 National Poetry Slam.

News about the next Spork.

LibraryThing is looking for a Maine-based PHP hacker.

Six ways writers can use Facebook to promote their work.

A nice essay concerning Amazon’s reach.

And Amazon is getting sued for some bad behavior regarding the Kindle.

Identity Theory is looking for a new assistant fiction editor.

Richard Nash looks back and forth.

An interview with Jon Fullmer of Knee Jerk Magazine.

Another book cover white-washed?

You can now advertise on HTML Giant.

Need some web design? Check out Supreme Value.

The Hint Fiction anthology is accepting submissions through 8/31.

Some MFA students are blogging.

The Guardian’s Summer Short Story special.

Matt Bell’s The Collectors is now available as a PDF.

The 2009 winners for the Canteen Awards in Poetry and Fiction have been annnounced.

An interview with Tina May Hall.

A service that will help you apply to MFA programs. Discussion ensues. And one member of the service responds. Then there is this commentary. Interesting stuff.

Venerable online magazine Eyeshot has come to an end. It is a shame to see that this fine fine publication is calling it quits. We wish Lee Klein all the best in his future endeavors.

At Randall Brown’s new site Flash Fiction.net, Lauren Becker blogs about why she writes flash fiction.

DOGZPLOT is having a three-day reading extravaganza in Atlantic City.

How the NYTBR makes its selections.

ASF has compiled a list of ten free fiction contests.

Shane Jones and Blake Butler are starting a press, two titles per year. Behold Year of the Liquidator and their first title, One Hour of Television, by Kristina Born.

A writer overcomes his online magazine bias.

An index of poetry slam looks.

Dalkey Archive is having a great sale, which ends tomorrow. And here’s an amazing interview with founder John O’Brien: Part 1 & Part 2.

PANK 4 contributor Shanes Jones’s lovely book Light Boxes is going to be made into a movie produced by Spike Jonze.

Some highlights from Granta 107.

A writer speaks on the white washing of her book’s cover.

Erin Hosier discusses how writers can better advocate for book covers.

Joshua Ferris has a story in this week’s New Yorker.

E. Lynn Harris, who wrote about the black gay community and was a New York Times Bestselling writer, has died at the age of 54. His early books were such a fun read. I highly recommend them if you’re looking for some mind candy.

Kindle books will be included on USA Today’s best seller list.

Unpublished Vonnegut short stories will be released as E-books.

New issues of The Lifted Brow, The Foundling Review, Oak Bend Review, and the   Flash Fiction 40 Anthology have been released.

On the evolution of the e-book.

Steve Almond offers 12 steps on how to write sex scenes.

Some unusual calls for submission from Hayden’s Ferry Review.

A chapbook consignnment shop in St. Louis. Can’t wait to visit.

Requited Magazine is having a fundraiser on Friday, July 31.

Coming soon, an iPhone fiction project from featherproof.

Big news for a Dzanc writer.

Randomly, a database of medieval soldiers.

Forthcoming PANK contributor Shane Jones is interviewed at What to Wear During an Orange Alert.

New issues of Contrary, dispatch litareview, Right Hand Pointing, Blueprint Review, Keyhole Digest, Heron, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Defenestration, and The Legendary.   If you ever want us to mention your new issues, please drop us a line at awesome at pank magazine dot come and we’ll give you a shout out.

Are you familiar with Requited? It’s an intriguing new magazine worth checking out. Nonfiction editor Heather Momyer is a previous PANK contributor.

Staccato Fiction cometh.

Submissions are open at the Waccamaw Journal.

An interview with the wonderful Steven Seighman, editor of Monkeybicycle over at Smokelog Quarterly.

Ten years of Tin House.

Karaoke book tour?

Prick of the Spindle is having a poetry contest.

Time interviews Jonathan Ames.

On demand flash fiction. What will they think of next?

Oxford has a new thesaurus for us. I’m sure it will be both excellent and expensive.

Another glowing article about Electric Literature.

Those who know book tours, know literary escorts.

Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, has passed away.

Amazon.com behaving badly, YET again.

The July issue of Word Riot is available on the Kindle. I got it, and it’s pretty neat to be able to take it with me.

Wordnik is an interesting new site for those of us who love words.

61 essential postmodern reads.

Is the Holocaust a genre?

Writer loses his shit publicly.

Entertainment Weekly, or as I like to call it, The Bible, has a book blog.

Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas is available for pre-order.

A report from the Romance Writers of America conference.

An interview with Stephen Elliott.

This week’s Luna Digest.

First an administrative note. We have responses down to a very manageable 12-72 hours, on average. We’re happy that it is summer and we have the free time to let you know what’s going on with your submission in a timely manner. Having said that, if you receive a rejection, please do try and wait 3 or 4 days between submissions so that we can cleanse our palate and better enjoy your subsequent submissions. We want your best work and we want to consider your work with the best possible attitude. We appreciate your cooperation.

The 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results are in.

Guidelines have been released for the 2009 Micro Awards. Submit nominations between October 1 and December 31.

Catch the Dollar Store Show tour featuring wonderful writers including several PANK contributors past, present and future in a city near you!

In the Denver Post, David Milofsky has great things to say about alternative presses including the amazing Dzanc Books.

A $1,000 coffee table book? Really?

For the month of July, Everyday Genius will be edited by Stephanie Barber.

Tania Hershman, a past PANK contributor, won the Grand Prize in The Binnacle Sixth Annual Ultra Short Competition.

The world’s oldest Bible is now online. (via @God)

You can now get Theodore Worozbyt’s Scar Letters, 2006 Caketrain Chapbook finalist as a PDF, via Beard of Bees.

From Newsweek, an interesting author round table and 50 books for our times.

The Guardian offers the best 50 summer reads ever.

Some interesting insights on getting an agent and earning a living as a writer.

Via Scantily Clad Press, All My Poems by Nate Pritts.

The New Yorker now has an iPhone specific site.

Here is a pretty funny blog from a publishing intern.

A book club for the homeless?

Over at the Storyglossia blog, some nice words about Heather Fowler’s story Let Us Pretend in the June issue of PANK.

Booth is a new online journal sponsored by the Butler University MFA Program.

We Will Take What We Can Get by Matthew Salesses is now available from Publishing Genius Press and you can read it online, too.

There are new issues of Eclectica, Prick of the Spindle, Lit N Image, Willow Springs, The Chapbook Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and we also have the debut issue of The Rome Review.

Artifice Magazine has a wishlist of things they’d like to see in their submission box. Help them out.

Do you have an end of life story?

Don’t forget: We are having a contest.

If you’re local (we suspect you’re not, but just in case), Michigan Tech hosts the 5th annual (?) Northern Lights Film Festival on March 27 and 28. Very, very, very cool. Shouldn’t be missed.  Here.