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Did you see our fall classes? Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry!
Did you know we serve our students wine? We do!
This looks awesome! If only LA weren't so distant. At least we have Kill Your Darlings and The Writer's Exchange here in the ATL!
(by lize meddings)
I made this today, for a Hobart mass email (by which I mean I did a quick Google Image Search, dragged it to Photoshop, cropped it, and threw down a layer with type. Productive day. I’m exhausted.).
HOBART BUFFALO PRIZE
$16 entry fee; enter as many times as you like, but each entry is $16
Prize: $500 (for each winner; for a total of $3,000 in prizes)
All entrants will receive a copy of Hobart 14 (or any past issue or SF/LD book of your choice. Please note your preference; if not specified, you will receive Hobart 14, upon its release)
There are six judges: SF/LD authors Mary Miller, Adam Novy, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Elizabeth Ellen, Jess Stoner, and Dylan Nice. Each judge will choose their own personal favorite and write an introduction to accompany the story in . (SIX chances to win! SIX different judges, with different tastes!!)
All submissions will be read blind.
Please do not include your name on the story/attachment itself. All entries with names included will be disqualified.
Each judge will be reading submissions as they come in, until they find their winner. (Kind of like The Voice or something, right? A little? (note: we haven’t actually seen The Voice and this might not be an appropriate comparison at all)). What this means is, the longer you wait to enter, the fewer judges/chances you may have to win.
Each of the 6 winning stories will be published in Hobart 14 with an introduction by the judge.
Deadline: May 31, 2012 (or until all 6 judges have chosen a winner!)
Bonus $100 BISON PRIZE(s?) for best cover letter ridiculing or praising contests, name-calling, admonishing us for using one, etc.
about 14 hours left to enter this. remember: every entry helps us buy another bottle of Buffalo Trace bourbon. (ok… every entry actually just helps us pay contributors and for the printing of the issue.)
Write fiction and finance bourbon consumption - two noble goals.
The editors of mental_floss magazine: Mangesh Hattikudur, Ethan Trex, Stephanie Meyers, and Jessanne Collins. They’re also on Twitter and Tumblr.
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Read their picks for the top longreads of 2011.
My collection of microfictions, Visiting Writers, has been published as an ebook by Uncanny Valley Press. There are 23 stories in the collection, some of which have appeared in Gigantic #2, Everyday Genius, >kill author, and The Outlet. Huge thanks to Mike Meginnis and Tracy Bowling for...
A 48-Hour Poem by Roxane Gay
When we learned that Terry W. Thompson, of Zanesville, Ohio, released his menagerie of animals and committed suicide last month, we asked for poems written within 48 hours in response to the tragedy. One submission came from author Roxane Gay. Her poem:
Animals, they say,
are best kept in cages.
Wild things though, know
a cage is nothing
but steel on which
they can sharpen
their teeth.
Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest.
Roxane is awesome, as is the Missouri Review. You should read this!
nprfreshair:
In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion contemplated how the rituals of everyday life were fundamentally altered after her husband died suddenly in 2003. The book was published in 2005, just months after Didion’s only child, her daughter Quintana Roo, died at age 39.
Didion pieces together her memories of her daughter’s life and death in her new book Blue Nights. She tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that she was unable to start mourning her daughter’s death until she started writing again.
[…] if you get into downtown Atlanta, it has people that are proud of this city. It’s not so much this way anymore, but people used to be like, “Oh, I’m in Atlanta now, but I’m trying to get to New York or trying to get to L.A.” I think the people that are here in Atlanta now — that are choosing to be here, that want to be here — they’re proud of it. And the great thing about Atlanta is that it’s not that hard to be a part of it; it’s not that hard to be active, and do events, and have a great response, and actually make a difference in a place. For such a big city, you can make a big difference, whereas, I never lived in New York or anything, but I would imagine there it’s a lot more difficult to get things rolling.
— Steven Carse, King of Pops (via lindsayoberstatlanta)
ashleybethard:
“Let me loose in you, but not to be lost: loose like a wanderer, as I am among words, drifting back and forth over your breaths and rhythms, your syllables, your punctuation. It is cliché to say I want to learn the language of you. To invert and to subvert and to somehow make you rattle with the thrum of new possibility, to shake and then still in just one stanza.”
This is one of the pieces I most enjoyed writing, and though it’s extremely short, it’s one I am extremely proud of. It is, of course, about love and language and the (inevitable) conflation of the two. I had a lot of fun writing it.
You can find it here at Used Furniture Review.
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atlurbanist:
Underground Atlanta’s future: an arts district?
This is the coolest idea I’ve heard yet for transforming the much-maligned Underground Atlanta shopping/entertainment complex.
Culture Surfing reports on a recent interview with Mayor Kasim Reed in which he forecasts a bright future for UA as a vibrant arts center (as opposed to the hideous proposal from others in recent years to turn in into a gambling center & hotel).
In the video interview embedded in the above linked post, Reed proposes turning UA into “an arts district for artists to have an opportunity to house their businesses…to make is a creative space for the City of Atlanta.” He also proposes using the complex to house arts programs from the many nearby higher-learning institutions.
I agree with the mayor. I’ve been really impressed with the way UA has served as a good space for the current Elevate//Art Above Underground exhibit and events. I think this idea has legs and could really work — where do we start?
Photo of Elevate from City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
Love this idea so long as the artists and arts organizations are given exceptional levels of freedom that they can run with. The last thing Underground needs is another forced identity.
housingworksbookstore:
Moby-Dick bookmark of my dreams via Bookmark This!
Vouched Books- Atlanta
Vouched Books is launching it's first colony in Atlanta! You may have heard that already, it's been mentioned in a few different places. But this is my 'formal announcement' of sorts. As formal as I can muster, that is.
I've put off writing this. Colonization and colonialism have a terrible connotation from what happened between 1500 and 1800. Rest assured Atlantans, I'm not doing this the Portugese, English, French, Dutch, or Spanish way. This is not that kind of colony. Although I can't speak for Pocahontas and her naked cartwheels through Jamestown. Please don't doubt that I will do everything in my power to get the people of Atlanta to do naked cartwheels over small press books.
Naked cartwheels or no, this is a new kind of colony. Vouched Books in Atlanta aims to do much the same thing Christopher started in Indianapolis. We love words and the people who write them. Our mission is to get those works into the hands of the people of our cities. It will not result in a Trail of Tears or a caste system. We exist to raise up the writers we love, the words those writers create. There are so many that I know and love, and it is my mission to deliver them to Atlanta.
I feel so honored to offer this service to my city.
A colony cannot be launched single-handedly. First and foremost, Christopher has been the most wonderful mentor, big brother, and best friend I could hope for. He has walked me through this process step by step, introduced me to a lot of great people, publishers, and writers, and helped me get everything underway to do this correctly. There are plenty of new presses that I am so excited to have forged relationships with over the past few months, and many who we have already done established work with who have been equally supportive of the new colony.
Atlanta has a lot of great talent who have also been helpful, who there is no way I could have gotten this underway without them. Amy McDaniel, Jamie Iredell, and Blake Butler have been enthusiastic of the cause, even going so far as to helping me with a soft launch this June 4th at Artlantis (come visit us!). Then there's the Purge ATL family , specifically Tim Song, Johnny Carroll, and Matt Debenedictus, who have been so kind as to assist me in organizing a launch reading upcoming in July, and helping me find different area events to get involved in. Wink Atlanta is another organization I have grown to know and love over the past few months, and I aim to continue to work with them closely into the future. They are a literary organization of writers who tutor Atlantan children in creative writing, and help the students publish and publicly read their work.
I feel so privileged to find myself aligned with so many people and causes. When this colony gets up and running it will be due to all of these assisted efforts.
To everyone who has supported and helped me with this cause, I solemnly vow to be the best damned Vicereine this city has ever seen.
So to start off with, if you're in the Atlanta area, come to Artlantis and say hello Amy McDaniel and me at our booth at this Saturday June 4th! We'll be in front of Druid Hills Baptist Church at 1085 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, 30306.
You can follow the VouchedATL twitter for news and updates as well!
Beautiful excerpt of Jennifer duBois' 'In the City of the Dead'
themissourireview:
“In the City of the Dead,” by Jennifer duBois, is a first-person story narrated by an alcoholic grandmother who makes her living as a caregiver for dementia patients. It was a finalist for our Editor’s Prize, and will appear in our Spring issue.
There’s a chasm between those who turned away...
Hooray Roxane!
fwrictionreview:
Peter loved to date girls with eating disorders—anorexics, but not the ones on death’s door who had to be fed through a tube in their stomach. The sight of that sort of thing upset him. He preferred the tall girls who hovered around 105 and spent most of their time sucking their bodies toward…
This makes me sad. Open City will be missed.
housingworksbookstore:
Ms. Yas and Mr. Beller decided to shut down the journal after multiple sources of funding pulled out. They hadn’t expected issue 30 to be the swansong.
(via Open City, Closed: Acclaimed Literary Journal Says Goodbye | The New York Observer)
Sad sad sad.
