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NEW HALLOWEEN STORY:

Really excited to have a ~*scaryy*~ story appearing with the @mastersreview for Halloween; the piece—which is thirteen words long—will be dormant until midnight (PST) tonight, when I can shout, "It's alive!" and continue to have very few friends! 👻💀👻

Keep an eye on The Masters Review website!

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Submit Your Work Now! Writing Deadlines For Today and Tomorrow

AWP Award Series – AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors regardless of nationality or residence, and is available to published and unpublished authors alike. Details here. DUE DATE: February 28, 2014. Entry Fee: $30

The Ledge Fiction Award – $1,000 and publication in the Ledge is awarded to a story up to 7500 words. Submission guidelines here. DUE DATE: February 28, 2014. $15 Entry Fee.

University of Wisconsin Writing Fellowships – A year’s fellowship will be awarded to six writers working to complete a book of poems, short stories, or a novel. Submit 10 pages of poetry or up to 30 pages of fiction (short story or novel excerpt) with entry fee to the University. Details here. DUE DATE: February 28, 2014. $45 Entry Fee.

Check out the other four at The Masters Review!

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Though it should not be possible, there is a secret in my heart. Even when what I call a heart… is pure circuitry. Electricity. It is incorrect, and yet — it is there.

From Cousin, a New Voices story by Rolli.

Read the whole piece at The Masters Review.

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Book Review: A Field Guide to the North American Family

Lyrically told and lavishly designed, Garth Risk Hallberg’s A Field Guide To The North American Family follows the story of two suburban families through a series of 63 illustrated chapters. This evocative novella presents its brief vignettes as a series of non-linear “field guide entries,” each complete with an abstract photo of whatever small-town indiscretion, teenage experimentation, patriarchal death, etc. is described on the opposite page. Through playful scenes of fumbled intimacy and gallows-humor descriptions of the human response to universal concepts like guilt, tenderness, youth, and others, a post-modern story of suburban ennui emerges. It’s an innovative web of images and isolated moments that practically begs to be reread upon completion.

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