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Walk Away

by Amy Whipple   Get up. No, seriously. Close Word (or your stick-it-to-the-man equivalent), press down the top of whatever cute Mac you’ve been toting around, and get up. Walk away. For the last decade I’ve been told that I

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Publishing Solo: Self-Publishing Success Stories

by Beth Steidle Publishing Solo is a new monthly blog series focused on topics relating to self-publishing. Its purpose is to provide information and engage conversation amongst both up-and-coming and established writers as we search for new ways to get

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Capturing the Seed

by Sarah Menkedick The nuance Of being Is to Capture The Seed Norman Mailer, Death of the Ladies Manwriting is not even about the phallic references, although if you started looking, you could throw together a phallic manwriting tumblr feed

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Publishing Solo: Prying Loose From the Traditional Publishing Model

by Beth Steidle Publishing Solo is a new monthly blog series focused on topics relating to self-publishing. Its purpose is to provide information and engage conversation amongst both up-and-coming and established writers as we search for new ways to get

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Write Me Something

by Emelyn Fuhrman Anyone who shows any sense of what I’ll call “talent” when it comes to writing (but may in fact just be the ability to put words together on a page) has been plagued by this request since

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You Are the Greatest Writer of All Time: A Lesson in Necessary Overconfidence

by Katie Coyle If I have learned one thing from the two-thirds of a graduate degree in fiction writing that I’ve completed so far, it’s that the odds are against my living the exact life I want to live, which

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Writing Beyond the Bubble

by Amanda Giracca I’ve had my doubts about academia for a long time. That is, I’ve had my doubts about academia as a writer, what it would do to my writing, or worse, what it wouldn’t do. I came to

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Submissions for Fall Now Open

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Sustenance and Survival

From the Editor

Fiction:

Gibraltar Apes Save the Bees by Jenny Halper
After Dancing by Peter Hully
Concealment in the Love Space by Adalena Kavanagh

Note from Fiction Editors April Flynn, Frank Huerta, and Jacob Spears
 

Nonfiction:

Peeps!Goat Haunt by Susan Jostrom
Threads by Susan Kieffer
Interview with Anne Fadiman by Tim Maddocks

Note from Nonfiction Editors Tim Maddocks and Laura Clark
 

Poetry:

Will eat for food

Clap, Goddamnit, or the Pixies Get It by Nathan Blake
Bombs Away Dream Baby by Boona Daroom
Vernal Atonally by Boona Daroom
On Perspective by Jay Deshpande
Meal by Katrina Greco
Special Contribution: The Invention of Music by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Special Contribution: X-ray by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Birth by Monica Wendel
The Blurry Choice: Hot Metal Bridge Interviews Eileen Myles by April Flynn

Note from Poetry Editors John Calvasina and Lauren Russell

Contributor Bios