Rose Metal Press Competition for Pamphlet/Chapbook of Short-Short Stories

Details are here; the competition deadline is 1 December 2009.

Flash Magazine at the University of Chester

A wonderful new venue for flash fiction up to 360 words--check it out!

Forthcoming books for Sudden Prose at Bath Spa

These are to improve our holdings in prose poetry and have just been ordered. I'd be glad for suggestions for short-short story collections beyond what we already have.

Jamey Dunham, The Bible of Lost Pets. Salt, 2009.

Gary Young, Pleasure: Poems. Heyday Books, 2006.

Ian Seed. Anonymous Intruder. Shearsman, 2009.

Peter Riley, Greek Passages. Shearsman, 2009.

Lesle Lewis, Small Boat. Iowa University Press, 2003.

Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End. Mariner, 1989.

Charles Simic, Selected Poems 1983-2001. Faber, 2004.

Flash fiction with teenaged main characters wanted NOW

"Persea Books is looking for flash fiction, stories of no more than 1000 words, with teenaged main characters, for a Persea anthology that will be used in schools and colleges, as well as sold in bookstores. We're reading now…and the deadline is now! So send asap to info@perseabooks.com"

Another kind of sudden prose, the short nonfiction essay

There are journals for prose poems and journals for short-short stories, and now there's one for short-short essays. Brevity is dedicated to nonfiction pieces of 750 words or fewer and features both established and emerging authors, and for those looking to hone their work, there's a section on craft with essays with much more precise advice than most of what can be found online.

Leaf Books Microfiction Competition 2009

Here are the details:

Enter online and pay via PayPal, or by post. If entering online, after making your payment you can send us your entry as an attachment (.doc or .rtf only, please – we can’t open .docx or .wps files) to contact@leafbooks.co.uk.

Entry fee: £3 per entry; four entries for £10

1st prize: £100, copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.

Runner-up: copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.

The winning piece, runner-up and selected commended entries will be published in an anthology.

Closing date – September 30th 2009

Results announced October 2009.

www.leaf-books.co.uk

New Sudden Prose titles for Autumn '09

These titles have been ordered and should be available at Bath Spa University's Newton Park library from the start of term.

Clary, Killarney. Potential Stranger. U of Chicago Press, 2003.

Edson, Russell. See Jack. U of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

---. The Tormented Mirror. U of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

Eggers, Dave. How We Are Hungry. Penguin, 2006.

Kennard, Luke. The Solex Brothers (Redux). Salt, 2007.
---. The Harbour Beyond the Movie. Salt, 2007.
---. The Migraine Hotel. Salt, 2009.

Rhodes, Dan. Don’t Tell Me the Truth About Love. Canongate, 2005.

Young, Gary. No Other Life. Heyday Books, 2005.
---. Pleasure: Poems. Heyday Books, 2006.
---. Braver Deeds. Gibbs M. Smith, 1999.

There will also be another magazine among the periodicals for Sudden Prose writers (in addition to Quick Fiction and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics):

Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. (http://www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine/)