Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Flash Chapbook." This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. by Bonnie ZoBell I’m going to tell you what I know from my own experience and what I’ve heard from other writers. However, I’m also going to rely largely on fiction chapbook editors [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Stefanie Freele's beautiful short story collection, Surrounded by Water, is surrounded by illumination. The book, published by Press 53, shines brilliantly through the depths of human sorrow and hope, but it does so on Freele's own quirky and quiet terms. This author has an uncanny gift to get right to where it matters in [...]
Come help us celebrate--all you whack-job girls and short-fuse dudes--the release of The Whack-Job Girls, a collection of flash fiction, very short stories, at a party given by Judy Reeves and Shayna Roberts for Bonnie ZoBell. This chapbook is now available as an e-book or in print at Monkey Puzzle Press and at Amazon. The [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Fiction Chapbook. This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. I’ll confess right here and now that I’m not an expert on getting chapbooks published. This article started as a chronicle to tell friends about the process I went through [...]
by Bonnie ZoBell Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest. She is the publisher of Tiny Hardcore Press. Bonnie ZoBell: Thanks for agreeing to talk today, Roxane. PANK Little Books and TINY Hardcore Press have both been such wonderful presses. Roxane Gay: It’s my pleasure. BZ: I just read on PANK’s website that [...]
Great news! The book is here! Please help me celebrate with my other online friends the release of my fiction chapbook, The Whack-Job Girls, from today through Saturday, March 2, 9:00 p.m. PST. Reply to this blog with a comment about my cover above, my sneak preview here, or my book trailer below, and you will automatically [...]
Guidelines The AWP HEAT Flash Contest is run in conjunction with AWP HEAT, a reading on Friday, March 8, at Dillon's Restaurant & Bar, Boston, 955 Boylston Street, one block from Hynes Convention Center. Free. 2:30 – 6:30 p.m. Winners of contest announced at 4:00 p.m. at AWP HEAT. Respond to this prompt: “Fire” Anyone may [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Why isn't "Rusty Barnes" a household name? Is it because he doesn't schmooze the right people or because he isn't semi-nude in his author's photo? Or maybe it's because he doesn't write about the beautiful people. The characters in Rusty Barnes' outrageously good story collection Mostly Redneck (Sunnyoutside Press) wouldn't be caught dead [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell I'm on a secret island in Mexico reading proofs for The Whack-Job Girls, my fiction chapbook due out from Monkey Puzzle Press in spring2013. Nope, don't even try to divine where in Mexico. I'm not about to have every relative and "friend" from the last three decades chase me down, though the [...]