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Happy New Year!

Lots of news to share! First, our Kickstarter campaign for How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens has 10 days left to go—get your pre-ordered copy now!

Secondly, the deadline for submissions to The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom is coming up on Sunday.

Finally, there’s tons of new reading out from, and news for, Upper Rubber Boot authors since our last round-up over the summer!

Corey Mesler, author of The Sky Needs More Work, was discussed recently in The Commercial Appeal Memphis‘s article “2014 in Review: Remembering the year’s best Memphis poetry“:

As both a producer and a retailer of poetry, Mesler is not only grateful to patron saint of poetry Keillor, but also is well positioned to affirm the accuracy of a quote he recalls by novelist John Fowles: “Poetry, alas, is something you can’t sell.”

But Mesler is dauntless: “If you want to talk magic, I’d like more people to leave their homes occasionally to visit the bookstore to hear a poet read. How nice it is to hear a poet read his or her own words! How nice to know that you can take those words home with you in little packets called books!”

Lyn Lifshin, author of Marilyn Monroe: Poems, has a new book out with Glass Lyre Press entitled Femme Eterna.

Soles author Mari Ness has a poem in Goblin Fruit.

Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

Margaret Atwood did an AMA (ask me anything) over at Reddit.
Paolo Bacigalupi‘s The Doubt Factory reviewed by The New York Times and by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing.
Kelly Link had a story in Lightspeed (“Water Off a Black Dog’s Back“) and her Get in Trouble was featured in a The Millions article, “A Year in Reading: Isaac Fitzgerald.”
Ed Pavlić‘s book Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno is one of five winners of the National Poetry Series.
David Roderick‘s poetry collection The Americans reviewed by Here & Now and featured on PBS Newshour.
Chet Weise‘s anthology of music and poetry, Language Lessons: Volume I, got a call-out in the Nashville Scene article, “Literary Death Match a Knockout in Music City.” Language Lessons also contains work by Apocalypse Now contributors Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Wayne Miller, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (who also edits our Floodgate Poetry Series) and Pinckney Benedict (who also contributed to How to Live on Other Planets), as well Upper Rubber Boot’s Publisher Joanne Merriam.
E. Lily Yu‘s “Local Stop on the Floating Train” in Motherboard

How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributors:

Indrapramit Das had a story at Strange Horizons: “A Moon for the Unborn.”
Benjamin S. Grossberg‘s poem “Tense” was in Poetry Daily.
Rose Lemberg has a poem at Goblin Fruit: “The Law of Germinating Seeds“
Ken Liu (who is also a 140 And Counting contributor) had a story in Lightspeed (“State Change“) and an interview with Xia Jia in the latest Clarkesworld (“Exploring the Frontier: A Conversation with Xia Jia“), as well as, in their past issues, a short story (“The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009“) and an article on Chinese science fiction (“China Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction“).
Alex Dally MacFarlane had stories at Beneath Ceaseless Skies (“Written on the Hides of Foxes“) and Strange Horizons (“Because I Prayed This Word“).
Mary Anne Mohanraj had an opinion piece at Salon (“My feminist revolution at 40: Why I let my gray show, and why it’s a political act“).
Daniel José Older had a story in Lightspeed (“Dust“) and several opinion pieces at Buzzfeed Books including “I Sought Solace In My Bookshelf” and “Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing.”
Sarah Pinsker had stories in Escape Pod (“The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province“), in Lightspeed (“No Lonely Seafarer“), and in Asimov’s (which you’ll have to get at the newstand to read).
Erica L. Satifka had stories in Daily Science Fiction (“Days Like These“) and Shimmer (“We Take the Long View“).
Sonya Taaffe had a story in Lackington’s (“In Winter“).

Hope you all have a happy New Year!

1 January 2015

Hey, how about some contributor news

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted contributor news, since I’ve been pretty busy with our new projects, like the Floodgate Poetry Series, the Soles Series of Stories, our forthcoming 2015 anthology, How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens, and another anthology still being formed, co-edited by H. L. Nelson and me, Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good. I’m pretty psyched about all of these projects.

…on to the news!

Lyn Lifshin, whose Marilyn Monroe: Poems we put back into circulation in December, has a new book of poems, Malala, out from Poetic Matrix Press.

News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

Margaret Atwood will be reading her poetry as part of Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble’s concert The Poem/The Song on November 7 & 8, 2014; Pauline, the opera she co-wrote with Tobin Stokes, opens at City Opera Vancouver on 23 May; her MaddAddam was nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (check out the longlist here); hear her read Mavis Gallant here.

Paolo Bacigalupi‘s Zombie Baseball Beatdown was reviewed at Boing Boing.

Tina Connolly‘s Copperhead (sequel to the Nebula-nominated Ironskin) came out in November, and her story “On the Eyeball Floor”, which first appeared in Strange Horizons, came out in translation in the Argentinian magazine La Idea Fija. Her “Flash Bang Remember,” co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim, was featured in StarShipSofa 320.

David J. Daniels has a new chapbook, Indecency. It was co-winner of the 2012 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, selected by Elena Georgiou, and published in a limited edition of 200 copies—if you’re lucky, Seven Kitchens Press still has copies available.

Darcie Dennigan‘s poem “The Ambidextrous” appeared at Thermos.

Seth Fried‘s story “Hello Again” is in the Spring 2014 issue of Tin House (and you’ll have to buy a copy to read it).

Sharon Olds reads Rodney Jones for The New Yorker‘s Poetry Podcast.

Meghan McCarron interviewed Kelly Link for Gigantic magazine about vampires as metaphors.

Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum‘s poetry collection Ghost Gear, a 2013 Miller Williams Poetry Prize finalist, was released by University of Arkansas Press.

Tessa Mellas has a new book of short fiction, Lungs Full of Noise, out with University of Iowa Press.

Ploughshares reviewed Joyce Carol Oates‘ On Boxing; The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The New York Times, Otago Daily Times, Roanoke Times, and The Washington Post all reviewed her Carthage; Huffington Post interviewed her.

Ed Pavlić was nominated for as Georgia Author of the Year.

Chet Weise is the co-editor, with Third Man co-founder Ben Swank, of Language Lessons: Volume 1, the debut book by Third Man Books (a new division of Nashville’s Third Man Records), which was celebrated at AWP. Contributors include Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Brian Barker, and me.

E. Lily Yu‘s “Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel” appeared in Clarkesworld.

And for 140 And Counting contributors:

Elizabeth Barrette‘s poems, “Rods and Reels” and “Assumptions of Precedence” were in Polu Texni.

The Poetry Storehouse has five poems, including two videopoem remixes, by Peg Duthie. The first three of these poems are also in her URB book, Measured Extravagance. She was interviewed at Moving Poems Forum about the videopoems. Duthie’s poem “Spelling ‘For Worse’” appeared in Goblin Fruit‘s Winter 2014 issue.

Kaolin Fire‘s poem, “Future Cities,” was in Polu Texni.

During the recent TwitterFiction Festival launch event live in NYC March 12, S. Kay‘s very short story (#vss) was one of three chosen to be featured and read aloud by the host Sara Barron (video 41:29), and a second story was featured in the TwitterFiction Festival feed.

Deborah P Kolodji had a haiku in the March 2014 issue of A Hundred Gourds.

David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poem, “Spark,” was in Polu Texni, and his story “A Better Place” is in the December issue of The Fifth Di….

Lightspeed published Ken Liu‘s “Ghost Days” (which will be reprinted in our How to Live on Other Planets) and “None Owns the Air” as well as his translations of Hao Jingfang’s “Invisible Planets” and Chen Qiufan’s “The Mao Ghost,” and Clarkesworld published his “The Clockwork Soldier.”

30 March 2014

“What a gruesome question. Letâ€™s see. If you leave a tadpole in a jar in the sun it will die.” – Margaret Atwood

News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

Margaret Atwood will be a guest speaker at the 2013 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) in Montreal, Canada between December 3 and 6; she has committed to writing a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death; she’s been interviewed in the Ottawa Citizen, The List, The Guardian and The Scotsman; and, of course, her MaddAdam is out.
Paolo Bacigalupi was on Jonathan Stahan’s podcast to discuss his middle-grade novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and other topics; he’ll be in Denver, CO October 18-20, at Williams College, MA October 22-24, and here in Nashville, TN for the Southern Festival of Books October 12; and has work in the Twenty-First Century Science Fiction anthology (along with 140 And Counting‘s Ken Liu).
Ed Pavlić will read from his latest collection of poetry, Visiting Hours at the Color Line, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at CinÃ©, 234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA.
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself for the Washington Post; has a new short story in The American Reader (“Sex With Camel“); and has a new book: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong.

And for 140 And Counting contributors:

The August inkscrawl has two of Peg Duthie‘s poems: “Making Rice Dance” and “Even an Empty Life Can Hold Water“; in addition to being in 140 And Counting, Duthie is the author of Measured Extravagance.
Deborah Finkelstein edited the anthology Like One, Poems for Boston in response to April’s bombings at the Boston Marathon.
David M. Harris‘s book The Review Mirror is out—and URB publisher Joanne Merriam interviewed him for Intermittent Visitors.

Stella Pierides is giving away copies of Feeding the Doves (a collection of 31 stories and haibun from Fruit Dove Press) at Goodreads.

Finally, this is a great reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories at LibraryThing:

This collection has so many endearing elements I fear I will not be able to do them justice here. The stories interweave so well that it can be read like a novel, but they are also different in big and small ways that create more than enough interest to keep on reading. I was up till 6am this morning completely captivated by the themes and excellent continuity of the stories. These themes are sometimes deep, metaphysical, existential â€“ generally philosophical; but, they are measured by wry and observant humour. Nothing is left in the ether; this is one of the most satisfying short story collections I’ve ever read.

22 September 2013

Apocalypse Now

How will the end come? What will we do when all the lights go out?

ISBN 978-1-937794-24-8 (print): used from Amazon.
ISBN 978-1-937794-23-1 (epub).
ISBN 978-1-937794-21-7 (mobi).
ISBN 978-1-937794-22-4 (pdf).
Out of print.
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Winner of the Nashville Scene‘s Best Literary Anthology 2013.

Every society and every generation has its version of the apocalypse: swine flu, genetic mutation, global warming, nuclear fallout, the second coming, peak oil, mass extinction, giant irradiated ants, zombies… Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days is the first anthology of its kind to bring together the poetry and prose of some of America’s finest (though not always most well-known) literary voices with an eye for the literary and the popular, for story and lyric, for the past and the future, for the psychological and the physical, for the real and the fantastic.

Missy, the single mother of Margaret Atwood‘s “The Silver Astroturfer,” spends her days in her basement of computers churning out copy under various aliases (“ExCodFisherman” or “LeglessVeteran” or “LadyDuckHunter”) in order to manipulate the daily news. Davis McCombs poems tell the story of a dying tobacco industry in the South and of the killing of the last gray wolf in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Rodney Jones‘s “Apocalyptic Narrative” opens in a post-apocalyptic United States in which our hero survives via c-rations and government cheese in an abandoned cave. Joyce Carol Oates‘s “Thanksgiving” depicts a father and daughter who venture out to buy food for their Thanksgiving dinner because the mother is ill. This seemingly ordinary trip, however, becomes decidedly unordinary when our assumptions about their world quickly crumble.

Judy Jordan‘s poems examine humankind’s slow destruction of the earth while Paolo Bacigalupi‘s story, “The People of Sand and Slag,” looks at how we would live post-global warming via three explorers who utilize the environment itself to remake their decaying bodies.

Chet Weise‘s poems tell of the sorely under-reported floods that overwhelmed Nashville, Tennessee in May 2010 in which the Cumberland River rose twelve feet above flood stage and twenty-one people were killed. Pinckney Benedict‘s “The Beginnings of Sorrow” is a deeply disturbing take on metamorphoses as well as apocalypses both large and small, centering on a rural couple with a dog possessed by his master’s deceased and lust-sick father.

Authors include Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Brian Barker, Jenna Bazzell, Nicky Beer, Pinckney Benedict, Kristin Bock, Tina Connolly, David J. Daniels, Darcie Dennigan, Brian Evenson, Seth Fried, TR Hummer, Rodney Jones, Judy Jordan, Kelly Link, Alexander Lumans, Charles Martin, Davis McCombs, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, Marc McKee, Tessa Mellas, Wayne Miller, Simone Muench, Keith Montesano, Joyce Carol Oates, Ed PavliÄ‡, Catherine Pierce, Kevin Prufer, Joshua Robbins, David Roderick, Jeffrey Schultz, Maggie Smith, Chet Weise, Josh Woods, and E. Lily Yu. Cover art by Jason Clark.

Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days is edited by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, and fiction was selected by Alexander Lumans.

Alexander Lumans graduated from the MFA Fiction Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Story Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Blackbird, Surreal South 2011, and The Book of Villains. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and he won the 2011 Barry Hannah Fiction Prize from the Yalobusha Review. Recently, he was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Fall 2011.

Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum‘s poems, essays, reviews, podcasts, and interviews recently appear or are forthcoming in The Writers Chronicle, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Missouri Review, storySouth, InsideHigherEd.com, Eclipse, Copper Nickel, New Letters, Glimmer Train, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Potomac Review, and The Southern Indiana Review, among others. He writes a web-column, poetry=am^k, as a Contributing Editor for The Southern Indiana Review, and he is Founder and Editor of PoemoftheWeek.org, Managing Editor of AdHominem.weebly.com and Acquisitions Editor of Upper Rubber Boot Books. Andrew holds a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale and is an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Colorado – Denver, Metro State College of Denver, Community College of Denver, and CCCOnline. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

What people are saying about Apocalypse Now:

The first short story The Adjudicator, by Brian Evenson is stark and bleak in a post-apocalyptic, terrifyingly realistic world with just enough strangeness to keep you wondering. I can’t wait to read more of this book.

â€”Diane Severson, “Various and Sundry Science Fiction Poetry,” Amazing Stories, 22 February 2013.

In the midst of this hyperbolic fun, Apocalypse Now is a startlingly serious contribution. Six sections encompass 98 stories and poems, which are fairly evenly across the breadth of the book in tone and topic.
Lured in by the promise of big names like Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi, I fell in love with the sheer variety in this book. Covering more than traditional apocalypse scenarios, itâ€™s a collection of absolute endings.

A story about anarchistic bees sits alongside a poem which describes a woman committing quiet suicide. David J. Daniels nervously relates the ripple-effect of his own mugging in This is the Pink before his spotlight is stolen by a group of cheese miners who are stranded on the moon.

Kelly Link’s surreal, neo-traditional folktale about feuding witches follows a description of God as a lion on the hunt.

I wasn’t sure what to expect of the poetry, but the standard was generally high. Different writers aimed for different things â€“ it was surprising how many plumbed for humour, in the face of all that could be.

â€”Sarah Dunn, “Apocalypse Now: Revisiting the Daydream,” Nelson Mail, 8 February 2013.

Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days is a treasure-chest of cataclysms. Lumans and McFadyen-Ketchum have ranged far across the landscape of contemporary English-language literature searching for glimpses of upheaval and ruin, and in doing so they have produced something unique: a survey of the present-day apocalyptic imagination in both poetry and fiction. If, like me, you’ve read much of the one and little of the other, you’re bound to make some compelling new discoveries here, and if you’ve read little of either, you’re in for one beautiful harrowing surprise after another.

â€” Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead and The View from the Seventh Layer

Warning: reading Apocalypse Now may result in side effects like chewed fingernails, heart palpitations, and paranoia so severe that you stockpile dried goods, fill the bathtub with water, hammer plywood over the windows, and oil your rifle.

â€” Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk

Never before has humanityâ€™s twilight shined so brightly. The poems and stories within Apocalypse Now glitter with a clarity and luster typically reserved for only the purest of gems or the most cutting of insights. The voices here have each taken their own, singular approach to a theme that is as ancient as humanity itself and, in doing so, created a unified theory of the apocalypse: a coming together of our fears, our hopes, our willingness to discover ourselves at the moment we have lost it all, the moment when we stand on the cusp of annihilation and, somehow, cannot look away… but can only sing. And this collection sings like no other.

â€” Jason Mott, author of The Returned

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“What a gruesome question. Letâ€™s see. If you leave a tadpole in a jar in the sun it will die.” – Margaret Atwood

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