STORYGLOSSIA Crime Wave
For STORYGLOSSIA Issue 28 (May 2008) I'm exposing a dirty little secret—my love of crime/noir fiction (movies, too)—and have enlisted Anthony Neil Smith as guest editor to help me deliver a STORYGLOSSIA crime wave.
Some of you may know Neil from his story "Louder Gospel" which appeared in STORYGLOSSIA Issue 21 (check it out if you haven't). But he s also the author of Psychosomatic, The Drummer, and Yellow Medicine and the editor of the re-emergent online noir e-zine Plots With Guns, as well as a few kick-ass crime/noir issues for the Mississippi Review. He's currently a professor of Creative Writing at Southwest Minnesota State University. Loves Louisiana Hot Sauce and Mexican beer. He's already warned you once, which means next time you won't see it coming.
The guidelines for Issue 28 are simple: We're shining our flashlights into the darkness to find what's hiding there. We want hard-hitting crime and noir stories that walk the line between the worlds of literary fiction and genre. Push the envelope, see what pushes back. Word count max: 4000 words (no exceptions).
Neil is reading submissions from January 15th until March 15th with the issue publishing May 1, 2008. See the complete guidelines for submission details and send in your best work.
Some of you may know Neil from his story "Louder Gospel" which appeared in STORYGLOSSIA Issue 21 (check it out if you haven't). But he s also the author of Psychosomatic, The Drummer, and Yellow Medicine and the editor of the re-emergent online noir e-zine Plots With Guns, as well as a few kick-ass crime/noir issues for the Mississippi Review. He's currently a professor of Creative Writing at Southwest Minnesota State University. Loves Louisiana Hot Sauce and Mexican beer. He's already warned you once, which means next time you won't see it coming.
The guidelines for Issue 28 are simple: We're shining our flashlights into the darkness to find what's hiding there. We want hard-hitting crime and noir stories that walk the line between the worlds of literary fiction and genre. Push the envelope, see what pushes back. Word count max: 4000 words (no exceptions).
Neil is reading submissions from January 15th until March 15th with the issue publishing May 1, 2008. See the complete guidelines for submission details and send in your best work.
posted by Steven J. McDermott at
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1 Comments:
I'm a noir fan myself - there's nothing I love better than reading Jim Thompson immediately after finishing some dense volume of literary fiction, as if to cleanse my palate - and I'm sharpening my pencil to create a piece for this issue of Storyglossia. I just hope that my story doesn't sully or insult the genre.
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