Eckleburg No. 17 eBook
“Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire — “Progressive….” NewPages — “Eye-grabbing… fun… bold… inviting… exemplary.” Sabotage — Listed among Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions — “Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers….” The Washington Post — “Literary Burroughs D.C…. the journal cleverly takes its name from the The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald….” Ploughshares
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Right away I know it’s her. She shakes my hand, introduces herself as Martha, but I know it’s Jazzmin. Of course I’ve never seen her like this: in person, up close, her breasts tucked away behind layers of sensible cotton, the little mole on her ass hidden beneath a workplace-appropriate skirt. I almost don’t recognize her face anymore without the jizz all over and the “is that okay, baby?” look from the latest round of pictures.
Dave Housley is the author of Ryan Seacrest is Famous, a collection of short fiction. His work has been published in numerous places including Columbia, Nerve, and Sycamore Review. He’s one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse. You can find an archive of his work at davehousley.com.
Eckleburg No. 17 eBook
“Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire — “Progressive….” NewPages — “Eye-grabbing… fun… bold… inviting… exemplary.” Sabotage — Listed among Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions — “Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers….” The Washington Post — “Literary Burroughs D.C…. the journal cleverly takes its name from the The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald….” Ploughshares
- Hardback, Paperback, eBook and Mobile
- Language: English
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Purchase an eBook and Support Your Favorite Contributor!
Read the entire eBook issue for $16. Choose your favorite contributor and 60% of your eBook issue purchase goes to the participating contributor! Upon eBook purchase, you will also receive the submission link for fiction, poetry and Nonfiction.
Eckleburg No. 17 eBook
“Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire — “Progressive….” NewPages — “Eye-grabbing… fun… bold… inviting… exemplary.” Sabotage — Listed among Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions — “Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers….” The Washington Post — “Literary Burroughs D.C…. the journal cleverly takes its name from the The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald….” Ploughshares
- Hardback, Paperback, eBook and Mobile
- Language: English
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Purchase an eBook and Support Your Favorite Contributor!
Read the entire eBook issue for $16. Choose your favorite contributor and 60% of your eBook issue purchase goes to the participating contributor! Upon eBook purchase, you will also receive the submission link for fiction, poetry and Nonfiction.
Sally Reno | Summer 2011 Prosetry Contest Winner | I have stories to tell, he says, his diamond eye sparkling in the bright sun.
When Veronica landed in New Orleans and turned on her phone she had a message that the boss’s brother had died and all the meetings she’d traveled for, cancelled. She collected her bags and sat down in a vinyl airport chair, trying to decide what to do. The hotel was paid for and she didn’t have to be back at work in Arizona until Wednesday. Veronica took out her laptop and checked her email. A headline on her homepage said New Orleans was expecting bad weather, and she thought about catching a plane back to Arizona right away….
Vallie Lynn Watson’s debut novel, A River So Long, was published by Luminis Books in 2012. Her Pushcart-nominated work appears in PANK, decompE, Gargoyle, and other magazines. Watson received a PhD from the Center for Writers and teaches creative writing at UNC Wilmington. She edits Cape Fear Review.
Times were tough for Nonsense Singers. It used to be, in the old days, that The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest sang at every birth, every wedding, every time a house went up, every time a child was declared fully grown….
Rick Moody is the author of nine books. He has received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Paris Review‘s Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Morgan Eljot is a novelist, comic book illustrator and totem pole carver. His work has appeared most recently in ZYZZYVA, The Literati, and England’s Arts Pneumonia. He graduated from the MFA program at San Francisco State University and divides his time between San Francisco and his ancestral homeland of Helsinki, Finland.
The whale dreams about sitting at a desk and staring at a computer screen. Its skull is the housing for many things. The skull is horned and crooked. Cracked. Filled with Truths. Black metal bands play music about the hunger in the skull. The bands wear the skull to connect to the ancient whales,the whales …
< p style=”text-align: justify;”>Stephen Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate, and has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters prize for fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He graduated from the City …
Thomas Owen, “Les Guetteuses.” La Truie (1972) Translation by Edward Gauvin Here what we call chance and coincidence begin to work. —Arthur Machen, Novel of the Black Powder What a funny figure she cut, the little old lady sitting with her knees pressed tight, the tips of her shoes touching the ground, her large purse, …
Eckleburg Workshops in Fiction
Short Story Workshop
Short Short Story Workshop
Novel: From Start to Finish Workshop
Magic Realism Workshop
Writing Sex in Literary Fiction: Are Your Sex Scenes Essential or Gratuitous?
About Eckleburg Fiction
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FICTION SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We accept previously unpublished and polished prose up to 8,000 words year round, unless announced otherwise. We are always looking for tightly woven short works under 2,000 words and short-shorts around 500 words. No multiple submissions but simultaneous is fine as long as you withdraw the submission asap through the submissions system. During the summer and winter months, we run our Writers Are Readers, Too, fundraiser when submissions are open only to subscribers. During the fall and spring, we open submissions for regular unsolicited submissions.
Note: We consider fiction, poetry and essays that have appeared in print, online magazines, public forums, and public access blogs as already being published. Rarely do we accept anything already published and then only by solicitation. We ask that work published at Eckleburg not appear elsewhere online, and if republished in print, original publication credit is given to The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. One rare exception is our annual Gertrude Stein Award, which allows for submissions of previously published work, both online and print.
ANNUAL GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD IN FICTION
1st Prize $1000 and publication. Accepting entries year round. Eligibility: All stories in English no more than 8,000 words are eligible. No minimum word count. Stories published previously in print or online venues are eligible if published after January 1, 2011. Stories can be submitted by authors, editors, publishers, and agents. Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed. Each individual story must be submitted separately, with separate payment regardless of word count. Eckleburg editors, staff, interns and current students of The Johns Hopkins University are not eligible for entry.
ANNUAL FRANZ KAFKA AWARD IN MAGIC REALISM
1st prize $1000 and publication. Accepting entries year round. Eligibility: All stories in English and magic realism no more than 8,000 words are eligible. No minimum word count. Stories published previously in print or online venues are eligible if published after January 1, 2011. Stories can be submitted by authors, editors, publishers, and agents. Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed. Each individual story must be submitted separately, with separate payment regardless of word count. Eckleburg editors, staff and interns are not eligible for entry. Submissions for the Franz Kafka Award are currently closed.
NOVEL AND STORY COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS
We publish short works at Eckleburg. At this time, we do not publish novel, long memoir, essay collections, story collections or poetry collections. We do offer manuscript workshops at The Eckleburg Workshops. If you are looking to place a manuscript, we can suggest several excellent small and large presses whose excellent books are promoted through our Eckleburg Book Club — i.e., Random House, Graywolf Press, Coffeehouse, Tinhouse, St. Martins Press and more.
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