Eckleburg Events
ALSO FIND US AT... AWP Book Expo Exchange (NY) Conversations & Connections (DC) Mission Creek Festival (Iowa) Litquake (LA) The Poetry Festival (NY) Derangement of the Senses (NY) Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival (NY) The Johns Hopkins University (NY, Balt) ... Read More
AWP 2015 | Minneapolis, Minnesota!
Almost exactly one year ago, I was on my way to an interview with the Minneapolis Arts Council for a position on the board. It was a nonpaying position, but the possibility of being able to influence the direction and support of the arts community in my city, no matter ... Read More
Survived AWP? Score!
Now that our luggage has (finally) been unpacked, laundry (mostly) done with, our box (or rather, ah-hem, three boxes) of journals/magazines/books we had to FedEx ourselves from AWP (thank god there was a FedEx at the convention center, regardless of the hour+ wait in line) has been received and our ... Read More
The AWP Checklist | Know It, Own It
Get the full and FREE AWP Survival Guide| How to Have Fun without Making a Complete Idiot of Yourself √ Water Hydration is very important, especially if you are attending off-site events where drinking and merriment is plentiful. Make sure to take care of yourself and replenish throughout the evening. Your ... Read More
Sunday Salon, NYC, Jimmy’s No. 43
{About} Sunday Salon is a prose reading series and online magazine. Based in New York City and founded by Nita Noveno in the summer of 2002, Sunday Salon swept through the Midwest to Chicago in 2006. In 2007 Sunday Salon launched an online zine to showcase the prose of its ... Read More
The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Spring Reading 2013 | Mark Farrington, Ed Perlman, Rae Bryant
Friday, March 15, 2013 6 PM Reception | 7 PM Reading Gilman Hall, Room 132, Homewood Campus The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Program, Baltimore, Maryland ... Read More
AWP 2013 Boston
AWP 2013. Boston. Hmm. Monster conference set on sleep-deprived surreality hashed on kick ass party reading, Steve Almond, Derrick Brown, Amber Tamblyn, Sun Parade and hallucinatory academia anxiety and did you see so and so yet? And holy shit, supposed to be there and here, a stop by the Hobart ... Read More
ECKLEBURG and MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL PARTY at AWP 2013 Boston with STEVE ALMOND, AMBER TAMBLYN, DERRICK BROWN, RAE BRYANT, and Live Music by THE SUN PARADE
STEVE ALMOND is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Atlantic/Grove, 2002), The New York Times bestseller, Candyfreak (Algonquin Books, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2011). His short fiction and essays can be found in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, Playboy, ... Read More
ECKLEBURG and MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL PARTY at AWP 2013 Boston with STEVE ALMOND, AMBER TAMBLYN, DERRICK BROWN, RAE BRYANT, and Live Music by THE SUN PARADE
[youtube width="600" height="365" video_id=YFmzz9eUHro] STEVE ALMOND is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Atlantic/Grove, 2002), The New York Times bestseller, Candyfreak (Algonquin Books, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2011). His short fiction and essays can be found in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street ... Read More
Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash Fiction Gets Dressed!
Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash PS Books | Philadelphia Stories, 2012 (Author unveiling, 2013) Editor: Nicole Monaghan If you've not heard about this really cool project Nicole Scarpato Monaghan put together, titled Stripped, A Collection of Anonymous Flash Fiction, you should really check it out. For a year, Nicole ... Read More
PEN American Center
For the last 90 years, PEN American Center has been working to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to make it possible for everyone to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others. Together with ... Read More
Do not miss MISSION CREEK 2013 | Literature, Music, Late Night Dancing Moves
Mission Creek Festival is the salve for the weary AWP attendee. Nestled in the all welcoming, artsy central, and party your ass off Iowa City, Mission Creek, run by Andre Perry and Joseph Tiefenthaler, will put your faith back in the indies--lit and music alike. DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT! ... Read More
Politics and Prose Review Pick of the Week | Rae Bryant’s Review of George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER
Chosen as an exemplary work in critical review by The Washington Independent Review of Books and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C., our editor in chief, Rae Bryant and her review of George Saunders' recently released collection, Tenth of December (Random House), will be promoted at Politics & Prose ... Read More
The Washington Post Going Out Guide | Literary Washington: Where to get your fix when the book festival ends
Good article at The Washington Post on where to go and what to do in the D.C. literary scene. Nice mention of Eckleburg, though, the preeminent placement of Politics & Prose as THE bookstore is concerning, as P&P is far more interested in national commercial publishing than the local D.C ... Read More
Redivider 10.1 | Available Now
Redivider 10.1 Issue 10.1, Winter 2013 is now available Poetry by Jennifer Perrine, Kim Addonizio, Ben McClendon, Meghan Privitello, Nick Sturm, Wendy Xu, Christopher Watkins, Joshua Helms, Dan Boehl, Rob MacDonald, Jeff Alessandrelli, Monika Zobel, Brandon Downing, Drew Swenhaugen Fiction by Jackie Corley, Diane Cook, Glenn Shaheen, Rae Bryant, Sequoia ... Read More
The Nervous Breakdown | To Naomi Wolf and Other Strange Women Who Speak for and/or about My Vagina as If It Were a Political Party
I know you have one. I do. I can feel the connectivity like string theory stretched across universes. And I appreciate your efforts to further my vagina’s creative mind-body pathways and how you’ve helped usher many vaginas to the top floors of corporate America. I get it. I do ... Read More
Wag’s Revue | Available Now
FROM THE EDITORS Addressing our overwhelming maleness. INTERVIEWS John Jeremiah Sullivan An extended interview between Robert Moor and one of our greatest living essayists in which they discuss interviewing, David Foster Wallace, writing for the Times and more. Simon Rich SNL's youngest writer discusses God, comedy ... Read More
Washington D.C., Eckleburg, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse and Johns Hopkins Nod in Ploughshares
Lovely mention of DC as a literary community including Eckleburg, Johns Hopkins, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse, and many more at Ploughshares. Ploughshares is out of Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, host city of AWP 2013. Eckleburg and The Johns Hopkins, M.A. in Writing Program look forward to reading, writing, attending workshop after workshop ... Read More
The Nervous Breakdown | Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, and Adrien Brody’s Nose: Critical Essay on Pop Culture, Technology and Lacanian Conceit in Literature
Before attempting to delve into the annals of critical theory, first I must comment on the title, “Adrien Brody,” because I adore Adrien Brody, the actor. I find him and his nose intriguing. I like the shadow-facets of his characters, and how he can bring a full body of ... Read More
OTL: Episode #269- Stories from a Chicago cab, YMTE podcast …
grab our rss feed ... Mike Stephen re-airs his conversation with a local cabbie/author, previews the YMTE podcast holiday recording party, and learns about the Chicago Loot Drop charity event. Dmitry Samarov� Chicago cabbie, artist, and author of Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab. We hear about the observations and ... Read More
MMR Highly Commended in Inaugural Saboteur Awards
Thank you to Sabotage for their high commendations of MMR in their inaugural Saboteur Awards. We're honored to be included with Polarity, >kill author, and La Petite Zine--1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively. Further, we're proud to see a short story by our Editor in Chief/Fiction Editor, Rae Bryant, in the awarded >kill author, Issue ... Read More
OTL: Episode #239- Inefficient IL Townships, YMTE Mid-Week …
grab our rss feed ... Brandon Wetherbee� Host of the You, Me, Them, Everybody Podcast. Tonight at 8:00 p.m. at Cole's Bar (2338 N. Milwaukee) Brandon hosts a special YMTE Mid-Week in Review show. OTL host Mike ... Read More
Ben Loory Reads On the Way Down: A Story for Ray Bradbury at the MMR Reading at Johns Hopkins University
Ben Loory reads "On the Way Down: A Story for Ray Bradbury" at the 2011 Moon Milk Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University. Find this story and more in the MMR Anthology 2011 ... Read More
MMR 2011 Anthology | Coming Soon
COMING SOON...$11 Stories, poetry and artwork by award-winning and emerging authors, poets, and artists. Moon Milk Review 2011 is a ravishing exhibition of what happens when the boundaries come off. A "refreshing departure...edgy...classic...compelling" (Flavorwire), MMR 2011 promises to take readers and art aficionados to places they've never been. Cover ... Read More
BLIP Magazine/Moon Milk Review/Potomac Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University
BLIP Magazine/Moon Milk Review/Potomac Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University ... Read More
