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Aqueous Books came to me in a dream (no really, it did) as if it was meant to be. [Read more]
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Checking in with Glass Coin
Fictionaut Five: Kyle Hemmings
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What really drives me to write is the haunting sense of an unlived life and an even more haunting sense of the one I’ve lived. [Read more]
At the risk of sounding corny, Fictionaut has changed my life. [Read more]
Never before have artists had more tools available to them to reach their audience and create new markets for their work. [Read more]
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Luna Digest, 8/3
Checking in With Oil
Meg Pokrass: Okla-can you tell us about your “unusual” path to becoming a poet and writer? Mine was an early life in theater, and I love to learn how people find their eventual thing. And in your case, things! Clearly, you wear many creative hats… Okla Elliott: It’s hard to trace these sorts of developments, […]
I was creative for about 15 minutes in 1987. Unfortunately, I didn’t write anything down, and now it’s gone. Everyone I know is more creative than me. [Read more]
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Luna Digest, 7/20
Checking In with Rose Metal Press
The writers who really grab me are do the unexpected. I really enjoy experiments with form, like Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves; experiments with voice, like Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End; experiments with lyric, like Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica and Carole Maso’s The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. [Read more]
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Luna Digest, 7/13
Line Breaks: “Coping Stones” by Ann Beattie
Fictionaut Faves, 7/11
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Fictionaut Five: Marcy Dermansky
I started this book with an image of that first scene in the bath tub, Marie, her large breasts, a glass of whiskey, that little girl. I sat down to type and there came that first sentence: Sometimes, Marie got a little drunk at work. [Read more]
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Luna Digest, 7/6
Fictionaut Five: Matthew Salesses
Checking in With Original, Unpublished Fiction
I had these shadowy characters full of pent-up anger or sadness or missingness–longing–and I knew there was something that explained this. I had this obsession that I was avoiding. So I started letting my life into theirs, and their desires and problems became much clearer, and in the process I became clearer to myself. [Read more]
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Checking in With Original, Unpublished Fiction
Luna Digest, 6/30
Fictionaut Faves, 6/28
It’s difficult to escape childhood stuff — the family of origin, the childhood fears, the specter of religion. I’ve been thinking a lot about death, about how time reduces possibility, about class inequities, about how our walled-off interior lives and competing agendas make it difficult for us to connect with one another. [Read more]
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Luna Digest, 6/22
Fictionaut Faves, 6/21. Two for Cherise Wolas
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