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We are pleased to announce that Duff Brenna has chosen Steve Davenport's nonfiction chapbook, Murder on Gasoline Lake, as the winning manuscript in the Spring 2007 contest.
Please see guidelines for the current contest.
Keep an eye out for a limited edition chapbook of Lee K. Abbott's story "One of Star Wars, One of Doom," soon to be available from New American Press.
DECEMBER 2007: One of Star Wars, One of Doom, a fiction chapbook by Lee K. Abbott.
FEBRUARY 2008: The Other Chekhov, edited by Okla Elliott and Kyle Minor. An anthology of lesser-known Chekhov stories, each introduced by a contemporary author. These stories show the Chekhov who was interested in murder, unprettified adultery, extreme poverty, and characters eaten by sharks (yes, characters eaten by sharks). Introductions by Pinckney Benedict, Fred Chappell, Jeff Parker, Benjamin Percy, David R.Slavitt, and others.
APRIL 2008: Murder on Gasoline Lake, a nonfiction chapbook by Steve Davenport, author of Uncontainable Noise and nonfiction editor at Ninth Letter.
MAY 2008: Riding the Dog, a collection of essays (with an introduction by Robert Stewart, editor of New Letters) by renowned novelist, short story writer, and translator Thomas E. Kennedy, the author of over 20 books and recipient of Pushcart and O.Henry prizes.