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http://jmww.150m.com/ Ten rules for writing fiction (courtesy of friend and writer Michael Seidel) up at The Guardian, UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one My pal and fantabulous fellow Wisconsin writer David Tomaloff (dt) is UGLY MOUTH at HOUSEFIRE: http://housefirebooks.com/ugly-mouth-poetry-david-tomaloff/. Way to represent! Fiction writer Jacqueline Vogtman is featured at Connotation Press, courtesy of fiction editor Meg Tuite: http://connotationpress.com/fiction/1562-jacqueline-vogtman-fiction. And happy birthday sweet Meg…here’s to many, many more! Gregory Sherl has an awesome poem at poets.org: Two Minus One- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Damn, can he write! Blue Fifth Review has a Flash special issue including pieces by Stephen Hastings-King, Hobie Anthony, Kari Nguyan and more: http://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/flash-special-september-2012-12-20/ Roxane Gay waxes and wanes with The Politics of Entitlement at The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/2012/09/the-politics-of-entitlement/ Nancy Fraser Freund was the guest editor at Necessary Fiction for September, and I was so fortunate to have my piece, “Mother/Father and Clown” published there on September 23: http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres/MotherFatherandClown. And here are the rest of the pieces Nancy chose for the month: http://necessaryfiction.com/tag/writerinres+September 2012 Three new poems by Sasha Fletcher at Hobart: http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/three-poems–2 If you haven’t already, it’s time to get Amber Sparks’s debut collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies from Curbside Splendor: http://curbsidesplendor.bigcartel.com/product/may-we-shed-these-human-bodies Dennis Cooper’s blog, DC, discusses three new books he recently read and loved: http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2012/10/3-books-i-read-recently-loved-blake.html?zx=1852724834aecd63 My bro, the prolific Len Kuntz, has a new story, “Hooks,” up at the new Seattle zine, Spartan: http://spartanlit.com/hooks I am happy to be alive. What a lovely time to be on the planet. Happy trails all!]]>