announcements

The Issue Project Room in New York City will sponsor a reading by David Ohle and Brian Evenson, with music by Nat Baldwin, on May 23rd at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Jim Ruland interviews Kim Chinquee about Oh Baby, as does Jennifer Pieroni.

Rob Patterson's Eating Variations, a song cycle based on poems by Ron Singer, will be performed on May 17 and 18 at Tenri in New York City. Click here for further information and tickets. Ron Singer will also be reading, along with Donald Lev and Gertrude Morris, at the Cornelia Street Cafe (between Bleecker and W. Fourth) on June 12th at 6 p.m. Tickets are $7. Call 212-989-9319 for information and reservations.

Kevin Sampsell's Creamy Bullets is available for pre-order from Powell's.

Rose Metal Press has released A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith.

The following stories and poems, published in elimae, will be included in the Snowvigate anthology of web-based writing, due to appear this summer: Corey Zeller's "Fall Apart Stuff"; Diane Williams' "Ecstasy or Passion"; Jane Unrue's "Trotter"; Jessica Newman's "Morning"; Phoebe North's "The memory was marked with a claw hammer. . ."; H. Tavel's "A Brief History of The Viking Conquest of America"; Claudia Smith's "Colts"; Girija Tropp's "Inamorata"; Doug Martin's "Our New Folklore Lives"; Christy Effinger's "Arm Service"; and Cooper Esteban's "I.M. Kingsley Amis". Congratulations to these authors for their fine work and their participation in what makes elimae what it is.

Mark Yakich's The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine is just out. You can order it at the link or from your favorite bookstore.

Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee's collection of flash fictions and prose poems, some of which appeared first in elimae, is now available.

Pedro Ponce's Superstitions of Apartment Life has won the 2nd annual Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition.

Peter Conners' novella Emily Ate the Wind is now available from Marick Press and bookstores.

The 2008 issue of NOON is now available and includes work by elimae favorites Brandon Hobson, Kim Chinquee, Greg Mulcahy, Deb Olin Unferth, Tao Lin. . . .

James Lewelling's Tortoise, a portion of which has appeared in elimae, is now available from Calamari Press.

Mad Hatter's Review and WebDelSol are sponsoring the First Combination Special Video Contest. They invite you to submit a video "inspired by a poem, fiction, literary non-fiction, or experimental form".

Episode #6 of Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Rabbit Light Movies is now available.

failbetter is co-hosting a reading/cocktail hour Thursday January 31st, between 7 and 9, at the 11th Street Bar, at 510 E. 11th, between Avenues A and B, in New York City.

The "Friends of Tuesday Shorts" reading this week will feature Donald Capone, Mike Young, Bob Heman, and Shelly Rae Rich on January 30, at the Boxcar Lounge, 168 Avenue B in the East Village, at 8 p.m.

William Walsh's Without Waxxx: a documentary novel will be available from Casperian Books in March. Meanwhile you can get a peek here.

New York Tyrant celebrates their new issue on Saturday, January 19th, 9 pm at Bar Nine, 807 Ninth Avenue between 53rd and 54th, in New York City.

The new issue (no. 8) of Hobart is now available. In addition to more than 200 pages of new stories, the issue also features "Bird Flew," a beautiful sheaf of found-and-altered artwork by Robert Waters.

Jared Wahlgren's chapbook Chariots of Flame is now available at Maverick Duck.

Shelly Rae Rich is starting a new monthly reading series in the East Village, New York City, at the Boxcar Lounge, 168 Avenue B. The first reading is November 28th at 8 p.m. and will feature Rusty Barnes, Linda DiGusta, Anne Elliott and Carol Novack.

Mad Hatter's Review will sponsor a reading on December 7 in New York City at the KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, 7-9 pm, featuring Laura Hinton, Angela Szczepaniak, and Yuriy Tarnawsky.

elimae contributor Eugene Lim is a partner in Ellipsis Press, which is now accepting innovative fiction submissions. Click here for information and guidelines. Issue 3 of Harp and Altar, where Lim also edits, is now available, featuring work by Eugene Marten and Norman Lock, among others.

Calamari Press has issued Michael C. Boyko's The Hour Sets.

Andrew Demcak's Catching Tigers in Red Weather is now available for pre-order. Publication date is October 30.

Ron Singer's A Voice for My Grandmother has gone into a second printing.

Hugh Steinberg has just published his first book, Shy Green Fields, with No Tell Books.

On September 27, Daniel Borzutzky, Deb Olin Unferth and Shelley Jackson will all be reading at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Lance Blisters will provide the music. Check the website for more details.

Calamari Press has just published Michael Peters's Vaast Bin; n Ephemerisi.

FC2 has just published Alexandra Chasin's story collection Kissed By.

Deron Bauman, who founded elimae in 1996 and edited it through 2004, makes selections from the archives for those years for the September issue, due to post mid-month.

Caroline Noble Whitbeck's poems are collected in Our Classical Heritage: A Homing Device, now available from Switchback Books.

On Friday, October 5, Mad Hatter's Review will host a reading from 7 to 9 pm at the KGB Bar in New York City, featuring Ira Cohen, Lynda Schor and Stephanie Strickland.

Claudia Smith's The Sky Is a Well has just been beautifully reviewed at BookSlut.

elimae will be closed to submissions from August 10 through October 15. During this time, elimae will publish one or two special issues emphasizing the depth of the archives.

Russell Brakefield, Benjamin Fidler, A. Minetta Gould, Tim Lantz & B. Michael Somers have honored yours truly by dedicating a poem to me at admit2.net. Thanks to all of you.

Figures for a Darkroom Voice by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson with drawings by Noah Saterstrom is now available for pre-order from Tarpaulin Sky.

Michael Kimball, Brian Evenson and Noy Holland will read on Thursday, August 23rd, at McNally Robinson.

Lulu.com's anthology Heavy Glow: Flash Fiction is now available.

Teeny Tiny's issue 10 and Margaret Ann Garcia's Interminable Buzzing are in print. For more information go to Teeny Tiny.

On Thursday, August 16, Andrew Demcak and Tony Trigilio will be reading at Pegasus Books Downtown (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704, Phone (510) 649-1320), at 7:30 p.m.

Gary Lutz's Partial List of People to Bleach is available from Future Tense Books.

Peter Conners's Of Whiskey & Winter is now available from White Pine Press.

Claudia Smith's The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts is now available from Rose Metal Press, after winning the Press's first short-short chapbook contest.

Craig Snyder's Rumble is rolling along.

Eugene Lim, who has appeared in elimae, is the fiction editor at the new Harp and Altar, whose new issue has just posted. They are now accepting submissions for the fall issue, so please take a look.

On Thursday, May 31st, at 9 p.m., New York Tyrant will celebrate the launch of Issue #2 at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St., between Grand & Broome) in New York.

On Wednesday, June 6, at 8 p.m. the Issue Project Room will sponsor a reading by Norman Lock, Gary Lutz, and Eugene Marten followed by a musical performance by alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty. Check the website for more details.

Achiote Press has released its first 2 chapbooks: the immaculate autopsy by todd melicker, and achiote seeds by barbara jane reyes, rich villar, and rebecca mabanglo-mayor. $12 for both chapbooks (not sold separately). If you are interested in purchasing, please contact Craig Perez at csperez06 (at) gmail (dot) com.

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