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Back on November 19th, Heather Bartlett, Kathryn Henion, and I delivered a panel called “Total Submission: Understanding the Kinks and Quirks of Literary Magazines,” as part of the Spring Writes 2020 literary festival. The recording from that night’s panel is now up and running on YouTube. Check it out!

I have a new story up now at The Saturday Evening Post. It involves chain-smoking dance instructors, frotteurism, and a feral ex-girlfriend. (Thanks be unto Nick Gilmore, who runs the contemporary and classic fiction posts at the magazine.)

Come join Kathryn Henion, Heather Bartlett, and me for a conversation on how to send your work out to literary magazines. Registration to the Zoom event is free! (Thanks be unto Robin Schwartz, Program Director of Ithaca’s Community Arts Partnership, for organizing the event.)

You should read David James Poissant’s debut novel, Lake Life. (It’s by the same guy who wrote the insanely, unimaginably good short story collection, The Heaven of Animals.) Check it out!

I wrote a piece about a game I play with my children when we’re bored or waiting in line.

A huge thanks goes out to Aaron Burch at Hobart for publishing this little bastard of a piece.

Amber Sparks and I had the chance to talk recently about her third short story collection, And I Do Not Forgive You (Liveright). You can check out our interview over at Fiction Writers Review.

Come join me, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Sarah Jefferis, and Sarah Pape in San Antonio, TX, on Saturday, March 7th, 2020, as we present “Round Characters: Writing Family in Creative Nonfiction.” The panel will run from 10:35-11:50am over in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. For the full AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference Schedule, you can find it here.

Fiction Writers Review was excellent enough to run the interview I did with Kristen Arnett recently, in support of her debut novel’s release. You can check it out here!

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Jason Allen about his debut novel, THE EAST END (Park Row Books). You can find our discussions at Fiction Writers Review and The Rumpus, and you can buy Jason’s outstanding book here, here, and here.

A huge thanks goes out to Terry Kennedy, storySouth‘s editor-in-chief, for accepting a CNF piece I wrote about working in a psychiatric hospital.