Tag: Future Tense Books
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My AWP Schedule
I’m posting this as much for my own memory’s benefit as I am for anyone who wants to see me at the AWP Conference next weekend in Seattle. Here’s what I’m up to and where I will be. I’m so excited to see everyone! * denotes off-site events The rest of it happens at the…
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RIP Paul Ash, Writer, Publisher, and Visionary
A longtime friend and the man who designed the Future Tense Books website, Paul Ash, took his own life on February 7th in Portland, Oregon. I met Paul around 1999 and for a couple of years we often did readings together and talked about our various publishing projects. I was publishing little Xeroxed chapbooks by…
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A Weekend of I Remember
This weekend, over at the Future Tense Books Facebook page and also on the new I Remember fan page, you can post your own I Remember. I love the whole I Remember form and often have student do it when I teach workshops and visit classrooms. It’s a pretty great writing prompt that is easy…
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2011 is Dead. Long Live 1997.
Hey–First off, I have new little stories at Unshod Quills and Hart House Review! And since 2011 is just about over, I thought I should post a little year-end thingamajig. A few of my favorite things: Novels: Donald Ray Pollack’s The Devil All the Time and Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers were both pretty kick-ass…
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Kickstart My Heart!
Helloooo everyone, Yesterday, I launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for my little press, Future Tense Books! Please check it out here and donate in the next 29 days if you can. Thanks to my co-editor and marketing man, Bryan Coffelt, for the snazzy video (and more will be posted in the coming weeks). The only other…
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