Prick of the Spindle's first Poetry Open Competition is closed to submissions. Judges Eric Weinstein and Cynthia Reeser will be announcing winners & honorable mentions in February 2010.
NEW: Aqueous Books
PotS has podcasts! Meg Pokrass & J. Bradley talk writing & performing with Cynthia Reeser.
Prick of the Spindle announces the winners of its first Fiction Open Competition.
Purchase the signature print edition, a publication including the stories of competition winners and honorable mentions, here.
The Kindle edition is available here.
We get interviewed on Fictionaut.
Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize XXXIV Nominees:
In Fiction:
* "Wild Man" by Ladee Hubbard
* "The Pulse of Snow" by Tony M. Vinci
* "Flood Plain" by Sarah Hilary
In Poetry:
* "Beach House" by Ali Shapiro
* "Dealey Plaza Action Set" by Laurie Barton
* "The Incident of the New Fires in the Gulf" by Christopher Lirette
We are now accepting short film submissions. To submit your work, send inquiry to pseditor (at) prickofthespindle (dot) com.
Check out the Dzanc Books Creative Writing Sessions, offered for writers who wish to fine-tune their craft.
Prick of the Spindle has a NewPages review. Read it here.
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FICTION:
*Sam Allard
Wands and Paddles
* CL Bledsoe
The Mouse
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Alana Dakin
The Sound That's Left
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Mike Florian
The Way of the World
* April Heaney
Homebound
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Teresa Houle
Blanket of Ivory
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Len Kuntz
Sing a Song of Infinity
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Denise Marois
The Hat
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Khrynn McManus
The Bread Spell
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Dolan Morgan
Plunge Headlong into the Abyss with Guns Blazing and Legs Tangled!
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Brad Peters
After the Coals
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Meg Pokrass
The Chubb Illusion
* Joseph Scapellato
The Cyclops
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Jacqueline Vogtman
The Pleasure of Falling
*Alec Bryan
When Stars Die
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Nels Hanson
The Two Roses
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Julie Innis
The Bee King
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Marc Lowe
Girl with Smear
POETRY:
* Laurie Barton
Tenderness
* Trina Burke
What is Morning?
Snowbirds
* Allison Davis
Summer Contours
* Ezra Dan Feldman
Replacement for the Stick Gone over the Dam
* Jeannine Hall Gailey
Sleeping Beauty Loves the Needle
* Kyle Hemmings
God Must Be a Beautiful and Lonely Outcast
* Shaylah Kloska
Why We Stayed
The Ghost: The Man
Field Guide
* Kat Mandeville
Skipping to Middle Chapters for Graphic Description
* Wendy Noonan
New Baby
* Catherine Owen
Haibun on Driving Towards Calahoo
2:22 a.m.
*Elizabeth Weber
I Wish You Weren't Such a Paranoid Actress
* Jesse Wide
How to Fall out of Love Completely
DRAMA:
* POTATO BLOSSOMS
By Okla Elliott
INTERVIEWS:
* Vol. 3.4: A Conversation with David Wolach, Editor of Wheelhouse Magazine and the PRESS Anthology, by Eric Weinstein
NONFICTION:
* Danielle Sigmon
Sean
* Lauren Smith
Returns
* Rick Steigelman
Godless in London
*Elizabeth Westmark
Gloria
REVIEWS:
* Anthology Review: Eric Weinstein
PRESS Anthology 2009: Activism & the Avant-Garde, Ed. David Wolach
* Historical Fiction Review: Erin McKnight
The Mule Shoe by Perry Trouche
SMALL PRESS REVIEWS:
* State Sonnets by B.J. Best
* When the Cats Razzed the Chickens by Mel Bosworth
* We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry
* Ghosts of Breath by Howie Good
* My Heart Draws a Rough Map by Howie Good
* Pacing the Moon by Sandy Green
* The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins
* Beauty by Laura LeHew
* Night Sweat: Poems by Nathan Leslie
* Stains: Early Poems by Lori A. May
* Voyeur by Rich Murphy
* Swimming from under My Father by Michael O'Keefe
* Lost and Found by Meg Pokrass
* Fabulous Essential by Niina Pollari
* The Quizzical Chair: A Collection of Poems Ed. Laura LeHew
* The Future is Happy by Sarah Sarai
* The Map of Our Garden by Rebecca Schumejda
* Water the Moon by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
