Hisham Bustani One Moment Before the End Your head, hit by a brick hurled bitterly by a professional murderer, will not stop bleeding before my eyes. The white matter of the brain will not stop seeping out of the cracks and winding around my neck. Come sleep beside me, I will heal the fiery marks […]
Feature Friday: Associate Editor Angela
For our next Feature Friday we’re happy to introduce Angela Pankosky, our final associate editor. Angela helps make the final decisions on submissions with the rest of our editorial staff, along with handling some of our administrative duties. Angela Pankosky is a Polish writer, mother, and dancer. She earned B.A. in Comparative Literature from SDSU […]
Feature Friday: Associate Editor William Lambert
Welcome back for another one of our Feature Friday posts! Today FI is happy to introduce William Lambert, one of our associate editors. William participates in line by line editing of final submissions alongside the other editors, and he heads our prison correspondence program. William Lambert is an MFA grad student at San Diego State […]
Feature Friday: Associate Editor Kurt Kroeber
This week as part of our Feature Friday get to know Kurt Kroeber! Kurt is one of our associate editors who oversees the administrative aspect of our journal including managing orders, getting issues out to contributors and readers, and handling much of our finances. Like all of our editors, he also gets to help narrow down […]
Feature Friday: Associate Editor
For this week’s Feature Friday we have our first associate editor: Thomas M. Gresham. Thomas is lead editor for this upcoming issue. His position involves overseeing all aspects of production from interacting with contributors, to proof reading, to guiding new interns and readers. Thomas Gresham is a fiction writer, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He has work […]
Next Issue’s Theme: Body
The time has finally arrived! The theme for our next issue has been decided on, and we can’t wait to see what everyone submits. For our next issue, writers are welcome to send submissions with the theme of (insert drumroll): Body As usual, we have flexibility with what the word “body” means to […]
Featured Friday: Editor-in-chief Harold Jaffe
As part of a new initiative to help readers and potential contributors become more familiar with the journal and our editorial team, Fiction International is launching a new Featured Friday segment on our social media platforms. During this time, we’ll be giving readers a closer look at our editorial team for the upcoming submission period which opens […]
Harold Jaffe’s Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions
Harold Jaffe’s new volume: Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions will be published in November, 2016, by JEF (Journal of Experimental Fiction)
SOS: SAVE OUR SCAT!
BLACK SCAT BOOKS is struggling to stay afloat. It must replace its dying computer system and outdated software, and raise funds to pay book authors and contributors to BLACK SCAT REVIEW. Since its launch in the summer of 2012, this unique indie publishing venture has survived hand-to-mouth. Now we need your help to keep the […]
The Puritan guest blog
The Puritan Senior Editors The Benefits of Entering a Writing Contest The Puritan Senior Editors For every literary magazine, a prize. Our lit culture’s thick with them. Whether you’re an ardent submitter, see them as a necessary evil to keep literary ships afloat, or you love to hate them, writing contests can often feel more […]