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 […]

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 It must replace its dying computer system and outdated software, and raise funds to pay book authors and contributors to BLACK SCAT REVIEW.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 […]

Autre Review of Harold Jaffe’s Death Café

[BOOK REVIEW] SUSAN GRACE REVIEWS HAROLD JAFFE’S NEW BOOK, DEATH CAFÉ April 14, 2016 Harold Jaffe, progressive, social activist, and author of 24 innovative books, including Othello Blues, Revolutionary Brain, Anti-Twitter, and Induced Coma, has planted another mine in the minds of readers worldwide with his latest work, Death Café. The title alone, Death Café, […]

Provisional Notes on Art Brut.

by Erica Spriggs Art brut, also known as outsider art, is not merely an expression of “madness.” It goes beyond the constructs of language into a deeper realm of consciousness. It disobeys the formula of lines, color, and composition; it becomes itself as it deconstructs itself, as the audience attempts to find a reference that […]