RDSP Blog Series Kit ‘N Kabookle recently included us in a blog series from authors sharing their reader experiences. We were particularly glad to be included since that fits well for our Year of the Reader celebration. Several RDSP authors participated. Here’s a link roundup: Jake Fuchs Scott Thomas Michael Gills K. Ceres Wright Heidi…

We are excited to announce that we will be releasing The Blood Poetry by Leland Pitts-Gonzalez in the summer of 2012. This is the first book we have signed from open submissions in years and it really knocked our socks off. For more about Pitts-Gonzalez and the book check out The Blood Poetry web site.

An interview with Larry Fondation about Unintended Consequences has just gone up at Hobart. Here’s an excerpt: “…I think all good art should be disturbing in some way — aesthetically, politically — in one way or another, it should upset the established order. It should not be safe.” Read the whole interview.

Harold Jaffe will be speaking at South Texas College on April 28th at 4pm. Here’s an event announcement for more info:http://offtheshelf.southtexascollege.edu/?p=241

Bare Bone #10 is just about done and should be out by early April. The TOC is pretty impressive. I’m really excited about this issue because I think these are all writers doing cool things and well worth reading. Fiction: When Sussurus Stirs • Jeremy Robert Johnson These Hands, Those Feet, This Heart • Mark…

Lance Olsen has just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Here's an article on his work and the award.