Old News from 2007:
Story in print
December 29, 2007
My short-short,
Monsoon
appears in the Fall 2007 issue of
Sou'wester
edited by Allison Funk and Valerie Vogrin
Story up
December 10, 2007
December's Hobart online
December 10, 2007
is here! With stories by CL Bledseoe, Richard Treat, & Mike Young. Also, an
interview with, and short excerpt from, Jesse Ball, and a short
essay in celebration of Whitney Pastorek & Pindeldyboz.
hobart
Interview
December 9, 2007
Xujun Eberlein's
interview
with Rusty Barnes and Kim Chinquee.
It's all about flash.
Story up
November 16, 2007
Shots
is up at
elimae.
This issue also includes stories by Elizabeth Ellen
and Aaron Burch.
Story up
November 15, 2007
40 Days and 40 Nights is up at
Titular
Interviews
November 9, 2007
Rose Metal Press in Poets & Writers Magazine
October 28, 2007
So, if you turn to pg. 16 of the Nov/Dec
issue of Poets and Writers Magazine,
and look under "Small Press Points" there is a
profile of Rose Metal Press and mention of
Sky Is A Well.
Story Up
October 24, 2007
My story
Halcyon
is online at
Juked
I wrote this not long after Vonnegut died, and he was on my mind.
Story up
October 16, 2007
"Root"
is online in Bound Off, read by Kelly Shriver.
Good Read
October 16, 2007
Kim Chinquee's Firebox Fiction in Night Train,
Lock-in
Good Read
October 6, 2007
"Jennies"
is online at the Mississippi Review,
the hyperextended family issue edited by
Darlin Neal
, along with beautiful stories by Kim Chinquee,
Tiff Holland, Liesl Jobson, Jeff Landon, Mary Miller,
Jim Ruland, Girija Tropp, and Joan Wilking.
Powell's Featured Title
September 28, 2007
The Sky Is A Well And Other Shorts is a featured
title at
Powell's.
Daily Dose
September 27, 2007
Powell's Daily Dose is
The Sky Is a Well!
Today's
Dose is by Melissa from Houston, Texas
The Sky Is A Well is available at
Powell's
Good Reads
September 24, 2007
Good Reads
September 20, 2007
The Sky Is A Well And Other Shorts reviewed in
Bookslut.
Grace Paley
August 23, 2007
Grace Paley
died in her home yesterday.
interview
I heard her read, years ago, on a rainy Vermont evening. I won't forget that night.
Good Reads
August 20, 2007
On the Bookshelf
August 18, 2007
Work of the Day
August 13, 2007
Stories up
August 6, 2007
A thoughtful review
August 2, 2007
of
The Sky Is A Well from Matt Briggs at his blog,
seedcake
The New Fiction Issue at the
Mississippi Review
with beautiful stories by Kim Chinquee, Jeff Landon,
and Mary Miller
My friend, the wry and wonderful writer James Whorton Jr. just started a new
blog.
Rose Metal Press at the Printer's Ball
July 20, 2007
..along with lots of other presses!
The Printers' Ball: An annual celebration of print literature
Free admission, magazines & more
When: July 20, 2007 8pm
Where: Zhou B. Art Center
1029 West 35th Street, Chicago Free Parking | Red Line to Sox-35th | Halsted Bus
Live music! Punk Planet presents Magic Lantern
Venus Zine presents Blue Ribbon Glee Club and The 1900s
DJs from WLUW & Flameshovel Records Demonstrations by Gnoetry & Reading Under the Influence
Featuring: Bookslut | Chicago Quarterly Review | Chicago Reader | Chicago Review | Columbia Poetry Review | Green Lantern | Mule Magazine | Other Voices | Rose Metal Press | StoryQuarterly | THE2NDHAND | Time Out Chicago | TriQuarterly | And others ...
On the Bookshelf
July 18, 2007
more lovely bloggings
July 18, 2007
Pia Ehrhardt's Famous Fathers and
Other Stories reviewed in the
New York Times.
Beautiful Bloggings
July 10, 2007
Hobart
and
Night Train
and
Katrina Denza
and
Kelly Spitzer
have blogged about
The Sky is a Well and
Other Shorts. Here are some of Hobart's Sean Carman's
good words:
Claudia's strange and beautiful stories are
about young women living through "time in between
time," that open space between childhood and
maturity -- between innocence and experience --
and their power comes from the darkness and deep
mystery of that adolescent crossing.
My short
Orbit
is up at Monkeybicycle
Million Writer's Award
July 5, 2007
The Sky is a Well and other Shorts - now available!
July 3, 2007
My short-short collection, The Sky is a Well and
Other Shorts, is now available from
Rose Metal Press
The two-color letterpress covers of this chapbook were printed at
the Museum of Printing in Andover, Massachusettes, and each little book
was saddle-sewn by hand. The editors at Rose Metal worked long and hard
to make this collection pretty.
***
I just can't wait to hold it in my hands.
Me...Interviewed
July 2, 2007
South African writer and musician Liesl Jobson
interviewed me in the latest issue of
Eclectica
Liesl's book of short-shorts
100 Papers will be
published by Botsotso this year.
On the Bookshelf
June 27, 2007
The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts
May 15, 2007
is available for pre-order now right
here.
May's Hobart ...
May 5, 2007
Story published
May 1, 2007
The spring issue of
Redivider
is out, with my story
Wool.
Good Reads
April 23, 2007
Heller and Vonnegut
April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
April 12, 2007
Late last night, I read that
Kurt Vonnegut
died. I first read Kurt Vonnegut when I was in high school; a boy I knew who wanted to
write like him introduced me to
Slaughterhouse 5 and Joseph Heller's
Catch 22. I lost my infatuation with the boy, but I never fell out of love with
Vonnegut. RIP,
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An
interview with Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Honey by Arielle Greenberg
The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts
March 12, 2007
Here is the promotional blurb about my forthcoming chapbook. I've
been reading and admiring Ron Carlson's stories for years, and his
words mean a lot to me.
Lyric and gritty, glowing and graceful, The Sky is a Well and Other
Shorts is a complex and compact collection from Claudia Smith,
funny-sad master of the short short form. Evocative of places and
times long gone or going, the ephemera of memory and emotion, youth
and age, each story unfolds like a song on a concept album - the
pieces can stand alone, but together they blend into a seamless whole
you'll want to hear again and again.
"...Each of Claudia Smith's short shorts is a tilted memory of love
and loss {..} There is a natural accuracy in these brief narratives;
the stories are short; her voice is true."
-Ron Carlson
AWP panel
February 27, 2007
On Thursday, March 1, I'll be presenting with the panel The Online
Writing Community and Flash Fiction: Words Across the World at the
AWP conference in Atlanta
along with Kim Chinquee, Darlin Neal, Jeff Landon, Girija Tropp, Liesl
Jobson, and Kathy Fish. Afterwards, I'll be reading alongside the panelists
as well as the wonderful poet and writer Tiff Holland at the Georgia Tech
Barnes and Noble.
The reading starts at 3:30 p.m. I hope to see some of you there! I've been
workshopping with the writers who'll be reading for years.
Good Reads
February 23, 2007
The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts
January 30, 2007
I am very happy to share the news that Ron Carlson selected my
collection,
The Sky is a Well and other Shorts, as the winner of
Rose
Metal Press's first annual
short short chapbook competition. Finalists and semi-finalists
included writers Kathy Fish, Elizabeth Ellen and Corey Mesler.
It's here!
January 4, 2007
My story, "My Lawrence," appears in the new W.W. Norton anthology New
Sudden Fiction, now
available
This story first appeared in
Juked as "My Robot".
The anthology includes great stories by Pia Ehrhardt, Joyce Carol
Oates, Sam Shepard, Roy Kesey, Aimee Bender, Tobias Wolff, and others.
On Wednesday, September 5th at 7:00pm,
Tiff Holland and I will give a reading at
Austin Texas' BookWoman
bookstore at 918 W. 12th St.