Coming fairly soon: A whole lot of things--a book, an anthology and Nadine Darling takes over Dire for a month!

DIFFERENT DIRE Series

AN EVENING WITH NADINE DARLING

OCTOBER 2, 2015, 7 PM

oUT OF THE BLUE ART GALLERy

541 mass ave

CAMBRIDGE, MA--at Central square

A Evening with Nadine Darling (October 2015)
Literary Match Game 2015 starring Rusty Barnes, Robin Stratton, Chad Parenteau,

Sarah Blake, Nadine Darling and Sue Miller. Prizes!!

Plus A Talk Show,

And Special Guests, Sarah Blake, Timothy Gager ,

SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAYS   

Ah, yes The Match Game for a book release!

Let's start with the different Dire, the literary series I've run every month for 14 years. When Nadine Darling, author of She Came From Beyond! asked to take over my series, for her book release, I said,
"Yes!"

I don't think I'd allow a takeover for anyone else but Nadine, as she is a friend of mine who I've workshopped with and who I read to overcome any writer's block I may be having. The cadence of her work opens creative cadences in my own brain, if that makes any sense.

So we decided to make it fun. No open mic, with giveaways, the game show and a segment using Talk Show format, interviewing Nadine and Sarah Blake, poetess author of "Mr. West".  There will also be a big screen with old commercials, live commercials, which will be improvised and various sound effects. Rumor has it that another poetess Teisha Twomey will appear as Vana White to keep the Match Game scores and I will play Gene Rayburn AND Irv Muffin (Merv Griffin)

2. "Grand Slam's: A Coming of Eggs Story" went through it's second edit. This one, a bang up job, by Cheryl Devitt after Rene Schwiesow had the difficult task of looking at "raw data" of a second draft. I feel pretty good about this book. Look for it in 2016.

3. The anthology, co-edited with Rusty Barnes(mentioned last week) featuring submissions from any­

one who thinks they have some­thing to say on the sub­ject of white trash, those who know oth­ers well enough to impress us with that knowl­edge, and with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to those who have been iden­ti­fied or self-identify as white trash.

That's enough news for today!

xoxo,
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Rusty Barnes and myself to target White Trash Anthology, late 2016, early 2017.

It was a long time ago Rusty Barnes and myself talked this one up. How long and how? I don't remember.

We may have been speaking about this little old book, pictured to the right:

Still, I don't know. I don't remember. I also don't remember where I put my keys either or for that matter, my wallet and I'm having a difficult time remembering people's names or money I owe them or money they owe me.

So how are we going to define what should be submitted. The early definition is HERE.

All we know is that it certainly not going to be white folks or trashy folks only. I also know that submission guidelines will be coming soon. Definitely poetry and most likely fiction under 1500 words. Knowing Rusty, this anthology is going to be solid writing and even if the theme sounds limiting, it'll branch out past the creative boundaries that people might expect. In other words, it won't be the same old shit.

White Trash: An Anthol­ogy, is an attempt, through poetry and short-short fiction–1500 words or fewer–to human­ize those mem­bers of Amer­i­can soci­ety often called white trash or red­necks, one of the few remain­ing sub­sets of indi­vid­u­als it's OK to ridicule and stereo­type. We invite sub­mis­sions from any­one who thinks they have some­thing to say on the sub­ject, those who know oth­ers well enough to impress us with that knowl­edge, and with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to those who have been iden­ti­fied or self-identify as white trash.

Well 2016-2017 is a long ways away. What can you do now? You can like the Facebook page, check back and wait for the submissions to open.

Tell-Tale Inklings is another Mignon Ariel King new print joint and two of my flash are included.

Good news today. The print Tell-Tale Inklings {Tell-Tale Chapbooks is the press} is out and includes two flash about domestic abuse: "How She Traded Up on Damnation" and "How He Was Left".  The first, from a woman's point of view, is a nifty revenge murder piece where the murder gives the eulogy. “The lake burns with fire and brimstone”.

"How He Was Left" is a man, left and full of shame and regret. 

A happy Sunday to you all 

Tell-Tale Inklings is a literary journal obsessed with poetry and flash fiction. Writers: Stephan Antsey, Mia Avramut, Zachary Bos, CL BLedsoe, CD Collins, Susan Deer Cloud, Lori Desrosiers, Naomi Elster, Timothy Gager, Patricia Gomes, Lucy Holsted, Marian Kent, Lawrence Kessenich, Mignon Ariel King, Valerie Lawson, Lynda McClellan, David P. Miller, Gloria Mindock, Shannon O'Connor, Chad Parenteau, Ralph Pennel, Tim Reed, Dana R. Rowe, Sarah Russell, Rene Schwiesow, Jan Steckel, Martin Willetts Jr

It is edited by friend and poetess Mignon Ariel King who brought you Hidden Charm Press. Buy it HERE

Not much news, so let's remember Thieves Jargon and activate the Whaaaaay Back Machine for a strange little story.

Not much news for me, as I edit and revise my next novel, so I'm going back in time to January 5, 2009.

Back in 2009 Thieves Jargon ruled. I really miss this journal. In this flash of mine, "All Because They Had Enough Children", published in 2009, I go way back and cross the Carol Burnett Show, an urban legend about a penguin stolen from the NE Antiquarian by a boy on a field trip, a vasectomy and the song Low Rider.

Thieves Jargon has stayed archived on-line since their passing and their list of authors is pretty amazing. I'll paste all of them below:

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David Acevedo
Robert Ackley
Paul Ahern
Albie
Tony Aldridge
Zoe Alexandra
Serena Alibhai
J. Linn Allen
Shane Allison
Brian Ames
Dan Ames
Greg Ames
Lou Amodeo
Casey Anderson
Droz Andrews
Rick Andrews
Ron Androla
Rey Emmanuel Andujar (translated by Andy Riverbed)
Arlene Ang
Anonymous
Aaron Anstett
Samantha Arlotta
Rosanna Armendariz
E. Franc Arnau
N. Asuncion
Stephen Ausherman
James D. Autio

James Babbs
Daniel Bachleda
Dean Baker
Isaac J. Baker
Marcus Bales
Ronan Barbour
Fiona Barham
Steve Barker
Tom Barlow
Christopher Barnes
Rusty Barnes
Matt Barrett
Richard Barrett
Rob Bass
Christopher Battle
Mark Baumer
Eric Beeny
Shaindel Beers
Christian Bell
Matt Bell
Jim Bennett
Bryce Berkowitz
Jed Berry
Crispin Best
Pearle Billy
Russell Bittner
Eric Blair
CL Bledsoe
Beezle Bloom
Ty Bluesmith
Robert Bohm
Julie Bolt
Tony Bonds
Justin Bonsey
Joshua Bouchard
Thomas Boulan
Louis E. Bourgeois
Boz Bowles
Jennifer Hollie Bowles
Annie Boyle
Mike Boyle
J. Bradley
Bob Bradshaw
Michael Brandonisio
Rachel Branwen
Zach Brennan
Steven Breyak
Martin Brick
Gary Britson
Jai Britton
Jais Brohinsky
J Brooke
Randall Brown
David Bruckman
Philip Brunetti
Carl Brush
John Bryan
greg buddery
Alex Buford
David Bulley
Timothy Burgess
Ciara Burkett
Adam Burns
Zachary C. Bush
Leigh Byrne

Misha Cahill
Jeff Calhoun
Kenneth Calhoun
Tetman Callis
Joseph Cameron
Corey Campbell
Jaime Campbell
Kendall Campbell
Nick Campbell
Tom Campbell
Donald Capone
Joe Carney
Will Carpenter
Brian Allen Carr
Ana Carrete
Patrick Carrington
Rowan Carter
Mary Beth Caschetta
Cat Celebrezze
Clara Chandler
Traci Chee
Anelise Chen
Jimmy Chen
Ralph-Michael Chiaia
MDS Chill
Ed Churchouse
Dave Clapper
Nick Clarke
Christopher Cocca
Adam Cohen
Sam Cole
Quinten Collier
A. Walter Collins
Sheldon Compton
Bill Cook
Jason Cook
Juliet Cook
Thomas Cooper
Scott Corrao
Edward Cowan
D.B. Cox
Daniel Cox
Chris Crittenden
Ward Crockett
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Melissa Culbertson

Matthew D'Abate
Chris D'Errico
Rod Dalrymple
Randy Dalzell
Carl Miller Daniels
Kenneth Darling
Nadine Darling
J. Michael Dashiell
Stevie Davis
Holly Day
Sophia Dean
Jarrid Deaton
Denise Dee
Brent DeLanoy
Violet Dell'Aquila
Aimee DeLong
Dave Demske
Nick Demske
Peter Desmond
Nancy Devine
Spencer Dew
Tim Dicks
Lauren Dobay
Gary m. Dobbs
Dan Donche
William Doreski
John Dorsey
Marvin Dorsey
Dan Dotson
Aereal Doyle
Lindsey Drager
Doug Draime
Rachel Hale Drew
Richard Dripping
Samantha Ducas
Jesse Dunstan
Gabe Durham

Alison Eastley
Jerome Edwards
Malon Edwards
Stevie Edwards
P.S. Ehrlich
Kurt Eisenlohr
Ramsey Mark Elias
Will Elliott
Kate Ellisor
Raz Elmaleh
Avery Elzmyth
Don Eminizer
Tyler Enfield
Michael Enright
David Ensminger
Terri Erickson
David Erlewine
TygerLilly Ernst
Michael Estabrook
Phil Estes
Luke Evans
Robin Evans
Zdravka Evtimova

Utahna Faith
Errid Farland
Shara Faskowitz
Richard Fein
Felo
Fred Ferraris
Steve Finbow
Matt Finney
David Finnigan
Alban Fischer
Jason Fisk
Nicole Fix
Brian Foley
Johnny Fontaine
Chad Forbregd
Scott Ford
Ben C. Fortenberry
J.C. Frampton
Alberto Frank
Megan Frazer
Brian Fugett
Hugh Fulham
Eva Furmanska

Zoe Gabriel
David Gaffney
Larry Gaffney
Timothy Gager
Daniel Gallik
Alex Galper
Nicanor Garcia
Ioannis Gatsiounis
Jonathan D. Gatzke
Mark Gaudet
Tamie Gaudet
Aaron Gentzler
Charlie Geoghegan-Clements
Greg Gerke
Victor Gischler
Gary Glauber
Jeff Glovsky
Steve Golds
Johnny Goodyear
Joseph Goosey
John Gorman
Brandon Gorrell
Derek Gour
Barry Graham
Richard Grayson
Nathan Graziano
Nathan Graziano
James Greco
Brad D. Green
Ry Gregory Frazier
Rosanne Griffeth
Neil Grimmett
JP Gritton
John Grochalski
Nora C. Gruenberg
Marc Gulezian
Eirik Gumeny
Mike Gustie

William Hage
Cathie B. Hamilton
Damion Hamilton
Judson Hamilton
Mary Hamilton
Bradley Mason Hamlin
Mike Hammer
Joshua Hampel
David Hardin
AJ Hare
Justyn Harkin
Neville Harmer
Damian Harpel
James Harris
William Hart
Scott Hartwich
Beth Haskell
Jonathan Hayes
KJ Hays
Ken Head
Jay Heisler
Kyle Hemmings
Nicole Henares
Michael Hendryx
Andy Henion
Ross Hickerson
John Oliver Hodges
Jnana Hodson
Douglas Hoffman
S.R. Holcombe
Hollywood
Paul Hostovsky
Zachary Houle
Dave Housely
Hannah Howard
Bryon D. Howell
Tai Dong Huai
Becky Hunt
Lindsay Hunter
Brian Hurley
Jason Huskey
Lori Huskey
Justin Hyde

Donald Illich
M.A. Internicola
Jamie Iredell
Rich Ives

Drew Jackson
Sean Jackson
Bob Jacobs
Eddie Jeffrey
Reno Jefhr
Jac Jemc
Daniel Jenkins
Johnnyelvis
Edward Jones
Eric Jones
Mike Jones
Molly Jones
Shane Jones
David Jordan

Judy Kaber
Aryan Kaganof
Derek Kagemann
Drew Kalbach
Jeff T. Kane
Nicholas Karavatos
Nicholas Karavatos
A.J. Kaufmann
Paul Kavanagh
Andrew Kaye
Thomas Kearnes
Michael A. Kechula
Joseph Kees
Rachel Kendall
Caroline Kepnes
Jason Kerzinski
J S Khan
Vishal Khanna
Chris Killen
Eddie Kilowatt
Sean Kilpatrick
Douglas Nolan Kimball
Rae Ann Kime
Robert Kloss
Tyler Knight
Illia Konakovo
Lara Konesky
Ben Kopel
Alex Koplow
Dan Korgan
Miriam Kotzin
Miriam Kotzin and Bill Turner
Vanja Kovacic
Karl Koweski
Niko Krommydas
Savannah-Louise Krusen
Donna Kuhn

David LaBounty
Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Meghan Lamb
Pat Lambe
Gavin Lambert
John Lander
Lucas Lanthier
Michael Lars
Marie Lascu
Ben Latini
W. K. Lawrence
Delphine Lecompte
Jenny Lederer
Pete Lee
Wes Lee
Gary Lehmann
Victor Lembrey
Chris Lenton
Glenn Lester
Stephen Daniel Lewis
Anthony Liccione
Lyn Lifshin
Dena Light
James Lineberger
Duane Locke
Johnny Longfellow
Robert Lopez
Sean Lovelace
Marc Lowe
Randy Lowens
Ed Lynskey
lynze

A.D. MacDonald
Jo MacDonald
Josh Maday
P.H. Madore
Anthony Madrid
Dennis Mahagin
Chris Major
James Maloney
Antonios Maltezos
Ravi Mangla
Melissa Mann
Marc Marcus
Peter Markus
Chris Marselli
Wayne Mason
Marcos Mataratas
John H. Matthews
Adam Maxwell
Matt Maxwell
M. Frias May
Matt McBride
Melanie McConnell
Jeff T. Kane and Matt McCord
Drew McCoy
Catfish McDaris
Steven J. McDermott
Dean McFarlane
Noah McGee
Rickey McGhee
Paul McGovern
Tim McGovern
Brian McGuigan
John McKernan
Eric McKinley
Dianne McKnight-Warren
Brian McManus
CTP McPherson
Edward McWhinney
Tom Meek
Carlton Mellick III
Alex Summer Melnick
John Thomas Menesini
Mercy
Corey Mesler
Jacqueline Mich
Jason Michel
Sheila Mihalick
Scott Miles
Joseph Milford
Chris Miller
James Miller
JC Miller
RC Miller
Sue Miller
Travis Mills
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz
Olesya Mishechkina
Chris Mohar
Sharon Mollerus
Kristopher Monroe
Jacob McArthur Mooney
Adam Moorad
Marshall Moore
Timothy Moore
Miguel Morales
R.B. Morgan
Benjamin Morris
Brian Morris
Dave Morrison
Kelly Morton
Tristan Moss
Matthew Mulready
Kenneth Mulvey
Tirumal Mundargi
Thomas Mundt
Alan Murphy
Sara Flannery Murphy
Kristine Ong Muslim
Joseph Musso
Gretel My

Mangesh Naik
Benjamin Nardolilli
Michael Nardone
Jason Neese
J.D. Nelson
Sean Lawlor Nelson
Bryson Newhart
Peggy Newland
Suzanne Nielsen
Iman Nielstroy
Ashok Niyogi
Alexandre Nodopaka
Cole Nowicki
Dan Nucci

Kevin O'Cuinn
Colin O'Sullivan
Bobby Oerzen
Efe Okogu
Brian Oliu
Maurice Oliver
Josh Olsen
Dave Oprava
Gabriel Orgrease
Sergio Ortiz

A.J. Pacitti
Adam Palmer
Amanda Pampuro
Tom Panasci
Rod Peckman
G. C. Perry
Kiki Petrosino
Milos Petrovic
Cameron Pierce
Michael Pikna
Sam Pink
Zach Plague
Rob Plews
Meg Pokrass
Kathy Polenberg
Sandy Pool
Colin Pope
D.C. Porder
Lorena Porras
Kerryn Potgieter
Josh Potter
Steve Potter
Matthew Potts
Brent Powers
Dominic Preziosi
Greg Privitelli
Jayne Pupek

Misti Rainwater-Lites
Andrew Ratner
Mary Lynn Reed
Alexis Remillard
Kurt Remington
Mike Renner
Brian Rentchek
John Reoli
Andy Reynolds
Chad Reynolds
Thomas D. Reynolds
Lee Reynoldson
Chuck Richardson
Eli Richardson
Ryan B. Richey
Nicholas Ripatrazone
Luis Rivas
Edwin Wilson Rivera
Andy Riverbed
Paul Corman Roberts
Tony R. Rodriguez
Stephen D. Rogers
Matthew Rorem
Rob Rosen
Theodore Ross
Brenton Rossow
Forrest Roth
Megan Roth
Adam Rothstein
Sean Ruane
Linwood Rumney
Ken Rutkowski
Joseph Rutledge
Michael Ruzicka

W. H. Saayman
Katelyn Sack
Devan Sagliani
saintc
Kris Saknussemm
Fortunato Salazar
Matthew Salesses
J.R. Salling
Jacopo Sallini-Genovese
Richard Sampson
Sye Sanders
Edmund Sandoval
Bradley Sands
Gerard Sarnat
Aleah Sato
Paula Savoy
Jackson Scales
D. Richard Scannell
Greg Scharf
Dan Schneider
Rebecca Schumejda
G. David Schwartz
Mark Schwartz
Bill Schweizer
Nathan Scott
Van Scott
Andrew Seccombe
Tomi Shaw
Stephen Shea
Maggie Shearon
Ryan Sheldon
Gregory Sherl
Gary Shipley
Joe Shooman
Maggie Shurtleff
Gabrielle Sierra
Steve Silkin
Daniel Silliman
Amy Silver
Paul Silverman
Julia Simmons
Luc Simonic
Susan Slaviero
Noel & Gary Sloboda
David L. Small
Erik Smetana
Anthony Neil Smith
D.A. Smith
Jared Smith
Willie Smith
Gerald So
Marcos Soriano
Anthony Spaeth
Kevin Spaide
George Sparling
Lauren Spohrer
Natasha Stagg
Woodie Stephenson
Rhoads Stevens
Joshua Michael Stewart
Bruce Stirling
Troy Stith
L. Suzanne Stockman
Alex Stolis
Eric Stoveken
Jeff Stuckey
Wayne Sullins
Tom Sullivan
Matt Summers
Fraser Sutherland
Jennifer Sutkowski
Charlie Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney
John Sweet

Jack Takiguchi
Ben Tanzer
Andrew S. Taylor
William Taylor Jr.
Ray Templeton
Craig Terlson
Douglas I. Thompson
Fisher Thompson
Bogdan Tiganov
Filipo Tink
Nicky Tiso
Robb Todd
Rachel Toliver
Alexander Petrov Tomov
Paul A. Toth
Jamie Townend
David Trame
Ben Tremillo
Tammy Trendle
Spencer Troxell
Bill Turner
John C. Turner
J.A. Tyler

Sean Ulman

Jennifer Van Buren
Gretchen Van Lente
Joel Van Noord
M. Andre Vancrown
Mark Vanner
Nate VanSweden
Chris Vaughan
Joseph Veronneau
Justin Vicari
Paul Vidich
Marianne Vincent
Sam Virzi
Michael Viscuso

Amanda Walczesky
Julie Walczesky
Timmy Waldron
Joshua Walker
Michelle Walker
Josh Wallaert
Dude Wallers
Jared Walls
Craig Wallwork
John Walter
Christian Ward
Jeffrey Warzecha
John Weagly
Tomas Weber
J. Marcus Weekley
Brandi Wells
Patrick Wensink
Ray Weremczuk
Tom Whalen
Steve Wheeler
Bill White
Derek White
Kelley White
James R. Whitley
Annabel Wigoder
Peter Wild
Maryilynn Wilkins
C. McAllister Williams
Stephen Jarrell Williams
Tyler Williams
D. Harlan Wilson
Kevin Wilson
Richard Wink
Ryan Winters
Dave Witty
David Wolach
Wayne Wolfson
Graham Wood
Ian Wood
Keith Wood
Ken Woods
Sam Woodworth
Lisa Wright
S.F. Wright
Steve Wright

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Sarah Young
Steve Young
Thom Young

Mario Zambrano
Tim Zatzariny Jr.
Chris Zeischegg
Russell Zerbo