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View fullsize From Sean Ennis’s Chapbook ‘Rat Aesthetics’ 

Big Clairvoyance was originally featured in @bendinggenres 

Liz Rosen: Considering the name of the gang, “The Old Rats,” and the gambling milieu, the sense that we’re
View fullsize Any journals out there that review chapbooks? We'd love to send you a physical copy of one of our books for consideration. Please DM!
View fullsize Big News: Elizabeth Rosen’s chapbook, Survival Kills, is now available for preorder. Books ship June 15th. Link in bio.

Cover photo by @corvusatlarge 

“In Survival Skills, Elizabeth Rosen’s richly varied chapbook of flash fiction
View fullsize JT: Why do you write—and how did you get your start as a writer?

EK: I’ve been drawn to books and stories since I was a kid. Even before I could read, I liked the idea of books and libraries and the quiet, lamp-lit safety and escapism th
View fullsize Rat Aesthetics by Sean Ennis is out now! Preorders go in the mail today

Cover photo by @corvusatlarge 

Elizabeth Rosen: There’s a movement in the collection from the prosaically mysterious (why is the gang acting like this? who is Vivian real
View fullsize Travis Flatt's Five Stories chapbook is still available on our website

EK: My favorite story in the collection is The Newly Divorced Guy's Homestyle Fish Stew. The way the story shifts from what seems to be a man coping with cooking to a man seeking
View fullsize Interviewed by @bizzlebadoo 

 Elizabeth Rosen: “Rat Aesthetics” is part of a larger body of work about a town called Bramble. What is Bramble to you? 

Sean Ennis: When I take the project seriously, I think of Bramble as a sort of automa
View fullsize @seanennis110 chapbook is available to order now. Link to purchase in bio

“In Sean Ennis’s Rat Aesthetics, we meet the Old Rats: a mysterious motorcycle gang that has quietly infiltrated Bramble, Missouri. They aren't your typical outlaw
View fullsize Great review of @earthopensup Who Will Find My Body by up at North of Oxford. Thanks for taking the time and for the kind words @gregbem . Read the rest on our website.

"...many of the poems have barely any lines at all; when counting the title
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Fiction Submissions close at end of day April 30. Send your best to sandandgravelchapbooks@gmail.com

What we’re looking for:

• Short flash fiction collections. Manuscripts should total no more than 5500 words. Or thereabouts. Keeps
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View fullsize From Seven Stories: 

The narrator in @madisonellingsworth “Dollar Bill” is one unlucky fellow. He’s fallen off a ladder while cleaning his gutters, and now he’s stuck in a hospital bed, unable to move, or see anything beyond
View fullsize It’s official.

Fiction Submissions open until April 30

What we’re looking for:

• Short flash fiction collections. Manuscripts should total no more than 5500 words. Or thereabouts. Keeps shipping cheap.

• Absurdist. Realistic
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View fullsize Exciting news: 

Flash FICTION manuscript submissions open April 1 

What we’re looking for:
•	Manuscripts should total no more than 5500 words. 

•	Fiction only at this time

•	Absurdist. Realistic. Gritty. Lyrical. Stories that
View fullsize Interviewed by Ed Komenda

Link to purchase in the bio

EK: In terms of words-to-meaning, Who Will Find My Body packs a lot of punch with poems that tend to be very short and raw, yet sharp in how you use language to deliver an image. There’s a
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Madison Ellingworth's chapbook—SEVEN STORIES—is now available for preorder and will ship 3/25. Order a copy through the link in our bio

Cover photo by @archivedemesoeufs 

“In this collection of seven stories, all unde
View fullsize Shoutout to Tacoma photographer @visual_conversations for the cover photo.

Only a few copies of this chapbook left!

“In Ed Komenda’s debut chapbook collection, an unnamed man vows to become the King of Quitters—the best quitter th
View fullsize Shoutout to @orcawatch for the brilliant cover photo.

Still available—link in bio!

"Jason M. Thornberry’s chapbook takes on unsavory landlords, dental extractions, benevolent crows, cigar-chomping developers, and a poet who brings
View fullsize Interviewed by Ed Komenda
 
EK: I first heard about you through Stimulant. My buddy Sam Pink told me it was the magazine of the future and to keep an eye out. You’ve also published a couple of Sam’s books. You both share what I’d ca

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