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View fullsize Did an interview with @canvasrebel - thanks so much for the opportunity to talk about the creative process, Sand and Gravel, and some of the logistics of running a small chapbook press. Link to interview in bio!
View fullsize Did you order Ed Komenda's chapbook before November 25th-- and you still haven't received it? We just had one bounce back and yesterday someone else said theirs never arrived. 

Please DM us or leave your name in the comments and we'll make sure it a
View fullsize Great review of Travis Flatt's Five Stories in this month issue of @claudineliterary - we couldn't be happier!
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View fullsize Very excited about our two new chapbooks to start off next year! Stay tuned for more information.
View fullsize In Ed Komenda's 'The Night I met Richard Brautigan,' the ghost of Richard Brautigan is alive and well at Bob’s Java Jive, Tacoma, Washinton’s preeminent karaoke bar.

Slide 1 – 3 from the chapbook ‘Six Stories’ Released
View fullsize Thank you everyone who pre-ordered @edboywrites Six Stories- made a big drop off at the post office today. Check your mailboxes!
View fullsize JT: How do you think your writing has evolved in the years since you first started?

EK: I would say what’s changed the most is my ability to edit a story. In the early days, many stories would burn out and fade away because I just had no idea
View fullsize JT: For some writers, a story can begin with an overheard conversation on the bus or a sentence scrawled on a wall in a gas station bathroom. What’s the spark that gets a story happening in your mind?

EK: It starts with life—an image I&r
View fullsize Big thanks to @vestalreview for featuring @tlflatt42 chapbook "Six Stories" on their site!
View fullsize JT: Tell me a little about your process from idea to first draft.

EK: It almost always starts with a sentence written in a notebook. Sometimes, but rarely, it starts with an entire story written longhand. I write everything longhand because when I&r
View fullsize “Ty and Shay travel the country in their Sprinter van, photographing their adventures in a bid to become Insta-famous. As they approach the one million followers mark, Shay reexamines her life and the illusory nature of online personas. All tha
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View fullsize Thanks for everyone who came out to support @tlflatt42 last night! Thank you to all the readers and listeners- feel like it was a big success.
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Ed Komenda: The stories in your collection are all very short. I suppose they are what the kids call flash. What draws you to the short form? 

Travis Flatt: Several things, really. Short attention span is a big factor. It’s what
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View fullsize Things are abuzz at @common_area and @_common_objects. Looking forward to @shortrunseattle this weekend!
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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 a very particular form of revenge surprised me in the way great
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EK: How do stories typically start for you? Do they begin with an image or a single line? I'm curious what it is that gets you to sit down and write that first sentence. 

TF: More often an image. Images come to me frequently; I jot them down

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