announcements

Best of the Web 2008 is now available from Dzanc.

J.A. Tyler's The Girl in the Black Sweater is now available from ditch.

hotbooks has been kind enough to take note of elimae and books by Ravenna and Calamari favorites Kim Chinquee, Miranda Mellis, Robert Lopez and Brandon Hobson, as well as elimae itself. Thank you, Blake Butler.

Brian Foley's chapbook The Tornado Is Not a Surrealist is now available from Greying Ghost.

Peter Markus's Bob, or Man on Boat will be available on June 17th from Dzanc Books and booksellers everywhere. You can read Blake Butler's review at New Pages.

Poetry Midwest has released Peter Joseph Glovizcki's chapbook Drinking River Water.

J(ared) Michael Wahlgren's Silent Actor is released June 12 by BeWrite Books.

Wigleaf has posted its list of best short fictions, including stories from elimae and many authors who have appeared in elimae with other stories.

Achiote Press has just published its Spring 2008 chapbooks, Saramé by Maria Tuttle and Achiote Seeds Spring 2008, poems by 4 authors.

The Issue Project Room in New York City will sponsor a reading by David Ohle and Brian Evenson, with music by Nat Baldwin, on May 23rd at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Jim Ruland interviews Kim Chinquee about Oh Baby, as does Jennifer Pieroni.

Rob Patterson's Eating Variations, a song cycle based on poems by Ron Singer, will be performed on May 17 and 18 at Tenri in New York City. Click here for further information and tickets. Ron Singer will also be reading, along with Donald Lev and Gertrude Morris, at the Cornelia Street Cafe (between Bleecker and W. Fourth) on June 12th at 6 p.m. Tickets are $7. Call 212-989-9319 for information and reservations.

Kevin Sampsell's Creamy Bullets is available for pre-order from Powell's.

Rose Metal Press has released A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith.

The following stories and poems, published in elimae, will be included in the Snowvigate anthology of web-based writing (and apparently to be called Online Writing: the Best of the First 10 Years, due to appear this summer: Corey Zeller's "Fall Apart Stuff"; Diane Williams' "Ecstasy or Passion"; Jane Unrue's "Trotter"; Jessica Newman's "Morning"; Phoebe North's "The memory was marked with a claw hammer. . ."; H. Tavel's "A Brief History of The Viking Conquest of America"; Claudia Smith's "Colts"; Girija Tropp's "Inamorata"; Doug Martin's "Our New Folklore Lives"; Christy Effinger's "Arm Service"; and Cooper Esteban's "I.M. Kingsley Amis". Congratulations to these authors for their fine work and their participation in what makes elimae what it is.

Mark Yakich's The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine is just out. You can order it at the link or from your favorite bookstore.

Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee's collection of flash fictions and prose poems, some of which appeared first in elimae, is now available.

Pedro Ponce's Superstitions of Apartment Life has won the 2nd annual Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition.

Peter Conners' novella Emily Ate the Wind is now available from Marick Press and bookstores.

The 2008 issue of NOON is now available and includes work by elimae favorites Brandon Hobson, Kim Chinquee, Greg Mulcahy, Deb Olin Unferth, Tao Lin. . . .

James Lewelling's Tortoise, a portion of which has appeared in elimae, is now available from Calamari Press.

Mad Hatter's Review and WebDelSol are sponsoring the First Combination Special Video Contest. They invite you to submit a video "inspired by a poem, fiction, literary non-fiction, or experimental form".

Episode #6 of Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Rabbit Light Movies is now available.

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