Short Stories :: Matt Bell and Blake Butler

NewPages is fortunate in having a staff of review writers with a great range of literary interests and skills. We love hearing about “our” writers having their creative works published, and take the opportunity when we know about it to pass this along to our readers. We just got this note from NewPages Book Review Editor Matt Bell:

“SmokeLong Quarterly has just published its 21st issue, which is also its fifth anniversary. To celebrate, they’ve published a double issue of forty flash fictions, including stories by many of the people who’ve been staff members over the last five years. Myself (“The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines”) and Blake Butler [NewPages Book Reviewer] (“Disease Relics”) both have stories in the issue… SLQ is one of the best flash fiction publications around…

“Also just published is the June 2008 issue of elimae, which, among other things, also includes stories by myself (“Creating a Radio”) and Blake (“Do Not Look into the Mother’s Head”).”