paperhaus April 4th, 2008
Pitt’s online literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge has launched its third issue. I particularly love the short story by Dan Chaon and the interview with Tom Perrotta. But I admit I haven’t read the poetry yet, and sped through the nonfiction fairly quickly, so I imagine it’s all good. Great! It’s all great.
Hats off to Kelly Ramsey and Ashleigh Pedersen, the new co-editors, who’ve done tons of work putting this issue together (as have Sal Pane and Adri Ramirez and Phil Rau and Alexandra Valint and everyone else on staff). Me, I’ve done nothing more than enjoy the contents; I’m simply editor emerita.
paperhaus October 29th, 2007
Hello! How are you? Am I speaking too loud?! Do I seem a little awkward?
My apologies. It’s just - I haven’t seen people in a while. I’ve been putting things together, you know, type type typing. Staring at the screen. Anyway. Hot Metal Bridge - The Headless Issue is now live!
It includes: new fiction by Tod Goldberg! and Jack Pendarvis! an interview with Kevin Moffett! new nonfiction by Roy Kesey! an essay by Brian Evenson! new poetry by Christopher Bakken and Richard Siken!
It also marks the first time Kate Burgo (nonfiction) has been published, includes a racy interview with Daphne Gottlieb, and work from litblogger Erin Fitzgerald!
With not one but 2 poems by Justin Runge and screwy fiction by Jason Lundberg! Funny nonfiction from Kevin O’Cuinn and and funny/creepy nonfiction from Patsy Zettler — she’s got the issue’s best title, “Me and Pickle Baby.”
Finally, if you missed George Saunders’ appearance at Pitt, you can catch it virtually: we’ve got the video!
paperhaus September 21st, 2007
With permission from the editor*, I repost the Call for Entries from the online literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge. Submissions are due Sept 24! And the theme? With the anticipation of a 13-year-old going to his first dance in wrinkled khakis and a boutonnière, you ask: what theme? What theme?
H E A D L E S S
Please send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the theme of headless. Horsemen, flat beer, chocolate bunnies, the guy who never gets a blowjob, zombies, animal crackers, classical statues, John Wayne Bobbitt, groups without leaders, blondes, Marie Antoinette and other unfortunate royalty, Medusa post-Perseus, the philosophy of D.E. Harding — any and all of these could fall under the heading of headless. Whatever your interpretation, be sure to stun us. We’ll know it’s good when we feel, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, as if the tops of our heads were taken off.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 24, 2007
Headless will be the sophomore issue. Number one included ficiton by Michael Martone, poetry by Alan DeNiro and more. Check it out.
* Full disclosure: the editor, c’est moi.
paperhaus April 2nd, 2007
Say hello to the debut issue of Hot Metal Bridge! The new literary magazine edited by MFA students at Pitt launches today; I’ve been crouched behind, working to chuck it out into the world.
There’s a brand new story by Michael Martone and an interview with National Book Award nominee Dan Chaon. Neither Bryan Hurt (fiction) nor Molly Fuller (nonfiction) has ever been published before. Alan DeNiro, who in in the LBC mix this spring, sent us a poem from a new series. And these other fine authors: Lee Capps, Maurice Guevara, Janet Butler Holm, Sue Jostrom, RoseMarie London, Sally Pfoutz, Simone Poirier-Bures, Lynn Potts, Abby Sinnott, Morelle Smith and Johnathan Wilber. I love them all equally, as any decent editor should.
I’m awfully excited. Do check it out.