Billed as a “massive, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District,” Lit Crawl San Francisco takes place on Saturday, October 22nd. This year, among the dozens of events on the packed schedule, you’ll find “AGNI’s 50th Anniversary” at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, featuring Marilyn Abildskov, Abby Caplin, David Goguen, and Shruti Swamy.
The Summer/Fall issue of Alaska Quarterly Review, out today, includes David’s short story “Impala” alongside 10 more stories, three essays, a novella, dozens of poems, and one handsome starfish. Get the details (and get your copy) here.
David’s short story “Providence Down at The Terrys” is set to appear in AGNI this fall. Details to come.
David’s short story “Impala” will be featured in the Summer/Fall 2018 edition of Alaska Quarterly Review.
David’s short story “A Soft Projection for Q4” has been awarded First Prize in the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest for 2015.
Here’s what guest judge Adam Johnson had to say:
“A Soft Projection for Q4” is a freshly observed and deeply felt take on what is too easily satirized: the soul-brittling world of corporate cubicles. The writing here is restrained, and the tone emanates sustained suspension. For all its quietude, there is urgency and necessity to this portrait of a man who cannot conceive of his identity beyond a beige cubicle, even as he’s all too aware of the recycled air and winnowed light of the fate he’s come to accept.
“A Soft Projection for Q4” will be published as a special online supplement to the Winter 2015/2016 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story.
Glimmer Train Stories Issue 86 is out now, including David’s story “Old Teeth.” Issue 86 also features stories from Jonathan Freiberger, Joseph Vastano, Tracy Guzeman, Meredith Luby, Abe Gaustad, Jennie Lin, Adva Levin, and William Akin — plus interviews with William Gay and Josh Rolnick.
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Glimmer Train Bulletin 61 features David’s essay “Ballad of a Sentence Writer.” Here’s an excerpt:
If you’re in love with writing, you spend a lot of time on slippery ground. Going it alone may work for some people, but I suspect it’s more of a default setting than a measured decision.
Read all of “Ballad of a Sentence Writer”. Also from Bulletin 61, check out some great exercises from Yelizaveta P. Renfro on Creating the Fictional Family.
David’s short story “Old Teeth” has taken first place in Glimmer Train‘s Short Story Award for New Writers, and will be published early next year.
Here are the First, Second, and Third Place Winners, the Top 25 Finalists, and the Honorable Mentions for the November 2011 award (results were announced in January of this year).
Look for “Old Teeth” in the Spring 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
David Goguen 