That’s an odd title for a post, but let me explain: The first story in the September issue of Jersey Devil Press is about a woman from the set of a vanity zombie flick having a love affair with General Robert E. Lee. And I know you’re not surprised by that sentence, because it’s JerseyContinue reading “Meanwhile, the Jersey Devil got drunk with General Grant”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
Manscaping the website
And, we’re live again. Thanks, gang, for bearing with my disappearing site while I worked on it. The whole site was getting a little, shall we say, hairy, at least in terms of all those little drop-down menus and subcategories…. I am notorious for over-organizing things, with menus under menus and folders inside folders. (MyContinue reading “Manscaping the website”
A quick note about a quick hiatus
For people who follow the blog or just like popping in from time to time to browse the website, I thought I’d let you know I’m going dark tomorrow. I’ve been planning a fairly significant redesign of the website, so I’ll be pulling it down Tuesday afternoon to work on it. I hope to haveContinue reading “A quick note about a quick hiatus”
A writing retreat
When I won an Oregon Literary Fellowship this year, the award itself was more than I could ever have hoped for. But the fellowship also helped fund a research trip to Louisiana to finish my novel. That was an outstanding experience that I could only have dreamed of. And that was all I ever expected.Continue reading “A writing retreat”
Unshod and pregnant. With bees.
Oh, you guys. This issue. The photography, the poetry, the prose. The cover art. The beauty of it all! The long-awaited Issue 8 of Unshod Quills is live and online now, and it’s a wonderful, sweet, buzzing literary creature. Since we’ve switched to a focus on poetry, our ranks of gorgeous poets have swelled beyondContinue reading “Unshod and pregnant. With bees.”
After Everything Has Changed Forever: Justin Lawrence Daugherty
Originally posted on BookTalk:
Justin Lawrence Daugherty lives in Atlanta, GA, and runs Sundog Lit. His chapbook, Whatever Don’t Drown Will Always Rise, is out at Passenger Side Books. *** BookTalk: You recently released a collection of ten stories called Whatever Don’t Drown Will Always Rise, from Passenger Side Books. What holds the collection together? Are there any…
Interview with Todd McNamee, author of Drifting
My friend Todd McNamee will be holding a reading this Saturday at Old World Merchants in Vancouver, WA, “surrounded by all my wonderful friends and family,” he writes on the event’s Facebook page. “I am very excited to be doing this at my dear friend’s import store” — which is such a cool venue forContinue reading “Interview with Todd McNamee, author of Drifting”
I’ve been nominated for the storySouth Million Writers Award!
Folks, this is just too amazing not to share: The editors at Bartleby Snopes have nominated my story “Lightning My Pilot” for the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award! It’s a hell of an honor, and I’m inexpressibly proud to be listed alongside Joseph Lambach’s “Cutting Hair for My Sister” and Brian Kayser’s “Underwear and Leftovers.” Thanks, SO MUCH,Continue reading “I’ve been nominated for the storySouth Million Writers Award!”
Ryan Werner on small presses, road trips, and rock-n-roll
About a month ago, I posted about the big Unshod Quills One-Hit Wonders reading here in Portland, with a lot of attention to literary rock star (literally) Ryan Werner. But there’s a hell of a lot more to his side of that story, and today, in Passages North, he tells it: We do all ofContinue reading “Ryan Werner on small presses, road trips, and rock-n-roll”
The Jersey Devil never rhymes . . .
. . . But this month, for the first time in a full issue, we have poetry. That’s right, folks: your friendly neighborhood Jersey Devil Press, home to all your favorite short fiction — sci-fi, horror, comedy, sci-hor-medy, deep literary musings, and not-so-deep literary musings — has gone all bard-y and started breaking lines andContinue reading “The Jersey Devil never rhymes . . .”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 