Obligatory AWP Post

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Are you totally getting pumped for AWP? That was rhetorical, of course you are, and we here at NANO Fiction are as well!

Come visit us at our table and chat with our editorial staff about flash fiction, submissions, great deals on issues and subscriptions to NANO Fiction, or whether or not Ottawa will make the playoffs this year (that one only applies to Glenn). We’re splitting our table with the great online lit mag matchbook this year, so it’ll be a sweet little party, can you dig it?

We will also be running our first ever AWP PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT! Each day of AWP we will have a list of ten items posted online  and at our table for you to take pictures of and show to the NANO staff. We will pick the best set at the end of each day and that person will win a free subscription to NANO Fiction! Here’s a few items from the list:

– A writer trying to haggle a dollar off the price of a nonprofit literary journal

– An abandoned or unstaffed lit journal table

– Schmoozery

– A writer sitting against the wall in a total daze as a result of the cacophony of the whole thing

– And lots more!

Also for you panel junkies, join us bright and early Thursday morning for the panel, Flash Points: Publishing Flash Fiction in an Evolving Landscape, in the Empire Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor.

Editors Roxane Gay (PANK), Nancy Stebbins (SmokeLong Quarterly), Edward Mullany (matchbook), and Adam Peterson (The Cupboard) will join Glenn Shaheen to discuss trends they see in the flash fiction submitted to their journals. What are some tropes they’re tired of? Things they wish they’d see more often? Are prose poems and flash fiction pieces scrutinized differently when submitted? Join the editors as they attempt to (briefly, of course) characterize the landscape of contemporary flash fiction and give advice to those who are submitting their shortest work. After the panel, catch Glenn at the University of Pittsburgh Press table at 11am where he’ll be signing copies of his book, Predatory.

All right guys, get those wool socks packed and we’ll see you next week in Chicago!