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Come and Take It: Texas Lit Party @ AWP

Kick off your AWP right with Texas’s finest indie presses and lit mags. Join American Short Fiction, The Austin Review, Bat City Review, Foxing, Gulf Coast,…

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Come See NANO Fiction at AWP!

Writers: put your fancy glasses and knits on! AWP is only a few days away. We’re getting very excited for this year’s conference in Minneapolis. Join…

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7th Annual NANO Prize Opens April 1st!

Great news! The 7th Annual NANO Prize opens April 1, 2015! Amber Sparks will judge this year’s contest. The winner will be published in NANO…

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Salted Carmel Pretzel

When I returned from the restroom, Salvator had switched places with the server. My husband, two tables away, scribbled orders onto a pad, while Kitty,…

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Captives by Angela Meyer

Angela Meyer, Captives Inkerman and Blunt, 2014 Softcover, 112 pages 978-0-9875401-2-6 “It was easy to imagine what could have happened. I was well practiced at…

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Prompt #68

On this day in 1959, Barbara Millicent Roberts (“Barbie”) made her debut at a toy fair in New York City. PROMPT: Write a story that…

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Five Questions with Wyatt Bonikowski

NANO Fiction: You have three flashes featured in issue 8.2 of NANO Fiction, all of which follow a family and utilize a beautiful but limited perspective…

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Spring is Here! And So is NANO Fiction 8.2!

We know that many of you are living in a snow covered winter wasteland, but down here in Texas (NANO Fiction’s home base) it’s a…

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Join NANO Fiction at Texas Book Festival <3's Indies!

The Texas Book Fest is celebrating 10 Austin-based independent literary publishers: NANO Fiction, A Strange Object/Covered with Fur, American Short Fiction, Fields, Smoking Glue Gun, Write…

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Submissions are now open!

Dearest NANO Writers–general submissions are now open! We are looking for work that experiments with form while still balancing narrative. We are interested in stories…

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