Nik Korpon

I recently had a few pints with Craig Wallwork at the Cat O’Nine Tails Pub. Writing and book talk followed.

Read the interview here.

Thanks to Craig and best wishes to Grady and his imminent bullfighting career.

Godspeed
Nik

I have a new short called HIS FOOTSTEPS ARE MADE OF SOOT at Troubadour21.com. This is the third or fourth version of this story I’ve written, so I’m glad I finally got it right.

Check out Craig Wallwork‘s new short THE KEY MAN while you’re over there, as well as Eddy Rathke‘s A NIGHT ON THE TOWN.

Godspeed

Nik

I’m honored to say that I’m now a Fiction Editor at Rotten Leaves Magazine. Big thanks to Axel Taiari and Christopher Dwyer.

And now for the important stuff: Send us your stories. We want the scratching you hear in an empty house, the ideas that burrow through your heart like silverfish, the visions indistinguishabe from your own shadow. Send your demons and your fears.

My short EYES THAT MELT WINGS is in Issue Four of Sex and Murder Magazine. You can read it online, buy various e-formats or kick it old-school with paper. Whichever you chose, please spread the word. I’m stoked to have a story alongside so many great authors, especially David Erlewine, a fellow Baltimorean and the new flash-fiction editor of JMWW, who will be reading at LAST SUNDAY LAST RITES in February. They don’t call it Smalltimore for nothing!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy in the story.

From other web tendrils:

-The Pushcart Exquisite Corpse has been sent to NO COLONY and we’re awaiting our nomination. It’s a wretched, malformed, beautiful thing and I’m pleased to be part of it.

-CHARACTERED PIECES from Caleb J Ross is available for pre-order. You should buy it now.

-While you have your wallet out, pre-order ADAM ROBISON AND OTHER POEMS by Adam Robinson of PUBLISHING GENIUS fame, available from NARROW HOUSE PRESS.

-And finally, Featherproof Books’  TRIPLEQUICK app for iPhone is now available. Read really good stories, really fast.

Godspeed, Friends
Nik

I’m incredibly pleased to say that an excerpt from my new novel is live at ROTTEN LEAVES Magazine. This is the first issue of ROTTEN LEAVES and I’m flattered to be able to ruin its reputation from the start. The excerpt is called HANGING ON SAINT JUDE, and the novel is either called CONSTELLATIONS or _______. I’m not sure which.

This issue is packed with fantastic stories by Vincent Louis Carella, Chris Deal, Simon West-Bulford and other writers I’m just discovering. Thanks to Axel Taiari and Chris Dwyer for including my bit.

More news to come. Check back soon.

Godspeed
Nik

My short CURRENTS is now live at Troubadour21.com. I’m pretty stoked to have this story out for public eyes; it’s been floating in the ether of my harddrive for a long time. One of those ‘one of my favorite stories but no one likes it’ type of things.

At any rate, Troubadour21 is a fantastic site. There are a ton of different genres, styles, forms and other diversions on there. Be sure to check out Richard Thomas‘s serialized story EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL and Chris Dwyer‘s short VISCOMY. Both are some of my favorite new voices and I can assure you that you will be very uncomfortable after reading them.

Godspeed
Nik

So, I was perusing HTMLGIANT a few weeks ago and stumbled across this. I’m down for pretty much anything odd, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Basically, we’ll start at #1, then each person adds 150 words until this Frankenstein behemoth is done. Then Blake nominates it for a Pushcart. Simple, yeah?

Obviously, this says a lot about the state of American fiction–maybe: mainstream American ‘literary’ fiction–that a bunch of other people have said way more eloquently than I can, so I won’t try here. There are a few threads over at HTMLGIANT–and this one via No Colony–you can comment on.

Luckily, I’ll have some friends along for the ride with me: Richard Thomas, Axel Taiari, Caleb J Ross and Christopher Dwyer, along with Shya Scanlon, Ryan Call, Jac Jemc and about 60 others it would take too long to write out. It’ll be interesting, if nothing else.

I’ll keep you posted from this end. I’ve heard it’s beautifully malformed beast.

Godspeed
Nik

We’ve got a great reader lineup this Sunday, so make sure to bring some friends.

Sunday, 25 October. 7pm
Baltimore Hostel, 17 West Mulberry Street

-Tim Gamwell
-Charles Rammelkamp
-Greg Fulchino
-Rachel Demma

Don’t forget: there’s an open mic segment after the readers. We’ll be giving away copies of SIDESHOW FABLES to whatever open mic people can complete the secret challenge! (As long as USPS doesn’t screw us over, that is.)

Go to OWLIVE for info and pictures

Godspeed
Nik

CHARACTED PIECES, the new chapbook by Caleb J Ross, is now available for pre-order. More information is here.

So, I know people always say Yeah, you owe it to yourself to read this book and all those other hackneyed things. To speak honestly, though, I’ve had the pleasure of working with Caleb through a writing group and Outsider Writers, and there aren’t many peers who inspire me the way Caleb’s writing does.

If you are the type of person who relishes written words–the sentence that encapsultaes a life, the paragraphs of description scraped down to a single image, the phrase that echoes in your head all day–this is the type of book you want to read. These stories will haunt you. Enrich your bookshelf and help support writers who truly care about words.

Godspeed

Nik

I have a new flash piece called EUCHARIST that went live at 3AM Magazine today. They are a fantastic site and one I’ve wanted to be in for a long time.

Also, thank you to everyone who came out to LAST SUNDAY, LAST RITES. I know it was a long Book Festivel weekend, filled with more words than one can absorb in a day, but we appreciate the support.

Good news and new stories will be posted soon, so check back…

Godspeed
Nik