Shenandoah Breakdown: The Blog

Check out our new blog Shenandoah Breakdown for observations of local people, culture, cuisine, and varieties of monster truck. We break down the pros and cons, the ups and downs, the funny, the sad, and the scary aspects of living in the Shenandoah Valley and, specifically, of life in the confounding little town of Front Royal, VA.

Hint Fiction Anthology: Call for Submissions

This sounds like a great exercise to try. I imagine many of these turn out to be quite poetic. Check out the guidelines here:
http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=8
Tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2010, W.W. Norton will publish an anthology of Hint Fiction. What is Hint Fiction? It’s a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more complex story. The thesis of the anthology is to prove that a story 25 words or less can have as much impact as a story 2,500 words or longer. The anthology will include between 100 and 150 stories. We want your best work.