storySouth and the Million Writers
April 30, 2008
Farrago’s Wainscot has been named the recipient of the 2007 Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine or Journal. Those of us behind the Old Man are muchly pleased, as this is our second award this year recognizing the work we did in 2007. From the Awards Site:
“Farrago’s Wainscot wins the award for best new online magazine. With an amazing sense of both design savvy and what makes for a compelling story, . . . the FW editors are showing the great heights which can be reached in online publishing.”
Three stories appearing in the 2007 Exhibition were named Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007. They are:
Team Farrago extends its congratulations!
Crawlspace Contents
April 20, 2008
We Farrago coeditors have finalized the table of contents for our forthcoming Farrago’s Wainscot anthology, Crawlspace: Selections from the 2007 Farrago’s Wainscot Exhibition, which will be released by Drollerie Press later this year.
“The Yellow Baron” by Forrest Aguirre
“Bird of Leaves” by Jay Lake
“The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin” by Nisi Shawl
“The Drowning” by Bruce Bond
“Charades” by Jeffrey Barnes
“Half-Alphabet Nursery Rhymes” by A. Ross Eckler
“The Ballad of Matelotage and Mutiny” by Hal Duncan
“Apple Magick” by Paul Jessup
“One Less” by Jason Erik Lundberg
“Chrysalis” and “Sand” by Ryan Cornelius
“Five Million Years to Earth” by Bryan D. Dietrich
“Shifty (A Puzzle)” by Will Shortz
“Oma Dortchen and the Pillar of Story” by David J. Schwartz
Excerpt Source of Gravity by Ekaterina Sedia
“The Return of Lazarus” by Phil Sueper
“Rampion” and “The Immigrant” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Notes on the Necromantic Symphony” by Yoon Ha Lee
“The Miraculous Nature of Everything” by Timothy S. Miller
“Portrait of High Window with CEO and Booze” by Mark Cox
“Space Age” and “Thanatos” by Lise Goett
“A Walk in the Snow” by Marie Prior
“Liberty” by Adrienne J. Odasso
“Detail from a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch” by Rudi Dornemann
“The Proslogium of the Great Lakes” by Catherynne M. Valente
“The Histories of Now” by Jonathan Wood
“Mountain-Hunting for Beginners” by Yaroslava Strikha
“Shadow Box” by Esther Bergdahl
“Refraction” by Becca De La Rosa
“Living Inside the Box: Three Thought Experiments About Your Life (And Mine)” by Angie Smibert
Look for the anthology this fall.
Psychobabel
March 24, 2008
Old Man Farrago is pleased to announce his first foray into print. In 2009, Farrago Press will release Psychobabel, a novel by Mark Teppo—the sequel to The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin, which ran serially in 2007 at Farrago’s Wainscot.
From the Old Man’s wormeaten rolltop:
“Tell me your dreams.”
Harry Potemkin thought he was a simple back-alley dream surgeon, an unlicensed psychologist with a very unorthodox technique, but he has gotten lost in a dream, and he must figure out if it is his dream or the dream of his Adversary because in one of those two, he doesn’t really exist. And so begins the final conflict between a man who has never dreamed, and the man who is just a dream. Are they schizophrenic facets of each other, oneiric combatants locked in a perpetual struggle, or are they each a reflection of the other?
And the only anchor in either dream is the blackleaf, a rare entheogen that Trinity Pharmacopoeia will stop at nothing to procure, including flooding the dream realm with their poisons. The only bastion still standing in this toxic landscape is a shifting labyrinth of the “Potemkin Mosaic,” a four-dimensional dream journal that Harry doesn’t recall writing.
But he must have written it, as it is the collapsed summary of his life. Does he exist, or is he one sentient personality in a damaged psyche desperately trying to heal itself?
“The only thing you can’t do in a dream is dream, Harry.”
[forthcoming from Farrago Press, 2009]
Yet more congratulations due!
March 6, 2008
Farrago friend and contributor JoSelle Vanderhooft (Farrago’s Wainscot 2:5) has been nominated for a Rhysling Award for her poems “Gleipnir Diaries,” “Portrait of a Girl in Dress and Boots,” “The Robot’s Daughter,” and “”The Tale of the Sands.”
Due Congratulations
March 5, 2008
Team Farrago extends its congratulations to Catherynne M. Valente, whose poem, “The Seven Devils of Central California,” (Farrago’s Wainscot, 1:3) has been nominated for a Rhysling Award.
storySouth 2008 Millions Writers Award for Fiction
March 2, 2008
The storySouth 2008 Million Writers Award for Fiction is open for nominations for best online short story. Please take a moment to drop by and nominate your favorite work for the award.
Here is a list of original fiction that appeared at Farrago’s Wainscot last year:
