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Honors For Black Clock Editor Steve Erickson
Black Clock editor Steve Erickson is one of seven writers to receive an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy Of Arts And Letters. Additionally, Steve has been named a finalist for an American Society Of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award in Criticism.
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American Academy Of Arts And Letters | American Society Of Magazine Editors | Black Clock | Los Angeles Magazine | National Magazine Awards | Steve Erickson
Black Clock To Tweet New Fiction From Rick Moody
Next week, Black Clock will be joining Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter.
The microserialization™ of Moody’s story will take place on every co-publisher’s Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday, December 2nd. Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10 AM until 6:30 PM.
The first story written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author, Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters” will be tweeted over the course of three days on Black Clock’s Twitter channel, @BlackClockmag, beginning Monday, November 30th at 10 AM. Utilizing social media, followers of the story will re-tweet it in real-time, creating a community-based event that promises to break down the conventional barriers separating readers and publishers.
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Electric Literature | Rick Moody | Twitter
Black Clock 11 Makes Mysterious Connections
Forsaken cities and blasted landscapes, characters in exile from their own times, mysterious connections in the air just beyond the grasp of those who barely understand them: Black Clock 11, California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) acclaimed literary journal, is slated to arrive on the stands mid-November. This issue features work by such prominent authors as Joanna Scott, Chris Abani and Susan Straight, and introduces the usual selection of dazzling new voices.
In Richard Powers’ “Over the Limit,” freely adapted from his just published novel, a young African woman genetically predisposed to happiness stands at the nexus of a brilliant, narcissistic scientist and the discontented moderator of a TV news magazine. In Rob Roberge’s “Stooge” and Lou Mathews’ “Hollywoodski,” Vegas drug deals go bad and drunken Tinseltown conversations run wild, and in Antonia Crane’s “Rosebud,” a self-designated “sexual outlaw” and stripper looking to retire gets caught up in the intrigues of an aging decadent Hollywood couple. In “This Is How the Past Turns Up”, Greil Marcus charts one of his patently revelatory longitudes between Barack Obama’s election-night victory speech, the fiction of Philip Roth, and Sam Cooke’s perennial contender for the greatest record of all time, “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
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Antonia Crance | Black Clock 11 | Chris Abani | Greil Marcus | Joanna Scott | Lou mathews | Richard Powers | Rob Roberge | Susan Straight
Black Clock Now Accepting Submissions
Black Clock is accepting unsolicited fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from September 18th, 2009 until October 31st, 2009.
If you have a manuscript you would like to submit for consideration, please consult the Black Clock website for details.
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Staccato-Like
Attendees of this coming weekend’s 5th anniversary / 10th issue launch reading can look forward to mixing with a special selection of noir sounds as selected and sequenced by Black Clock editor Steve Erickson. In fact, dig.
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Black Clock 10 | Noir | Reading | Soundtrack | Steve Erickson
