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2008 Chapbook Competition Ends October 1 The 2008 Caketrain Chapbook Competition ends one month from this writing, so check out the guidelines, and bring your best by October 1. Remember, the genre this year is Fiction and the Final Judge is no less than Brian Evenson. Coming in the next month or so: Issue 06, the long-awaited rerelease of a Caketrain classic, and some new digital goodies. Keep your eyes peeled! Gary Widger, 1972–2008 It is with great sadness that we note the recent passing of Gary Widger, Issue 01 contributor and generous friend of Caketrain. In 2003, at a time when few had heard of our humble literary operation, Gary kindly graced our pages with “Psychic Flux and Wishbone,” a poem which, in its entwined engagement of harsh surreality and fragile humanity, pointed to the shape our young journal would one day take. Our first issue is now long out of print, but Gary’s poem, along with the rest of the book, is preserved in digital form for your reference. We recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Gary once again on a new Caketrain project which has not yet been revealed on these pages. He spoke hopefully at that time about the great value of reader interpretation and the way that it informs the creative process; when the project is launched later this year, we will present his contribution in the hope that others will find in it a turn of phrase, a tone, or an emotion that they can grasp onto and feel right along with him. With heavy hearts, we of Caketrain wish our sincerest condolences to Gary’s family, friends, and all those who were touched by his work. afterpastures Now Available It’s here. Pre-orders are shipping immediately. It looks fantastic. Check out the samples and see why Mary Jo Bang calls this a “strange, moving, passionate, and crystalline” collection. You should pick one up today. What more can we say? “What doesn’t fear my hands?” Five Arrives
Boasting new work from Alan DeNiro, James Wagner, Amelia Gray, Lisa Jarnot, and Peter Markus, among an army of others, this book is gorgeous, hefty, stark, daring, everything we hoped for and then some. So get yours now—and you too will be made a believer. Dolls Now Available
If you haven’t taken a look yet, please do—Whalen turns out some daringly freaky poetry, Matt Feyld’s cover artwork is fantastic, and we’re really proud of the way the book came together. Plus, it’s only $8, including s&h, so you won’t break the piggy bank. Issue 01 Lives, Still and Again
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Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix: New and Upcoming afterpastures, by Claire Hero Caketrain Issue 05 Loving 5_Trope, AGNI, Barrow Street, Believer, Black Warrior, Born, Bound Off, Caffeine Destiny, Canarium, Conjunctions, Controlled Burn, Diagram, Double Room, Drunken Boat, Elimae, FC2, Finishing Line, Fishouse, Flood, Found, Fringe, Frostproof, Future Tense, Ghoti, Harpur Palate, Hobart, Jubilat, Mad Hatters’, Many Mountains Moving, Mid-American, NewPages, New Yinzer, New York Tyrant, Nidus, Nightboat, Noon, Obscure, Parsifal, Pebble Lake, PENNsound, Pudding House, Quick Fiction, Rattapallax, Redactions, Salt, SleepingFish, Spinning Jenny, Starcherone, Steel City Review, Titular, Ubu, Unicorn Mountain, Unsaid, Web del Sol Mourning 3rd Bed, Alterran, Deek, Melic, Press 62
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