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2008 Chapbook Competition: This Time, It’s Fiction The 2008 Caketrain Chapbook Competition opens today, and we are excited to announce that, for the first time ever, the genre is fiction. To inaugurate our first foray into this competitive arena, we’ve enlisted no less than BRIAN EVENSON, one of our favorite authors ever, ever, forever, so as you can imagine, we’re excited—and we hope you are too. So check out the guidelines, and bring your best. Also, never fear, poets—we haven’t turned our backs on you! The plan is to alternate between genres, with the competition focusing on poetry once again in 2009. Pre-order afterpastures Now
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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It is with great excitement that we announce today the release of the first-ever Caketrain ebook, 