What’s a writing blog without commentary on rejection letters, or rejection “notes” or in some cases, rejection “subscription forms?” Howard Junker, Zyzzyva, does this last one: It’s clever really

The Soul Making Awards Reading was on Sunday at the San Francisco Main Library in the Koret Auditorium. The flash fiction judge, Carolyn A Clark, was not able to attend, but the creative non fiction editor, Jim LeCuyer, was there.

I may have mentioned that I am an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine, a highly regarded on-line literary journal that has, sadly, rejected my work in the past.

Last night I attended Narrative Night in San Francisco, the annual fundraising event for Narrative Magazine, with which I am an assistant editor. Jennifer Egan, Robert Stone, and Kara Levy read from their works.

A mirror, an apple core, a termite Queen, a snowman, a blind cat, a hand, and a growth on Aunt Mary share protagonist positions in his unusual collection, Unlucky Lucky Days.