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I am dead chuffed to announce that the editors of The Poydras Review have nominated my story “Midwest Utilitor Breakdown” for The Pushcart Prize!

Each year (since 1976), Pushcart Press has published an extremely influential anthology of the literary work that they deem to be the “best of the small presses.” Getting nominated by a swell journal like The Poydras Review puts “Midwest Utilitor Breakdown” in the running for publication in that book.

Along with lots of other people. But still!

It’s in Issue #2 of The Poydras Review, available now here.

I’m happy to report that “Midwest Utilitor Breakdown,” my tale of tractors and salesmanship in 1920s Missouri, will be part of The Poydras Review‘s second-ever issue, to be published this winter.

To celebrate, let’s enjoy the sweet, sweet sounds of diesel and some Swedish guys, performing the “Midwest Utilitor Blues.”

Even though I didn’t win the 1/2K Prize, The Indiana Review is going to publish “Two On A Horse 1,” “Two On A Horse 2,4,” and “Two On A Horse 3,” hopefully in the December issue.

Yes!

The results are in, and though I didn’t win, I think it’s probably worth announcing that several pieces of “Two On A Horse” were named finalists in Indiana Review’s 2012 1/2K Contest, judged by the inimitable and amazing Michael Martone.

Just found out that “The Mammoth Horse Waits” took second in the University of Missouri’s George Mahan Fiction Contest. Let us now enjoy this once-celebrated polydactyl horse, the Norfolk Spider.

If anyone’s in Louisville next Friday, and awake at 9 AM, I’ll be bringing the gospel of the exploding mule to The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 at the University of Louisville. Program information available here.

I just got word that “The Mammoth Horse Waits,” my story about 19th century showmen, Carter the American Lion King, and a giant horse named General Washington, will be published in cream city review.

Look out for it!

I just received word that “Motion Studies,” my short story about Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential photography, will be published in the Fall 2011 print issue of The Portland Review.

It’s going to be a special issue focusing on film, television, and video, so Occident (Muybridge’s horse) and I should fit right in.

From their blog: “The Film & Video issue will be released in late September/early October, and will contain fiction, essays, poetry, and whatever else we want to share with our readers, all on the subject of movies and the formats they come in.”

I just received the rather nice news that “The Mammoth Horse Waits,” an (as yet) unpublished story of mine, has been named as the finalist in Salamander’s 2011 Fiction Contest.

The judge was National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard. The winning story was “The Aerialist” by Hester Kaplan and honorable mention went to “The Blue Demon of Ikumi” by Kelly Luce.

Thank you very much!