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By Robert Swartwood on March 1, 2011
The new online issue of Bluestem has gone live. It features a bunch of fiction and poetry and nonfiction, including my story Hooligans. It also contains audio of me reading the story. So you can, you know, read the story or listen to me read the story or read the story while you’re listening to [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on December 17, 2010
Just got home from the Morgantown, West Virginia area where I spoke to small group of writers last night. The drive there was hellish — the weather was fine starting out but then, after an hour or so, it started to snow and things just went downhill from there. We were making somewhat good time until we [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on December 15, 2010
My 200-word story “Tramp Stamp” is featured today at the very awesome Dark Sky Magazine. It is, as you may have guessed, about a tattoo. Speaking of which, I’ve started watching Prison Break and the main character has the blueprints of the prison as well as other clues tattooed on his entire upper body. I’m [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on December 14, 2010
I am absolutely thrilled that my essay “Shorter Is Better” (or: “Participating in the Downfall of Literature”) appears today in The Daily Beast. And that, well, is all I really have to say, except a big thanks to Jessica Purcell, my publicist at Norton, and Lucas Wittmann, the Books Editor at The Daily Beast. Enjoy!
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By Robert Swartwood on November 23, 2010
The new issue of Foundling Review is live, a special tribute issue to Writers’ Bloc which unfortunately closed its doors back in August. I was scheduled to have a story in the next issue which never came to be, and the editors at FR were kind enough to include my piece “The Lonely Life of a [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on November 11, 2010
My wife and I just got back from our New York trip, which I’ll write more about on Monday. But I wanted to mention that the new Postscripts is now available. Actually, it may have been available for awhile now but I just got my contributor’s copy Tuesday. And boy oh boy what a beautiful piece of [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on November 5, 2010
Back home and exhausted from a great time in Los Angeles, which I’ll write much more about next week. For the time being, I would like to direct you over to Every Day Fiction, which today features my story “My Brother’s Death Note.” You don’t necessarily have to be a fan of the manga series [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on August 7, 2010
Being a writer nowadays means being 10% writer, 90% marketer (give or take a percentage). I’m not a fan of that business model (I just want to write), but, well, you have to go with the flow. So when there’s publishing news that potential readers might (or might not) be interested in, it’s a writer’s [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on July 19, 2010
My story “In the Land of the Blind” (which won the Chizine contest, like, a decade ago) is reprinted in volume one of Best New Zombie Tales edited by James Roy Daley. Really, it’s in there, as can be seen from the back of the book: Yes, that’s my name there, along with “Micro Award [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on July 16, 2010
The new issue of Writers’ Bloc is live, featuring my story “Excerpts from the Journal of a Boy with Webbed Feet.” I’d normally link directly to my story, but the great thing about Writers’ Bloc is the unique layout for each of their issues, so I encourage you to check out the main page first [...]
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