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PODCAST: Shellie Zacharia reads "Stitch"

"Stitch," by Shellie Zacharia...also appeared in Keyhole 3.





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Shellie Zacharia has published stories in Hobart, Opium, Backwards City Review, Potomac Review, Inkwell, Washington Square, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She teaches in Gainesville, Florida.

Keyhole 3 Review on NewPages

Thanks to reviewer, Josh Maday, for saying nice things about the issue 3 contributors and Keyhole.

You can read the review here


Also, on Josh's blog there's a chunk that got edited out about Blake Butler's pieces in issue 3, and you can read that here



decomP also has a review
and New York Tyrant

Featured: Michael Kimball

Dear Everybody came out last week, and it's great. I read it from cover to cover in one sitting, on the passenger side of a trip from Dayton, OH to Nashville. I want to read it again. I think I will.

We've got a bundle of Michael Kimball-related stuff up on the Keyhole website (direct links below).

* Listen to interview with Michael Kimball:

- Download on iTunes

- Read the interview

* Review of Dear Everybody, by Blake Butler

* Feeling and Fiction: A brief conversation between Michael Kimball and Karen Lillis

* Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathon Bender (b.1967-d.2000)

What To Wear During An Orange Interview

Jason Behrends interviewed me for his blog, What to Wear During an Orange Alert, one of my favorite blogs.

Read here!

It's cool to see the first year's issues side by side.

 

New Website

The new website is up at www.keyholemagazine.com.

There are some things there for you to read as well: An interview with William Walsh, "Globe" by Kim Chinquee, "Tricks" by Thomas Cooper, "We Shoplifted" by Samantha Arlotta, "An Open Letter to Her Brother-in-Law, On His Regrettable Decision to Shoot Himself" by Alexandra Zobel, and Blake Butler interviews Tao Lin.

If you're a writer, we encourage you to sign up and submit through the website, though we will still accept submissions via email. We're looking for short fiction (less than 2,000 words), poetry, reviews, etc. We have added to the submission guidelines to include online submissions -- read them here.

We'll be phasing out the old website, but the pages will remain online so that there aren't a bunch of dead links to us. We're also phasing out the name "publications," and soon we'll have a new website for Keyhole Press: www.keyholepress.com.

Micah Ling's Life Story, by Michael Kimball

#62 Micah Ling: Outside of Time or Competition

Micah Ling’s name has always given her problems. She is not Asian or a man. She is Native American (mostly) and a woman (completely). Micah has a twin brother, but she was born first (by about 45 seconds), and her twin likes to say that she ditched him (which she would never do). She loves her family and thinks of her parents as her best friends. She started writing her mother little poems when she was about 7 years old. Her father drives a motorcycle and she started running with him when she was 10 years old. When she was 11 years old, she became a vegetarian after seeing how the turkey was killed on Thanksgiving. It made her sad, especially since she gives a name to every animal that she sees. Micah ran through high school and through college. Running is her meditation and she can think about things while she’s running without getting overwhelmed. Micah went to Indiana University for her MFA in poetry and MA in literature—and met her future husband, Nate, there in Bloomington. Nate drove a motorcycle and she would ask him to give her a ride on his bike every time she saw him. After about a year of asking, he did and that was the beginning of them. It is years later and she continues to live on his endless supply of kindness and forgiveness. It is years later and Micah is still running, but her feet are full of pains these days. In college, she ran the national race with a broken foot that still comes back on her. She wishes that she had never raced. She would rather just run outside of time or competition. Now she has the best job she could have, teaching writing and literature. And she still writes poems, often formal poems, so that she can break all the rules.

PODCAST: Dennis Mahagin

Listen to Dennis Mahagin channel Harry Caray then read three of his poems, which we were happy to have in Keyhole 3.





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Dennis Mahagin is a poet from the Pacific Northwest. His work appears widely, both on the Web and in print. A first collection of his poetry, entitled Grand Mal, is forthcoming in 2009 from San Francisco-based Suspect Thoughts Press.

William Walsh: The Sunny Side of Smut

William Walsh has a good interview and review of Without Wax in this week’s Providence Phoenix. Very good news in the second-to-last paragraph!

And Michael Kimball recently wrote his life story.

Issue 4

Thanks again to Sarah Stanley for the cover. I think this is my favorite of the 4. Based on Kevin Wilson's story "Steak and Eggs, Cow and Chicken."

CONTRIBUTORS:
T.J. Forrester
Jon Gingerich
Eugene Gloria
Jessica Hollander
Jason Huskey
Jason Jordan
Ilan Mochari
Karen Neuberg
Michelle Orange
Noel Sloboda
Jeff Wallace
Kevin Wilson

For full table of contents and contributor bios, head over here.

Or pre-order a copy here.