Five Years of Ludd
Five years ago I had the idea to make a zine that would feature long stories. I set the minimum at 4,000 words and determined to pay $50 per story. I also...
Malarkey Public Radio
We have a podcast. One of the nice things about this podcast is you don’t have to jump ahead three minutes to bypass the ads because there are no ads....
Blue Jays in Cottage Country
One of the things I learned before I dropped out of journalism school was that stories had to be timely. I’ve always tried to not live by that rule, but I am...
Cover Reveal: The Walls Are Closing In On Us
We are so pleased to be able to share the cover for Joshua Trent Brown’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us. Cover design by John Chrostek We...
Nice News
This week I started class with some games. One day we did Name Drop from The New Yorker website, which was really hard a lot of the time, other than when the...
Scary Season
Scary season starts next week. This year we’re finally ready for it, with more than 200 copies of Hellarkey volume 4 already out in the world. We announced...
A Reading Tonight, and Also Books Books Books
Without, I hope, sounding alarmist, today’s email is kind of a naked plea to readers of the world to put money into the Malarkey coffers. We are forever on a...
The Barre Incidents + Hellarkey
Lauren Bolger’s second novel, The Barre Incidents, is on Reactor’s can’t-miss list. After Printers Row last weekend, we have a dwindling supply of signed...
A couple writing opportunities
Apologies for two newsletter emails in two days, but I wanted to get this out there: we have two very cool projects that we want writers to know about....
Love for the Pencil
Today is the official release of My Ardent Love for the Pencil, a collection of poems, with photos, by Vi Khi Nao, a marvelous poet with books out from...
Vi Khi Nao's Book Release Reading with OF Cieri and Kat Giordano
Greetings Malarkey fans! This is just to say—Vi Khi Nao is going to be reading from her new poetry collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil, for the book...
Zines Zines Zines
I’ve been going hard all summer, trying to get the press in a decent place before the school year consumes me. I’ll never be all the way caught up, but I...
Horror and Poetry
Summer’s not over but it feels like it’s over, because here in Missouri the weather was nice for three days in a row (a record) and school is just a couple...
The Sealey Challenge and Other Wonderful Items
The Sealey Challenge starts on Friday. I like the idea of this challenge because I like the idea of anything that encourages people to read, especially...
The Bean Vault, a short story by Jeff Goldberg
With coffee, quality depended on bean origin, the roasting of those beans, the manner of grinding, and one’s methodological approach to the final brew....
My Ardent Love for My Ardent Love for the Pencil
Sometimes I look forward to a short book, especially if I’ve been working on a longer project, or running behind, or, more frequently, both. Finally, a...
Mothman and Superman: Lauren Bolger on making horror out of reality
By Lauren Bolger Last week I went to see Superman. I thought it was a lot of fun, genuinely funny with some great action scenes, and it felt like it had its...
Mental Whiplash
This is an email celebrating a book called Boxcutters, which is a collection of short stories, a varied collection of short stories, by John Chrostek. I want...
41% off Anti-Prame Flash Sale
There is no way to be pure in this world. In fact there’s a saying, right? “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.” I think they did an episode...
Malarkey Over Everything
It is probably really nice to be proud of a place, like Chicago. If I was from Chicago I would think it’s the greatest city in the world. When I heard the...