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The Bomb by Howard Zinn
As someone who has cultivated an anti-authoritarian reading list since the end of high school (or beginning of college, depending upon your viewpoint), I was eager to read Howard Zinn’s final contribution to the annals of modern history, The Bomb, published this month by the daring
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3-Day Novel Contest strikes again!
Each year, caffeine-addled and possibly delusional aspiring novelists strap themselves to their computer chairs and take on one of the world’s wildest literary rides. That’s right: the 3-Day Novel Contest is once more upon us, complete
8/30 – Two ab-fab UK short story competitions
God bless America, but we do love us some UK prize money! With the British Pound Sterling currently equal to roughly $1.50 in U.S. cold hard cash, winning a nice solid £100 is almost like winning the lottery. (Okay, so it’s about $155, but that’s $55 more than a straight-up U.S. prize of
Model Behavior
By the second semester of my freshman year, I realized I needed a job if I wanted to keep up my club-hopping and late-night pizza orders. Unfortunately, the second-semester campus offerings were sub-par. I wasn’t quite desperate enough to work in the dining hall, but I was applying too late in the
Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado
henry & glenn forever is a cute little comic book about the very over-the-top homosexual relations between one henry rollins and a certain glenn danzig, written by a strange and big-balled portland art collective
8/23 – Literal Latte Ames Essay Award
Essayists! Heed the call for submissions at Literal Latté and win big. With a first prize of $1,000, that’s might big bank. Second prize nets $300 and third prize snags $200, so it’s definitely worth your while to slave away over a hot keyboard to find just the right words for this week’s
3 Poems by Howie Good
IN A LONELY PLACE The heart is breathing all on its own, like a town so small it doesn’t have a priest, the insects and birds just loud enough for us to believe they might still exist. "loneliness" (photo by Flickr user LunaDiRimmel) *
An interview with Jason Mashak
Prague resident (and Black Heart contributor!) Jason Mashak is an author whose work has recently been published jointly by two Austin-based houses, Haggard & Halloo and
8/16 – 3 High-Paying Summer’s-End Writing Contests
This week’s contest all have deadlines of August 31 or September 1—dates that are coming up fast! Can you believe the summer has flown by so quickly? Personally, I’ll be glad to escape the 100-degree heat of August in Austin (presuming, of course, that things actually start to cool down
Video Woman
I sort of smile to keep from crying. This is as I was in love, a little gone, no different. I feel it all, the self-help books and my aura, this little genie floating past me from the bottle like a man’s buttoned-down chest against my troubled forehead. All the love I ever felt, from the bottle
