If you’re like me, then you’ve just finished eating that leftover pecan pie and you’re crawling under the covers to brace for winter. Lucky for you winter means another issue of your favorite web magazine, Ducts.org, is here to keep the frost at bay. This issue will warm your toes with tales about love, raising boys, growing up with difficult parents, and much more.
We also want to remind you that Ducts and its friends continue their attempts to take over the literary world. To learn more about what we’re doing, we invite you to visit our small press, Greenpoint Press. And to learn more about our classes and pitch conferences, please visit us at NewYorkWritersWorkshop.com.
Ducts also continues to present the work of up and coming writers at our monthly reading series, called Trumpet Fiction. Please come down to famed KGB Bar and say hello: we’re there the second Saturday of every month from October through June. We’d love to meet you.
As always, we continue to raise money as part of our effort to bring you the best personal stories on the web. If you enjoy the thought-provoking essays and memoirs, if you are captivated by our fiction, poetry and art, if you find a bit of succor in our humor, consider donating whatever amount you can. As a wise subway-goer once opined, “You don’t have to be Rockefeller to help a fella.”
Finally, we’d like to welcome Dana Benningfield onto the Ducts team. Dana is talented in too many areas to name (it isn’t fair, Dana!) and we look forward to seeing what she’ll bring to the memoirs department over the next few years. Welcome, Dana!
Thank you once again for visiting with us every six months. We’re grateful and happy to continue bringing you the best personal stories on the web. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to comment or to write us directly at vents@ducts.org. Enjoy!
-Jonathan Kravetz, Editor-in-Chief
This issue of Ducts is made possible with a regrant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.