Ducts.org has just spent a lovely week in Brighton, England, taking in the sights, seeing plays and eating Blood Sausage and now we’re pleased as punch that vacation is over so we can again bring you the best writing on the internet. Believe it or not (we prefer not to), Ducts is creaking its way toward its ten-year anniversary. This time next year will mark ten amazing years bringing you fantastic personals essays, fiction, humor, art and all else. Don’t let anyone tell you that there isn’t room on the web for good writing.
Greenpoint Press, our publishing wing, is happy to announce that our latest book has gone into a second printing! Congratulations to Richard Willis and his wonderful book, Long Gone. It’s his memoir recall of growing up on an Iowa farm between 1933 and 1947. Family-size farms are at best hazy memories, the subjects of politicians’ lies, but Long Gone provides a glimpse of what life was like on an old-time farm and in a small town nearby. Richard’s book is available right now! In addition, look for Greenpoint Press’s next book, Between Heaven and Earth, Doug Garr’s amazing skydiving memoir. For a taste of what’s to come, click here. Please go to Greenpointpress.org to order these wonderful books.
Also, you probably noticed an ad for another book, The Portable MFA, on the main page. The Portable MFA gives you all the essential information you would learn in an MFA program, covering fiction, memoir, personal essays, magazine articles, poetry and playwriting. Authors include Tim Tomlinson and Charles Salzberg. We’re lucky to have them on our staff! To buy a copy of The Portable MFA, please click here.
Due to the heavy volume of submissions we’ve been receiving, we have instituted a reading period. Ducts.org editors will read submissions only from January through August of every year. Material received between September 1st and December 31st will be returned, although we’ll encourage writers to resubmit their material during the reading period.
Of course, 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, I urge you to donate whatever amount you can. Every little bit helps.
And as always, you’ll find great essays, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and art within these pages. Please return again and again!
–Jonathan Kravetz, Editor-in-Chief, Ducts.org
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.