So, I wanted to put this up a while back, but was thinking about submitting it to a few journals, or using it for my Amtrak Residency application. Did you hear about that, that Amtrak was offering free cross-country train rides to aspiring writers? It sounded pretty sexy, until word about the fine print […]
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New Story / Scamtrak
April 8th, 2014 by Dustin Parmenter · 1 Comment · Beautiful Words, General, New Work, Thoughts
Tags:amtrak residency·automobiles·new fiction·planes·scamtrak·the view·trains·writers·writing
New Fiction – “What We Balk About When We Caulk A Dead Dove”
October 8th, 2013 by Dustin Parmenter · 1 Comment · New Work
My workshop professor (the wonderful John Weir) asked to us to write an “homage” or “cover” of the short story of our choice after reading Nathan Englander’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” (available for your reading pleasure here), which itself is a cover / homage of Raymond Carver’s “What We […]
Tags:anne frank·homage·love·nathan englander·new fiction·raymond carver·what we talk about