Professor Dru, founder and fiction editor of The Harrow (I'm poetry editor) just had her first paid publication at Strange Horizons: Pan de los Muertos.

Great work Dru!!!

Don't miss the Sars Cat. And this is not on yuka's blog.

Rhonna the Peach just put up this months edition of E2K: a journal for the new literary paradigm, that she edits, and I sometimes am editor-at-large for. We've got a FlashFiction contest going on starting this month. $100 USD first prize! No entry charge. So check it out, if you can tell a story in 1000 words or less. And yes, I'm a judge. So don't tell me if you're sending something in.

[I'm on the board of directors of Net Author, and will be one of the final judges this year, I think. I've also made up the contest submission form... so submit!!! And those are USD prizes.]

Net Author's Annual Flash Fiction Contest: 2003

Introducing Net Author's Third Annual Flash Fiction Contest! Regardless of whether flash fiction is your area of specialty, your secret passion, or you've never even tried your hand at the genre, now is the time to polish it up and send it in. We're accepting submissions through June 15; winners will be published in the July, August, September, and October issues of Net Author's *E2K*. Interested? Read on!

Title: Net Author's Annual Flash Fiction Contest
Contact: editor@netauthor.org (do not send your submissions to this address!)

The contest begins April 15, 2002 and runs through June 15, 2003.

1st Prize: $100
2nd Prize: $50
3rd and 4th Prizes: $25

Contest Rules:
* Stories must be 1,000 words or less.
* One entry per person.
* Every entry must have a title.
* Entry must have a word count.
* Entry must include a short, third-person bio.
* Entry must include the necessary contact information: writer's name, postal address, and email address.
* You'll find the link for the submission form on the index page of the April and May issues of *E2K*.
* Deadline: June 15, 2003

Winners will be announced in the July 15, 2003 issue of *E2K*.

Not sure what flash fiction is all about? You may want to check out Pam Casto's excellent article in the January 2002 issue of *E2K*: Flash Fiction: The Short-Short To Ultra-Short Story

Net Author is a non-profit, publicly-supported on-line community for writers. Net Author's *E2K* are paying markets. See our guidelines for details: http://www.netauthor.org/e2k (and follow the link for "Submission Guide").
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I just uploaded a draft of Unearthing Medieval Vampire Stories in England: Fragments from De Nugis Curialium and Historia Rerum Anglicarum as an RTF file if anyone's interested in reading it and giving me any feedback. There are some bits that I have to add... like about Varma's library and McNally's book A Clutch of Vampires that I've not been able to track down yet. And I want to make it sound a bit less stuffy. Anyway, all comments appreciated.

Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane has gone over the top. She's split the whole program with her new flash movie. Of course she's getting intertextually self referential, and pandering to the EntertainmentTonight mentality by having guest shots of a bunch of B actors so that they'll slavishly promote her work. Like me!

The Harrow: Mermaid was published this month. Rochelle wrote it. It is in a journal that I edit poetry for. I found it at random. Strange the I found it at random. Enjoy!

From the "Kat's got a summer job and therefore surfs all day" Department: Riley Martin... visits his alien friends on their mothership in Saturn's orbit and buy the book, "The Coming of Tan" by Martin and O-Qua Tangin Wann.

You'd think that if Martin was alien-writing (like ghostwriting but with spaceships) for Tangin, we'd put Tangin's name first?

Just bought my copy of Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril down at Pages Bookstore (256 Queen W.). I didn't make it to any of the book launches for it, and I've been waiting for a copy. Judith is something like the patron saint, godmother or midwife of Canadian Science fiction, and collaborated with my favourite author C.M. Kornbluth.