Turn The Page: Out Of The Gutter Issue 5

Out Of The Gutter never pulls any punches and Issue 5 is no exception. If you like your fiction mean and dirty; want writing that has that gut-churning authenticity which keeps you coming back for more, then this is the place. Matthew Louis gives us stories from Charlie Stella, Vicki Hendricks, and others that provide [...]

Turn The Page: Memoirs Of An Exquisite Mephistophelian by Mike Padilla

My wife’s BFF, all-round good guy and fucking polymath talent, artist and poet Mike Padilla has a book out and though I have been a bit slow to hip you all to it — here you go: Click The Book Cover and go and get yourself a great read and support great poetry!
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Turn The Page: Naked & Raw by R. Monaleza

My good friend R. Monaleza has just released the second book in a poetic trilogy that carries on the journey of self-discovery that she embarked on with ‘Manifesto Of A Menopausal Woman’ and will be continued in ‘Unbound’ (due for release in January 2009). Please support an up and coming writer with a lot to [...]

Loom

Warren Ellis asks questions a lot — he wonders what shape the future might take sometimes: the future of science fiction; the future of the internet and its content. In answer to a piece called The Patchwork Years, which looked at the shift from curation sites to sites which produce original content, five of us [...]

Call For Submissions

Prose Submission
Poetry Submission
Picture Submission
We are currently seeking submissions for a magazine based around the concept that is at the heart of Writers, Prizefighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters. The Right Hook Editions will focus on poetry and the Southpaw Grammar Editions are going to be centred around various types of fiction. If you have art [...]

turn the page: self interview

I can’t remember where I saw this — maybe it was that arch egotist Jim Morrison who gave me the idea — but in an effort to get to know myself and elucidate some upon my new books, I am interviewing myself in lieu of someone else doing the job.

So, Warchalking, what’s that all about [...]

My Poetry Books

these are some of the books i have been working on this week — all covers designed by moi.
let me know what you think.
you can buy them here my store

Turn The Page: Proximity Alert by Paul Grimsley

Click The Cover Above To Buy This Book!
A collection of stories that takes you closer to some people than you would ever normally want to go.
Staked out in the territory of a blooming bruise, ‘proximity alert’ takes you to childhood haunts, through the corridors of death, obsessive love, and the fecund minds of those whose [...]

Take Art: Mike Padilla

the (r)evolution of modern expression: it is a phrase that captures so much of the spirit of mike’s work, whether it is his art or his writing. the pieces are alive with process, with thought, with meaning — like the best art they don’t remain a fixed idea from one viewing to the next — [...]

Turn The Page: Manifesto Of A Menopausal Woman by Mona Lisa

I was witness to the genesis of this book, and though the book says the seed of an idea was planted in Missouri, I think something had already clicked into place in Chicago. We were both there to record some spoken word and Mona had been looking out of a window at the scene before [...]