Cheekily daring form!
Here’s a thoughtful, long review of Bingo Bango Boingo in The Southern Review of Books.
Innovative, fresh, and entertaining
A new review of Bingo Bango Boingo has just dropped at the Colorado State University’s Center for Literary Publishing. It’s pretty darn good!
Bingo Bango Boingo rave
On February, 11, Bingo Bango Boingo will be published by Dzanc Books. The buzz begins here–with the first review of the book, “Redefining Narrative through Bingo,” by Gabriella Contratto, in Mānoa, a journal published by the University of Hawai’i. Hint: the review’s a …
AMP answers, sorta
It’s pre-pub time for Bingo Bango Boingo, and the word’s getting out. Here’s a new interview with Alan Michael Parker, by the Editor in Chief of Vestal Review, David Galef.
NCHumanities Fellowship
The NC Humanities, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded AMP a 2024 Fellowship to write his book, One Million Likes: Understanding Cartoons in a Digital Age. The grant will underwrite two months of full-time work on the …
A flashie flash
Here’s a new piece of flash fiction, “Janet and Her Soul,” at The Opiate Magazine. No, it’s not autobiographical. Or it is. With thanks to Genna Rivieccio.
Lilly’s Bird Bingo
Here’s another story, “Lilly’s Bird Bingo,” a Bingo card gorgeously pubbed by the good folks at Terrain.org. With my thanks to Pam Houston for the great edits.
Speculative Fiction
Hi, sci-fi fans. I’ve written a story that isn’t sci-fi, but is called “Speculative Fiction.” With thanks to the dear ones at Necessary Fiction for publication.
PEN/Faulkner 2024
I am honored to have been selected a judge for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award, along with Xochitl Gonzalez and Lynn Steger Strong. We’re anticipating over 500 submissions. Time to get new reading glasses.
The latest in fiction! Here!
Sometimes I write stories that are super eensie weensie. Here’s one, “Ella’s Letter to the Editor of the Universe.” (Because she needed to say so, she did.) With thanks to the great humans at LITRO, and their fabulous Friday Flash …
Interview!
Here’s an interview @Ampydoo the cartoonist has done with the Superstition Review‘s smart editor, Addie Ascherl.
AMPy Flashies
Here are two new flash fictions, courtesy of the lovely people at DIAGRAM: “That Italy Thing” & “The Past or the Future.” How can we not love this magazine? The question’s moot — because we love DIAGRAM.
“Feti’s Border Crossing”
AMP’s poem, “Feti’s Border Crossing,” a new Bingo card, has been published by the Academy of American Poets in their “Poem-a-Day” series, along with an audio performance. Guest-curated by poet Cynthia Hogue in September of 2022, the poems published each …
VQR Award for best poems of 2021
AMP has been awarded the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry, for six poems published in VQR in an annual year (2021). The award, selected by the staff of the journal, comes with a $1000 award. The poems published are …
New flash by AMP
“How Phil Imagines the Afterlife” is a flash published by The Lincoln Review (Lincoln, UK). Maybe you’ll like it. (Sure you will.)
BINGO!
They’re poems, they’re Bingo cards, they’re wild, you’ll like them. Try thishttps://www.vqronline.org/people/alan-michael-parker: six of AMP’s poems in Virginia Quarterly Review.
It’s story time
Here’s a new flash — news flash! — a story by Alan Michael Parker in Fiction Kitchen Berlin, “Meeting Someone Once for Five Seconds.”
Interlocutor asks the questions
Here’s an interview with Interlocutor, and the brainy brain Isabelle Sakelaris, on The Age of Discovery, the evils of ekphrasis, rowing, novel-brain, and the delusions of the patriarchy. Oh, and poems.
2021 National Book Award – AMP’s a judge
Sponsored by the National Book Foundation, the National Book Award is one of the two most prestigious annual awards for a book by an American writer. Alan Michael Parker will participate as a judge for fiction in the 2021 award …
AMP reading at KGB
Here’s a reading AMP did with the fab poet Laura Cronk in the KGB Monday Night Poetry Series, on January 25, 2021. Such a collection of poets and readers and brains–check it out.