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.
Zounds, what a review!
Here’s David Epstein writing in Heavy Feather Review on AMP’s new book of poems, The Age of Discovery. May all of the poets be so carefully and thoughtfully reviewed.
A rave for The Age of Discovery
Here’s Jamie O’Halloran writing on The Age of Discovery: “The deeper I read this collection, the deeper I wanted to go.” Read the full review on Lit Pub.
The story’s title is =
Here’s a new story by Alan Michael Parker, entitled =, courtesy of LITRO’s “Friday Flash” series. With thanks to the kindness of editors who care, and the work being done by art-brains in this time of horror and hope.
It’s a winner!
Alan Michael Parker’s flash fiction, “Unemployment Benefits,” has won the Lunate 500 contest. A new literary journal based in the UK, Lunate publishes terrific writing by a broad selection of international authors. The award comes with a cash prize, and AMP will …
Flash, flash —
Here are two new flash fictions by AMP, in the New Flash Fiction Review, from their themed issue, “Disneyland is Closed.” Both stories are from the super-duper secret project he’s writing, i = i – 1. Shhhh….
How We Spend Our Days
With thanks to Cynthia Newberry Martin for the invitation and the smart edits, here’s a little essay by Alan Michael Parker on the writing process in the “How We Spend Our Day “series. With pictures! Words and pictures!
A flash prize! Flash!
Alan Michael Parker’s flash fiction, “Independent Survey,” took Third Place in Lunate magazine’s Lunate 500 competition. Here’s the story, and the remarks of the judge, Helen McClory. (Congratulations to the First and Second Place winners, Rosie Garland and Lance Mason.)