Five Points is now accepting submissions. Our new issue, Volume 11, Number 3, is coming out in late September:

kim addonizio, coleman barks, erinn batykefer, sidney burris, viet dinh, karen finley, edward hirsch, alice hoffman, mark irwin, philip levine, debora lidov, laurence lieberman, pearl amelia mchaney, mary oliver, anne panning, rumi, matthew roudané, elizabeth spires, erik fraser storlie, melanie rae thon, robert wrigley, natasha trethewey, masao yamamoto

I’ve heard all the jokes. My partner is in Playboy. Hey, saw you in Playboy. These are misleading quips, but fantastic too. The October issue of Playboy lists the winners of the 2007 Playboy College Fiction Contest. You can read the first place story, “Lizard Man” by David James Poissant, online or in the hardcopy of the October issue. At the end of the story you’ll see my name listed as a third place winner–woo! I’m still waiting to get my issue in the mail. And to all of you writers out there, there’s a link at the end of the story to guidelines for the 2008 contest.

Sub-Lit Volume One, Number One is out–publishing the best in literary dissidence. I especially enjoyed the poetry in this issue. Submissions are open for the second issue, too: fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and photography. Also, check out the editor’s blog.