From the Editors

Welcome to the December issue of Every Day Fiction. We’ve put together quite a line up for you, with work from old favourites like Celeste Goschen, Kevin Shamel, and Steve Goble, as well as new authors like Fred Warren and our Christmas Eve piece, “A Christmas Toast”, by Frank Zubek. For Christmas Day, we have “Kanti Chooses Santa” by Sarah Hilary.

For Readers:

Author interviews are back! September’s most-read author was Greta Igl for her story “Free“. Because we weren’t able to complete her interview in October, we are publishing it on the 1st of December. October’s most read story was “Life Without Jerry” by Celeste Goschen, and we are excited to announce that her interview will be airing on the 15th.

For Writers:

As EDF has become well known in the literary community, the quality of the submissions has greatly improved–so much so that we’ve decided to nominate some of our best stories for the Pushcart Prize. This prestigious prize has been awarded every year since 1976 to the best works in the small press. Every year, winners are collected and republished in their anthology.

With over 400 stories published, choosing the nominees was an incredibly difficult task for us. We agonized over our decisions, and in the end chose stories that we felt stood out, but that had also done well with readers (read: scored highly in the star rating system).

The nominees are:

ONE BRIGHT MOMENT • by Joel Willans

LARRY LEGEND • by Jason Stout

WITHOUT NAPIER • by Michael Ehart

SPRING MELT • by Gay Degani

WING MENDING • by Dave Macpherson

WITH LOVE FOREVER YOURS • by Alex Moisi

Congratulations to the nominees, and we hope they win!

Also, the EDF Author forums are rocking. If you’d like a forum of your own, please contact us.

Finally, the EDF Writing group is picking up more members than ever. If you’d like to be a part of the group, please contact us.

December’s Table of Contents

Dec 1	Jenny Schwartz	Ravishing Readers
Dec 2	Kevin Shamel	Uninventing the Internet
Dec 3	Steve Goble	Waiting to Pounce
Dec 4	Tels Merrick	Nov 5th
Dec 5	Robert Goffeney	The Wizard’s Walk
Dec 6	M.Sherlock	Death is a Weird Shade of Pink
Dec 7	Rachel McClain	A Couch in a Clearing
Dec 8	Al Carty	A Family Matter
Dec 9	Simon Smithson	Waiting
Dec 10	Fred Warren	Little Piece of Cloth
Dec 11	Kelly Swimmer	Birds
Dec 12	Celeste Goschen	Mr Gorzynski Takes the Plunge
Dec 13	Brian Dolton	The Gallery of Illusions
Dec 14	A P Chapman	Message in a Bottle
Dec 15	Dave Macpherson	The Adjunct Professor of Cabbage
Dec 16	Mark Parenti	The Doll
Dec 17	K.M. Rockwood	Aftermath
Dec 18	Mark Rosenblum	Do Your Dreams Have Robots?
Dec 19	Tapes	Mr Merton
Dec 20	Bill Snodgrass	Late Bloomer
Dec 21	Brian George	Must Be Old Death A-Walking
Dec 22	Jason Stout	Writer’s Block
Dec 23	Rosie Claverton	Cultural Roots
Dec 24	Frank Zubek	A Christmas Toast
Dec 25	Sarah Hilary	Kanti Chooses Santa
Dec 26	Erin M. Kinch	Fortune Cookies
Dec 27	Jon Peck	Choose Your Booze
Dec 28	C.L. Holland	The Marsh Lights
Dec 29	Liz Wright	After the Tone
Dec 30	Dave Bara	Something About Harry
Dec 31	Oonah V Joslin	Picture of Innocence

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9 Responses to “December’s Table of Contents”

1. Sarah Hilary Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 4:08 am

   Congratulations to the Pushcart nominees, and to EDF for being heavy-weight editors with the clout to nominate for this major prize.

2. M.Sherlock Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am

   sarah hilary on christmas day…what a present!

3. gay Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 9:18 am

   Thanks Sarah, and yes indeedy, a Sarah Hilary on Christmas! A very nice gift!

4. Sarah Hilary Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am

   Thanks, M and Gay!

5. Madeline Mora-Summonte Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 10:14 am

   Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll be rooting for you!

6. Patricia J. Hale Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

   A EDF piece Pushcart would be fantastic. Great idea.

7. Living the Fictional Dream » EDF December TOC & NaNo Wraps Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

   [...] The December table of contents for Every Day Fiction is out, and it looks to be a great December for fiction. Go check it out. [...]

8. Celeste Says:
   December 13th, 2008 at 4:50 am

   Gay, I’m thrilled that you’ve been nominated for the Pushcart, and of course all the others:)
   Congratulations and let’s cross all mobile body parts. It would be great publicity for EDF,too.

9. Steven Smethurst Says:
   December 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

   Testing new new version of wordpress 2.7

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