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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Top Ten Page Views for May 2009
Once again, very late posting this, due to insane work schedules. Total traffic for the month was 86,341, which convinces me that, yes, I need to find time to pimp the site again. Samuel Lee's piece is yet another testament to the power of StumbleUpon, as his story garnered over 5,000 page views from Stumblers alone. One reviewer there commented, "Thanks for the braingasm."1. (6) I Use Commas like Ninja Stars by Samuel Lee (3/18/09)
2. (4) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
3. (3) Barista by Sarah Black (3/18/09)
4. (5) Night Vision by Edmond Caldwell (3/18/09)
5. (2) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
6. (7) Star Man by Bill Cook (3/18/09)
7. (NR) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
8. (8) One Night at Crobar by Shane Goth (3/18/09)
9. (NR) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
10. (9) Bluegills by Thomas Cooper (3/18/09)
Labels: Bill Cook, Blake Butler, Edmond Caldwell, John Leary, Matt Bell, s, Samuel Lee, Sarah Black, Shane Goth, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Thomas Cooper, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:33 PM 0 commentsMonday, January 12, 2009
Tina May Hall wins Caketrain chapbook contest
Caketrain has announced the winner of their 2008 chapbook contest, as judged by Brian Evenson. Due to the quality of the finalists, they will be publishing both the winner and the runner up this summer. Here are the results:
Winner: All the Day's Sad Stories, by Tina May Hall
Runner-up: The Collectors, by Matt Bell
Also Notable: A State of Unbelief and Hawthorn BlossomsM, by Andrew Borgstrom; Personas, by J.C. Miller; Springtime and Important Things to Remember, by Ben Stein
Congratulations to all!
Labels: Andrew Borgstrom, Ben Stein, Brian Evenson, Caketrain, J.C. Miller, Matt Bell, Tina May Hall
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:06 PM 0 commentsWednesday, January 07, 2009
"Less Shiny" by Mary Miller
The print run on this is very short (75 copies), so it may already be too late to plug it, but... Mike Young's Magic Helicopter Press has released its first chapbook, Less Shiny by Mary Miller. Among the stories in the collection is A Blind Dog Named Killer and a Colony of Bees, first published here. Great reviews out there from Emerging Writers Network, Colin Bassett, and Matt Bell. Check it out, and buy a copy (if you still can).Labels: Colin Bassett, Emerging Writers Network, Less Shiny, Magic Helicopter Press, Mary Miller, Matt Bell, Mike Young
posted by Dave Clapper at 10:17 AM 0 commentsMonday, January 05, 2009
Keyhole Press announces fiction chapbook finalists
Another incredible group. Looking forward to hearing who the winner is, as judged by Michael Martone. Here are the finalists:
Jason Stout - Out Into Nothing
Thomas Cooper - Phantasmagoria
Randall Brown - Future Perfect Tense
Chauna Craig - Children, Gamblers, Drunks, and Saints
Adam Peterson - The Flasher
Stefanie Freele - Breathing Oysters
Matt Bell - The Collectors
Aaron Burch - How to Predict the Weather
Laura Loomis - Lost In Translation
Kathy Fish - It's Possible I'm Not Even Here
Congratulations to all. Keyhole's official announcement is here. Also, check out Keyhole's latest issue, their special handwritten issue. One of the coolest issues of a lit mag I've ever seen.
Labels: Aaron Burch, Adam Peterson, Jason Stout, Kathy Fish, Keyhole Magazine, Matt Bell, Michael Martone, Randall Brown, Stefanie Freele, Thomas Cooper
posted by Dave Clapper at 2:56 PM 0 commentsMonday, December 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for November 2008
Sarah Hilary retains her top spot, and Almond almost falls out of the top ten altogether. Interesting to see two from March '07 jump back onto the list.1. (1) Two Minute Silence by Sarah Hilary (10/2/08)
2. (3) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
3. (4) Innocence, Briefly by Jenny Arnold (10/2/08)
4. (NR) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (5) How Anything Got Done by Paul Elwork (10/2/08)
6. (8) Tenderoni by Kathy Fish (10/2/08)
7. (NR) The Color of Moths by Holly Selph (3/15/07)
8. (6) Asian Girl by W.P. Kinsella (10/2/08)
9. (7) Tapioca O's by Natalie DeClerck (10/2/08)
10. (2) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
Last month, I wondered whether the monthly page views would stay above 100,000 in months without new issues. Sure enough! 101,408. Woo!
Labels: Holly Selph, Jenny Arnold, John Leary, Kathy Fish, Matt Bell, Natalie DeClerck, Paul Elwork, Sarah Hilary, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten, W.P. Kinsella
posted by Dave Clapper at 9:32 AM 0 commentsSmokeLong Quarterly Pushcart Nominations
SmokeLong Quarterly is thrilled to announce its six nominations for the Pushcart Prize:
"How 9) Strange" by Laird Hunt SLQ #19, December 2007
"Taco Foot" by Jack Pendarvis SLQ #19, December 2007
"Trestle" by Matt Briggs SLQ #20, March 2008
"The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines" by Matt Bell SLQ #21, June 2008
"Fatback" by Jeff Landon SLQ #22, October 2008
"Tenderoni" by Kathy Fish SLQ #22, October 2008
Labels: Jack Pendarvis, Jeff Landon, Kathy Fish, Laird Hunt, Matt Bell, Matt Briggs, Pushcart Prize, SmokeLong Quarterly
posted by Randall Brown at 6:16 AM 1 commentsTuesday, November 04, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for October 2008
October's Top Ten was absolutely dominated by content from the new issue. Almond and Bell were the only repeats from last month. And, if we look beyond the top ten, the next eight in page views were all from the October issue as well. Talk about a strong issue.1. (NR) Two Minute Silence by Sarah Hilary (10/2/08)
2. (3) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
3. (1) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
4. (NR) Innocence, Briefly by Jenny Arnold (10/2/08)
5. (NR) How Anything Got Done by Paul Elwork (10/2/08)
6. (NR) Asian Girl by W.P. Kinsella (10/2/08)
7. (NR) Tapioca O's by Natalie DeClerck (10/2/08)
8. (NR) Tenderoni by Kathy Fish (10/2/08)
9. (NR) Breathing Oysters by Stefanie Freele (10/2/08)
10. (NR) Campfire by Donna D. Vitucci (10/2/08)
Total page views for the month was... get this... 111,740! I'll be interested to see if the page views stay over 100,000 in months without a new issue going live. Here's hoping.
Labels: Donna D. Vitucci, Jenny Arnold, Matt Bell, Natalie DeClerck, Paul Elwork, Sarah Hilary, SmokeLong Quarterly, Stefanie Freele, Steve Almond, Top Ten, W.P. Kinsella
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:00 PM 0 commentsFriday, October 03, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for September 2008
Well, Matt Bell owned the month of September, not only capturing the top spot with his most recent flash in SLQ, but also checking in at #8 for a flash published two years ago. You go, Matt!1. (2) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
2. (5) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
3. (9) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
4. (8) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (NR) Feeling Sad by Darby Larson (6/15/08)
6. (4) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
7. (3) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
8. (NR) How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
9. (10) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
10. (NR) Handful of Dirt by Jim Ruland (6/15/08)
Total page views for the month? 96,057, another huge month. Woo!
Labels: Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Darby Larson, Jim Ruland, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:29 PM 0 commentsWednesday, September 03, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for August 2008
August's top ten is a great example of why I'm such a huge fan of publishing online versus print publishing. Alexandra Fox's story was the most viewed piece of the month, with over 1000 page views last month. And it was published three years ago. And how did this come to pass? Apparently, somewhere along the way, it got tagged on StumbleUpon, and so users of that service wound up being directed to this work quite often. Lots of new readers for a story from 2005. When's the last time you saw print do that?1. (NR) A Deep Desire for Blue by Alexandra Fox (6/15/05)
2. (3) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
3. (1) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
4. (2) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
5. (NR) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
6. (8) The Cougar by Dave Clapper (6/15/08)
7. (6) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
8. (4) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
9. (7) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
10. (5) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
One other quick note: for the month, we had 96,892 page views, shattering our previous monthly record. Holy cow.
Labels: Alexandra Fox, Blake Butler, Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Dave Clapper, John Leary, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 5:41 PM 0 commentsWednesday, August 13, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for July 2008
Last month was a huge month for the latest issue: nine of the top ten were from Issue 21. And total page views for the month was a big number again: 87,560. Looks like this year we aren't have the usual summer slump in visitors to the site. Woo!1. (7) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
2. (5) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
3. (3) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
4. (2) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (6) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
6. (4) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
7. (1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
8. (NR) The Cougar by Dave Clapper (6/15/08)
9. (NR) Real Estate by Bonnie ZoBell (6/15/08)
10. (NR) Pen and Notebook by Natalie Goldberg (6/15/08)
Labels: Blake Butler, Bob Arter, Bonnie ZoBell, Brian Allen Carr, Dave Clapper, John Leary, Matt Bell, Natalie Goldberg, Randall Brown, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 2:55 PM 0 commentsTuesday, July 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for June 2008
Almond moves back on top again, and I'm sure that's due at least in part to Microsoft's pervy search engine results, but whatever. Lots of stuff from the anniversary issue appears here as well, and it was a huge traffic month: over 90,000 page views, our highest-traffic month ever. Can't complain about that!1. (2) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. (5) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
3. (NR) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
4. (NR) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
5. (NR) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
6. (NR) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
7. (NR) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
8. (NR) Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears by Heidi W. Durrow (9/15/07)
9. (1) The Cockroach by David Barringer (3/15/08)
10. (NR) Memento Mori by Rosanne Grifeth (6/15/08)
One thing I really notice about the top ten is that a number of these pieces were highlighted in various blogs recently: Matt Bell's piece was featured by Dan Wickett here, Dogzplot here, and in Matt's own blog here (along with links to every other story in the issue); Matt and Blake Butler were featured by Josh Maday here; Blake is also featured by Keyhole Magazine here (as are Rosanne Griffeth and Shellie Zacharia), and in his own blog here; Randall Brown's piece appears on his blog here; and Rosanne, in addition to the Keyhole feature, is featured by The Angler here, Carolina On My Mind (the blog of the artist who illustrated the story) here, Dew on the Kudzu here, and in her own blog here.
Labels: Blake Butler, Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, David Barringer, Heidi W. Durrow, John Leary, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, Rosanne Griffeth, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 2:34 PM 1 commentsWednesday, November 01, 2006
Top Ten Page Views for October
Not a lot of shaking up in October's top ten. A few pieces from the latest issue mixed in with several pieces that have been in the top ten often. The #1 exploded in October, registering over 3,000 page views. I'm adding last month's ranking in parentheses this time around.1. (1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. (2) Prey by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/06)
3. (3) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
4. (6) Everything by CB Anderson (9/15/06)
5. (8) Twelve Steps Down by Mark Budman (9/15/06)
6. (NR) Irvin Hammers a Cat House by Mike Young (6/15/05)
7. (NR) Hands by Stace Budzko (9/15/06)
8. (7) Axl Rose Is My Dog by Scott Ford (12/15/04)
9. (4) How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
10. (NR) Chancing by Utahna Faith (9/15/06)
Labels: C.B. Anderson, Jeff Landon, Mark Budman, Matt Bell, Mike Young, Myfanwy Collins, Scott Ford, SmokeLong Quarterly, Stace Budzko, Steve Almond, Top Ten, Utahna Faith
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:11 PM 0 commentsMonday, October 02, 2006
Top Ten Page Views for September
Steve Almond is still on top, although Myfanwy Collins came very close to unseating him. A couple stories from the issue released in the middle of the month, and I imagine they'll show more prominently in October, once they've had a full month's worth of page views. Scott Ford is still hanging in there with his piece that will celebrate its third birthday in December. Choke on that, print mags.
1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2) Prey by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/06)
3) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
4) How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
5) Daffodil by Kathy Fish (6/15/06)
6) Everything by CB Anderson (9/15/06)
7) Axl Rose Is My Dog by Scott Ford (12/15/04)
8) Twelve Steps Down by Mark Budman (9/15/06)
9) A Foreign Woman by Roberta Allen (6/15/06)
10) See Odi Naked by Lisa K. Buchanan (6/15/06)
Labels: C.B. Anderson, Jeff Landon, Kathy Fish, Lisa K. Buchanan, Mark Budman, Matt Bell, Myfanwy Collins, Roberta Allen, Scott Ford, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:15 PM 0 commentsFriday, September 01, 2006
Top Ten Page Views for August
Here are the top ten flashes in page views for August:
1. Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. Prey by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/06)
3. How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
4. A Foreign Woman by Roberta Allen (6/15/06)
5. Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
6. See Odi Naked by Lisa K. Buchanan (6/15/06)
7. Memory of Sky by Jai Clare (6/15/06)
8. Axl Rose Is My Dog by Scott Ford (12/15/04)
9. Fetichismo by Christopher Battle (6/15/06)
10. Daffodil by Kathy Fish (6/15/06)
And we're open for submissions again! Wheeeeeee!
Labels: Christopher Battle, Jai Clare, Jeff Landon, Kathy Fish, Lisa K. Buchanan, Matt Bell, Myfanwy Collins, Roberta Allen, Scott Ford, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:07 PM 0 commentsWednesday, August 02, 2006
Top Ten Page Views for July
I'm going to follow this post up with another about the overall stats for July, because in answering a question Randall Brown had about how the reviews are doing, I took a much deeper look than usual. July's #1 and #2 look very familar, and most of the rest of the list is from the latest issue, with the exception of #9, which was published almost two years ago! I'll evangelize over and over and over again the power of online mags to put stories in the hands of readers, and this is one more example.
1. Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
3. How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
4. Prey by Myfanwy Collins (6/15/06)
5. A Foreign Woman by Roberta Allen (6/15/06)
6. Memory of Sky by Jai Clare (6/15/06)
7. See Odi Naked by Lisa K. Buchanan (6/15/06)
8. Daffodil by Kathy Fish
9. Axl Rose Is My Dog by Scott Ford (12/15/04)
10. Tough Act by Steven J. McDermott (6/15/06)
Labels: Jai Clare, Jeff Landon, Kathy Fish, Lisa K. Buchanan, Matt Bell, Myfanwy Collins, Roberta Allen, Scott Ford, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Steven J. McDermott, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:12 PM 0 commentsSaturday, July 01, 2006
Top Ten Page Views for June
Interesting list. I'll be really interested to see how much this shakes up in July, once the June issue has had a full month of page views.
1. Pornography by Steve Almond (June 2005)
2. Irvin Hammers a Cat House by Mike Young (June 2005)
3. Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (September 2005)
4. Memory of Sky by Jai Clare (June 2006)
5. How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (June 2006)
6. Daffodil by Kathy Fish (June 2006)
7. Friendship/Love by Ania Vesenny (March 2006)
8. A Foreign Woman by Roberta Allen (June 2006)
9. The Captain by Ron Currie, Jr. (June 2006)
10. Tough Act by Steven J. McDermott (June 2006)
Labels: Ania Vesenny, Jai Clare, Kathy Fish, Matt Bell, Mike Young, Roberta Allen, Ron Currie Jr., SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Steven J. McDermott, Top Ten
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