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July 10, 2011

2011 Open City Short Story Contest, Anderbo No-Fee Novel Contest, + Anderbo Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Prizes

Anderbo 2011 No-Fee Novel Contest! Deadline September 21st.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/ander...

Open City's 2011 RRofihe Trophy short story contest deadline is October 15th, spread the word.
Guidelines @
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy

The 2010 Anderbo Poetry Prize (Judge: Linda Bierds) contest deadline was December 15th, 2010 For the winnwe, go to
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/ander...

& for 2011 Anderbo will also offered a Creative Nonfiction Prize, with a June 15th deadline.
Our announced contest judge isElizabeth Wurtzel; to read a recent interview with her, go to
http://encoremag.com/new-york/article...
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May 21, 2011

Open City's Greatest Hits! Edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas

THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN: Stories from Twenty Years of Open City Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1890447595/r...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/They... The They're at It Again The Open City Reader by Thomas Beller

In its 800+ pages you'll find Paul Bowles, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Robert Stone, Walter Kirn, James Lasdun, Edmund White, Richard Yates, Antonya Nelson, Charles Bukowski, David Foster Wallace, Robert Bingham, Thomas McGuane, Nick Tosches, Jerry Stahl, Hubert Selby Jr, Rick Rofihe, Sigrid Nunez, Philip Lopate, Martha McPhee, Jonathan Baumbach, Jim Harrison, Ed Park--and DOZENS more!
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March 5, 2011

Open City Magazine Closes; Open City Books Continues...

Open City Magazine's closing is at once "Highbrow" and "Despicable", says New York Magazine...
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmat...

A "Sad Good-Bye" to Open City Magazine, says Vanity Fair...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolc...

This blog includes the cover of OC #19, based on a photograph taken in Jack Ruby's bar -- I'm in that issue!
http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=7179

This blog shows long-time OC Editor-at-Large Adrian Dannatt at work and play...
http://www.mangozeen.com/2011/03/07/r...

All 30 Open City Magazine Covers @ the March 2, 2011 blog of Michelle Legro (of Lapham's Quarterly.) Her favorite is OC #16 -- I'm in that issue, too -- twice!
http://michellelegro.tumblr.com/post/...

The New York Observer, March 1, 2011
http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-tr...

The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacke...

The Paris Review, March 2, 2011
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...

Publishers Weekly, March 3, 2011
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...

The Faster Times, March 3, 2011
http://thefastertimes.com/indiebooks/...

Joanna Yas speaks to The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...

Grove Press's Joan Bingham on Open City...
http://www.courier-journal.com/articl...

Thomas Beller in The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...

The Poetry Foundation's "Harriet the Blog" on the life of literary journals...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harri...
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February 18, 2011

New Story by 2009 OPEN CITY RRofihe Trophy Winner Leslie Maslow

"Linus Pauling, Linus Pauling" — New Short Story by 2009 OPEN CITY RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest Winner
LESLIE MASLOW now @
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

Leslie Maslow grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her short story "Mum" won the 2009 RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest and was published in Open City Magazine. Her short essay on the Pär Lagerkvist novella, The Difficult Journey: Guest of Reality II, was published in the summer 2010 issue of Tin House. She has had fellowships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program and Vermont Studio Center. She is currently enrolled in the MFA writing program at Bennington College.
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February 5, 2011

Anderbo is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar in NYC Wed, April 27th, 7-9 pm

Anderbo.com is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St, NYC on Wednesday, April 27th from 7 to 9 p.m.

Announced readers:

TUMI JOHNSON was raised in Ibadan, Nigeria and Nashville, Tennessee. She is a physician, dancer and poet, and has been published in Number One, Radically Shifted, and in the Annals of Internal Medicine. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...

MAC BARRETT's fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Salt Hill Journal, Hanging Loose, on the radio for WBAI, and at Salon.com. He works as an associate producer for CUNY TV and lives in present-day Brooklyn and 1920's Paris.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

MARIA MODROVICH is a Slovak writer and freelance journalist. She lives in NYC and writes for magazines in Slovakia. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

Anderbo Contributing Editor AZIZ FRIEDRICH is a graduate of The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and of New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied "Writing the Fragment" and "The Letter as Literature" with Professor Victoria Blythe; he also studied there with the writer Ed Park. Aziz is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com and is working on a novel. He is also a Contributing Editor of the literary magazine Open City.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afact...

LAUREN WATERMAN is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, New York and Boston Magazine; her fiction has appeared online on MonkeyBicycle. She has an M.F.A. in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence, and she is (hard) at work on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

Anderbo Contributing Editor WAYNE CONTI's short stories appear online on Pindeldyboz and Anderbo, and in Open City magazine. Wayne is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com, and is the proprietor of Mercer Street Books & Records in New York City's Greenwich Village.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...

JENNIFER HANKS is an Anderbo Editor at Large. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She enjoys writing poems about sunken ships and is torn between pursuing a career in publishing or marine biology.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...

Anderbo Editor-in-Chief RICK ROFIHE will read from his memoirs, which explain how various accomplished individuals, including Donald Sutherland, Johnny Cash, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Vanderbilt and Colonel Harland Sanders, have affected his own life and work.
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...

Several Anderbo Editors will co-host the reading. See the masthead @
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/amast...

Anderbo.com thanks OpenCity.org Magazine & Books' Joanna Yas for tossing their APRIL KGB night to us.
Catch their MARCH KGB reading on Wednesday, March 30th
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/ope...
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January 10, 2011

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January 5, 2011

LITERARY OFFICE SPACE TIME-SHARE in NYC

LITERARY OFFICE SPACE TIME-SHARE in NYC SoHo with established literary journal and book-publisher + e-zine; use our office including desks, computers, printers, phones etc. 2 to 3 days a week, and receive your mail and deliveries. Prestigious multi-elevator building. Great for emerging literary agents, publicists, writers, editors -- and publishers & lit-journals. $800 monthly. Reply to rrofihe@yahoo.com
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Published on January 05, 2011 12:22 Tags: editors, lit-journals, literary-agents, office-share, publicists, publishers, writers

January 4, 2011

Free NYC Class/Salon on Literary Publishing

I hold a free one-night-a-month class/salon on all facets of literary publishing here at 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York NY 10012, the shared offices of Open City Magazine & Books and my online literary journal Anderbo.com (space is limited.) Usually it's on a Wednesday evening, sometimes Monday evening, often Sunday afternoons, and occasionally Saturday afternoons.
E-mail me directly at rrofihe@yahoo.com
Rick Rofihe
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
http://www.anderbo.com
Judge, The Open City RRofihe Trophy
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
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