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An Interview with Laura van den Berg

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:47:45 -0700

Susan Lundgren interviews Laura van den Berg, author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.

And the winner is....

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:44:51 -0700

Congratulations to Michael Larson, whose story "A Foreign Language" was chosen as the winner of the April flash contest. The May Prompt is "It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day."

Get your submissions in today!

Now Accepting Submissions for Issue 16: Current!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:54:14 -0700

Switchback is now accepting submissions for Issue 16: Current. Send us your best, previously unpublished fiction, poetry, nonfiction or art and see it in the next issue to be published this November. Submissions do not necessarily need to address the theme. We're looking for daring work, literature that electrifies with language strong enough to sweep us away. So what are you waiting for? Send us your work now!

The April Audio vs. Visual and Paul Kavanagh’s Iceberg

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:29:02 -0700

Charles Haddox reviews Paul Kavanagh's Iceberg and Kate Folk reads "The Sad Sentence" by Andrew McLinden on Audio vs. Visual.

A Review of Skip Fox's Sheer Indefinite

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:26:19 -0700

Patrick James Dunagan reviews the new collection Sheer Indefinite by Skip Fox.

Syntax as Music in Arisa White’s Hurrah’s Nest

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:15:41 -0700

Karen Biscopink reviews Hurrah's Nest by Arisa White.

And the winner is...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:37:38 -0700

Congratulations to Dan Paquette whose poem "Polemic in Fragments" was chosen as the winner of the March flash contest. Submissions are now being accepted for April. The prompt is "Thought is made in the mouth." Get your submission in today!

Audio vs. Visual: Like Nothing and the Launch Party

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:40:05 -0700

On this month's Audio vs. Visual, Kristin Seabolt reads and discusses "Like Nothing" by Robyn Carter, originally published in Switchback 14: Global vs. Local.
In community news, Switchback will be holding a launch party for Issue 16: Rosita on April 22 at 7:00pm at Sacred Grounds Coffee House in San Francisco. Featured readers will include Micah Ballard, Truong Tran, Renee K. Nelson, Lisa Piazza, Robyn Carter, Matt Kulish and Erica Jamieson. We hope to see you there!

At the Drawing Board with Jon Eastman and Stuart Thomas

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:06:41 -0700

Juli C. Lasselle interviews Jon Eastman and Stuart Thomas, creators of the graphic novel series 13 Legends.

UPDATED: Switchback 15: Rosita is here now!

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:39:36 -0700

Switchback 15: Rosita is live and ready for your reading pleasure! We have fantastic new work by Simon Perchik, Kirby Wright, Amy Small-McKinney, Michael James Rizza and many more. Also be sure to check out Kristin Seabolt's interview with Manuel Muñoz, author of The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, Zigzagger and What You See in the Dark.

The launch party previously scheduled for Thursday March 29 at Books and Bookshelves has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have something new on the books very soon!