Mud Flat Press’ Lit Chat #2 – Charlie Berger’s memoir Born to Go with Charlie Berger and Erin Donahue

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Join us on Zoom for Mud Flat Press’ Lit Chat #2, a reading from and discussion of Charlie Berger’s memoir Born to Go with Charlie Berger and Erin Donahue. Sunday, Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. Pacific time.

Mud Flat Press’ Lit Chat #1 – Alec Clayton’s Locked In

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Our first Lit Chat on October 1, 2023 was a reading from and discussion with Alec Clayton about his novel, Locked In, the story of newspaperman Willie Ray Rivers’ fight for justice in the little town of Hub City, Mississippi. Completely paralyzed and unable to talk after a stroke, Willie Ray’s story is told through … Read more

Mud Flat Press Presents a Lit Chat with Alec Clayton on His Latest Novel Locked In

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MFP’s Lit Chat series kicks off with a discussion of Alec Clayton’s latest novel, Locked In, the story of newspaperman Willie Ray Rivers’ fight for justice in the little town of Hub City, Mississippi. Completely paralyzed and unable to talk after a stroke, Willie Ray’s story is told through his thoughts and memories. The reader … Read more

Mud Flat Press Plans for a Series of Writer/Reader Online Events

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Gabi (my wife and co-founder of Mud Flat Press) came up with one of those brilliant why-didn’t-we-think-of-it-before ideas. We should have periodic Mud Flat Press Zoom events with writers and readers. We haven’t made any specific plans yet, but not much planning should be needed. We’ll invite writers who have published books with Mud Flat … Read more

A Historical Achievement

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Gabi and I are thrilled to announce that Monday or shortly thereafter our publication from the 1980s, Mississippi Art & Letters, will officially enter into literary history. All copies of the magazine (10 issues from 1984 to 1985), along with correspondence from writers Jack Butler, Jes Simmons, Barry Hannah, Pat Gray, Howard Bahr, Ellen Gilchrist, … Read more

Getting to Know Our X-pats

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Two of our much-loved Mud Flat Press writers are expatriates—Ricker Winsor, originally from New York and now living in Surabaya, Indonesia with his Chinese Indonesian wife, Jovita and two dogs, Sniper and Nana; and Anne Nayer, also a New Yorker, a life coach in the Virgin Islands for the past 35 years. Anne lived and … Read more

New poetry pages

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At last, we’re going to start publishing poetry on the Mud Flat Press website. The format will be like the formatting for short stories (see https://mudflatpress.com/short-stories/). Like the short stories, poems will be by invitation only. We cannot accept unsolicited submissions. We will start with poems by Jes Simmons, Anne Nayer, Jack Butler—all contributors to … Read more

HOT OFF THE PRESS — Mud Flat Press Publishes Two Books in One Day!

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We are thrilled to announce that we have published two new books today: BORN TO GO, a memoir by Charlie Berger with Erin Donahue, and LOCKED IN, a new novel by Alec Clayton. BORN TO GO “Whether you are an adventure junkie, an exotic animal lover or just appreciate a darn good yarn, read Born To … Read more

COMING SOON: “Locked In”

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A new novel by Alec Clayton I’m not writing this. I’m screaming it. But only inside my mind. It’s all in my head. You are in my head. Left completely paralyzed and unable to talk after a stroke, newspaperman Willie Ray Rivers recalls his fight for justice in the little town of Hub City, Mississippi; … Read more