Mud Flat Press Please join PFLAG-Olympia and Mud Flat Press for a free dramatic reading from the young adult novel Kickback – a Max Prescott Murder Mystery by Tracy Gunn -at Olympia Family Theatre – Friday, June 21, 7 p.m. Kickback is set mostly in Olympia, Washington. A Capital High School student is found dead in the woodworking … Read more
Olympia, Washington author Alec Clayton, author of The Backside of Nowhere and the “Freedom Trilogy,” kicks off his latest novel, This Is Me, Debbi, David, with a series of readings and book talks with actor Amanda Kemp. Amanda Kemp In addition to her second year with Animal Fire Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park, Amanda has … Read more
This is an oldy but goodie, Jack Butler’s Practicing Zen Without a License – “A grand and funny satire on the human tendency to indulge in stuffy metaphysics” – essays on Zen from many masters, including Wingo, Cassidy, Turble-Tribble, Elijah Lee Roswell, The No Poet, Jody Nightwood, OB Wanda (Roshi) and Ruby Tuesday. This review … Read more
Mud Flat Press is excited to announce its latest publication, Thinking Out Loud by Ricker Winsor, a collection of truthful, entertaining and often personal-to-the-extreme essays on everything from the Beat generation to fishing in the Catskills, with many great photographs, including rarely seen photos of celebrities and art world figures such as Janis Joplin and … Read more
Christian Carvajal returns to Browsers Bookshop on Thursday, June 14 at 7:00 PM to promote his new book, C is for Collection. The twenty-one stories in C Is for Collection paint a portrait of their writer over a career spanning three decades of published material. Along the way, you’ll meet a child with a secret, … Read more
The latest short story published on Mud Flat Press is “Akiko’s Last Fight” by Alec Clayton. It is a rewrite of a story first published by Creative Colloquy. Akiko is a former women’s boxing champion coming out of retirement to challenge the woman who took away her title and her husband. Read it here.
Mud Flat Press asked friends to contribute questions for an interview with MFP author and co-founder Alec Clayton. Interviewed by Ricker Winsor (author of Tic Toc, The Painting of My Life, and Pakuwon City), Ned Hayes, (author of The Eagle Tree, Sinful Folk, and Coeur D’Alene Waters, and publisher of OLY ARTS), Christian Carvajal (author … Read more
Jack Butler’s novel Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His poems, short stories and other writings have been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic, and New York Times Book Review, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review and other publications. Mud Flat Press is proud to have published his Practicing … Read more