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

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

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

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

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

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

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