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
by Alec Clayton It happened like this. I was looking for something on our Mud Flat Press website and noticed the page for the short stories we’ve published on the site. I thought, if we have a page for short stories, why not a page for poems? We certainly know enough poets—really good ones like … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
I have written all my life beginning as an 8-year-old sitting on a park bench in New York City scribbling tales of Pegasus and flying through the sky and, over the past 10 years, writing a weekly 5-minute Postcard from Paradise – a radio spot for our local NPR station, but it wasn’t until Alec … Read more
In these two Mud Flat Press events, each writer will have a short time to talk, and then there will be time for comments and questions from participants. There are thirty-one stories by nineteen writers in our new anthology Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) with stories of love and of war, sci-fi tales, stories of … Read more