Non-Fiction

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.

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

About My Writing — by Anne Nayer, one of the authors in the anthology Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction)

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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

Meet the authors of the anthology Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) at two events on Zoom

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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

“Mr. Mischievous at Five” and “Pelham Manor, New York” by Ricker Winsor

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Ricker Winsor has been with Mud Flat Press since 2010 with the publication of his first book, Pakuwon City. We are happy to have two of his stories in Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction). Here is what Ricker has to say about his stories: My contribution to the Mud Flat Press anthology is different from … Read more

The anthology MUD FLAT SHORTS (mostly fiction) is out!

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We are overjoyed to announce the publication of MUD FLAT SHORTS (mostly fiction), a collection of 31 stories by 19 magnificent writers. The stories range from personal memoirs about childhood in New York to the life of a man who was falsely accused of murder and spent fifty years in prison, to science fiction, to … Read more

Me and Malcolm (X)

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          I have wanted to write this for so long, but I get tired of my regrets and my shame of one kind or another. These days I try my best to find some shiny nuggets among the dross but mostly come up empty. I succeed most in looking at the clouds or at the … Read more

Coming Soon: What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic? 1960s Revolution in American Art Revisited

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It was 1970. Abstract-Expressionism had dominated American and world art for almost three decades. For thousands of years before that, art had been pictures on walls and sculptures on pedestals meant to be admired for their beauty. Revolutionary new approaches to art during the 1960s changed all that. Alec Clayton’s graduate thesis with the academic … Read more