Hot Metal Bridge is currently accepting submissions. We encourage your brilliant mistakes and traditional dazzle. We want your ardent efforts, your literate dirt, your genius genre, your preposterous, polished verse. Send us the writing that you like to read and just happened to write — your risks, your revelations, your writing at its finest. [...]

HotMetalBridge #2 is out: Headless. Check out my interview with Daphne Gottlieb. What else is in there? Well, here’s what Carolyn Kellogg has to say: It includes: new fiction by Tod Goldberg! and Jack Pendarvis! an interview with Kevin Moffett! new nonfiction by Roy Kesey! an essay by Brian Evenson! new poetry by Christopher Bakken [...]

On Monday, George Saunders came to Pitt. I went to a Q&A session after lunch, asked him about what it was like to transition from fiction to nonfiction. He answered that he felt as though he was holding back the punches in nonfiction. The people were real, so it wasn’t so easy to be biting [...]