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The new issue of Shaking is out now. It features work by Curtis Smith, Kristopher Jansma, Travis Kurowski, Emma Briant, Jennifer Taylor, Dana Staves, Anna Mavromati, Cameron Cook, Alexander Freeman, Patty Somlo, Susan Grier, Eric Ramseier, Stephen Hartunian, David Beckman, Jim Johnston, Traci Parks, Patrick Ross, and Bitsy Sanders. You can currently grab a copy [...]
This is a guest post by CalebJRoss (also known as Caleb Ross, to people who hate Js) as part of his Stranger Will Tour for Strange blog tour. He will be guest-posting beginning with the release of his novel Stranger Will in March 2011 to the release of his second novel, I Didn’t [...]
After months of empty promises and subtle allusion, we’ve finally done it. Here is Shaking Intensified: Best Prose 2007-2010. This anthology covers some of the best prose writing from our online-only years and marks our first venture into print. It also celebrates the end of an era, as we transition from Shaking [...]
In January of 2007, Shaking Like a Mountain was born in a small Mexican restaurant in Shadyside, Pittsburgh on the idea that music and literature are intimately connected. Within months we set up a site, began accepting submissions and later that year, July, released the first issue. We’ve grown over the years, eventually [...]
That’s right, we’ve rested up, done some planning for the future, and opened submissions once again. But before you go rushing over to the submissions page, first read a bit about what the future holds for our little magazine. For starters, you may have noticed that we’ve expanded the scope of daily content on [...]
Memo from Mr. Don- Don’t have any particularly flash things to say as 2010 draws to a close, except that after 3.5 years of bringing literature about music to our cult of devotees we’re ready to hike the vision, scope and, hopefully, reach of our collective energy up a different kind of mountain in [...]
We’re extending the deadline for the 2010 Fiction Open until Sunday, November 7. Why you ask? Because we won’t rest until we know we’ve seen every good piece of fiction inspired by song. Also, long time fans know the editors here have a strange obsession with David Bowie, who, in 1973 retired from [...]
Neela Vaswani, prize-winning fiction writer and author of the multi-genre memoir You Have Given Me A Country, writes “Here are brief encounters that sprout generations; split seconds of ruin; sudden migrations, lust, and strife. These pieces remind us to cling to life’s lessons with grace and humor.”
Guest Judge Janice Eidus is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her short fiction has won two O.Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and a Redbook Prize…
-We accept all genres of literary fiction as long as stories are related to the theme of music.
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