Two New Stories!  Read
"Trampoline" by JESSICA HOLLAR and
"Tuesday Night Figure Drawing at the Community Center"
by DIANA SMITH BOLTON


"Closed for Business"
8 Photographs by DAVID J. THOMPSON


Listen to ANNE CAMMON FIERO read
"Satellite Dish"
by RICK ROFIHE


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BOYS who DO the BOP
Nine New Yorker Stories by RICK ROFIHE
Whiting Award Winner!

New Poems by:  
JENNIFER ELIZABETH SAUNDERS!
HAYLEY BOYD!


"They had never been married, but they had been happy..."
"Pregnant" — a short story by EENA RUFFINI


"What I Did Last Summer"  Black Mountain College, 1948
a Memoir by SYLVIA ASHBY


Read "Cutting Through" — a poem by KENDRA KOPELKE

Teenaged mothers...  "Always in Season"
"fact" by JENNIFER KOVELAN


What an Anderbo tote bag looks like...

Need money from Pop?  Read "Dings" by WAYNE CONTI here
and/or listen to it via MyAudioUniverse here

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Time to change your password? (Again?)
Read "Beginning Again With zer0" — Fiction by NATANYA ANN PULLEY


Poem by MERITA LJUBANOVIC :  "My Mother Is a Muslim"

"Iggy Pop remembered my name..."
Memoir Excerpt:
  "The Perfect Groupie" by ROBIN MALTZ


"My Sister Bags Groceries" — a "fact" by ALEXANDRA TANNER

Marilyn Monroe? As you've never seen her!
Read "How Do You Feel About Modernity?"

An Anderbo Essay — by JUSTIN WOLF

FRED FRANCO: (Re)Born on the Fourth of July (Photographs)

Anderbo At Home (A Trailer by Thomas Beller)

Number 1 on the Anderbo Short Story Hit Parade!
"How James Franco Became My Boyfriend" by CAROLYN SILVEIRA

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture? Our Most-Read Story!
"The Rules of Urban Living" by KARA JANECZKO


Now — the first chapter!  Read an Excerpt from "MY GARDEN"
A novel-manuscript by THOMAS CREGAN

4 Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalists Published:
ERIN WOOD!  ROB LAVENDER!
LISA SHANNON!  SUZANNE ROBERTS!


Anderbo Twitter here!

Announcing the Winner of the
2015-2016 No-Fee RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest:

TISA for "The Runaway" — read it here.


16 SNAPSHOTS
Anderbo Almost-Spring Reading
@ Rouge et Blanc Restaurant,
48 MacDougal Street, NYC
March 18th, 2013


A Living Legend of British Rock'n'Roll!
"Wee Willie Harris" by TONY RICKABY


Jane Fonda!  Lee Marvin!  Nat "King" Cole!
CARMIEL BANASKY Recalls and Reviews CAT BALLOU


A bridge to Algeria?  Read "Photographs of a Girl"—
an Anderbo "fact" by SAMIA BOUZID


Even for profound philosophers, literacy has its limitations...
Read "If Wittgenstein Had Been an Eskimo"
an essay by EDMUND CARPENTER


F for Fake— a film by Orson Welles
Reviewed by TREVOR LAURENCE JOCKIMS


See "Ruins"— a photo essay by ERIK SATHER

Celebrate National Novella Month with
We Were There and Now We're Here
by KAYLA SOYER-STEIN


2012 Anderbo Poetry Prize
Judged by Sidney Wade    Contest Assistant: Charity Burns
Winner Announced!  MARGAUX GRIFFITH for "Apple Galette"
Honorable Mentions (3):
GRACE MARIE GRAFTON for "Rising"
LELAND JAMES for "What God in This Forest Dwells"
JULIE STUCKEY for "The Student"


Fiction Photo Feature!
"When My Grandpa Worked in Kazakhstan"
by KATARINA HYBENOVA


Ivan Turgenev!  Edmund Wilson!  The New Yorker!
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy!  Rick Rofihe!
Read "The Life-Giving Drop" via our Anderbo links-list...


Academy Award Nominee!
Film Review:  ELIZABETH ZIMMER looks at
Wim Wenders' 3-D take on the life and work of Pina Bausch


Novel-Manuscript Excerpt!  "FRAGMENTS" by LARRY SHAPIRO

"Prenuptial"— a story from the collection Girls in Trouble
by DOUGLAS LIGHT


Announcing the Winner of the
2012 Open City Magazine No-Fee RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest:

MARTHA CLARKSON for "Her Voices, Her Room" — read it here.


The 2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award
WINNER ANNOUNCED:
Robert Flatt for RICE'S OWLS
Full Contest Results here


A BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS "Notable Essay"
LAURIE STONE:  "Sex at 58 (Marco's Jew)"


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Anderbo a poor man's New Yorker? (Duotrope interview)

"A Dog Story"— Fiction by ELISSA SCHAPPELL from
BLUEPRINTS FOR BUILDING BETTER GIRLS (Simon & Schuster)
"...wise, sexy, funny, and fathoms-deep..." — Booklist


The Poetry Foundation + The Library of America present:
Seven Poems by SAMUEL MENASHE

Read "Cojimar"— a short story by ANA MENENDEZ
from her Grove/Atlantic collection
Adios, Happy Homeland


2011 Anderbo Poetry Prize
Judged by Debora Greger
Winner Announced!  SUSAN COHEN for "Their Voices"
Honorable Mention:  CASEY CHARLES for "She Dreams for Me"

Contest Assistant: Charity Burns

From New York to L.A., from L.A. to New York...
Read "Transcontinental"—a short story by ERIKA SWYLER


Book Review—THE ASTRAL: A Novel by Kate Christensen
(Doubleday/Random House)   By CAROLYN SILVEIRA


Sound of Mind? Sound of Body?
Sonora Review on Anderbo's Case...


SARAH GARDNER BORDEN's Novel Games to Play After Dark
"...reveals the real mess our expectations and desires
can get us into." —Bobbie Ann Mason   Read an excerpt here.


Read the 2010 OPEN CITY RRofihe Trophy
Short Story Contest Winner:

"The Wrong Heaven" by AMY BONNAFFONS


"I was a man of principles..."  Read "The Far Side of the Moon"
from the Story Collection I KNEW YOU'D BE LOVELY
by ALETHEA BLACK (Broadway Books/Random House)


Photoessay by NATASHA STAGG:  "First Day in Berlin"

A "fact" for All Seasons:  "Snow" by LISA MARGONELLI

Anderbo's Second Essay Ever!
"Towards a Sublime Pineapple"  by ELEANOR STANFORD


"Brooklyn"— an OPEN CITY Magazine story by WAYNE CONTI

Anderbo 2011 No-Fee Novel Contest/
The Mercer Street Books Fiction Prize Winner Announced!
DORETTE SNOVER for "THE CITY OF LADIES"


Freud's Blind Spot, a book by Elisa Albert
(Free Press/Simon & Schuster) reviewed by GABRIELLE MITCHELL-MARELL

Open City 2011 RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest Results—
Read the Winning Story "A Pair of Soup" by JL SCHNEIDER here

Bedbugs?  Read "Woken" by LACONIA KOERNER

Miranda July on Kuzhali Manickavel's short stories:
"I can't shake the feeling that I know this woman,personally—like we hung out
at a party or something. But I don't, and we didn't. She's just that good."

Read "Everyone Does Integral Calculus" by KUZHALI MANICKAVEL

"Anderbo stories are perfect for a
quick coffee break in your cubicle."

—esquire.com

Maria Modrovich! Aziz Friedrich! Jennifer Hanks! Lauren Waterman! More!
Pictures from the Anderbo.com Spring 2011 KGB NYC Reading
via Electic Literature's Katarina Hybenova


It's Super Mario's 37th Birthday!
Read "Sleepover"— a poem by KENDRA VANDERVALK

(Faculty) Sex on Campus?  Read  "And So My Mother Told Me"
An Excerpt from the Novel-Manuscript "The Memoirist"
by LISA KUNIK

2010 Anderbo Poetry Prize
Judged by Linda Bierds
Winner Announced: JENDI REITER for "Bullies in Love"
Honorable Mentions: JAMES K. ZIMMERMAN; THEA S. KUTICKA
Contest Assistant: Charity Burns


"My Accidental AA Meeting"
An Excerpt from the Novel-Manuscript "Anonymous"
by ANNA LISA McCLELLAND

Susan Breen's Anderbo Story "Triplet" included in
Dave Eggers' BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2009

+ Read Her Interview with Anderbo Editor Rick Rofihe HERE

Photography:  JAMES FREY'S DOGS

"Tortilla Dreams"— an excerpt from the Grove Press novel
A Glass of Water by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

Our most popular "fact":  "Letter to Maeve" by DONAL THOMPSON

Nonfiction Feature by NICHOLAS KINNI—"An Open Window: Peru"

Read an Excerpt from the Novel
Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
by MARGOT BERWIN (Pantheon Books/Random House)

"... a shameless guilty pleasure...." —Elle Magazine

anderbo.com "Best New Online Journal"
—storySouth Million Writers Award
MORE ABOUT ANDERBO!

The 2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize Winner:
NANCY K. PEARSON for "Prairies"—read it here...
Judged by William Logan    Contest Assistant: Charity Burns

Would the Utah pills mean Massachusetts sex?
Read Nantucket Newspaper—a 6-Chapter Novelette
by CHARITY SHUMWAY

Nonfiction Feature:
"Working for the Living" by MIRA PTACIN (Photos by ERIKA PREUSS)

2008 Anderbo Poetry Prize Results!
Judge: KIM WALLER


SABRA LOOMIS: Three Poems from her Book
House Held Together by Winds (Harper Perennial)


The Great Vegetarian Novel Manuscript!
BOCO DELI DAYS (excerpt)  by ANDRE MEDRANO

2007 Anderbo Poetry Prize Results!
Judge: ELIZABETH ZIMMER


Book Excerpt!   A Peculiar Grace    A Novel by JEFFREY LENT
from Atlantic Monthly Press


anderquiz: Read a Story, Win a Prize!
"Island" by ERIKA RECORDON

Vera Long was born in 1924 and you (probably) weren't.
Read her 2006 Anderbo Poetry Prize-winning poems here.


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