About Us
We're two older white guys who believe in the power of diversity in literature. We plan to publish a wide range of voices, and perspectives, whether in crime, speculative, or hybrid fiction, a collection of flash or short stories, memoir, or literary non-fiction. We want work that strips story down to its instincts. Give us the primitive urges that modern life pretends to have outgrown, told with contemporary craft.
We're looking for people to join our editorial team. We don't need another older white guy. We have that covered. What we need is someone whose life experience is different than ours, but whose ideas align with us culturally.
Rusty Barnes has edited The Beacon Street Review, Zoetrope: All-Story web-zine, Night Train,a literary journal featured in the Boston Globe, New York Times and on NPR. He also ran Fried Chicken & Coffee, and most recently, Tough, a blogazine of crime fiction and occasional reviews. He's also published sixteen books in the small press.
Since 1986, Michael McInnis has published books and zines. In 1987, he founded the Primal Plunge, Boston's first bookstore dedicated to zines and underground culture. Back then, he published Allen Ginsburg, Charles Bukowski, and Eileen Myles, to name a few. He is also co-founder, designer and factotum of Nixes Mate Review.