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The NOBODY LEFT TO BLAME fiction anthology features the winning entries from the 2023 Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon team challenge. The collection contains 27 stories chosen from over 100 entries from more than 20 countries. These stories represent a mix of both seasoned and emerging writers whose astonishing and entertaining works present a wide ranging collection of themes from fear to euphoria.

Coalescence by Piper Bringman is a collection of essays and short stories written over the course of a few years. A combination of daydreams, wonderings, nightmares, and school assignments, all compiled into an amalgamation of thoughts. Fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and nonfiction are spread throughout its pages, and, as the book goes on, the short stories begin as young adult, and then move through juvenile fiction into children's tales, to signify taking all of the parts and different moments of a childhood to coalesce them into one. Into the experience of one life and into the experience of now. Every story was picked with intention, creating not just a collection of stories, but a story told by stories.

And that's the funny thing about the end of the world, they never tell you how long it's going to take. Too bad they couldn't be more specific.1ST PLACE - FICTION/HUMOR - PENCRAFT BOOK AWARDS1ST PLACE - AUDIOBOOK - PENCRAFT BOOK AWARDSBRONZE MEDAL - LITERARY FICTION - READERS' FAVORITEFINALIST - LITERARY FICTION - INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDSThe earth's magnetic poles have reversed and civilization has just had its clock reset to the great cosmic flashing 12:00am from almost a million years ago, and humanity, and everybody in it, is pretty much forgetting everything it learned since the last time.Everybody except Hertell Daggett, who remembers pretty much everything because he'd once been shot in the head - the doctors got the bullet out, but missed a few tiny specks of copper that remained, floating inside his brain, connecting him to the things everybody else on earth is slowly forgetting. Hertell sees an opportunity to start civilization all over again, and maybe even get it right this time. What could possibly go wrong?

Game, Guns, and American Infatuation chronicles one woman's hunt for identity as an American woman raised in northern Wyoming at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains where hunting is part of the cultural heritage, and the harsh realities of the landscape make the badlands both literal and figurative. Her journey takes her from Wyoming to Guam to Kansas, but what she discovers is that her terroir remains: We can search for peace or equity. We can hunt for mutual understanding. We can call it whatever we like, but we are all bound by the rules of the game: We must wander this earth as the animals we are.

In The Suffering of Lesser Mammals, acclaimed author Greg Sanders draws the reader into a world of believable absurdity, as individual crises meld with those of the age. Among the thirteen stories in this collection, a young father''s anxiety throws the Earth out of orbit; a bachelor breaks up with his car; a "multivariate correlator" conjures a lonely deity; two sisters are abducted by a cadre of immortal alewives. Wildly inventive, morally wise, and achingly funny, this is the short story as reimagined by a fearless-and fearsome-voice. 

To write the Upsetter Blog, washed-up author Henry Barclay will have to leave behind his adult son Patrick, who has Down Syndrome, and follow the Flak Jackets, a rock band of no renown, on a grueling, months-long nightclub tour for the obscure magazine startup, Upsetter. He's reluctant to take on the assignment, but when Patrick catches the band's act and immediately declares himself their 'Number One Fan, ' Henry sees a chance to redeem himself after decades of clumsy parenting. Setting out from Los Angeles, blasting through the deserts of Southern California and up the West Coast, Henry quickly learns how tough this job will be. He did not expect he would become obsessed with the mystery behind lead singer Jack Hackett's tortured wailing and violent onstage antics. He did not expect he would fall in love with Jack's new girlfriend, Wendy, who's along for the ride.Faced with Jack's hostile stonewalling, struggling to hold back his own feelings for Jack's girl, Henry can only hang on tight and keep writing, filling in the blanks Jack leaves with musings about his own troubled past-and watching in horror as life on the road takes its toll, and Jack's fragile world begins to fall apart."An accomplished, polished, surprisingly moving piece of writing. Brett Marie has a strong sense of the messiness of life, of how things rarely pan out as hoped or planned, and how that can be good, bad or anything in-between. There's tons to admire here."─Gavin Extence, author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods

"A Musical Affair is a novel about divorce, deception, love affairs, expensive secrets, long overdue forgiveness, the power of beautiful music, and just how Celeste, with a little help from some new friends, manages to raise over $300,000 to fund an international music festival and turn her life around. Names have been changed in order to protect some men in the story who should have been ashamed. Sometimes it's not the music that matters, but the money"--

This collection of short stories by Colorado author Carol Samson is about finding a third space, a place of mind that offers time for thought and translation. The narrators in these stories consider "thing theory" and memory and artifacts, especially photographs, observing the way objects and words become metaphors for something else. The narrators listen as things and events "sound" themselves and restructure meanings. This is a collection that searches for correspondences and contemplates absence and explores Virginia Woolf''s idea that nothing is only one thing.

Owl Canyon Press is pleased to announce the winners of the Owl Canyon Press Hackathon #4:FIRST PLACE ($1,000)"The Beauty Way" by Sally Brower SECOND PLACE ($750)"Graveminder" by Tanya Aydelott THIRD PLACE ($500)"Burying the General" by Elana Rubin

A gifted but naïve sculptor from Canada settles in Lake Worth, a neighborhood near Palm Beach, attracted by the palm trees and content to sell his work at a nearby flea market. He''s joined by his brother, who is attracted to Palm Beach by the money. The brother sells three of the sculptor''s pieces through a local art dealer, who creates a market for the work among his wealthy clientele at absurdly inflated prices. When a claim is filed after one of the pieces is stolen, the insurance company''s investigation threatens to expose the dealer''s questionable tactics and his clients'' gullibility.The artist resists temptation and maintains the integrity of his work. He also refuses to create sculptures to order, even if they might fetch far more money than he receives for the pieces he creates for himself. But in an insular world of sordid corruption, where contacts matter more than friendship, money buys acquiescence to corruption, and everything and everyone has a price, he questions the value of his integrity and wonders if he hasn''t deluded himself into thinking that there are more important things in life than money.

The Termination Clause is a comedy about the nature of art, success, and ambition. A young writer of promise is given an advance of sorts to finish his first novel free from outside pressures. An eccentric app millionaire who knew him in high school wants to "invest in the arts," though Randolph J. Simper''s motives become increasingly mysterious as a series of bizarre developments, culminating in the appearance of an assassin, sabotage protagonist Clay Turner. Trying to save his own life, marriage, and reputation while sorting out the mystery, Clay also wishes he''d spent more time reviewing the lengthy original contract, which apparently contained a clause allowing Randolph and three other patrons to purchase life insurance on their investment.After growing up on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa, Tom LaMarr lived and worked in Council Bluffs and Des Moines, then Jacksonville, Florida (where he met his wife), and the District of Columbia. He studied at the University of Iowa Fiction Writers Workshop and has called Colorado home for more than two decades. He is the author of  Geezer Dad as well as two acclaimed novels, October Revolution, and Hallelujah City" and the young adult novel Zero Gravity.

NoLab is a novel with a comic bent; it's a crime story, a buddy "flick," an art world commentary, a love story. NoLab might be what happens when Lethal Weapon is crossed with My Dinner with Andre.Artists Ray Lawson and Victor Florian search for NoLab, a collaborative of artist provocateurs that has gone missing. Their search becomes a romp through the art and ideas of a progressive, conceptually oriented subculture of the art world. They investigate Carter Wilkinson, creator of The Institute (a shadowy, futuristic cultural institution with an unusual collection). Though seemingly inept as detectives, Ray and Victor eventually succeed in finding the members of NoLab. Murder intervenes. Ray, Victor, and NoLab are harassed and threatened by various individuals attempting to dissuade NoLab from implementing its ill-advised plan. From the presumed safety of home, Ray and his newly acquired family watch the gory ramifications of NoLab's self-destructive act unfold in the media.

The 27 Stories fiction anthology features the winning entries from the Winter 2018 Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon challenge. The collection contains 27 stories chosen from over 950 entries, a mix of both seasoned and emerging writers whose astonishing and entertaining works span the wide ranging landcape of emotions from happiness to grief.

The NO BARS AND A DEAD BATTERY fiction anthology features the winning entries from the 2018 Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon challenge. The collection contains 26 stories chosen from over 900 entries, a mix of both seasoned and emerging writers whose astonishing and entertaining works span the wide ranging landcape of emotions from happiness to grief.

Cassidy is a long-haired, Choose Your Own Adventure author and part-time bartender. In an attempt to escape the haunting memory of an abortion, he and his wife Phoenix, a once free-spirited, pot-smoking poet trapped in a job as copywriter for a public relations firm, leave Los Angeles and move to the East Coast. Phoenix can barely function. Cassidy drinks too much and takes refuge in long-distance phone calls with his friend Cliff, still living in Los Angeles. When Cassidy shares his idea for a whiskey jelly donut, Cliff makes it his goal to build a donut franchise. Secretly, he hopes to lure Cassidy and Phoenix back home. Cassidy's childhood friend, the ex-fashion model Aunika, owns a burgeoning artisan donut shop. One afternoon, drunk on chardonnay, she does her best to win Cassidy's heart and derail his marriage. When Phoenix finds out, she leaves her husband and returns to Los Angeles, where Cliff and his brother have partnered with a gang-affiliated drug dealer to raise money for the first "Mustard Brothers Donut Shop" featuring their flagship Whiskey Jelly Donut. Cassidy ends his affair with Aunika, leaving the east coast behind, and reunites with Phoenix. He arrives home to a fresh start with the woman he loves, an eclectic donut shop, and the support, love and booze-infused comradery of his best friends.

A Love story about good bread, good neighbors, and the fickle winds of the mistral. (Recipes included).A chaotic week of mishaps and misunderstandings in Avignon, France. In this light-hearted story of family and love, Madame Reynaud reigns at the helm of her neighborhood. Her daughter Monique, who years ago was maimed by the violent mistral wind, is determined to break free from her mother's tender, yet stifling care. But Madame Reynaud is quite oblivious to her daughter's plan-she is preoccupied with planning Monique's birthday celebration. When Madame Reynaud is tricked into inviting every one of her elderly friends to come to the house on Sunday for the surprise party, she learns that Monique has a surprise of her own. All Madame Reynaud's problems come crashing down at the annual Fete of the Three Kings, when she finds herself in a compromising situation with the baker, Monsieur Boffard. In the end, the Gypsy Queen from the laundry sets the situation straight, for she sees the future and tells Madame Reynaud what she must do-the solution she really knew all along.