margaret patton chapman

writing and teaching, teaching and writing

http://games.ucla.edu/game/escape-from-spiderhead/

2 months ago

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

George Saunders.  Tenth of December: Stories

Hold My Horses-Chris Bower: The Ray's Tap Reading Series presents: Manners Please

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“I believe the knowledge of the rules of living in our society makes us more comfortable…[although] some of the rudest and most objectionable people I have ever known have been technically the most correct.” Amy Vanderbilt 1952

“No Drink, No Piss. And don’t piss on my fucking steps. Go in…
3 months ago - 7

Interview with Melissa Goodrich at the Collagist Blog

3 months ago

from popmatters.com review of The Way We Sleep.

“By a wide margin, the best piece is Margaret Patton Chapman’s “Most of All I Wish I’d Said, If You Come Back, Don’t Come Back to Me”. Chapman’s story is built on a simple premise—ex-boyfriend dies, ex-boyfriend comes back as a ghost—but Chapman flies across the spectrum of emotions, from humility to ridiculousness before finally ending on the sublime. It’s the kind of short story that cements itself in your memory and alters your vision of the present, something only the best short fiction can do.”

“Lost In The Forest” by Elsa Mora

“Lost In The Forest” by Elsa Mora

Word Riot likes me

I’m not sure who updates the blog over there, but they love the excerpt of my story “Most of All I Wish I’d Said if You Come Back, Don’t Come Back to Me”  in The Nervous Breakdown.  Which is very, very awesome.

My story The Plan, in The Collagist

4 months ago - 3

Actually, The Way We Sleep is Out Now

The long awaited anthology came out at the end of December.

4 months ago

The Way We Sleep anthology comes out in August

I am very excited

11 months ago