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Hobart
Series · 8 books · 2004-2014

Books in series

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#4

Hobart #4

2004

Guest edited by Ryan Boudinot, Hobart #4 features a diverse collection of stories from the absurd to realist, from first time writers to short shorts by Rick Moody and Stephen Elliott. Aimee Bender's "Crew" bookends the issue in two parts, about a devil and skeleton rowing naked families across a lake of fire, inspired by Marcel Dzama's cover art.
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#6

Hobart #6

2006

"Another Literary Journal"
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#9

Hobart 9

The Games Issue

2008

The ninth issue of Hobart: Another Literary Journal. Built around the theme of games, this issue features essays on Magic: The Gathering and Leisure Suit Larry, comics by Jeffrey Brown and Lilli Carré, a roundtable discussion abotu role-playing games, and short stories about nearly everything else game-related.
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#11

Hobart #11

The Great Outdoors

2010

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Hobart #12

2011

Doorless Dispatches by Sean Adams What Can Be Done by Robert Baumann Pulled From the River by Jon Chopan Your Ballad of Milt & Stanley by Brian Evenson & Lily Hoang North Country by Roxane Gay Gregg Fisher's Pontiac Vibe by Debbie Graber Saucer by Karl Taro Greenfeld St. Charles Place by Robin Hemley At Least We've Legs by Jim Henry The Borovsky Circus Goes to Littlefield by Aubrey Hirsch Rockabye by Dave Housley Man Without a Head by Etgar Keret Man Without a Head by Mike Meginnis They Find the Drowned by Melinda Moustakis Wet Leaves by Dylan Nice 4 Nintendo Shorts by Brian Oliu I Was a Math Student by Rob Roensch The View of Heaven From the Moon by Douglas Silver
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#13

Hobart #13

Luck

2012

Lucky Hobart #13 with writing Amy Butcher, Brian Allen Carr, Steve Castro, Jimmy Chen, Ashley Farmer, Tod Goldberg, Amelia Gray, Jac Jemc, Adam Levin, Rolf Potts, Sean Lovelace, M. Owens, Micah Riecker, Shya Scanlon, Curtis VanDonkelaar & Joshua Ware
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#14

Hobart 14

2013

Contents: "The Swimmers" by Andrew Bourelle "Love Among the Lampreys: Comics" by Adrienne Celt "Fire! Fire! Fire!" by Jayson Hawkins "Buff Ruins: An Essay" by Sean Kilpatrick "Afternoon Sex" by Sharanya Manivannan "Steps for Home Tooth Extraction, Berkeley, 2006: An Essay" by Charles McLeod "The Legend of Troy Cartwright" by Patrick Somerville "2 shorts" by Colin Winnette & BUFFALO PRIZE WINNERS (w/ introductions by judge who chose each story): "Baby Baby" by Becky Adnot-Haynes (Mary Miller) "The Bashful Yeti Tree Sculpture" by Courtney Maum (Adam Novy) "Scratch Patrol Presents: The Big Game" by Kate McIntyre & Joe Aguilar (Jess Stoner) "We Shall Fill Our House With Spoil" by Delaney Nolan (Dylan Nice) "El Desierto" by Suzanna Quintana (Karl Taro Greenfeld) "Stromatolites" by Robert James Shaw (Elizabeth Ellen) cover by Hollis Brown Thornton
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Hobart 15

Hotel Culture

2014

Hobart 15: Hotel Culture Includes work by: Annik Adey-Babinski, Becky Adnot-Haynes, Rachael Armstrong, Brett Beach, JL Bogenschneider, James Brubaker, Doug Paul Case, Patrick Coleman, George Djuric, Danielle Etienne, Annelyse Gelman, Katrin Gibb, francine j. harris, Michael Hemmingson, Lori Jakiela, Amy Kurzweil, Maxim Loskutoff, Elizabeth McGuire, Kyle Minor, Jefferson Navicky, David Nutt, Chris Pedler, Jacob Perkins, Woody Skinner, Joel Smith, Janice D. Soderling, Stephen Thomas, Ryan Winet. Additional bonus chapbook includes work by: Elizabeth Ellen, Chelsea Martin (comics), Mary Miller, Dylan Nice.

Authors

Brandi Wells
Brandi Wells
Author · 5 books

Brandi Wells is the author of This Boring Apocalypse, Please Don't Be Upset, and Poisonhorse. Their debut novel, Cleaner, was published by Wildfire Books in August 2023 and is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press in January 2024 as The Cleaner. They teach creative writing at CSU Fullerton and hold a Phd in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Southern California.

Christopher Kennedy
Author · 4 books
Christopher Kennedy is the author of Ennui Prophet, Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, Trouble with the Machine, and Nietzsche's Horse. He is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Steve Himmer
Steve Himmer
Author · 5 books

Steve Himmer is the author of the novels The Bee-Loud Glade, Fram, and Scratch (coming 2016). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Millions, Ploughshares online, Post Road, Los Angeles Review, Hobart, and other anthologies and journals. He edits the webjournal Necessary Fiction teaches at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gabriel Urza
Gabriel Urza
Author · 4 books
Gabriel Urza received his MFA from the Ohio State University. His family is from the Basque region of Spain where he lived for several years. He is a grant recipient from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and his short fiction and essays have been published in Riverteeth, Hobart, Erlea, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, Slate and other publications. He also has a degree in law from the University of Notre Dame and has spent several years as a public defender in Reno, Nevada.
Lydia Conklin
Lydia Conklin
Author · 2 books
Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative Writing Fellowship from Emory University, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Paris Review, One Story, and VQR. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. Last year they served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan and they are currently an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, will be published in May 2022 by Catapult in North America and Scribner in the UK.
Steven Rinella
Steven Rinella
Author · 11 books
Steven Rinella is the host of the Netflix Original series MeatEater and The MeatEater Podcast. He's also the author of six books dealing with wildlife, hunting, fishing and wild game cooking, including the bestselling MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter and Angler.
Gabe Durham
Gabe Durham
Author · 4 books

Gabe Durham is the author of a novel, FUN CAMP, and a book about 90s Christian Nintendo games, BIBLE ADVENTURES. He is the editor of Boss Fight Books. He lives in Los Angeles. http://www.bossfightbooks.com

Matthew Derby
Author · 5 books
Matthew Derby is an American author.
Curtis Dawkins
Author · 2 books
Curtis Dawkins grew up in rural Illinois and earned an MFA in fiction writing at Western Michigan University. He has struggled with alcohol and substance abuse through most of his life and, during a botched home robbery, killed a man on Halloween 2004. Since late 2005, he’s served a life sentence with no possibility of parole in various prisons throughout Michigan. He has three children with his partner, Kim, who is a writing professor living in Portland, Oregon.
Patrick Somerville
Patrick Somerville
Author · 5 books
I'm a fiction writer from Wisconsin, living in Chicago.
Meghan Kenny
Author · 3 books

Meghan Kenny was raised in Connecticut and New Hampshire. She received her BA in English and creative writing from Kenyon College, and her MFA in fiction from Boise State University. She was the 2008-2009 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School, a Bernard O'Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf, a Peter Taylor Fellow at The Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, and has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center and La Muse in France. She has lived in France, Japan, and Peru, and has taught writing and literature to grades 4-12 for Writers in the Schools Program in Idaho, Writers at Harriman, Gerstell Academy, Gilman School, Boise State University, Towson University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Gotham Writers' Workshop online. She currently teaches at Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania. Her stories have appeared in literary journals such as The Gettysburg Review, Cincinnati Review, and Hobart, among others. She was awarded the 2005 Iowa Review Award for her story, "The Driest Season", which was a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and her story "Heartbreak Hotel" won 2nd place in Glimmer Train's 2012 Fiction Open. She has written a novel titled Away Toward Home and a short story collection titled Love is No Small Thing, and is seeking publication for both books.

Scott Garson
Scott Garson
Author · 3 books
Author and editor Scott Garson is from the American Midwest. His first book, American Gymnopédies, is a collection of place-based microfictions. His new book—Is That You, John Wayne?—is a full-length collection of stories. His work has won awards from Playboy, The Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation and Dzanc Books, and been published in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, Hobart, Conjunctions, New York Tyrant and many others. He is the founding editor of the prize-winning journal of very short fiction, Wigleaf. He lives in central Missouri with his wife and two kids.
Peter Markus
Peter Markus
Author · 7 books
Peter Markus is the author of a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as five other books of fiction, the most recent of which is The Fish and the Not Fish, a Michigan Notable Book of 2015. His fiction has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including Chicago Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, among many others. He was awarded a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship in 2012 and has taught for 20 years as a writer-in-residence with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project.
Elise Winn
Author · 1 books
Elise Winn’s stories have been published in American Short Fiction, Hobart, Indiana Review, Granta Online, and elsewhere, and have won awards from magazines such as The Iowa Review, Zoetrope: All Story, and Fairy Tale Review. She was a finalist for the 2012 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize and chosen as runner-up in Black Warrior Review and Third Coast's 2014 fiction contests. In April 2014 she was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook. Raised in Missouri, Elise now lives in California, where she's at work on a collection of short stories, Cloud, Egg, Bird, Box, and a novel.
Bryan Furuness
Bryan Furuness
Author · 6 books

Author of a couple of novels: THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON and DO NOT GO ON. Editor of AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS and MY NAME WAS NEVER FRANKENSTEIN: AND OTHER CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALES REMIXED and co-editor (with Michael Martone) of WINESBURG, INDIANA. Lives in Indy, teaches at Butler, believes that breakfast burritos are the perfect food.

Stefan Kiesbye
Author · 5 books
Stefan Kiesbye has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Born on the German coast of the Baltic Sea, he moved to Berlin in the early 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before starting a degree in American studies, English, and comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. A scholarship brought him to Buffalo, New York, in 1996. Kiesbye now lives in Portales, NM, where he teaches Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and his first book, Next Door Lived a Girl, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award.
Joe Wenderoth
Author · 8 books

Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore. He is the author of No Real Light (Wave Books, 2007), The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self (Verse Press 2005) and Letters to Wendy's (Verse Press 2000). Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000). He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. For more information on this author, go to: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/46-...

Kim Chinquee
Kim Chinquee
Author · 6 books
Kim Chinquee's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The Nation, Ploughshares, Storyquarterly, Indiana Reveiw, Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Fiction, Willow Springs, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. Her collections OH BABY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG and her novel PIPETTE were published by Ravenna Press; her collection of prose poems, PRETTY, was published by White Pine Press. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Buffalo State University, Associate Editor of Midwest Review, Senior Editor of New World Writing and Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)..
Shya Scanlon
Shya Scanlon
Author · 4 books
Shya Scanlon's work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. His book of prose poetry, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in January, 2010. His novel Forecast will be launched by Flatmancrooked on November 15th, 2010. He received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.
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