The new kid-on-the-block webzine Dirty Noir, which publishes weekly short fiction, serialized novellas and quarterly guest-edited collections, is seeking submissions of stories 1,500 words and under for its first Dollar Dreadfuls' Dirty Noir Quarterly in October. You can find more about submission details here. But hurry, because the deadline is Thursday, September 15, 2011.
Also new are the The Bullet Awards, which reward original, free short crime fiction stories from web zines. Stories are judged by an anonymous panel of crime fiction experts and handed out monthly. The July results were:
- Winner: "Nobody" by Grigori Black (Dirty Noir)
- 2nd Place: "A Felicitous End" by Margaret D. Whittle (Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers)
- 3rd Place: "Smoke" by Trey R. Barker (Shotgun Honey)
- Honorable Mention: "The Run" by Dana C. Kabel (Powder Burn Flash)
- Honorable Mention: "One-Sided Conversation" by Ryan Sayles (Shotgun Honey)
You can get a sneak peak of the Film Noir Foundation's quarterly electronic magazine, Noir City (formerly the Noir City Sentinel), due out soon, with a cover article on Robert Ryan. While you're on the web site, check out articles from the current issue, including one on Raymond Burr, who made a career as menacing noir villain before he landed the Perry Mason role on TV.
Congratulations to the nominees announced this past weekend for the annual T. Jefferson Parker Book Award for Mystery & Thrillers, presented by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association:
- The Sentry by Robert Crais (Putnam)
- San Diego Noir edited by Maryelizabeth Hart (Akashic Books)
- Savages by Don Winslow (Simon & Schuster)
- The Informant by Thomas Perry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
If you read this blog regularly, you're already aware of the wonderful weekly feature Friday's Forgotten Books by Patti Abbott (with another installment due tomorrow), but Todd Mason also has a regular Tuesday feature on his Sweet Freedom blog. Titled "Tuesday's Overlooked Films," it brings you a nice slate of movies you might not have heard about, many of them crime dramas, but not all. It's worth checking out.
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