Suss: another literary journal

Fictionaut​.Com

by William Walsh

November 2009

Fictionaut is fast becom­ing one of the most inter­est­ing online repos­i­to­ries for great short sto­ries from new and estab­lished writ­ers. Though it is pri­mar­ily a venue for writ­ers to net­work and for jour­nals to engage with their read­ers, they are also post­ing fresh writer-related con­tent almost daily in the form of inter­views, fea­tures, guest blog­gers, and ultra-fresh lit news in the form of Tweets and Facebook updates.

A recent edi­to­r­ial from John Minichillo, a mem­ber of Fictionaut’s Board of Advisors, serves as a great intro­duc­tion to Fictionaut’s beau­ti­ful new world. He takes the long-view, plac­ing Fictionaut in the con­text of “an ongo­ing writer’s renais­sance” that he dates at ”about one hun­dred years.” He sees a con­flu­ence of tech­nol­ogy and events in the pub­lish­ing indus­try that have posi­tioned Fictionaut to pro­vide a plat­form for those who have “devoted (their) lives to writ­ing (to enjoy) the priv­i­lege of being read.”