William Matthew McCarter, whose story “The Next First Day of the Rest of My Life” can be found in Midwestern Gothic Issue 3 (Fall 2011), has recently released the textbook, Homo Redneckus: On Being Not Qwhite In America (Algora Publishing, available here at Amazon).

Jeff Kass, whose pieces “Buzzard Beater” and “Witness a Boy, Ten Years old” can be found in Midwestern Gothic Issue 5 (Spring 2012), has been selected as a finalist for the Independent Press Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011 Award (for Knuckleheads, published by Dzanc Books).