Thank you for submitting your work to our open reading period in April. We received hundreds of amazing manuscripts this year; each was thoroughly read & carefully considered. 

We selected three that we will publish in 2011:

Dear Jenny, We Are All Find by Jenny Zhang
The Black Forest by Christopher DeWeese
Conception by Rebecca Farivar

These manuscripts were finalists:

Off to the Nervous Museum by Claire Donato

The Next Monster by Julie Doxsee

I Write to You from the Sea by Laura Eve Engel

Everything Here is Ok by Sasha Fletcher

Power Ballad by Dan Hoy

Early Linoleum by Brenda Iijima

Kingdom of Throat-stuck Luck, by George Kalamaras

The Dottery by Kirsten Kaschock 

Sign You Were Mistaken by Seth Landman

Heart of Palm by Linnea Ogden

Emergency by Caryl Pagel

Lid to the Shadow by Alexandria Peary

The Abilene Paradox by Craig Rebele

Bloom by Rob Schlegel

Parties, by S.E. Smith

Common Birds & Their Songs by Melinda Wilson

Thanks again for submitting & trusting us with your work. It was an honor to read these manuscripts. 

Yours,

Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina

Editors

Octopus Books