The novelist “of all men cannot think only of himself or for himself. And when the last page is written and the ink crusts on the pen-point . . . he will be able to say: ’I never truckled, I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn’t like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth; I knew it for the truth then, and I know it for the truth now.’”

~Frank Norris
   World’s Work, October 1901

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Laughing Fire Press invites novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights to share their truths and submit their works for possible publication. For further information, see Submission Guidelines. Laughing Fire Press also invites interested writers to post their work in the Writers’ Gallery and readers to comment on current publications.

Laughing Fire Press is one of many independent presses and groups that are concerned with raising public awareness about the social, political, cultural, economic, and ecological issues in today’s world.

(click to enlarge)New Book Announcement!

Laughing Fire Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of PAY THIS AMOUNT by Daniel Scott, the follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed short-fiction collection, Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning.

DANIEL SCOTT is the recipient of an Artists’ Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has won grants and awards from the MacDowell Colony, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. He lives in New York City.

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