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. We are especially interested in playwright submissions at this time.

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Gulls Hold Up the Sky(click to enlarge)

Laughing Fire Press is pleased to announce the publication of Gulls Hold Up the Sky: Poems 1983–2010 by J. Patrick Lewis, an accomplished poet whose poems have been published in many poetry journals, including The Gettysburg Review, American Literary Review, The Adirondack Review, Spoon River Quarterly, and Santa Barbara Review. This collection of serious and light verse does what poetry is expected to do: challenge and move the reader to confront his/her own feelings, perceptions, and experiences of being alive.

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