Pulp.Net

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Pulp Net is a monthly online literary magazine, which publishes original short fiction. It has published many award-winning writers.

1 Description
2 Contributors
3 Awards
4 Plaudits
5 External links

[edit] Description

Based in London, Pulp Net was founded by Lane Ashfeldt and Alistair Gentry in 2003. Since then, it has published reviews of contemporary fiction, event listings, interviews with fiction authors, and three new short stories every month, many of which are selected from open submissions. The magazine is currently available free to subscribers, and offers payment to all fiction writers whose writing it publishes. It also occasionally holds competitions and workshops with the aim of discovering and nurturing new writers. The site was described by The Guardian as "Cool without being intimidating."^{[citation needed]}. Pulp Net's technology sponsor since 2003 is the web content management company Kitsite. Pulp Net receives funding from the Arts Council England.

[edit] Contributors

Among the contemporary fiction writers whose stories and/or interviews have been featured in Pulp Net are Ali Smith, AL Kennedy, Alisdair Gray, Jon McGregor, Etgar Keret, Peter Hobbs, Nenad Velickovic, Romesh Gunesekera, Nick Hornby, Jeff Noon, Kamila Shamsie, Laura Hird, Joe Ambrose, Erica Wagner, Maggie Gee, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Louise Welsh, Hisham Matar, DBC Pierre and Sarah Salway. Their stories or articles are on the archive pages of the site.

[edit] Awards

Writers published by Pulp Net who have gone on to win writing awards include Simon Lewis, Nicola Monaghan, Lane Ashfeldt, Peter Hobbs, Shiromi Pinto, Etgar Keret, Helen Cross, Alistair Gentry, Shaun Levin, and Nimer Rashed. Pulp Net also published an early story by young American writer Ryan Kennebeck. Ones to watch: Sara Crowley, Harpreet Singh Soorae, Andrew Lloyd-Jones, HP Tinker, Katy Darby, Dominic Murphy, Eoin Flynn.