Congratulations to Bruce Boston and Lee Ballentine, whose story “Wasp Light” (Farrago’s Wainscot, Issue 10), was honorably mentioned in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year. Additional congratulations to Bruce, whose poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Vulture” (Farrago’s Wainscot, Issue 11), was also honorably mentioned.

Congratulations to Forrest Aguirre, whose short story, “The Non-Epistemological Universe of Emmaeus Holt,” (first published in Farrago’s Wainscot, Issue 11) is listed as one of The storySouth Million Writers Award
Notable Stories of 2009.

Charles Tan gave the final issue of Farrago’s Wainscot (Issue 12) an honorable mention (category, Best Single-Issue Magazine) for his 2009 Bibliophile Stalker Awards.

Much obliged, Charles—thanks for reading.

Rich Horton positively reviews the ‘09 year at Farrago’s Wainscot.

As ever, we appreciate his thoughts.

“Wasp Light,” by Bruce Boston and Lee Ballentine (FW 10), will appear in the forthcoming The Anthology of Dark Wisdom. Why not preorder a copy of the book?

The final issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is now live. This issue features fiction by Rae Bryant, Becca De La Rosa, Paul Jessup, Eden Robins, S. Boyd Taylor, and Jonathan Wood. Poets this month include Jared Walls, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Lynn Pattison, and Bruce Boston. Additionally, our final issue features a non-fiction essay by Jonathan Wood.

Those of us behind Farrago’s Wainscot wish to thank you all for your interest, readership, and support these past three years.

Farrago’s Wainscot will cease operations following the release of its twelfth issue (the final issue of our third year) on October 1. We will close to submissions on September 1.

Those of us behind Farrago’s Wainscot wish to thank our many contributors for sharing their work with us. Further, we wish to thank our readers, who have come from a variety of reading backgrounds and who have spent so much time exploring the questions of narrative, plot, characterization, and format that have so captivated the Farrago’s Wainscot staff since the journal’s inception. Without the support of those who donated money during our three years of operation, Farrago’s Wainscot would not have existed for as long as it has. We encourage you to seek out new projects in need of your support.

There are many reasons behind this closure. Among them, of course, is cost. While our operating budget is comparatively small, the realities of offering free online literature while yet compensating our contributors have made the project unsustainable. We also feel that Farrago’s Wainscot has accomplished what we set out to accomplish–namely, providing an internet audience with fiction, poetry, and experimental wordforms that challenge general conceptions about form and offer readers new perspectives through which to view other literatures. We never envisioned a particular “run” for Farrago’s Wainscot—instead, we approached each year’s exhibition as a fresh project. We are pleased to have successfully offered three such years, which will remain available online through (at least) 2010.

We will, instead, direct our energies to new Farrago projects. Most primary among them is Farrago’s F.M.I., where we will offer our internet audience an entirely new perspective on “weird literature.” F.M.I. will ask new questions about fiction vs. nonfiction, real vs. unreal, and author vs. audience. In the tradition of Farrago’s Wainscot, Farrago’s F.M.I. will continue to create opportunities for both established and aspiring writers. In the interim, we invite you to follow Farrago’s F.M.I. as it exists now, presenting blog-like items of weird-interest.

In addition, Farrago Press will soon begin full operation, bringing readers the fiction and nonfiction they’ve come to expect from the Farrago Enterprise, only in print format.

We look forward to our new directions, and we will share further details about Farrago’s future in the coming months.

Appreciatively,
The Farrago’s Wainscot staff