PAPER HERO PRESS

2011-02-20T15:22:00.003-05:00

ABOUT US

Please understand first and foremost that we exist for you, the readers and writers. We are dedicated to publishing and promoting literature that doesn't have that sickening pretentious smell to it. We like primal, sharp, things that breathe, that live all by themselves, that defy physics and gravity and the speed of sound and become what they were destined to become. We like to read things that force us to react physically and spiritually. We want to read things that climb off the page and bore deep into our brains and spawn... Yeah, we know.

So that's that, please read over the guidelines and send us your best work. Thank you.

SUBMISSIONS

UPDATE

Sorry folks, we are way way behind in reading submissions, so if you submitted recently, you're manuscript will get read, it's just gonna take awhile. Sorry. Guidelines are below.

We are temporarily closed to everything other than chapbook length collections and full length collections of things that are messy and do not fit comfortably within a specific genre.

Elecronic submissions only:
PaperHeroPress@yahoo.com

What we do:
Full length novels, short story collections, undefineable things.

We also publish 4-6 chapbooks, collectively in one 120-180 page full length collection.

What we look for in a chapbook:
Flash fiction, prose poems, 2-3 cohesive short stories. 25 - 30 pages. If your chapbook does not fall into any of these three categories, please do not submit it. We will not read it and say 'wow this guy is brilliant, we're gonna go ahead and bend the guidelines and change what we do for him.' So please, flash fiction, prose poems, or 2-3 cohesive short stories.

We think this is enough information. We don't want the guidelines too rigid. We want to see what you got. We want you to bring it. Please do not send queries, just send us what you got.

If you have additional questions please send them to the email address above.

REVELATIONS: A PURGATORY PREVIEW. FREE PROMO CD. PETER SCHWARTZ

2011-02-20T15:10:00.009-05:00

PETER SCHWARTZ
REVELATIONS: A PURGATORY PREVIEW
FLASH COMEDY
9 AUDIO TRACKS

REVELATIONS: A PURGATORY PREVIEW
　
1. Late money
2. Fake karate
3. Tranny shenanigans
4. Testicle dispute
5. Hostile hypnosis takeover attempt
6. Anal meaning
7. Bullshit story
8. Bed time story
9. The unofficial guide to using time travel to avoid being molested

This FLASH COMEDY cd is available for free with the purchase of any DOGZPLOT / PAPER HERO PRESS / ACHILLES CHAPBOOK / PETER SCHWARTZ / BARRY GRAHAM title. Just shoot us an email and forward the receipt and it's all good baby baby.

Here's what people have been saying about PETER SCHWARTZ and his poetry, prose, art, and comedy:

The first time I met Peter Schwartz I was scheduled to follow him at a reading and he went from reciting poetry to belting out a quite emotional rendition of "Amazing Grace". My first thought was, what a f**ker, I’m supposed to follow that? My second thought though was this guy may be a f**ker, but he’s definitely my kind of f**ker and I need to get to know him. What has since transpired are a series of e-mails that have confirmed my initial suspicions. Peter Schwartz is a funny, talented, pop-culture spewing dude who is maybe just a little f**ked-up. He is also someone you need to know…Peter himself, is wonderful and heavy, in love with words and endlessly searching to make better sense of confinement and loss and their impact on his life.”
– Ben Tanzer, author of You Can make Him Like You, This American Life, and My Father’s House

“Peter Schwartz’s poems collect our hard-won confessions, our fragile constructions, our temporary homes and our more permanent losses, but not for the purpose of hoarding them away. Instead, Schwartz organizes these obsessions into new structures–complex and beautiful poems–inviting us to experience their transformations.”
- Matt Bell, author of How They Were Found, and The Collectors

Throughout the proceedings, Schwartz presents a host of lonely, psychologically damaged characters, all of whom seek comfort in the company of others yet, tragically, lack the capacity to connect in a meaningful way.
- Marc Schuster, Small Press Review, and author of The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Party Girl

“…at times it’s almost as if Schwartz’s pen is spilling out of control, words all-a-tumble but it’s very tightly written, giving the sequence a powerful sense of cohesion, unifying the narrator’s concern across the series… Nowhere does the language feel contrived or artificial. Schwartz’s manner of naming illustrates the immanence, plurality and many contradictions inherent within the nature of divinity, sometimes unusual and surprising but always appropriate.”
- Alan Garvey, Gloom Cupboard

LISTEN TO REVELATIONS NOW

OH YEAH. WE WENT THERE BITCHES... THE WRONG HEAVEN, THE RIGHT HELL. PETER SCHWARTZ

2011-02-20T05:11:00.008-05:00

PETER SCHWARTZ

THE WRONG HEAVEN, THE RIGHT HELL

FLASH COMEDY

33 DIGITAL AUDIO TRACKS

PETER SCHWARTZ has unleashed his debut flash comedy CD, THE WRONG HEAVEN, THE RIGHT HELL. It includes 33 tracks of...

THE WRONG HEAVEN, THE RIGHT HELL
　
1. another suburban disturbance call
2. fake birth
3. rubik’s
4. missing limb recovery scam
5. spider pink elephant trip
6. penis shape
7. sexual distraction
8. heartfucker
9. the beaver keeper
10. the invincibility of drug mules
11. half deaf, twice fucked
12. 15% happier
13. the lion’s den
14. bird fight
15. chuck liddell
16. 911 endorsement ad
17. superhero regrets
18. restaurant murder
19. hotdog hail mary
20. peg in the hole
21. serial killer invitation
22. $5000 wife
23. closed hospitals
24. private quarantine
25. campus security call log
26. the outer zone of parenting
27. let’s get retarded
28. intoxicated soldier
29. gorilla cage
30. 5 point system
31. the stink of death
32. kill him off
33. funny outro

Here's what people have been saying about PETER SCHWARTZ and his poetry, prose, art, and comedy:

The first time I met Peter Schwartz I was scheduled to follow him at a reading and he went from reciting poetry to belting out a quite emotional rendition of "Amazing Grace". My first thought was, what a f**ker, I’m supposed to follow that? My second thought though was this guy may be a f**ker, but he’s definitely my kind of f**ker and I need to get to know him. What has since transpired are a series of e-mails that have confirmed my initial suspicions. Peter Schwartz is a funny, talented, pop-culture spewing dude who is maybe just a little f**ked-up. He is also someone you need to know…Peter himself, is wonderful and heavy, in love with words and endlessly searching to make better sense of confinement and loss and their impact on his life.”
– Ben Tanzer, author of You Can make Him Like You, This American Life, and My Father’s House.

“Peter Schwartz’s poems collect our hard-won confessions, our fragile constructions, our temporary homes and our more permanent losses, but not for the purpose of hoarding them away. Instead, Schwartz organizes these obsessions into new structures–complex and beautiful poems–inviting us to experience their transformations.”
- Matt Bell, author of How They Were Found, and The Collectors.

Throughout the proceedings, Schwartz presents a host of lonely, psychologically damaged characters, all of whom seek comfort in the company of others yet, tragically, lack the capacity to connect in a meaningful way.
- Marc Schuster, Small Press Review, and author of The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Party Girl

“…at times it’s almost as if Schwartz’s pen is spilling out of control, words all-a-tumble but it’s very tightly written, giving the sequence a powerful sense of cohesion, unifying the narrator’s concern across the series… Nowhere does the language feel contrived or artificial. Schwartz’s manner of naming illustrates the immanence, plurality and many contradictions inherent within the nature of divinity, sometimes unusual and surprising but always appropriate.”
- Alan Garvey, Gloom Cupboard

I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT / SAM PINK

2008-08-03T14:21:00.023-04:00

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"I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT"

sam pink

a few excerpts from CLONE:

"On the way to the mailbox today, I slipped on some ice and almost hit my eye on a tree branch. I regained my balance and continued on. The guy walking behind me laughed. He had every right to laugh because it was funny and he had no tie to the physical pain I could've experienced. However, if I had lost my eye, I would've walked up to him and held him down in the snow—and let the blood from my empty eyesocket spill into his laughing mouth. My mail was mostly crap about credit cards that I will never use."

"Today at the library, I walked up to someone sleeping in a chair and I gently shook her. She looked up at me through the hair covering her face. I put my hand on her forehead and said, “My child, you will not be forgotten by me, your holy father, the one who loves you and cleans you with the fleece of his chosen lambs. You will know my infinite love. And can I borrow eighty cents so I can buy a kit kat from that vending machine over there please?”

what people are saying about CLONE:

Blake Butler (editor of Lamination Colony and No Colony. Author of EVER from Calamari Press):

"Sam Pink exists in all things. Sam Pink's tremor is threaded through the dark sections of scenes in the first Back to the Future, the sections we generally think of as 'night.' Sam Pink gored his way to the center of the child Russell Edson and ate all the beautiful / smart / wicked / fucked / riotous / smarmy / unconditional parts about him, then went to incubate and redouble. Sam Pink absorbed the passing souls of Andy Kaufman, Anton LaVey, Klaus Kinski and Shel Silverstein and fried them in his mother's blood. When Sam Pink emerged he wasn't crying, but everyone in the hospital was, tears of whiskey, liquid gold and smegma, and within seconds of his first breath, all our Bibles were ripped in half, prefiguring this book here, this tumor, this thing that should not have a name. It is no exaggeration to say now, with a mouth full of blood, that Sam Pink is dire, is hilarious, is chewing up our future."

Sam Pink's neighbor:

"Look, I did what you said. I bought your shitty book. Now stop trying to light my dog on fire."

God:

"Sam, my son, I have heard your prayers and no, you can't 'like, totally drill Katie Couric.' Also, I regret creating you. This book made me lose faith in myself."