“Looking for the next Kurt Vonnegut.”
Flying Island is an online literary journal published by the Indiana Writers Center – a nonprofit educational center in Indianapolis. Executive Director Barb Shoup talks with Reader’s Radar about how the Center supports writers around the Central Indiana region – support which includes a broad range of classes, a conference and a newsletter, as well as publishing Flying Island and special anthologies.
Barb Shoup — Writer, teacher and Executive Director of the Indiana Writers’ Center.
Pyramid Scheme
Our recommended short fiction from Flying Island is “Pyramid Scheme,” by Jim Powell – the founding Director of the Indiana Writer’s Center and a driving pioneer of the Indianapolis writers’ community. In “Pyramid Scheme,” a laborer discovers he shares a certain passion with his uber-wealthy client – which puts a sinister edge to paint and concrete.
Jim Powell
Jim Powell holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and is retired from teaching creative writing at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). He founded the non-profit Writers’ Center of Indianapolis (now the Indiana Writers Center) and served as its director from 1979-99. His fiction has recently been published in Bartleby Snopes, Crack the Spine, Flying Island, Storyscape, and Fiction Southeast.
Willem McArthur
Our second story is “Willem McArthur,” by James Matthew Lee Wilson. In it, a young man’s journey out of a troubled youth takes an uncanny turn.
James Matthew Lee Wilson.
James Matthew Lee Wilson is a writer from Southern Colorado who pursues words and phrases down dusty dirt roads and dark starlit highways. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and son.
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