StorySouth's Million Writer's Award, March
2005
Congratulations to Steve Berman and Sean Meriwether. Their stories
were selected for the Million Writers Award for top online short
stories of 2004. A group of 100 stories were chosen from a pool
of 1,200 nominations. For more information, visit StorySouth's
Million Writer's Award.
Read "The Eater of Elevation" by Steve
Berman
Read "Rumford's
Fluid" by Sean Meriwether
From Fleshbot, March 21, 2005
Velvet Mafia bills itself as “Dangerous Queer Fiction”,
which translates to a choice selection of truly hot erotic stories
and sexy photographs in every issue—and their latest, “Army
Of Me”, is one of their best efforts so far. We’re
not so sure about the “dangerous” part, but we do
know we came across several offers we couldn’t refuse.
From Out
Magazine,
Dec 2004
Greg Wharton: He's the prolific enfant terrible behind Suspect
Thoughts Press, which this year published seven new books
and the online "journal of subversive writing" also
called Suspect
Thoughts. In addition, Wharton oversaw the queer fiction
website VelvetMafia.com ("Love the
Sin, Fuck the Sinner")
and authored a new tome of erotica. And still he found time to
say "I do" to Ian Philips, his coeditor on I
Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage.
From
Xodus Magazine, Feb-Mar 2004
So you want
to write stories with more plot than stroke? Go surf Velvet Mafia
(www.velvetmafia.com), one of the hottest literary-erotic fiction
magazines online. Celebrating VM's second anniversary this November,
editors Sean Meriwether and Greg Wharton showcase some of the
most cutting edge queer writers around.
VM's plan is to serve as a resource for alternative queer writers
to promote their work. So while your waiting around for your
porn to download, try reading a short story or two. Some of the
stuff is quite good, and the editors also accept poetry and novel
entries for those whose prose is more advanced.
Article by Steve Berman
From
Unzipped Magazine, Aug 2002
David
Geffen Has Nothing To Do With It
Some of the best short fiction can be fairly brutal on the
sensibilities. Mix in an element of gay erotica with taboo subjects
and you've got The Velvet Mafia. 'My Boyfriend Daniel' by Christopher
Lucas follows an obsessive stalker; 'Aroma', a particularly brutal
tale of rape and bondage by Robert X Weaver, might be tough to
complete. The editors tout their online anthology of dark stories
as 'dangerous, contemporary queer fiction'. That it is. It's also
pretty well written, though you might want to shower after you
finish reading.
