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Meet NUNUM's Fall 2019 Contributors: Mike Callaghan

11/10/2019

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NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Interview with Mike Callaghan

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V by Mike Callaghan

Mike Callaghan's work fit seamlessly with the words of Eros Livieratos and together they gave NUNUM's Fall 2019 Issue an opening slice of perfection with 'Suburbs'.
Mike thank you again for your collage, your work is exactly what our art editor loves - something that doesn't need to be touched at all before the text is added and we blend it into a NUNUM piece. Speaking of 'words', I'm always curious where people started reading, what is the first book you remember reading alone?

'The House on the Cliff' a Hardy Boys adventure by Franklin W. Dixon.​
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NUNUM cover Fall 2019 by Ann Calandro

I'm sure you aren't alone, I can remember a handful of those being in my room as a kid as well. What about the last book you read that made you think, damn that's a good book?

I'd have to say ‘They Knew What They Wanted: Poems and Collages’ by John Ashbery.

Most of us have a phone or some other device with us constantly but I always have a pen in my bag for making notes, have you transitioned to doing that digitally or are you still traditional about it? 

Pen, pencil or phone: all three – inspiration occurs anytime, anywhere, anyhow.

Variety, I like it. What advice would you give someone who is just starting to send their work out to journals?

Advice: ‘bugs did die against the windshield’

Do you see tenderness in your work?

Sounds like you’re talking about meat.

What’s wrong with regret?

I don’t know. I’m working on gray areas in life.

Did you lie today?

Circling and finding.

Thank you again for letting NUNUM use your work Mike and all the best.
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Suburbs words by Eros Livieratos, art by Mark Callaghan


​Mike Callaghan’s work considers cycles of identity, preservation and mortality in moments when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. His work has been published in ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, BlackFlash, Drain, Otoliths and Shanghai Literary Review. Mike earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. You can keep up with him at http://www.mikecart.com

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