Peter Clarke

After the release of our fourth issue, Jokes Review is starting to feel more like a bona fide literary institution. I don't know what the...

A few months ago, Christopher Fairman recorded his upcoming album #OAKLAND at Tiny Telephone in Oakland. I hung around the studio one day...

Inside Storytime is a monthly reading series in the Bay Area hosted by author James Warner. I met James virtually a while ago when he...

What would happen if a guy in a small town goes out on a limb and marries a robot, inadvertently exposing his town to a new type of AI...

The release party for Jokes Review's first issue was held at SHINE in Sacramento on September 24th. Rather than hosting a traditional...

Jim Harrington interviewed me this month about the editorial process behind Jokes Review. Jim's blog, "Six Questions For..." has been...

There's another literary journal in town. It's called Jokes Review and it's ready for full-swole submissions of all kinds. I founded the...

I hand-wrote "Baby Alice" while in a coffee shop in Santa Cruz. Whenever I write stories by hand, things tend to get pretty weird. "Baby...

The easiest way to get published on McSweeney's Internet Tendency is to send them a letter. That's the advice I saw in a tweet by one of...

Check out Weirderary's first issue for a look at my new short story "Parole Oficer Pete." In the words of FictionFeed.net: "The story...

It's no secret that I've been on a mission for years to bring the word "Dudebuddy" into the vocab of the common people. If used...

I just added a new post on ScreenplayLists.com: Essential Books on Screenwriting. The first book on the list is an obvious one: Syd...

Big news in the professional development department: I just joint the team at FindLaw.com! As the company's new Team Lead - Editor, I'll...

The song "Little Boxes" is a famous political satire about suburbia. It just so happens that I've been renting a room in the same exact...

Fictionfeed.net just reviewed my story Orion's Tooth: "This story is a very high-level example of what a short fiction piece can...

ORION'S TOOTH by Peter Clarke "Stargazing is a real thing I try to explain to my fellow creatures every chance I get. At the moment I...

In 2010, I worked on a short film about a legendary poet named Wolf. The film was originally shown at the Sacramento Poetry Center and is...

And/Or Volume 4 just came in the mail today. Out of all the literary journals I've read recently, this might be my favorite. It's not...

Earning a law degree takes three years. The only thing worse than the absurd cost of law school is the fact that the third year is...

As it turns out, the folks at Urban Dictionary are particular as hell. Right this moment they're sitting in their basement level office...