A.
MOLOTKOV'S
LITERARY PROJECTS
My involvement as a writer begins in 1984. I switched to writing in English in 1993. As a writer, I am interested in exploring the unexpected angles of reality, the strange impulses of the mind, the impossible situations, at the same time paying the primary attention to the most general realities of the human condition. I try to write the type of work that is not tied to a particular time or place, but could be enjoyed by readers everywhere, in the past and in the future.
In my work, you will find numerous conceptual and stylistic explorations, spurting out in varied directions and often without much in common. Hopefully some of this will resonate with your soul or with your mind – or, if I’m truly lucky, with both. Ultimately, art has no objective value: it’s the tiny drops of subjective tears and the miniature sparks of subjective thoughts that make it worthwhile.
In the last
few years I started a campaign to bring my
literary work to print. I am the winner of the
2011
Boone's Dock Press Uncle Walt's chapbook contest for "True Stories from the
Future", as well as the
2010 New
Millennium Writings contest and the
2008 E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Award.
An interview and a poetry selection is available from
Connotation Press. The press were also very kind to publish my story
"The
Rainy Smile of Life", with a corresponding fiction-related interview.
My prose and poetry has appeared in over 50 publications, both
in print and online, including Epicenter,
Sugar Mule,
Gival Press (also
available here),
Thema,
Cantaraville,
SugarMule,
Copperfield Review,
Carcinogenic Poetry,
Aquillrelle,
Rusty Truck,
Word Riot,
Up
The Staircase, Nothing No One Nowhere,
The Bicycle Review,
and many others.
I often read poetry in a variety of Portland venues.
Upcoming
readings.