- Our interview with Duotrope.com
Hey now – Duotrope.com reached out to ask us some questions that they published on their website. Check it out: https://duotrope.com/interview/editor/39144/midnight-mind-magazine
- Going To California – A Road Journal Unearthed
Almost 45 years ago, author Hugh Findlay took off on a road trip with his friend Greg. Sparse, quick notes cover the 9 day trip but the end result is something between poetry and documentary. Now published for the first time in Midnight Mind Number Nine, you can ride along…
- The Flip Cover on Midnight Mind Number Nine explained!
Hey all – I thought I’d take a moment to tell the backstory behind the idea to publish a flip-cover in German on the latest issue of Midnight Mind Magazine. A good idea? Not according to the magazine experts. But we think the photos tell the story of a post-war…
- In Stock: Midnight Mind Number Nine!
We are so very excited about this issue! So much great writing came together as we once again head out on the roads of America. We have a fantastic section of roadtrip-worthy poetry, new fiction and non fiction that puts the breeze in your hair and all sorts of great…
- 5 questions with … James Reed
Question 1: What books are you reading right now? Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell and Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged American’s Founding Father, by Peter Stark. Question 2: What authors have inspired you and why? I’m not sure “inspired” is quite the right word here, but…
- We are in over 160 stores nationwide
See a list on locations.
- Carrie Weiland’s NO REALLY I’M FINE
by Patrick CioffiOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Five. Don’t let the easy-going laid back sound of Carrie Weiland’s album fool you; there’s a volcano of emotion torment going on inside. After getting midway through NO REALLY, I’M FINE, you start to get the picture. Listening to the opening track…
- What is Midnight Mind Magazine?
It’s poetry & fiction. And non-fiction. And art. Oh, and photography. And sometimes comics. And sometimes found art. All under the guise of trying to figure out our culture. It’s for people who love books. And love reading. And love figuring things out. Especially figuring out those things that keep…
- Publication Day for Midnight Mind Number Eight
We have a distributor for Midnight Mind, and they like to have an official “on sale” date for each issue. Well, today is that day! July 21 marks Midnight Mind Number Eight’s retail debut. Subscribers got their copies last week. You can still subscribe or buy it direct (though we…
- Midnight Mind Number Eight releases 7/21/2025
Coming in at 160 pages, this one is big. Big Enough to waste your time! To order your copy directly from us, visit our online store. Copies will also be available at bookstores across the United States and Canada. This issue includes: A short story by Roberto Ontiveros A deep…
- 5 questions with… Chloe Rodriguez
Editor’s note: Chloe Rodriguez sent 3 poems for consideration for Midnight Mind Number Seven. We were blown away and published them together as “3 Miami Poems”. This set of poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. We wanted to ask her a few questions for our “5 questions with…” series….
- Fleeing The East Coast: September 11th, 2001
An account by Linda Fasano ListOriginally published online at MidnightMind.com in 2002 I’m in Valley Forge, PA for a trade show, the Philadelphia Candy Show. I’m getting ready for the day when Sarah calls my hotel room, Mom, a plane hit the World Trade Center. I’m doubtful as I glance…
- The Hotel Carpet Tracker
By September Levi Hotel carpets have always fascinated me. I’ve taken photos of them over the years but never quite done anything with them. Now, in an exclusive deal with MidnightMind.com (read: They are the only ones who would think this idea good), I present to you, the ongoing, ever-updating…
- 5 questions with… Kevin Brown
Editor’s note: Kevin Brown gave us a fantastic essay for our “In Praise of…” section of Midnight Mind Number Seven. We are very happy that he agreed to be our first author to do our new, “5 questions with…” series, where we’ll go behind-the-work with authors featured in Midnight Mind‘s…
- Suder by Percival Everett
A series of reviews by Tom Short You should know who Percival Everett (no longer with an “L.”) is by now. Somehow, he has slipped too far under the radar for years, but high enough to keep getting published (regrettably, in paperback original after paperback original, but still, at least…
- The “Do it” License Plate Frames of the 1980s. Note To Self #8
Published in Midnight Mind Number Seven. Runners… do it on the roadFour Wheelers… do it on all foursSalesmen… do it on the roadTeachers… do it with classDivers… do it deeperNurses… do it with careBonneville Racers… do it from dusk ’til dawnPilots… do it higherHairdressers… do it with styleRealtors… do it…
- Editor’s Note – Midnight Mind Number Seven
I’m not certain I can distill what has transpired and changed and fermented to cause this magazine effort to come back. But I owe an Editor’s Note and therefore, shall try. It’s been just over 20 years since the last issue of Midnight Mind Magazine was released. I can recall…
- Pete Fromm: Our 2003 Interview
Pete Fromm, author of the memoir The Indian Creek Chronicles and fiction like How All This Started and Night Swimming, releases his second novel this month. Set in his home state of Montana, Pete has finally established himself as the Montana author he was destined to become. Or at least…
- Editor’s Note – Midnight Mind Number Six
Originally published in December of 2003 in Midnight Mind Number Six. A NOTE ON MIDNIGHT MIND MAGAZINE GROWING AS A BUSINESS: I have a confession to make — I am a horrible businessman. The only subject I fared worse in than math in high school was my business administration class…
- Ten Things of Note
As published in MIDNIGHT MIND NUMBER THREE Style choices.Many times we battle with certain choices to make when it comes to the style that we will use. Grammar choices aren’t easy because no matter what you choose, someone, somewhere, doesn’t like it. For example, our use of spaces on both…
- Seven Quick Questions with David Starkey
David Starkey’s Profile on MidnightMind.com.David Starkey’s work appeared Midnight Mind Number Four. Originally published on MidnightMind.com in 2003 Name some writers who have affected you and how they have affected you.This is always a hard question to answer. I feel that, in a small way, everything I’ve ever read that’s…
- On the Way Home From Work: Jim Harrison’s First Car
by Jim HarrisonOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Three. I must say I have no real interest in cars other than sentimental and that I tend to name them after a while like dogs. My first car was a ’29 Ford Model A which lasted only briefly due to a…
- 80s Rocker Snider: I will take it
by Sean Sullivan In a sudden about-face to his band’s long-standing pledge, the former front man of Twisted Sister, Dee Snider, announced today that he is going to take it. “I just decided it was time for a change,” said Snider at an impromptu press conference at Los Angeles’ Venice…
- The Worst Interview Ever
AN INTERVIEW WITH JON MAYOR. by Brett Van Emst – First published in May 2003 on MidnightMind.com Jon Mayor is an author/photographer living two El stops west of Chicago in the warehouse district. His place is on the second floor of a nondescript building. When you walk in, you get…
- Meijer
a poem by Tom Short In the dead center of January —in the dead centerof nightI drove to Meijerto watch for carswith one headlight.[I was back home and drinking with a girl]Sad Americans,I found none.All Americans in Meijersat 4:00 a.m.are spreading equal light. I coughed hard untilI threw up out…
- There’s a Word for it in Spanish.
by George StantiniOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Six MY LUCK HAD JUST stepped out for a breather and a smoke when in walked them two . . . Two guys walk into a bar, right? Two guys: Mutt and Jeff. Two guys thinking: ‘He’s with me.’ Two guys thinking: ‘I’m: bad cop.’ Two…
- City Planner with a Pointer and a Blueprint talking to the Engineer at the Board Meeting regarding the Building of the Expressway, Boston, MA, Sometime During the 1960s
by Tim Malone Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Five You see,if we just throw a dog legright about — here, John’s auntcan keep her hotdog cartright — here. That way, my brother, Tommy, (you all know Tommy)can keep his sausage standright — here. The engineer replied,You can’t just —…
- Dream Life of American Cars
A section of a novel in progress by Thomas GlynnFirst published in Midnight Mind Number Three. You know that high pitched hacker’s cough, vile as a lung-rotten x-ray, cranked up to rip your ears off until you think spongiform bronchial tubes held together by coffin worms are being shucked out…
- And Then They Stole It
By Denis Johnson Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Three The first car I owned was a Volkswagen Bug. This was around 1968 or 1969. It was a unit from the 50s. I remember you cranked up the heat by turning a kind of faucet handle that jutted from the…
- Winter Camp, 1975
a website original by Jack Bowman He left the well worn copy of “Frank Edwards’Strange World”in the confines of his sleeping bag andwandered out of camp leaving the flaps of the tentto fall back into place on their ownthe others had gone,Scout activitiesfor Frank, it was too cold to fossil…
- Lies I Regret Telling
a website original by Tom Short I told my mother MC Hammer’s“Don’t Hurt ’em Hammer”was a quote from Hammer’sMother. It wasn’t. And I am sorry. The other day I tolda friend, I have seenScarface – I have not. Nor have I read CS Lewis,though I have told people I have.He…
- Michael Palmer on getting the news of his first book publication…
by Michael Palmer (author of Fatal, Silent Treatment, Extreme Measures and many more) As published in Midnight Mind Number Five After 22 years I really don’t think at all about when my first book (The Sisterhood) was bought by Bantam. I don’t think about it being January 7, 1980 at…
- Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
A remembrance by Katy Tucker Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Three He was a scruffy artistic type, always wearing a bleach-stained brown leather jacket with a book stuffed in the pocket. Dark hair, light eyes that looked beyond the world and guitar-string callused fingers – he was a dream….
- Editor’s Note from Midnight Mind Magazine Number Three
by Brett Van Emst AS PUBLISHED IN MIDNIGHT MIND NUMBER THREE Published January 6th, 2002. Cars have always meant so much to me. The feeling of getting into a clean car at the beginning of a long road trip is a joy like few others. Similar is the feeling of…
- Our last post from Sept 2004
[editor’s note: This was our last published item on our website in 2004. We thought that would be a good place to pick back up.] Tearing the Paper off the Wall: Midnight Mind Magazine Calls it Quits. 3 years – Six Issues – 1 great time After 3 years and…
- A message 20 years in the making.
We started this back in, maybe, can’t quite remember an actual start date. 1999? 1998 maybe. It didn’t start as a magazine. It started as a hub for creativity that morphed, eventually, into a printed magazine. Until it grew a life of its own. Thousands of writing submissions, hundreds of…
Hey now – Duotrope.com reached out to ask us some questions that they published on their website. Check it out: https://duotrope.com/interview/editor/39144/midnight-mind-magazine
Almost 45 years ago, author Hugh Findlay took off on a road trip with his friend Greg. Sparse, quick notes cover the 9 day trip but the end result is something between poetry and documentary. Now published for the first time in Midnight Mind Number Nine, you can ride along…
Hey all – I thought I’d take a moment to tell the backstory behind the idea to publish a flip-cover in German on the latest issue of Midnight Mind Magazine. A good idea? Not according to the magazine experts. But we think the photos tell the story of a post-war…
We are so very excited about this issue! So much great writing came together as we once again head out on the roads of America. We have a fantastic section of roadtrip-worthy poetry, new fiction and non fiction that puts the breeze in your hair and all sorts of great…
Question 1: What books are you reading right now? Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell and Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged American’s Founding Father, by Peter Stark. Question 2: What authors have inspired you and why? I’m not sure “inspired” is quite the right word here, but…
See a list on locations.
by Patrick CioffiOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Five. Don’t let the easy-going laid back sound of Carrie Weiland’s album fool you; there’s a volcano of emotion torment going on inside. After getting midway through NO REALLY, I’M FINE, you start to get the picture. Listening to the opening track…
It’s poetry & fiction. And non-fiction. And art. Oh, and photography. And sometimes comics. And sometimes found art. All under the guise of trying to figure out our culture. It’s for people who love books. And love reading. And love figuring things out. Especially figuring out those things that keep…
We have a distributor for Midnight Mind, and they like to have an official “on sale” date for each issue. Well, today is that day! July 21 marks Midnight Mind Number Eight’s retail debut. Subscribers got their copies last week. You can still subscribe or buy it direct (though we…
Coming in at 160 pages, this one is big. Big Enough to waste your time! To order your copy directly from us, visit our online store. Copies will also be available at bookstores across the United States and Canada. This issue includes: A short story by Roberto Ontiveros A deep…
Editor’s note: Chloe Rodriguez sent 3 poems for consideration for Midnight Mind Number Seven. We were blown away and published them together as “3 Miami Poems”. This set of poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. We wanted to ask her a few questions for our “5 questions with…” series….
An account by Linda Fasano ListOriginally published online at MidnightMind.com in 2002 I’m in Valley Forge, PA for a trade show, the Philadelphia Candy Show. I’m getting ready for the day when Sarah calls my hotel room, Mom, a plane hit the World Trade Center. I’m doubtful as I glance…
By September Levi Hotel carpets have always fascinated me. I’ve taken photos of them over the years but never quite done anything with them. Now, in an exclusive deal with MidnightMind.com (read: They are the only ones who would think this idea good), I present to you, the ongoing, ever-updating…
Editor’s note: Kevin Brown gave us a fantastic essay for our “In Praise of…” section of Midnight Mind Number Seven. We are very happy that he agreed to be our first author to do our new, “5 questions with…” series, where we’ll go behind-the-work with authors featured in Midnight Mind‘s…
A series of reviews by Tom Short You should know who Percival Everett (no longer with an “L.”) is by now. Somehow, he has slipped too far under the radar for years, but high enough to keep getting published (regrettably, in paperback original after paperback original, but still, at least…
Published in Midnight Mind Number Seven. Runners… do it on the roadFour Wheelers… do it on all foursSalesmen… do it on the roadTeachers… do it with classDivers… do it deeperNurses… do it with careBonneville Racers… do it from dusk ’til dawnPilots… do it higherHairdressers… do it with styleRealtors… do it…
I’m not certain I can distill what has transpired and changed and fermented to cause this magazine effort to come back. But I owe an Editor’s Note and therefore, shall try. It’s been just over 20 years since the last issue of Midnight Mind Magazine was released. I can recall…
Pete Fromm, author of the memoir The Indian Creek Chronicles and fiction like How All This Started and Night Swimming, releases his second novel this month. Set in his home state of Montana, Pete has finally established himself as the Montana author he was destined to become. Or at least…
Originally published in December of 2003 in Midnight Mind Number Six. A NOTE ON MIDNIGHT MIND MAGAZINE GROWING AS A BUSINESS: I have a confession to make — I am a horrible businessman. The only subject I fared worse in than math in high school was my business administration class…
As published in MIDNIGHT MIND NUMBER THREE Style choices.Many times we battle with certain choices to make when it comes to the style that we will use. Grammar choices aren’t easy because no matter what you choose, someone, somewhere, doesn’t like it. For example, our use of spaces on both…
David Starkey’s Profile on MidnightMind.com.David Starkey’s work appeared Midnight Mind Number Four. Originally published on MidnightMind.com in 2003 Name some writers who have affected you and how they have affected you.This is always a hard question to answer. I feel that, in a small way, everything I’ve ever read that’s…
by Jim HarrisonOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Three. I must say I have no real interest in cars other than sentimental and that I tend to name them after a while like dogs. My first car was a ’29 Ford Model A which lasted only briefly due to a…
by Sean Sullivan In a sudden about-face to his band’s long-standing pledge, the former front man of Twisted Sister, Dee Snider, announced today that he is going to take it. “I just decided it was time for a change,” said Snider at an impromptu press conference at Los Angeles’ Venice…
AN INTERVIEW WITH JON MAYOR. by Brett Van Emst – First published in May 2003 on MidnightMind.com Jon Mayor is an author/photographer living two El stops west of Chicago in the warehouse district. His place is on the second floor of a nondescript building. When you walk in, you get…
a poem by Tom Short In the dead center of January —in the dead centerof nightI drove to Meijerto watch for carswith one headlight.[I was back home and drinking with a girl]Sad Americans,I found none.All Americans in Meijersat 4:00 a.m.are spreading equal light. I coughed hard untilI threw up out…
by George StantiniOriginally published in Midnight Mind Number Six MY LUCK HAD JUST stepped out for a breather and a smoke when in walked them two . . . Two guys walk into a bar, right? Two guys: Mutt and Jeff. Two guys thinking: ‘He’s with me.’ Two guys thinking: ‘I’m: bad cop.’ Two…
by Tim Malone Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Five You see,if we just throw a dog legright about — here, John’s auntcan keep her hotdog cartright — here. That way, my brother, Tommy, (you all know Tommy)can keep his sausage standright — here. The engineer replied,You can’t just —…
A section of a novel in progress by Thomas GlynnFirst published in Midnight Mind Number Three. You know that high pitched hacker’s cough, vile as a lung-rotten x-ray, cranked up to rip your ears off until you think spongiform bronchial tubes held together by coffin worms are being shucked out…
By Denis Johnson Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Three The first car I owned was a Volkswagen Bug. This was around 1968 or 1969. It was a unit from the 50s. I remember you cranked up the heat by turning a kind of faucet handle that jutted from the…
a website original by Jack Bowman He left the well worn copy of “Frank Edwards’Strange World”in the confines of his sleeping bag andwandered out of camp leaving the flaps of the tentto fall back into place on their ownthe others had gone,Scout activitiesfor Frank, it was too cold to fossil…
a website original by Tom Short I told my mother MC Hammer’s“Don’t Hurt ’em Hammer”was a quote from Hammer’sMother. It wasn’t. And I am sorry. The other day I tolda friend, I have seenScarface – I have not. Nor have I read CS Lewis,though I have told people I have.He…
by Michael Palmer (author of Fatal, Silent Treatment, Extreme Measures and many more) As published in Midnight Mind Number Five After 22 years I really don’t think at all about when my first book (The Sisterhood) was bought by Bantam. I don’t think about it being January 7, 1980 at…
A remembrance by Katy Tucker Originally published in Midnight Mind Number Three He was a scruffy artistic type, always wearing a bleach-stained brown leather jacket with a book stuffed in the pocket. Dark hair, light eyes that looked beyond the world and guitar-string callused fingers – he was a dream….
by Brett Van Emst AS PUBLISHED IN MIDNIGHT MIND NUMBER THREE Published January 6th, 2002. Cars have always meant so much to me. The feeling of getting into a clean car at the beginning of a long road trip is a joy like few others. Similar is the feeling of…
[editor’s note: This was our last published item on our website in 2004. We thought that would be a good place to pick back up.] Tearing the Paper off the Wall: Midnight Mind Magazine Calls it Quits. 3 years – Six Issues – 1 great time After 3 years and…
We started this back in, maybe, can’t quite remember an actual start date. 1999? 1998 maybe. It didn’t start as a magazine. It started as a hub for creativity that morphed, eventually, into a printed magazine. Until it grew a life of its own. Thousands of writing submissions, hundreds of…