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Jasmina Tacheva Talks with Artist Viktor Mazhlekov Hi Viktor, you call your style “astral postrealism” – what is it characterized by? Astral postrealism is a wink at the audience, it’s not something I take seriously. I like to give eccentric names to my paintings, and just like that, quite spontaneously, appeared the name of the […]

2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest Results Accents Publishing is proud to announce the results of its 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Metes and Bounds, by J. Kates, was selected by judge Dr. Richard Taylor. Plein Jeu, by E. C. Belli, was selected by Accents Publishing Senior Editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Both of these entries will be published as […]

By Dimitar Patarinski Translation from Bulgarian:Asya Draganova I suggested to Valentin Hristov that we talk about the good within us. He answered – the key to the good is in searching for it… When you turn the computer on, do you find words related to goodness? As a whole, the understanding of good is very […]

By Petar Marchev Translation from Bulgarian:Asya Draganova Photo:dspender Petar Marchev’s “War and Peace” won second place in Public-Republic’s competition for prose. Kolyo is a road man. Kolyo is short – sighted. Kolyo loves kalvados*. Kolyo goes hunting wild pigs. But kills a man. The guy had a 6-year old son. When Kolyo walks past the […]

Stiliyan Stoichev, third-place winner of the Modern Times photography contest, organized by Public Republic in 2008, was born on September 1,1969, in Targovishte, Bulgaria. He has been working as a dental mechanic for a private laboratory for the past 10 years. In 1994 he graduated from the Technical University, Varna, in machine engineering. The same […]

Denitsa Dilova-Markova Photo: movimente On September 18th, sitting on a park bench, Polly saw a woman in a very beautiful dress. “Wow, I would look so good in that dress,” she said to herself. Her thought flew off and floated around. At the same time, scientists made a final decision to crash one neutrino into […]