Slipshod and Standing follows a young Mark Silver as he comes of age in his father's hardware store-coming to terms with antisemitism and alcoholism, as well-to his adult life as a reporter.
B.L. Makiefsky was the winner of the 2012 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press chapbook contest for the short story collection, Fathers and Sons. Among publications his work has been featured in are the Detroit Free Press, Bicycling Magazine, Dunes Review, Thoughtful Dog, Pithead Chapel, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Fiction Southeast, Hypertext Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, the Great Lakes Review, Jewish Literary Journal, Whisky Blot, Of Rust and Glass and Jewishfiction.net. He was appointed managing editor of MichiganWriters.org in 2024. For more information, please go to blmakiefsky.com.
