The film, which Calhoun shot last year, documents his 13-year-old daughter’s online business efforts to design, make and sell babies in the virtual world of Teen Second Life. It examines this new parental terrain with a questioning eye and reveals the complexities of a family separated by distance, yet connected by the latest online technologies.

The 360 |365 George Eastman House Film Festival takes place May 5-10 at the “birthplace of motion picture film” in Rochester, New York.

The story, titled “Nightblooming,” appeared last summer in the Paris Review.

“New Stories from the South” is an anthology published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The annual compilation, which launched in 1986, has featured stories by Russell Banks, John Barth, Larry Brown, Andre Debus, Barry Hannah, Aaron Gwyn, Lee Smith, Peter Taylor and others.

The 2010 edition will be available for purchase in bookstores in August. It will include stories by Wells Tower, Kevin Wilson, Padgett Powell, Elizabeth Spencer, Tim Gautreaux and Ann Pancake.

The issue also features stories by Sherman Alexie, Dan Choan, Blake Butler and others, as well as poetry, non-fiction, artwork, reviews and an interview with writer Alexander Chee.

The story, “Nightblooming,” is also available on The Paris Review Web site. The issue features an interview with Gay Talese, a novella by Damon Galgut and poetry by Billy Collins.

Calhoun was invited to participate in the Periodically Speaking Reading Series, which is jointly hosted by the New York Public Library and the Council for Literary Magazines and Presses. The series is designed to “provide a major new venue for emerging writers to present their work while highlighting the riches of literary magazines in New York City and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event focuses on a theme and presents writers from three influential literary magazines, introduced by their publisher/editors.”

Calhoun was chosen to read by editors of the St. Petersburg Review, who published “Headlock” in the international journal’s inaugural issue, “White Nights, 2007.”  He was introduced by SPR publisher/editor Elizabeth Hodges.

The talk discussed how interactive tools, practices and strategies can create rich, immersive media objects and experiences. In addressing a largely student journalist audience, Calhoun discussed three “flavors” of interactive media: storytelling, conversation and responsive visuals.

Calhoun will read short-short stories he has published in Quick Fiction, including the forthcoming “Big Swing.” Writers Blake Butler, Christen Enos, Brian Foley and Prema Bangera will also read their Quick Fiction work at the event, which is billed as Afternoon Delight! The reading will begin at 5 p.m. on March 28 at the Front Street Coffeehouse.