Showing posts with label submissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label submissions. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Stoked Volume II

Hey writer pals,

In case you missed it, we at Stoked Press/Journal started taking submissions today for our second issue. You can find more guidelines in our call for submissions below or at our blog: stokedstokedstoked.blogspot.com. We'll be reading in June and July for this issue. Hope your writing is going well and hope we get to see some of your work in the inbox soon.

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HEY HEY. Stoked Journal wants to see your coolest work for Volume II between June 1st and July 31st. Please check out the first issue before submitting: here. Volume II, which will be out in September, will be a leap forward from this issue, increasing the amount of content and including reviews, interviews, and possibly other artwork, while maintaining the focus on stoke-worthy writing and crisp design.

To submit poetry, fiction, or nonfiction: send 3-5 poems, one essay, one short story, or 2-3 short shorts or flash fiction/nonfiction pieces to tylerisstoked@gmail.com.

To submit art: send a .JPG of your work to tylerisstoked@gmail.com

To submit an interview or book review: send an e-mail including either who you want to interview or the book you want to review, along with links to your writing, such as a blog or published pieces/interviews/reviews.

Sure you can do that: send submission in body of email or as a single Word Document, iinclude a bio (third person, short, etc.), send us simultaneous submissions, be nice.

We look forward to seeing your work.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Broken Plate Submissions End Soon And I Likely Haven't Read Your Poem

HEY OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE BROKEN PLATE
END ON HALLOWEEN, THAT IS SUNDAY, AND WE WANT NEED CRAVE MORE
SUBMISSIONS FROM GREAT WRITERS BUT ALSO GREAT PEOPLE.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG POST, I BET YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON.
GO TO BSU.EDU/BROKENPLATE AND CHECK OUT THE GUIDELINES
AND SEND SOMETHING THIS WAY.
MY POETRY PALS AND I WANNA READ YOUR COOL POEM.
I'M SURE ELYSIA AND HER FICTION FRIENDS WANNA READ YOUR STORY.
SO BEFORE YOU DRESS UP LIKE A HAT OR A PEACOCK OR IRONY
SEND US A POEM OR A STORY
I'M SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO WRITE THIS POST;
MAKE ME EVEN LUCKIER BY LETTING ME READ YOUR STUFF.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Some Online Things I Like

First, some stuff from the new JMWW.

Best opening line I've read in a long time award goes to Ryan Ridge: "When she opens her legs I listen." This dude is in all my favorite mags (Elimae, The Collagist, Diagram, etc.).

Honest thing: Kim Chinquee has always been a difficult read for me. I enjoy her pieces, but they take me sooooo long to read. They are so slick. Good example. This might be my favorite piece of hers.

An interesting discussion over at HTMLGIANT about a writing prof who made her students submit. My response: I think there is a difference between encouraging and assigning. If one, as an advocate and teacher of the creative writing world, think students should value the lit journal process, then by all means encourage it. But forcing them to submit for a grade, as several commenters pointed out, takes away the authenticity and integrity, it would seem, of the journal(s)/process/lit world. I've had several professors say that I should submit, explain publishing to me, and even suggest places that my work would be potentially suitable. However, never has a grade rested on this. I'm reminded of the way my parents treated sports. They let me be around it, gave me the gear to play the sports I tried out, and encouraged me to enjoy myself, but never did my dinner rest on whether or not I played. I want encouragement, but at twenty-one years old and a competent student, I don't want something as enjoyable as the literary process (especially publishing) to be brought down to an assignment level.

Ball State professor and Muncie disc golfer Sean Lovelace doing his nice things again. DIVE BARS TOO!

What's not to love about this story by Anthony Luebbert in the new issue of Quick Fiction? The flow (that first long sentence!), Robert Kennedy swimming with the sea lion, the story ending in RK cannonballing into the pool! I didn't "get" the family goose part: purpose?

NEW SUMMER FICTION ISSUE AT DIAGRAM! I CAN'T WAIT TO DEVOUR YOU!

Oh my goodness! David Peak rules in this poem at Dark Sky. The softness of this piece (laying in bed, the no caps, "we know" as its own line), the honest last line) just killed me. I'm dead now.

HEY LOOK! A NEW JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE PROSE POEM! (Side note: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poems and David Shumate's books are on my to-buy list for my Von's trip tomorrow.)

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