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Issue #012 is live. Go and get you some.
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Two weeks until the deadline for the Willow Springs Fiction Contest. Two grand is on the line. No word limit! Guidelines here.
Shelf Life alum Jack Frey's story Seafood Delight was recently published in Bartleby Snopes and is up for story of the month. It's very funny, sneaks up on you and is written with a punchy precision. Lots of great stories to read on the site as always. Vote for your favorite.
Write horror, flash fiction style. Submit to MicroHorror and possibly win a free T-shirt. They are having a no-fee contest, stories under 500 words about space (physical). Sounds fun!
Space Squid, a most excellently titled sci-fi journal, has gone beyond what the kids are calling old-school and printed a recent issue on clay tablets. This bold move got them noticed and written about in Wired. Space Squid's issue burst with the silly and the strange, bigfoot, aliens, zombies and the like. The digital pdf version of their magazine offers lots more content than the ten commandment style ones, so it's all a matter of preference. Enjoy either way.
The Cupboard, a most excellent journal is having their summer sale. Back issues are just three bucks. This quarterly features one writer each issue sometimes including one long story, sometimes lots of bits and pieces.
*SALE*
Awesomeness for a good price.
Language has become luggage
that separates our mouths
from kisses.
Ivy Page
The new issue of decomP is out. The stanza above is from a poem in the issue called Just. Have a look at the reviews, poetry and shorts aplenty.
This issue is highlighted by Kristina McDonald’s brilliant poem that craftily toys with the fairy tale, a fake interview with Alec Baldwin by Jack Frey, a deconstruction of the short story by Hardy Jones, a snappy open letter to Tim O’Brien and poignant thoughts on poetry by Michael Lee Rattigan.
We hope you enjoy the issue.
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Photo by Messina
Singers do them all the time. Cash and Dylan. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. Mr. Fox and Mrs. Polar Bear. I'm always surprised that writers don't follow suit more often.
Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott wrote Which Brings Me to You together. But off hand, I can't think of any other examples. What would you pay to see Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon join forces?
Admit2 is a journal dedicated to collaborative writing. They're reading submissions until September 1st. If you're stuck in a rut style wise, then working on something for admit2 could be a big boost. Like Almond and Baggott, you could do an epistolary style, each partner writing one half of the letters, or perhaps each of you can write a line and trade off or whatever method you conjure up.
So find a friend and get writing.
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These folks also accept submissions for Silent Type a fun, spunky journal with an upcoming all-poetry issue.
We're reading submissions for Issue #9. Everything is up for grabs; reviews, interviews, non-fiction, shorts, poems. Just not stuff that blows. Hope to see some choice writing in my inbox soon.
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Who is to say who is the best? Everywritersresource.com that's who.
EWR, a site loaded with interviews with writers, links to journals, writer-related classified and more has put together a list of their view of the twenty best online journals out there.
Of the Best Online Literary Journals they've compiled, I have little argument with most of them. Narrative (#1) is an excellent, well-established journal and somebody's got to be 1. La Petite Zine (#4), Failbetter (#7), and Cafe Irreal (#17) are all awesome and should be in the top 20. But isn't rating something as subjective as literature kind of perverse and meaningless? Yeah, but so are the Academy Awards. Can we really say with certainty that Sean Penn portrayed Harvey Milk better than Mickey Rourke played Randy the Ram? I don't think so, but it's fun doing these kinds of things.
VH-1 makes a living off of these kinds of things. It's time lit journals were thrown in that mix. Plus it gives us some quality options for submitting. Take a look at the list and argue, agree or scoff.
