Material New to This Site
There are plenty links to keep most people busy for many visits. However, with around 1000 hits a day happening year after year, I figure you'd like some new links too.
If anyone would like to compile at least two labeled links, ready to go as you see below, I'd be glad to add them to the page.
So, here goes. I'm going to start putting links up again now, with the new year of 2016 beginning. Cheers!
Individual Experimental Stories/Poems/Hybrids/Multi-Media/Uncategorizables
Audry Knight at The Rumpus How Not to be Raped
Writers' Websites
.....Carpeted Map of Europe (Europe Day, Minnesota History Center, MN)
Created a to-scale jigsaw map of Europe out of carpet pieces, along with a brief activity guide for children attending Europe Day as part of Family Day at the Minnesota History Center..... |
News
Kenneth Patchen Award Winner Announced Charles Hood - Mouth
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Kickstarter for Gamut Magazine: Neo-noir, speculative, literary fiction by Richard Thomas
Donate before March 1!
Kickstarter for Gamut Magazine: Neo-noir, speculative, literary fiction by Richard Thomas
Innovative Writing Contests
Enter 2017 Kenneth Patchen Award! Deadline July 31
Journal of Experimental Fiction anthology: "Send me wildest, most idiosyncratic stuff! Let's make May Day the deadline. Contributors get a free copy and bragging rights once the anthology is out. Email your stuff to [email protected]."
GINOSKO FLASH FICTION CONTEST:
$500 Award, $10 entry fee, deadline for Contest #3 March 1, 2016.
Submit up to 2 pieces, 800 words maximum each piece.
Final Judges:
Michael Hettich, Gary Lundy, E M Schorb, Andrena Zawinski, Andrei Guruianu, Robert Paul Cesaretti.
Awarded work will be published on Ginosko Literary Journal website.
2016 Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award
*We will be accepting contest entries until February 28, 2016*
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us something we’ve never seen before. Note: As with our regular submissions, we ARE open to realist fiction and work that may veer towards the hard genre but are most interested in stories that work between these realms and/or is innovative in the way a story is told.
First Place Award: $500 and issue publication
All finalists will be considered for publication on our site as “special contest features.”
Judges: Editors Cole Bucciaglia & Sequoia Nagamatsu
*We will be accepting contest entries until February 28, 2016*
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us something we’ve never seen before. Note: As with our regular submissions, we ARE open to realist fiction and work that may veer towards the hard genre but are most interested in stories that work between these realms and/or is innovative in the way a story is told.
First Place Award: $500 and issue publication
All finalists will be considered for publication on our site as “special contest features.”
Judges: Editors Cole Bucciaglia & Sequoia Nagamatsu
Conium 2016 Innovative Short Fiction Contest
Contest Judge: Lindsay Hunter
Prize: $500, publication, copies of the issue,and a copy of the judge’s latest bookAbout the ContestThe winning story will be published in The Conium Review‘s next issue. The winning author will receive $500, five copies of the issue, and a copy of the judge’s latest book.
Innovative short fiction should take risks that pay off. Don’t tell us a story we’ve already heard before. Show us something new with your subject, style, or characters. Make sure your writing has a “wow” factor.
The 2016 contest judge is Lindsay Hunter. Lindsay is the author of Ugly Girls (FSG Originals, 2014), Don’t Kiss Me (FSG Originals, 2013), and Daddy’s (Featherproof Books, 2010). If you are a family member, coworker, or student of the judge, you are ineligible for this contest.
Contest Deadlines
Submissions must be received between February 1st, 2016 and May 1st, 2016. All submissions must include a $15.00 entry fee. The winner will be announced by July 15th, 2016.
Magazines
Streetcake
- we are looking for exciting writing that is visual, innovative and experimental.
- we also like great imagery and humorous writing.
- we want to read poetry and fiction that surprises us, looks downright weird and is a little out of the ordinary.
- on Facebook
Aps
Lithomobilus
Lithomobilus is an ereader platform that provides for a host of new narrative possibilities. Authors can tell bigger, richer stories, making it easier for readers to get more of what they love from books: more characters, more details, more commentary, more of what makes books addictive.
Zoetic Press is proud to be the first publisher to produce works using Lithomobilus. Take a look at the free Lithomobilus app for iPad and iPhone and discover how it unlocks new possibilities.
Lithomobilus delivers readers a variety of ways to expand the narrative experience, from author notes to side narratives to fully nonlinear works, collaborative works, and critique and commentary in context, without the reader ever having to leave the book. Authors can expand the way they tell stories, while their readers discover literature whose potential isn't limited to "the book."
Lithomobilus is an ereader platform that provides for a host of new narrative possibilities. Authors can tell bigger, richer stories, making it easier for readers to get more of what they love from books: more characters, more details, more commentary, more of what makes books addictive.
Zoetic Press is proud to be the first publisher to produce works using Lithomobilus. Take a look at the free Lithomobilus app for iPad and iPhone and discover how it unlocks new possibilities.
Lithomobilus delivers readers a variety of ways to expand the narrative experience, from author notes to side narratives to fully nonlinear works, collaborative works, and critique and commentary in context, without the reader ever having to leave the book. Authors can expand the way they tell stories, while their readers discover literature whose potential isn't limited to "the book."
Notable Books
Coming soon to JEF Books
This is a rambling anti-narrative post-postmodern accumulation of self-referential free verse exhortations inspired by the appalling quantities of human stupidity and hypocrisy amok in the world. It is designed to make you smarter. That's what “didactic” means.
All the institutions of modern society are corrupted by distorted survival impulses impelled by premises that reflect fear first, then, incidentally, fact. Why do we cling to obsolete ideas, what is the power of their persistence? Answer that question and you begin to understand the actual nature of the “human condition.”
Once an idea is assumed to be a premise in our head and tapping into our identity survival reflexes, it's game over. When character armor can no longer be accessed by new data, it begins acting blindly as a rote dictatorial interpretive framework. This blinding of awareness, where a better idea is consciously refused entry, is the work of ideology and dogma and is the actual evil against which truth and beauty have struggled for 10,000 years. The use of ideology and doctrine as a tool with which to confront reality is a pathological decortication of one's own capacity to reinterpret based on better data, i.e., to become more intelligent. The enemy of all humanity is simply the stubborn refusal to learn. Angels weep an ocean of tears for us because of this.
The way we think the world works, the textbook version, is an outright hallucination. None of our societal or governmental or religious institutions function as advertised. There is a covert, hidden agenda side to all of it. Government is nothing more than a system of feudal payoffs and the squandering of taxed labor. News gathering and reporting is a nauseating spectacle of omission and propaganda. The universities are knowledge mafias whose grant funded scientists have their collective heads up their corporate butts. Capital enterprise exists to destroy and obliterate the competition and evolve into a fascist monopoly. Religion and spirituality, all of them, even yours, are reactionary exercises in mind control. Culture and cutting edge art ignorantly serves hidden philosophies of social manipulation. Pop visionaries are cliche riddled hacks. Human genius is mauled and contorted by a clairvoyant Gestapo. The oligarch ruling class is still the invisible hand behind their many empires, re-engineering civilization through globalist vampire finance and criminal terror. Ethical men and women live in fear for their lives and sanity. Solutions fail, answers obfuscate, magicians conjure and befuddle.
Nobody knows what to do about anything. In the face of a staggering technological potential to re-engineer society towards virtue and discovery, we are entering a new Dark Age and your screams won't stop it.
All the institutions of modern society are corrupted by distorted survival impulses impelled by premises that reflect fear first, then, incidentally, fact. Why do we cling to obsolete ideas, what is the power of their persistence? Answer that question and you begin to understand the actual nature of the “human condition.”
Once an idea is assumed to be a premise in our head and tapping into our identity survival reflexes, it's game over. When character armor can no longer be accessed by new data, it begins acting blindly as a rote dictatorial interpretive framework. This blinding of awareness, where a better idea is consciously refused entry, is the work of ideology and dogma and is the actual evil against which truth and beauty have struggled for 10,000 years. The use of ideology and doctrine as a tool with which to confront reality is a pathological decortication of one's own capacity to reinterpret based on better data, i.e., to become more intelligent. The enemy of all humanity is simply the stubborn refusal to learn. Angels weep an ocean of tears for us because of this.
The way we think the world works, the textbook version, is an outright hallucination. None of our societal or governmental or religious institutions function as advertised. There is a covert, hidden agenda side to all of it. Government is nothing more than a system of feudal payoffs and the squandering of taxed labor. News gathering and reporting is a nauseating spectacle of omission and propaganda. The universities are knowledge mafias whose grant funded scientists have their collective heads up their corporate butts. Capital enterprise exists to destroy and obliterate the competition and evolve into a fascist monopoly. Religion and spirituality, all of them, even yours, are reactionary exercises in mind control. Culture and cutting edge art ignorantly serves hidden philosophies of social manipulation. Pop visionaries are cliche riddled hacks. Human genius is mauled and contorted by a clairvoyant Gestapo. The oligarch ruling class is still the invisible hand behind their many empires, re-engineering civilization through globalist vampire finance and criminal terror. Ethical men and women live in fear for their lives and sanity. Solutions fail, answers obfuscate, magicians conjure and befuddle.
Nobody knows what to do about anything. In the face of a staggering technological potential to re-engineer society towards virtue and discovery, we are entering a new Dark Age and your screams won't stop it.