Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Literary Underground Newsletter #2

The Literary Underground News and Updates
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New Releases

Off Beat Pulp, Issue 4
http://www.offbeatpulp.com/Issue_4/Issue_4.aspx

Blink Ink
www.blink-ink.com
Blink Ink is a small printed quarterly that features 50 words fiction. It is available by subscription (just covers postage and some of the printing costs)
Blink Ink is produced by Full of Crow press and is edited by Doug Mathewson.
Just out! Blink Ink # 5 featuring a cool cover by Kristin Fouquet. See website for current and past contributors and free downloads.

Instant Pussy
free download - http://www.lulu.com/product/file-downloa....shelf/ center/3

Phantom Kangaroo No. 4, Feb 2011
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/
Contributors include Ed Makowski, John Grey, John Swain, Taylor Graham and many others.

The Meadowland Review Winter, 2011.
http://www.themeadowlandreview.com/
Featuring poems by Giles Goodland, Corey Mesler, Howie Good, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Matteo Spinetti, Laura E. Davis and more. Fiction by Maria Hummer. Mixed Media collage by Charles Farrell and photography by Colleen Purcell.

kill author Issue 11:Carver, Feb 2011.
"a literary journal for the mostly alive"
http://killauthor.com/
Issue Eleven of kill author is named after Raymond Carver (1938-1988) and features 25 writers.

La Petite Zine Issue #26, Feb 14, 2011
http://www.lapetitezine.org/index.htm
LPZ #26 is an inchoate ripple, a Colt 45, a manhunt in asphalt oceans. She will rip from the stalk, dye your hair black, and blossom like a wild pear on a seventh story fire escape.

Beat the Dust (Crime/Noir Issue, Feb 2011)
http://beatthedust.com/beat-the-dust.asp
Beat the Dust has joined forces with indie publishers, Murder Slim Press and Pulp Press to bring you a bumper genre edition of the litzine. Expect cutting edge writing from some of the best crime/noir-ists in the biz, including exclusive extracts of forthcoming novels.

Blue Lake Review (Feb 2011)
http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/
A great variety of new fiction from experienced and new up and coming writers, including David Brendan Hopes, Donald O'Donovan, Gene Hines, Leslie Teel, Kristi Wallwork, and David A. Ross. More exceptional poetry from the likes of Patrick Lawrence O'Keeffe, Lyn Lifshin, Joanne Lowery, Alexandra Isacson, James Lee Jobe, Judith Dickerson-Nelson, and Dariel Suarez.

--Calls for Submission--
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Blink Ink
Info: www.blink-ink.com
Blink Ink is a small printed quarterly that features 50 words fiction. It is available by subscription (just covers postage and some of the printing costs)
Blink Ink is produced by Full of Crow press and is edited by Doug Mathewson.

RIGHT NOW: We are accepting submissions for Blink Ink #6 and all submissions are eligible for our postcard contest. One story will be featured on the new Blink Ink postcard.

Special Noir Issue #7: Yes, a special "noir" issue, featuring a comic-punkass feel and a looser aesthetic. Wanted badly: dark pulp comic style art work and dark fiction.
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Roach-O-Rama: An Anglo-Australian Magazine
Disclaimer: The content of the site hosting Roach-O-Rama is most definitely 18+, so please be aware of that before clicking through all willy nilly.

The manifesto of Roach-O-Rama:

“Roach-O-Rama is a fucking call to arms for all the scribblers out there! A Biannual Print Only Project, that harks back to the old Xerox punk printing process.”

Submission Guidelines
Send poems the old fashioned way. Jot them down on payslips, pizza boxes or preferably on an A4 sheet of paper, stick them in an envelope and mail them to whichever one of these addresses is cheaper for you to post to. Roach-O-Rama UK, 41 Drayton Wood Road, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6BY, England or Roach-O-Rama Oz, PO Box 806Tullamarine, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3049

We are accepting submissions for the first edition until June 1st 2011.
for more information go to http://www.horrorsleazetrash.com/roach-o-rama-2/
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Swill Magazine
http://swillmagazine.com/
Swill is accepting submissions for our sixth issue. Samples from issues 1 through 5 are now available at www.swillmagazine.com . The reading period ends when the magazine is full. If you have any fiction which you would like to send our way, please reply toeditors@swillmagazine.com
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The Connecticut River Review contains poems by Marge Piercy, Gray Jacobik, John Minczeski, Linda Nemec Foster, Cecilia Woloch, and others. To read more about the journal, please go to http://ct-poetry-society.org/publications.htm#crrguide or send submissions to Lisa Siedlarz, Editor Connecticut River Review, 53 Pearl St New Haven CT 06511
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--Book Releases--

The Full Of Crow Chapbook Series
www.fullofcrowpress.org
The Full Of Crow Chapbook Series features poetry chapbooks (mostly poetry, some short fiction) in simple printed volumes, saddle stitched, card stock covers.

Available now: "Last Winter's Leaves" by Michael Solender
"Burnt Palmistry" by John Swain
"19th Street Station" by Paul Corman-Roberts
"The Lights Will Inspire You" by Andrew Taylor

Coming this month: Pris Campbell, Aimee Delong, Jim Wittenberg

Spring: Michael McAloran

--Book Releases--
Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea by Leopold McGinnis (AU Press)
http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120186

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Blood and Greasepaint by Karl Koweski (Epic Rites Press)
http://epicrites.org

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Rock n Roll Jizz by Doug Draime (Propaganda Press)
http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#rock_n_roll_jizz

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Literary Underground Newsletter #1

The Literary Underground News and Updates
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New Releases

--January--
Red Fez Publications (Number 30, January 2011)
http://redfez.net/
The first of our monthly issues, Red Fez #30, consists of two comics,
twenty-six poems, four reviews and twelve stories including a non-fiction
piece by Eric Day and columns by Paul Corman-Roberts and Karl Koweski.
Contributors in this issue include Doug Draime, Rebecca Schumejda, Jason
Hardung, William Taylor Jr., Ben Nardolilli and many others.

Prick of the Spindle (Volume 4 Number 4, 2011)
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/
Poetry by Bonnie Auslander, Rebecca Schumejda, Benjamin Cartwright, Howie
Good, Corey Mesler, and more; fiction by Brian Mihok, Jennifer Juneau, Donna
Vitucci, and more. Includes a special reprint from late author Cami Park.
Plus, nonfiction by Richard Paul Skinner, Brant Goble, Julie Innis, and
others; drama by Garrett Socol, Jen Karetnick, and Nancy Gessner.

Zygote in my Coffee (Issue #133, January 2011)
http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com
Six pack of poetry featuring Ivan Jenson, Mather Schneider, J.D. Nelson,
Carl Miller Daniels, Tim Murray and J.J. Campbell; fiction by Josh Olsen;
The Polish Hammer by Karl Koweski; Horoscopes for Slow Children by Misti
Rainwater-Lites and more.

Gutter Eloquence (Issue #13, January 2011)
http://www.guttereloquence.com
Poetry by Jason L. Huskey, David McLean, Alan Catlin, James Babbs, Cynthia
Ruth Lews and more.

In Between Altered States (Episode #9, January 2011)
http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/
Flash fiction by F.D. Marcel, Dan Provost, David E. Oprava, Misti
Rainwater-Lites, Luis C. Berriozabal, Robert Vaughan, Ryan Snellman, and
Maria Gornell.

Thieves Jargon (Issue 204, January 2011)
http://www.thievesjargon.com/
Poetry and short stories by Steve Edwards, Timothy Moore, Catfish McDaris,
Alex Koplow, Jason Huskey, and Joseph Kees.

Full Of Crow's Quarterly Fiction (January 2011)
http://www.fullofcrow.com/fiction/2011/01/quarterly-fiction-january-2011/
Fiction by Wendy Ashlee Coleman, July Westhale, AE Reiff, Ievin Winter,
Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Kilian Conor, Daniel W. Davis, Robert John
Miller, Cynthia K. Marshall, Larry Strattner, Coyote Southbridge, James
Hinkson, Kathy Ewing, Jeffrey McDonald, Neal Holtschulte, Mark James Andrews
, and Meg Tuite.

Pank Magazine (6.01 January 2011)
http://www.pankmagazine.com/category/2011/6-01-january-2011/
Andre Babyn, Jen Besemer, Alec Bryan, Samantha Cohen, Ande Davis, Nicelle
Davis, Janice Harrington, Micah Dean Hicks, Nina Feng, I Fontana, Lincoln
Michel, Erin Lyndal Martin, Laurence Pritchard, Katy Resch, Peter Schwartz,
Gregory Sherl, christian Tebordo, James Valvis, and Bess Winter.

--February--
decomP (February 2011)
http://www.decompmagazine.com
Photography, flash prose, short prose, poetry, and book reviews.
Contributors include Peter Schwartz, Tara Laskowski, Tyson Bley, Susan S.
Keiser, Spencer Dew and others.

Otoliths (Issue #20, February 2011)
http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/
Otoliths is open to electronic submissions of textual poetry, vispo,
fiction, essays, photographs, art & any combination of the above. Current
contributors include J.D. Nelson, Wayne Mason, Felino Soriano, Ceclia
Chapman, Howie Good and many others.

--Publication Directories--
Poets & Writers
http://www.pw.org/toolsforwriters
Job Listings, Literary Agents, Grants and Awards, Literary Magazines, Small
Presses and more.

Writer's Database
http://www.writersdb.com
Track Submissions, Find Markets, Chart Your Writing Habits

Duotrope's Digest
http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx
free writers' resource listing over 3275 current Fiction and Poetry
publications

New Pages
http://newpages.com/
News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent
publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record
labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.

Litmags.org
http://litmags.org/index.php
There are currently 540 magazines listed on this site.

Lit List
http://litlist.net/
LitList is an online network of literary journals, book publishers, online
literary journals, and writers, that gives literary publishers and writers
new ways to interact. Publishers can update their submission guidelines,
contact information, and contests knowing that writers who follow them
immediately see those updates. Writers can post updates, track submissions
they send to publishers, and follow the publishers they love.

Dustbooks
http://dustbooks.com/
Dustbooks is a publishing company and the leading international supplier of
small press information since 1964. International Directory of Little
Magazines and Small Presses, Directory of Poetry Publishers, Directory of
Small Press/Magazine Editors and Publishers, Small Press Review and more.

Poetry Publishers Who Accept Electronic Submissions
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pbonline.html
Compiled by Louie Crew
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The Literary Underground Wiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to
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culture of the underground press._
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--Book Releases--
Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea by Leopold McGinnis (AU Press)
http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120186

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Blood and Greasepaint by Karl Koweski (Epic Rites Press)
http://epicrites.org

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Rock n Roll Jizz by Doug Draime (Propaganda Press)
http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#rock_n_roll_jizz

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