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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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