February 4th, 2010 / 3:03 pm
Contests & Print Journals
Artifice Magazine #1
New magazine Artifice, out of Chicago, has just published their first issue, with new work by many radicals, including myself and our own Roxane Gay:
Carol Berg – Jessica Bozek – Blake Butler – Neil de la Flor – Andrew Farkas – Ori Fienberg – Elisa Gabbert – Kelly Haramis – Roxane Gay – Kyle Hemmings – Tim Jones-Yelvington – Gregory Lawless – Jefferson Navicky – Lance Olsen – Joel Patton – Christopher Phelps – Derek Philips – Cynthia Reeser – Kathleen Rooney – Davis Schneiderman – Maureen Seaton – David Silverstein – Susan Slaverio – Kristine Snodgrass – William Walsh
Featuring:
Koalas, terror, that one time you watched your father boil lobsters, infidelity, faithful robots, faithless robot dogs, compromising situations, and at least one missing body.
In the spirit, they have offered to give away three free issues to HTMLGiant readers.
All you have to do is looking at their submission wishlist, which lists the kind of stuff they are looking to publish, and make a suggestion of something to add to that list. Examples are: # 1 piece you’d tell a child not to put in their mouth, # 3 halves of a story, # 1 game code that unlocks a secret level. Comment with your suggestion and 3 winners will be picked tomorrow afternoon.
In the meantime, consider picking up an issue, and/or sending your work!
[P.S. This is the 3000th post at HTMLGiant. Weird.]
Tags: Artifice Magazine
That’s a handsome journal.
1 blueprint for a LEGO house
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hey, who all lives in chicago besides me?
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February 4th, 2010 / 3:41 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
hi
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February 4th, 2010 / 3:44 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
I can give you a much longer list if you want.
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February 4th, 2010 / 6:07 pmRebekah Silverman—
Me too, but I guess that’s obvious? Stephen you should come to the release party at the end of the month.
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February 4th, 2010 / 6:12 pmstephen—
Where’s it at?
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February 4th, 2010 / 6:17 pmstephen—
OK, looked it up, Loft 3A. That’s pretty close to where I live. Thanks for the invite, Rebekah. I will definitely try to come to that
February 5th, 2010 / 6:15 amLandon—
Chicago kid right here, guy. lets exchange stories.
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February 5th, 2010 / 6:06 pmstephen—
what’s your email? blog?
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February 6th, 2010 / 4:28 amLandon—
landon.manucci@gmail.com
1 jpg of a tramp stamp decrying the failure of the readership to embrace change.
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February 4th, 2010 / 3:42 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
I love this
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February 4th, 2010 / 4:28 pmkfan—
Maybe “lamenting” would have been better than “decrying”. I will not be able to sleep tonight, now.
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February 4th, 2010 / 4:41 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
I actually like decrying because it seems slightly more righteous and proactive, which if you know editor Tadd Adcox’s passion for Artifice’s aesthetic, is totally appropriate.
1 1950s educational filmstrip about puberty
2 boardgames
1 story in the form of a desperate author’s cover letter
3 Haircuts (Ring Lardner style, that is)
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1 fiction in the form of a Wikipedia article that’s been e-vandalized
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February 4th, 2010 / 5:26 pmthomas—
nice
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1 “shrinking” short fiction or poetry sequence, i.e. one where each section is written on a progressively smaller piece of paper (or a progressively smaller sized word doc).
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1 duck there’s nothing wrong with
7 more brandy wines
glass for 3 more coagulating corollas
1 tabasco filled swallowed condom
1 merrily merrily
1 and 7 more
2 milky way happenstancers
1 holy
another holy milky mama
okay jump in sawtooth another
once again another duck there’s nothing wrong with
7 more
glass for 3
1
eat it
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I already bought a subscription, so I don’t want to participate, but holy shit am i excited for this to arrive.
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February 4th, 2010 / 6:01 pmAmber—
Me too! I’ve been salivating over Artifice ever since I first got a peek at their wishlist.
Here’s mine:
1 map of the world, intentionally left blank.
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February 4th, 2010 / 6:05 pmRebekah Silverman—
Aw, shucks…
(BTW, Mark C. is your subscription under another name? Shoot me an email if it ain’t. I been making labels and Mark C.’s not on my list. Is this a weird aside in an HTMLGIANT thread? Whatever. It’s customer service, baby!)
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February 4th, 2010 / 11:41 pmMark C—
I, uh, just messaged you on FB, Rebekah.
1 epic poem told from the perspective of an octopus.
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February 4th, 2010 / 9:32 pmmimi—
epic octopi
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1 zzzzzzzzzipppp
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February 4th, 2010 / 4:47 pmmts—
Zip, you make me laugh!
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February 5th, 2010 / 6:21 amLandon—
this guy
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2 blank pages w/ words written in the shape of a sheet of paper, legal
8 wordless syllables arranged to subtract over time if looked at with one eye covered
1 high school drama (pref. saved by the bell) written from the characters perspective if they were in the audience watching themselves unrealizing they were actors
0 honeybees framed as the plight of the working man
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4 Dear Abby letters about family members who are opportunistic necrophiles
1 Sestina using the end words of HTMLGIANT, pudding, bait, lollipop, sensei, and heartache
2 lists: “Things I Wanted To Learn In High School” and “People Named Kanye Who Have Nose Bleeds”
22 pictures of the Super Bowl Winner Offensive/Defensive starters autographed with Haikus written by the players’ agents posing as real autographs/haikus written by the players
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something sprinkled with atoms, red blue yellow, and all these lines that are invisible that bring atoms together into clumps of color, molecules float around, on “page”
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something sprinkled with atoms, red blue yellow, and all these lines that are invisible that bring atoms together into clumps of color, molecules float around, on “page”
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1 story concerning the intricacies of bowel movements as a function of time.
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final words of 7 people, one per continent, expressing gleeful rage at their families
prose poem of mobsters’ final thoughts before being killed by friends
poem about geraldo’s afterparty the night jackshit was in the vault
story about jenny jones and tempestt bledsoe setting up a working brunch with jerry and maury
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February 6th, 2010 / 10:00 amTim Horvath—
Hey, David, fyi Peter Orner has a short piece in the latest Conjunctions called “Geraldo.” It’s prose and not afterparty, but you might want to check it out.
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a poem, in the Preterite, about a day a la playa, in alternating Spanish and English
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200 rhyming cat poems
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1 Game Genie.
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2 too muches
4 for the wifes
3 sheets, to the wind
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1 factory set on fire using common house hold items in the form of a box of ash
3 celebrity come-shots appropriated as asemic poetry
12 poems written to be viewed in a mirror
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February 5th, 2010 / 2:35 pmmagick mike—
house hold, house-hold, household
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February 5th, 2010 / 2:36 pmmagick mike—
house-held
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1 farm animal named Charles
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-1 story translated into a nonexistent language, invented on the spot and at once more mellifluous and abrasive than the original.
-1 story that is a stunt double or understudy for another story.
-1 story containing elements so dangerous that a recall is issued on it which as days go by spreads genre-wide.
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