Blake Butler
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.]

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45 Comments

  1. Trey

      That’s a handsome journal.

      1 blueprint for a LEGO house

      reply

  2. stephen

      hey, who all lives in chicago besides me?

      reply

      Tim Jones-Yelvington

      Rebekah Silverman

        Me too, but I guess that’s obvious? Stephen you should come to the release party at the end of the month.

        reply

        stephen

          Where’s it at?

          reply

          stephen

            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

      Landon

  3. kfan

      1 jpg of a tramp stamp decrying the failure of the readership to embrace change.

      reply

      Tim Jones-Yelvington

        I love this

        reply

        kfan

          Maybe “lamenting” would have been better than “decrying”. I will not be able to sleep tonight, now.

          reply

          Tim 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.

  4. wax lion

      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)

      reply

  5. Daniel Powell

      1 fiction in the form of a Wikipedia article that’s been e-vandalized

      reply

      thomas

  6. mike

      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).

      reply

  7. darby

      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

      reply

  8. Mark C

      I already bought a subscription, so I don’t want to participate, but holy shit am i excited for this to arrive.

      reply

      Amber

        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.

        reply

        Rebekah 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!)

          reply

          Mark C

            I, uh, just messaged you on FB, Rebekah.

  9. Seth

      1 epic poem told from the perspective of an octopus.

      reply

      mimi

  10. ZZZZIPP

      1 zzzzzzzzzipppp

      reply

      mts

        Zip, you make me laugh!

        reply

      Landon

  11. mjm

      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

      reply

  12. Tyler

      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

      reply

  13. Janey Smith

      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”

      reply

  14. Janey Smith

      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”

      reply

  15. Ben White

      1 story concerning the intricacies of bowel movements as a function of time.

      reply

  16. David E

      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

      reply

      Tim 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.

        reply

  17. David E

      a poem, in the Preterite, about a day a la playa, in alternating Spanish and English

      reply

  18. wax lion

      200 rhyming cat poems

      reply

  19. mark
  20. JScap

      2 too muches
      4 for the wifes
      3 sheets, to the wind

      reply

  21. magick mike

      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

      reply

      magick mike

  22. david 2

      1 farm animal named Charles

      reply

  23. Tim Horvath

      -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.

      reply

  24. HTMLGIANT

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