Who Could Win a Rabbit?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbd0Ncsyus
To win a copy of Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young, try to emulate his distinctive style (as seen at Frigg and Lamination Colony). Mail up to three mimics to adam@publishinggenius.com by Dec 15. The contest is being judged (blindly) by Ellen Parker, editor of Frigg.
Three winners will be chosen. You can win even if you already have a copy of the book or whatever. More info here.
Htmlgiant Caption Contest
In the spirit of New Yorker‘s caption contest, we are having our own. Jeffrey Brown has graciously not only accepted our invitation to judge it, but will be procuring the prize: an original artwork by him (no details — maybe a doodle, maybe more). Just comment what the fish on the ground is saying or thinking. (I made the cartoon as a nod, however awkward and unworthy, to the style of B.E.K., my favorite New Yorker cartoonist.) One entry per person. Only comments with valid links to contact information, or accompanying the entry, will be considered.
Do you have a favorite bookstore? Really? Well then, you can win two Heather Christle broadsides
The very generous Walser & Co / Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts is giving away two limited edition Heather Christle broadsides of her poems “Vespers” and “Barnstormer” from Notnostrums and Nor By Press respectively.
What do you have to do? All you have to do is leave a comment on their blog with the name of your favorite bookstore! That’s it. Maggie the cat will randomly pick a winner. Easy, no heartburn, only the heart cola of Christle’s poetry.
Stay tuned for tomorrow afternoon, when we introduce the final poem of H.C. Week. Keep your brains full of that light stuff.
“LIFE IS NOT A MISTAKE, MORE LIKE A MILLION CAR PILE-UP”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDPo5xFLwXw
The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey is a book of sonnets in all caps, written drunk and edited sober. Death sentences by broccoli and merciful rivers and toys donated to the fire department. Plus lots of bodies and “rank 80-proof emotion” (sayeth K. Silem Mohammad). There are a few ways to get this book. First you can order it. Or, if you’re ambitious, you can film a drunk friend in a drunk situation reading one of the drunk sonnets drunkenly (you can find some here), and if you upload this video to a video-sharing site (you don’t have to be drunk when you do this) and email me about it (magichelicopter_at_gmail.com) I will send you a free one. Like Teddy here, right? Drunk videos, drunk sonnets, drunk <3.
Also, there are Daniel Bailey interviews all over and Daniel Bailey’s bathtub.
Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit trailer
Are you ready for something sublime? Ol’ boy Joe Young made a heartwrenching video to promote his book, Easter Rabbit (which I’m putting it out with Publishing Genius in December).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eIpZii_PZo
Oddly beautiful, no? It’s amazing how much how little can do. And it seems like there have been a lot of special offers here at HTMLGIANT lately. See below for a couple more.
Win Heather Christle’s ‘The Difficult Farm’
The amazing and on-point-to-the-point-of-wow Heather Christle is giving away copies of her very soon to be released debut book of poems, The Difficult Farm, which is coming this month from Octopus Books. Winners will be random, all you have to do is comment on her blog, and for the winners’ books Heather “will draw your home state on the title page from memory.” Well, shit, you better get on that.
You can also preorder the book now.
Ryan Call—
Kim Chinquee will edit the upcoming issue of the Mississippi Review Online and will judge the Flash Fiction Contest at The Collagist.
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Breaking stuff.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqxwXopbdRg
Blake’s remix contest—which celebrates the beauty of taking something nice and fucking it up—results are in. The winner of the contest was Krammer Abrahams.
Couple of Giants made it in, too. Chris Higgs did a erasure of the whole book, which I skimmed through and loved the results of. Catherine is in there, too. I have a little thing—anagrams of the first few paragraphs of the story in question, “Tour of a Drowned Neighborhood”—also.
Lots of other friends, commentators, and relations. Two pieces by Brian Evenson, too! It’s Scrotal Cash. Download it here.