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Vote BULL!
Jarrett Haley, editor of BULL, needs your help:
BULL is now one of five finalists up to win 100K in funding through Dockers’ (Levi’s) “Wear the Pants” Contest. It’s an unprecedented sum for a lit journal, and an unprecedented chance for the literary community to show its strength in numbers.
WE NEED YOUR VOTES—one a day, every day this week. Here’s why you should care about this and take action:
- Your votes are a statement—that reading and writing matter, that journals and small presses are deserving of funding, that stories are important to people and their authors should be compensated.
- The money will go straight to writers. No one’s getting a salary out of this. All funds go towards expanding BULL as a journal and small press. This funding will go into the pocket of artists like you.
- The exposure will bolster the indie lit scene, engaging and informing the public of what’s happening on all these pages, on all these sites. Independent literature is too good to be kept a secret. We want to make more readers in the world, and we’re starting with men.
- This is not a handout, not a Kickstarter campaign, and we’re not asking for a dime. All you have to do is click a button on Facebook. Those clicks alone can create a paying fiction magazine, one with a proven commitment to working closely with writers and building editor/author relationships.
- The opportunity is unprecedented! This is the first time a journal and small press can be founded and well-funded simply by enough people clicking their mouse.
If this is your first time voting, you’ll have to “allow” the voting app and “like” Dockers. There will be boilerplate permission notices, but I assure you it’s legit. Dockers sees only your most basic profile info—what’s already public, what any old stranger can see. They won’t use it for evil and they won’t bombard with you ads. It’s a legitimate contest through a legitimate company.
Dockers is Levi’s, and Levi’s is fucking Levi’s. If ’49ers trusted it during the Gold Rush, so can you today. Do not let skepticism keep you from this opportunity.
A chance like this comes along never. BULL wants to win this with, and for, the literary community. We can’t do it without YOU. Just one click a day and you’ll have done your part. Vote today, and every day, here:
Tags: BULL Men's Fiction, Dockers, levi's
Voted.
oh, men. remind me to vote for them again tomorrow :-)
BAM.
Jarrett and I went to undergrad together–I can vouch for his awesomeness, if need be.
Jesus how I love HTMLgiant even if I do never post. C’mon, everyone, this could be very very big for indie lit; this is what we’re talking about all the time–paying writers, funding for lit mags, etc… and it’s right in front of us! We can do it just by rallying people to click that goddamn button and spread the good word.
I’m by no means a Facebook expert, but I’m thinking the best thing to do is for people to create it as an “event” and invite people? That way there’s a direct message and it lives weeklong in everyone’s sidebar? I dunno, Anybody got any ideas?
Really, at this point we don’t just need votes, we need HELP, strategically, etc–Who should we contact? Where should we do it? How?
Jokes are fine and expected, but I’m hoping alot of you will see true opportunity here and offer us some suggestions, and this comment board can be a bank of ideas to get that ballot box stuffed…
Holy shit I’m amped.
That’s right, my name links straight to the vote site. Talk about strategy. And here it is again: http://apps.facebook.com/dockerswearthepants/entries/21891
That’s right, my name links straight to the vote site. Talk about strategy. And here it is again: http://apps.facebook.com/dockerswearthepants/entries/21891
Hasn’t Levi’s ALREADY spent at least 100K on uh, “men’s fiction”??
Always, right?
Just voted. :)
okay but if you win i expect someone to reimburse me for my time, i usually get paid between $15-20/hr so it will probably come out to something like $0.27 and i better not get a quarter in a reused submission envelope
Gotcha on the ledger. Now go tell someone else!
[meme challenge alert]
what do you mean, “’49ers […] during the Gold Rush”
levi strauss didn’t get to cali ’til 1853
he didn’t manufacture denim overalls for another 20 years
there weren’t levi’s jeans pants ’til after the great war
if there were a magazine of ladies’ literary ‘work’ called COW, it would be popular and not indie at all
Or the gender neutral lit mag – bovīnus. BTW, do they still make ladies? Isn’t that just a girl carrying a parasol?
Jarrett and I (kinda) went to grad school together. I, too, can vouch for his awesomeness.
done and done.
voted! also cross posted over on the NOÖ blog: http://noojournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/vote-bull.html
lol Men’s Fiction
making me “like” dockers to support any literary journal is just cruel
I know, right? Heh! Oh, well. For a good cause!
Hey, don’t mean to be a buzz kill, but does anybody else find this contest problematic? Dockers makes clothes for women and men — I don’t see why this couldn’t be a contest for both genders. Women have plans too.
Hey, don’t mean to be a buzz kill, but does anybody else find this contest problematic? Dockers makes clothes for women and men — I don’t see why this couldn’t be a contest for both genders. Women have plans too.
Hey, don’t mean to be a buzz kill, but does anybody else find this contest problematic? Dockers makes clothes for women and men — I don’t see why this couldn’t be a contest for both genders. Women have plans too.
Hey, don’t mean to be a buzz kill, but does anybody else find this contest problematic? Dockers makes clothes for women and men — I don’t see why this couldn’t be a contest for both genders. Women have plans too.
There is no reason not to think there is some well-thought-out demographic marketing plan behind why. Corporations are really, really good at figuring out what’s profitable for them.
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