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Camille Alexa
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Date Joined Jun 2007
Total Posts : 599
| Posted 5/27/2008 11:24 PM (GMT -4) |   |
. . . and there you have it. If you have a poem you think might fit Diet Soap's purview, send it to me, Camille Alexa, at poetry@dietsoap.org.
Diet Soap is a semi-pro paying market for poetry (according to Duotrope's definitions). This is a print 'zine of original and reprinted work (artwork, fiction, articles, interviews, poetry all welcome). Current payment is $5 for poetry and a copy of the 'zine.
All other submissions should go to douglain@dietsoap.org. Please make sure to include the word "submission" in your subject line in ALL SUBMISSIONS.
My coeditors Doug Lain and M.K. Hobson are both excellent writers who have between them published in most major genre mags (F&SF, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, ChiZine, Strange Horizons, etc & etc & etc. . . ). Doug has a book of short stories out with Night Shade Books. He also has a novel forthcoming with Tor.
SFReader members (and anyone else!) feel free to PM or email me for more info.
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MysticWino
anarchist fringe monkey boddhisatva
Date Joined May 2007
Total Posts : 1565
| Posted 5/27/2008 11:51 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Swashbuckler
One-man sword-and-sorcery machine
Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 1226
| Posted 5/28/2008 12:19 AM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Camille Alexa
fictionista
Date Joined Jun 2007
Total Posts : 599
| Posted 5/28/2008 2:36 AM (GMT -4) | |
MysticWino said...Comille, Congratulations. Interesting pub. I'm not real clear on what you're looking for - the range and tastes listed are pretty ecclectic. Very interesting. Suggestions?
Hey, David--erm. . . Mr. M.W.!
Yes -- Doug and Diet Soap tend toward the 'literary." Doug is very interested in " fiction + " which defies rigid categorization and evades expectations. He's not adverse to experimental/controversial form and subject matter. From Diet Soap's own guidelines: "We want stories that defy genre distinctions because they seek to escape the confinement of ideology. We want essays that are personal and strange and full of passion without being sentimental, ahistorical, bourgeois or confessional."
Even I'm not quite sure what that means, but it sounds rather exciting. Gets the blood up.
Personally, I'd say send what you got, see how it goes. Return times tend to be very quick (usually under a week). Issue 1 & 2 contributors include Tim Pratt, Stephanie Burgis, Rachel Swirsky, Tina Connolly, and (I believe) SFR's own Thirdy Lopez.
"Email us at info (at) dietsoap (dot) org for a free pdf copy of the ‘zine, and remember to indicate whether you’d like a bookletized or onscreen version."
As for poetry --
I like poetry that's more than just clever wordplay. Cleverness is all right, but meaning is better. Free verse is good, but I have no prejudice against rhyme or conventional forms, as long as those forms/rhymes suit the piece. Inscrutability/inaccessibility -- not my favourite.
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R. L. Copple
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 209
| Posted 5/29/2008 1:51 AM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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