Short Fiction, Really Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Way-too-lengthy Short Fiction, Novel Excerpts, Poems, Interviews with Really Famous Writers and Filmmakers, Sucking Up to Really Famous Writers and Filmmakers and Asking Banal Questions like "So why are you so awesome? Do tell, do tell!", Music, Synthetic Leather
Music
The Decemberists, Destroyer, The Dresden Dolls, The Fall, The Flaming Lips, Gogol Bordello, The Hold Steady, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Joanna Newsom, Pavement, Rasputina, Robots in Disguise, Violent Femmes, Yo La Tengo
Movies
Cabaret, Cries and Whispers, Dead Man, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Everything is Illuminated, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Heathers, The House of Yes, In the Bedroom, Magnolia, Manhattan, A Night at the Opera, Night of the Living Dead, The Rules of the Game, Shoot the Piano Player, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Books
American Pastoral (Philip Roth), Blackwood Farm (Anne Rice), Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy), Bridge of Sighs (Richard Russo), Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Ray Carney), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen), The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett), Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood), The Keep (Jennifer Egan), The Mermaids Singing (Lisa Carey), On Revolution (Hanna Arendt), Orientalism (Edward Said), Palestine (Joe Sacco), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Top Girls (Caryl Churchill), The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)
Heroes
Diane Arbus, Jack Bauer, John Cassavetes, Neil Gaiman, Pauline Kael, Rachel Maddow, Det. Jimmy McNulty, Amanda Palmer, Dee Plume, Ramona Quimby
About me: Words and Images is the literary journal published by the University of Southern Maine, and is now entering its 33rd year of continuous publication.
Words and Images is accepting submissions for the 2009 issue. We are pretty eclectic (erratic?) in our tastes, and will therefore consider pretty much anything. Genre fiction, experimental work, Literature (with a capital L): whatever you have that you'd like to throw our way.
Mostly we're interested in pieces that push the boundaries of convention and form, without: a) becoming incoherent; b) becoming lifeless, hollow, empty; c) sacrificing emotion for effect. We're looking for popular experimentation. We want work for large groups of people to read and feel intelligent for doing so, therefore becoming a better large group of people in the process.
Generally speaking, we publish writers with some connection to Maine, who manage to avoid all of the cliches of "Maine writing" - lobster boats, rocky coastlines, crusty fishermen, lighthouses, etc. However, we are fairly flexible in terms of what we consider a "connection to Maine," and if, say, Charles D'Ambrosio were to send us a masterpiece, we'd figure something out.
We'll consider two short stories or self-contained novel excerpts per writer, though be advised that shorter pieces of fiction obviously stand a better chance of being accepted. We will consider up to three poems of any length.
Please include a cover letter, just so we can get a sense of where you're coming from, but do not feel bad if you don't have dozens of previous publications: we love to discover new writers.
We pay contributors in two copies of the journal, in addition to $20 per poem or printed page of prose.
We also accept submissions of visual art, but there are some caveats; please query first.
PLEASE NOTE: The 2009 issue of Words and Images will be loosely themed around the following: the ways in which seemingly disparate narrative arts can affect and inform one other, thus erasing the boundaries between them. If you have something that doesn't exactly fit this description, don't worry; it won't be extremely detrimental to your chances of being accepted. We'd just be extra happy to see this kind of work. (Besides, the boundaries between the arts have, by now, probably been eroded more than you - or we - know.)
Send submissions of poetry to: wordsandimagespoetry@gmail.com
Send submissions of fiction and creative non-fiction to:
wordsandimagesprose@gmail.com
Send general inquiries to wordsnimages@gmail.com
The deadline for the 2009 issue is February 1, 2008. Anything submitted after that must be considered for the 2010 issue.
We look forward to reading your work!
Words and Images 2009 Staff:
Seth Bishop Chad Chamberlain Benjamin Rybeck Aubin Thomas
Words and Images will give this award to the poem or short story that best explores the following topic: the ways in which seemingly disparate arts (literary and visual) can affect and inform one other, thus erasing the boundaries between them. This is vague, pseudo-intellectual babble for the following: we're looking for poems and short stories which take their influence from, say, film, or painting, or popular music, or [insert your own]. Since this award can go either to a story or a poem, the contest will be judged by the entire Words and Images staff, in addition to a panel of four creative writing professors at the university, consisting of two poets and two fiction writers.
Here's the point: the entry fee is $15, and the prize is $1000, in addition to publication in the 2009 issue of Words and Images. All entries will automatically be considered for publication in the 2009 issue, regardless of whether they win the contest. The deadline for entry is February 1, 2009. Though we only accept regular submissions electronically, we ask for hard copy entries for the contest. Any hard copies not accompanied by the $15 entry fee cannot be considered. They can be mailed to Words and Images, University of Southern Maine, PO Box 9300, Portland, Maine, 04104.
This is a call to ALL poets who write Love Poems. Write about any aspect of love. You can write about expressing love and having it not returned, interacting with the one you love or surprise us. Do not write ‘definition of love’ poems. "ALL " writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries. Winners will be notified in August, 2009 by Love Poet and Author of The Age Begins, Oneal Walters.
1st Place $110 US, plus interviewed in Chapter and Verse, 2nd Place $60 US 3rd Place $30 US
Submission fee $7.00 US (Approx $8.44 CAN) per poem Multiple submissions accepted, submission fee per poem
DEADLINE: July 6, 2009
Be the 1st to win our 2nd Annual Love Poem Contest!
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