Salon Zine, the online magazine that accompanies the Sunday Salon (a monthly NYC reading series run by some friends of mine from grad school) -- is running a special theme issue that might be of interest to group members:
Please see details, below (cut and pasted from a recent personal email)
http://www.sundaysalon.com/zine
Before you head to the beach or take off for vacation, please consider submitting your prose and/or poetry for the upcoming summer/fall issue of SalonZine themed "Spill". You know, stories or poetry about spills of all kinds: oil, beans, emotion, etc. (things that get out of control, that we try to control, that control us...)
The deadline: August 7, 2010.
Sara, thanks so much for your posting.
Sundaysalon is a terrific zine, I've known Nita and Caroline, the co-editors, for a long time. They are socially/politicially conscious women, so it doesn't surprise me that they would take on an oil theme for the issue.
Their submission page states that they're not accepting submissions at this time--are you sure it's still open?
Susan, why not send them an email, they should have a contact address on the site, then you'll know for sure
Thanks, Susan, I might do that, but on the other hand, I'm losing that first excitement over finishing a story and I think they'll get much, much better than this.
Interested in stories and poems from any perspective that are tied in, directly or tangentially, to the oil spill in the gulf. Allow your characters to run wild and loose on the page. Show how the oil spill ties into their lives, and hearts and minds, and perhaps what they perceive as "the future." Same with the poems, any perspective that has a window into the spill. Though this is a most serious topic, humor and satire can pack a powerful punch.
This is a public group.
Anyone can see it and join.