Reminder that there is an upcoming deadline: Dec. 20th for the Winter 2019 issue. Also, we are looking for volunteer editors and someone to assist with social media for future issues. Send an e-mail if interested!
Weekly Reading Recommendations
Poetry Collection: Cold Pastoral: Poems by Rebecca Dunham
Poem: This Is What You Are by TC Tolbert
Fiction: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
Flash Fiction Issue Deadline Extended
We are extending the Flash Fiction issue to the end of November and designating it the November Flash Fiction Flash Issue.
General Update
Just a few announcements:
- The deadline for the October Flash Fiction Flash Issue is in a few days (October 31st). Please see our previous post for more information regarding what we’re looking for! We might extend the deadline for this by a week if necessary and then pick back up in January (we’ll be doing a special December issue).
- We’re currently running an interest check for that special December issue. Please fill out the form here if you’re interested in contributing or helping out in some way https://forms.gle/CcPodzZZdf2p6rvi7
- Reminder: our deadline for the Winter 2019 issue is Dec. 20th.
October 2019 Flash Fiction Flash Issue
We’re implementing a fun and new series of mini issues all featuring flash fiction. The only requirements are that the story must be between 300 and 1000 words and must include a particular line in the story.
For this month’s issue the line comes from Joanne Harris’ Coastliners: Ten years, almost half my life, erased at a single stroke, like writing in the sand.
Questions and submissions can be sent to sbsubmit475@gmail.com
Verso Publisher Book Sale – Last Day!
Just 8 hours remain in Verso’s major book sale, with many titles discounted at 50% off and a handful of ebooks being offered for free. Among them include Bourriard’s The Exform, which I am particularly interested in reading. I’ve read his Relational Aesthetics and have returned to it a few times for research purposes. Other free titles include Screened Out by Jean Baudrillard and Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre, both names I’ve encountered in previous reading.
Among the countless titles being offered at a discounted 50% off, Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life is one I purchased. At $10 and over 900 pages worth of material that incorporates a wide span of disciplines and also addressed inauthenticity (a research interest of mine, particularly how it’s addressed in philosophy and depicted in literary texts), how could I not get it?
List of free ebooks today here.
And details of their sale here.
If you happen to grab any titles, let us know which one(s) in the comments section!
September Book Spotlight: Recent and Upcoming Releases
A short piece from us that looks at 3 recent or upcoming books: https://scribebase.wordpress.com/september-spotlight/.
Any on your to-read list? Let us know!
Also posted in the Winter 2019 issue; if you have a few upcoming releases on your to-read list and want to write a paragraph or two about them, we’ll consider it! Book reviews, likewise. Feel free to e-mail us with any questions
Autumn 2019 Update
A new poem has been added to the Autumn 2019 issue! The Monster of Glamis by Richard Stevenson.
Also: the submission window for Winter 2019 is open; contributors will retain all rights to any accepted pieces. Only pieces you still own the rights to will be considered (unpublished pieces make this process easier; but published work will also be considered). We’re looking for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography, book reviews (or movie reviews even! especially if the movie is based off of a book), etc.
Autumn 2019 Issue Update
Three new poems have been added to the Autumn 2019 issue! Check out the issue in its entirety here (under the Past Issues -> 2019 section)
Autumn 2019 Issue Update
Two more submissions have been accepted and posted on for the Autumn 2019 issue! View all current accepted submissions here. Both are by Jane Dougherty, who published two poems in our Winter 2014 (Scribe Base’s first) issue!
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