Prompt #9 – Speculative

Submissions due: 7/17/13

Selected Poems to be published: 7/31/13

This issue we’ll be accepting poems and prose in the specultaive genre. What is speculative? Well, we think Suzette Haden Elgin of the Science Fiction Poetry Association defined it best:…

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There's A Good Reason This 18-Year-Old Kid Talked Back To His 'Teacher,' Walked Out, And Got An F

His class isn’t real. Except it is.

Wonderful slam

Anonymous asked: Will a new prompt be posted for June? I ask because some journals cease production during the summer months. Thank you.

We will have a new prompt up this following week :)

In the meantime, please consider working on a collaboration for our contest.

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

Issue #8 - Make Us LaughGuest Editor’s Spotlight – Jorge’s Favorite Laura TaylorBiblical Imbecility i finished my bible…View Post

Issue #8 - Make Us Laugh

Guest Editor’s Spotlight – Jorge’s Favorite

Laura Taylor
Biblical Imbecility

i finished my bible…

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Being an artist (or poet)

Linda’s Home Improvement Loan

by Michael G Hickey


Linda went to the bank
borrowed $2,000

and gave it all
to her unemployed

uninspired boyfriend
Darnell. “Here,” she said.

“Get out of my house.”

Published at Atlanta Review

Creative Writing Assignment

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Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me, “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap, it won’t be good. If it’s cheap and good, it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good, it won’t be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Tom Waits