August 25, 2010
Open Call for Plop! and Pool Parties!
Hi writers. Lookin’ for something to do? Somewhere to submit. We have hot tips…
#1
“PLOP! is a monthly series hosting writers and musicians from across the Northwest in an intimate house setting. Providing artists with an opportunity to challenge, shape and engage their work and the audience by thinking in new
ways about space. With support from local small business sponsors, we provide you with only the best in performance, fresh seasonal pies, and drinks on the house.”
PLOP! is seeking writers and literary artists for upcoming performances: September 18th and November 13th.
Please provide work samples and brief inquiry by September 6th, 2010 to plopliteraryseries@gmail.com.
For information on submissions, guidelines, and to get a taste of what PLOP! is about, visit the website.
#2
The publication is called HOARSE, and the issue is themed POOL PARTY. (The launch party will be a pool party, rain or shine, on the Autumn equinox ((Thursday, September 23).)
Poetry, prose, and editorial are all accepted, and the theme can be considered loosely. Anything involving bathing suits, underwater tea parties, sun, sweat, etc. is totally on the mark. Short stories especially welcome.
Please submit by noon on Tuesday, August 31. Send submissions to Hoarsey@gmail.com with POOL PARTY in the subject line. Thank you!
August 5, 2010
Out-of-town but not out-of-mind
If you happen to be reading from Oakland, Ca, here’s one for you.
Studio One Art Center. August 6th at 7pm.
Beloved friends-of-Pilot Dot Devota and Brandon Shimoda will be reading with the talented Eric Baus of Octopus and Wave fame.
Please click here for more details. And tell them Pilot says hi.
July 6, 2010
All I Really Want is a Mouthful of Bacon Bits
People keep askin me questions. “How’s business?” How’s business since Elliott Bay moved in?” “Did you know Elliott Bay carries this zine?” “Did you know Amazon sells this book?” “Do you know about the economy?”
The answer is, like 99.9% of small press ventures, Pilot Books does not make any money. Pilot Books will probably never make any money. In due time, Pilot Books will fold like a little origami horse and rider and gallop away into a bankrupt, inglorious future wasteland website. I like Westerns. Have you seen “Death Rides a Horse”? Lee Van Cleef runs around with his shirt unbuttoned for the final shoot-out in which 99.9% of all villagers are gunned down and nobody cares. There’s no romantic sub-plot. It’s an almost perfect movie.
What am I doing? I’m late for work.
But what I wanted to say is, Pilot Books is an experiment. An expensive, imperfect, absurd experiment with a guaranteed Hollywood ending. Everything collapses or it doesn’t. Either way it’s impossible to fail!
May 25, 2010
Call for Submissions: SMALLS, short essays and reviews – deadline: June 2nd
SMALLS
an inceptual struggle of the arts
This is an open call for essays and reviews for the innagural issue of Pilot Books’ web journal SMALLS. The organizing principle behind the journal will be first and foremost size: all reviews must be 500 words or shorter to be included. No previously published work will be accepted, but all works submitted must be republished at a later date and at least double the size – which means that we’re here to start things.
Works will be selected by visceral response on the part of the editors, regardless of their subject matter, but particular focus will be on Seattle, the art shows & poetry readings that happen there, and small press books.
Please send submissions here: will [at] pilotbooksseattle [dot] com
Submissions must be collected by the first Wednesday of each month (next deadline: June 2nd) and works will be published by the 3rd wednesday of each month (Next issue: June 23rd)
We only accept electronic submissions. Formatting must be compatible with wordpress (we’ll try our best to make it look nice, but no promises). Please include a brief (auto)biographical note.
May 19, 2010
PLOP! Wants You
Friend-writers, a very cool reading series in Seattle is booking their summertime lineup. Won’t you apply?
P.L.O.P.! is an all new performance series inviting select literary and music artists to perform their work in an intimate house setting for a unique, wide eyed audience.
Curator Josie Davis tells us, “It’s a comfortable venue for writers of all genre, producing finished work and work in progress. Submissions are open to poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, short stories, plays, and other suggestive literary performance…”
And she’s especially eager to book for the June 19th show.
Please send work samples and inquiries to josie.elizabeth.davis@gmail.com
p.s. This was their latest installment…
Donna Miscolta, curator of the 2009 Jack Straw Writer’s Program.
Kathleen Alcalá, Fiction instructor for the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program and member of Los Norteños writers group.
Flor Fernandez, author of Candela (2010, Blue Hat Publishing) and featured writer in Seattle Arts magazine celebrating women of color.
(Music by) Kate Graves, who is part thistle.