This was an experience much appreciated by my self and all the other people who won't get to take a class like Small Press. Of all the enlightening subjects I've involved myself in I have to say I learned much of what I came to school to learn in that class. Everyone was a joy to work around and learn from and we all know Jonathan is a great teacher. You all are more than welcome to keep in contact with me and also keep this blog up and going. I'll check it every now and then and hang out on it. Shoot I like the darn thing.
Anyways, good luck finding work and getting you creative passions fulfilled as you look and you will reach nirvana...
Bruce Kent
Audio8.com
AV8*ion Publishing
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
It's All Over
I really enjoyed this class. It gave me the motivation to start up my own zine which I've been wanting to do since last semester when I took Fiction Writers and Publishing. I feel like everyone in the class put in their best effort and everyones projects turned out great. I've already linked up a few of you on StickBall. I can't wait to see where these all go in the future.
Here's the web address for StickBall is anybody needs it. www.stickballzine.com
Also, Candace, I was having trouble linking to Anonymous City so can you give me the link? Thanks a lot.
Here's the web address for StickBall is anybody needs it. www.stickballzine.com
Also, Candace, I was having trouble linking to Anonymous City so can you give me the link? Thanks a lot.
The End
Well, it's been a lot of fun working on this project and I still feel like I want to go back in and tweak some things and just keep messing with it, but I know it's done. I just have to sit back and enjoy it now, get the word out about it, and then get some more submissions for the next issue. It is a relief to have it all done, though.
I agree with Anna - all the web people should put their urls up. And all the print people should make some more copies and mail them to us :) or sell them at Quimby's.
Kaleidoscopic Resonance's url - http://kaleidoscopicresonance.wordpress.com
It's been fun, everyone! Thanks for a great class, Jonathan!
I agree with Anna - all the web people should put their urls up. And all the print people should make some more copies and mail them to us :) or sell them at Quimby's.
Kaleidoscopic Resonance's url - http://kaleidoscopicresonance.wordpress.com
It's been fun, everyone! Thanks for a great class, Jonathan!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
clink url
http://www.clinkdrunkstories.wordpress.com
could everyone else with websites post their urls, so I can link to them on clink?
could everyone else with websites post their urls, so I can link to them on clink?
Monday, May 12, 2008
In which I get my shit together and everything falls into place at mostly the last second. Funny how that works, huh?
clink is up and running. I solved the video problem, thank goodness. Well, I sort of solved it. I just reshot the Cinderella one with the same chickiba who told it before, only this time she was drunker and she laughed more. And I got more videos. So I am totally happy. I hope you all are so excited to see the site tomorrow night that you won't be able to sleep, eat, or breathe.
I will never be a Luddite
I don't have internet right now. Haven't had it, actually, since May 1. It's been both a blessing and a curse for my project and my life.
The blessing? I've been able to whip out a bunch of prototypes of what I want the physical thing to look like much faster than if I had access to the sundries of the Internet. I even spent more consecutive and cumulative time in front of the computer, er, building the website for Invisible Arc than I would've if I had access to Myspace and Facebook and my stupid blog.
The curse? Communicating with people has been a bitch of a time. I didn't realize I relied so much on e-mail. It's just really frustrating not being able to respond to people the instant I get their e-mail. Really. How did people live without e-mail? And constantly checking the weather. And seeing if I still have enough space on my Flickr account because I'm too cheap to upgrade to a Pro account. And updating my Podcasts. And a billion other things not related to my project.
Anyway, regardless of the 'net situation, I'm still not freaking out really. I feel like I ought to, though, as if it's the sort of thing I need to do. Maybe I've been extremely lucky with this project and it's going to kick my ass so hard when I venture to do my next one (which is happening, definitely, because, c'mon, after interning/working at two lit journals and making my own zine, I think I have the gumption to make more than one). Though, I know that at like two in the morning, I'll wake up, freak out at the stitching in my binding is all muffed up and probably end up rebinding a whole new book because last-minute panics are the best, I guess.
AND. I can't find my phone so I can't even call my lousy artist or writers to make any last minute demands. I have the faintest inkling that it fell out of my pocket or something whilst biking. Technology and I, we don't get along much.
The blessing? I've been able to whip out a bunch of prototypes of what I want the physical thing to look like much faster than if I had access to the sundries of the Internet. I even spent more consecutive and cumulative time in front of the computer, er, building the website for Invisible Arc than I would've if I had access to Myspace and Facebook and my stupid blog.
The curse? Communicating with people has been a bitch of a time. I didn't realize I relied so much on e-mail. It's just really frustrating not being able to respond to people the instant I get their e-mail. Really. How did people live without e-mail? And constantly checking the weather. And seeing if I still have enough space on my Flickr account because I'm too cheap to upgrade to a Pro account. And updating my Podcasts. And a billion other things not related to my project.
Anyway, regardless of the 'net situation, I'm still not freaking out really. I feel like I ought to, though, as if it's the sort of thing I need to do. Maybe I've been extremely lucky with this project and it's going to kick my ass so hard when I venture to do my next one (which is happening, definitely, because, c'mon, after interning/working at two lit journals and making my own zine, I think I have the gumption to make more than one). Though, I know that at like two in the morning, I'll wake up, freak out at the stitching in my binding is all muffed up and probably end up rebinding a whole new book because last-minute panics are the best, I guess.
AND. I can't find my phone so I can't even call my lousy artist or writers to make any last minute demands. I have the faintest inkling that it fell out of my pocket or something whilst biking. Technology and I, we don't get along much.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Anonymous City Press Release
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Welcome to Anonymous-City
Myanonymouscity.wordpress.com is the forthcoming, first phase of an online magazine aiming to incite the social and cultural instance based tales from new and emerging student writers. The intention is to briefly commandeer an array of reader’s emotions and ideals for an assortment of flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from Columbia College Chicago’s students, one recent graduate and an adjunct faculty member. A tri-quarterly magazine each year’s three issues will include repeating themes. The premier issue’s theme will be women’s lives/femininity in society and all the relationships, conflicts, triumphs, lessons learned and all that meanders in between. For example, Anonymous City’s first issue includes a young woman’s journey of family love by finding a soul mate in her closest cousin and childhood friend. Separately, a lady entering middle age finally decides to have children but discovers the impossibility within her own uterus and conversely the possibilities of rediscovering her body and femininity without a procreating destiny.
Each issue of Anonymous City will be posted by the 16th of January, May and September months. From each contributor their brief biographies, current projects as well as links to their personal websites will be made available following their contribution posts. Included in the premeir issue will be an interview with Amy Schroeder, Editor and Founder of Venus Zine. It's not your average Q and A but we hope you enjoy. For further information please contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Candace Robertson
Address inserted
Crob243@yahoo.com
773-780-8420
The following are a couple of writers Anonymous City thinks that you should look out for:
Jessica Young has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in Performance Studies, and this spring she's graduating with an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She's been published in Warpland, Hair Trigger 29 and 30, the 2007 and 2008 Story Week Reader, and she has an essay in the upcoming issue of Ghost Factory. She is a contributor to Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty Eight. Jessica is currently an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College. She is at work on her first short story collection, and lives in Chicago.
CP Chang received his M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia College of Chicago in 2007. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Hair Trigger, artisan, Upstairs at Duroc, Atlanta Review, on Nerve.com, on wordriot.org, and in the anthology My Angels and Demons at War. He also writes a column for the suburban newspaper The Evanston Sentinel. A section of his novel-in-progress (tentatively titled Causes) won the Patricia Painton Scholarship at the Paris Writers Workshop and an Honorable Mention with the Helen Fong Dare Scholarship at Columbia College.
He can be heard performing his work as a contributor to the reading series RUI: Reading Under the Influence, at the Kate the Great's bookstore, and as part of the 2nd Story performance group. His photography can be seen in No Touching and on Schmap Chicago.
Welcome to Anonymous-City
Myanonymouscity.wordpress.com is the forthcoming, first phase of an online magazine aiming to incite the social and cultural instance based tales from new and emerging student writers. The intention is to briefly commandeer an array of reader’s emotions and ideals for an assortment of flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from Columbia College Chicago’s students, one recent graduate and an adjunct faculty member. A tri-quarterly magazine each year’s three issues will include repeating themes. The premier issue’s theme will be women’s lives/femininity in society and all the relationships, conflicts, triumphs, lessons learned and all that meanders in between. For example, Anonymous City’s first issue includes a young woman’s journey of family love by finding a soul mate in her closest cousin and childhood friend. Separately, a lady entering middle age finally decides to have children but discovers the impossibility within her own uterus and conversely the possibilities of rediscovering her body and femininity without a procreating destiny.
Each issue of Anonymous City will be posted by the 16th of January, May and September months. From each contributor their brief biographies, current projects as well as links to their personal websites will be made available following their contribution posts. Included in the premeir issue will be an interview with Amy Schroeder, Editor and Founder of Venus Zine. It's not your average Q and A but we hope you enjoy. For further information please contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Candace Robertson
Address inserted
Crob243@yahoo.com
773-780-8420
The following are a couple of writers Anonymous City thinks that you should look out for:
Jessica Young has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in Performance Studies, and this spring she's graduating with an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She's been published in Warpland, Hair Trigger 29 and 30, the 2007 and 2008 Story Week Reader, and she has an essay in the upcoming issue of Ghost Factory. She is a contributor to Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty Eight. Jessica is currently an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College. She is at work on her first short story collection, and lives in Chicago.
CP Chang received his M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia College of Chicago in 2007. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Hair Trigger, artisan, Upstairs at Duroc, Atlanta Review, on Nerve.com, on wordriot.org, and in the anthology My Angels and Demons at War. He also writes a column for the suburban newspaper The Evanston Sentinel. A section of his novel-in-progress (tentatively titled Causes) won the Patricia Painton Scholarship at the Paris Writers Workshop and an Honorable Mention with the Helen Fong Dare Scholarship at Columbia College.
He can be heard performing his work as a contributor to the reading series RUI: Reading Under the Influence, at the Kate the Great's bookstore, and as part of the 2nd Story performance group. His photography can be seen in No Touching and on Schmap Chicago.
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