A cappella Zoo - Spring 2010

Promiscuous clouds and kitchenware, characters escaping their plots, a man holding a six-month breath, a contemporary Sisyphus, a refreshingly darker Cat in the Hat, and stories in Hebrew and Latvian—this and more fill the pages of the latest edition of A cappella Zoo.

Issue 4 was released in print this April and is being released online in daily morsels throughout the month. The artwork of Sarah Walko, Meagan Jenigan, and Peter L. Scacco make the print version a particular treat. This issue features a play, 16 short stories, 10 flash stories, and 14 poems by the following authors: Rob E. Boley, Rae Bryant, Eric Burke, R. Matthew Burke, Matt Carney, Maria Deira, Francis DiClemente, Gabe Durham, Greg Gurke, Joseph Harrington, Lois Beebe Hayna, Kyle Hemmings, Robert Hinderliter, Crystal Hoffman, Jennifer Koe, Larry Lefkowitz, Ben Loory, Ieva, Melgalve, Christina Murphy, Kurt Newton, Justin Petropoulos, M.P. Powers, Amy Rollinson, Robin Rozanski, Christopher Ryan, Eric Schaller, Randolph Schmidt, Noel Sloboda, Audri Sousa, Amber Sparks, Laura Spencer, Patrick Sugrue, Pedro Tejada, John Thornton, J.A. Tyler, Karen Marie Vaughn, Chris Wiewiora, and Catherine Zickgraf.

About A cappella Zoo
Colin Meldrum founded A cappella Zoo in 2008 with the help of three friends. The Zoo has since grown to include a board of a dozen editors and readers across the US, UK, and Canada. The journal emphasizes magic realism and slipstream, with room for other explorations of perspective, reality, and genre.

A cappella Zoo · Issue 4 · Spring 2010
182 pages, paperback, single issue $7
semi-annual journal
ISSN: 1945-7480

Mutating the Signature (qarrtsiluni)

Mutating the Signature is the Winter 2009 issue of the online literary magazine qarrtsiluni. The title refers to the issue's theme: all the writing, images, and multimedia works included were collaborations. Issue editors Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore, longtime poetry collaborators themselves, wrote in their call for submissions that they wanted "to emphasize the gnarly, brilliant, iterative, process-oriented mess that is the heart of any collaborative artistic endeavor."

The print edition couldn't include music or video and one set of image-poem collaborations for which color was necessary, but it contains all the other poems, essays, and stories that were published online. One of its most intriguing aspects is the inclusion of "process notes" by each pair or group of collaborators, explaining how they worked together and how the collaborative process not only mutated each person's original ideas into something new, but changed their concept of authorship itself.

After editing the collaborate qarrtsiluni issue, Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore continued the concept in their own online magazine, also called Mutating the Signature, each issue of which features real-time collaborations between two poets, or a poet and an artist.

About qarrtsiluni
As online literary magazines go, qarrtsiluni, at five-and-a-half years old, is positively venerable -- but retains the edginess, openness, vitality and editorial responsiveness that have set it apart from the beginning. Qarrtsiluni offers cutting-edge electronic delivery of original, thematically organized poetry, prose, and art, and its almost-daily posts are available online both as text and audio, read by the authors; the magazine can be accessed via browsers, email, feed readers, portable music listening devices, and through the print editions. The title comes from an Iñupiaq word that means “sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst.” Qarrtsiluni's managing editors are Dave Bonta and Beth Adams; three of the four issues each year are guest-edited by teams of two invited editors and the magazine sponsors an annual chapbook contest.

Mutating the Signature (qarrtsiluni vol. 1.2)
Dana Guthrie Martin + Nathan Moore, editors
146 pages; 6 x 9", $13.95
March 2010.

ETA - Delphine Pontvieux (Miss Nyet)

Delphine Pontvieux's ETA - Estimated Time of Arrest explores the ever current theme of terrorism, but with an original twist, since it is set in the heart of the Basque country, a region trapped between France and Spain, and struggling for its independence for many decades.
After participating in a pro-separatist march that turned violent in January of 1992, 21-year-old Lorenzo Lartaun Izcoa is wrongly charged with the fatal bombing of a police station in his home town. Irun is located right on the border between France and Spain, on the Atlantic Ocean. Lartaun finds himself on the Spanish Secret Service's "most wanted" list, branded an active member of the Basque terrorist group ETA.
He flees to Mexico where he lives in exile for two years, before being offered a chance to return to Europe with a new identity, in exchange for a favor for his boyhood friend. That favor, however, will prove to be more than he can handle once he finds out that Patxi is planning for a big event to shake Spanish politics.
What sets this thriller apart from many others is the in-depth view of the characters and the friendships that serve to advance the story. And while the characters and events depicted are entirely fictional, references to real life political culture and geographic locales make this story credible, giving the reader a chance to learn about the Basques and their homeland.

Delphine Pontvieux was born in Versailles and grew up in France. She graduated from the University of Burgundy in Dijon. She also lived, studied and worked in Australia, the USA, Spain and the Netherlands until she moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, where she still lives today. Delphine loves the mountains and the seas. She is a scuba instructor, cave and technical diver, and ocean conservation advocate. As a writer, she regularly contributes to international diving publications.

About Miss Nyet
Miss Nyet Publishing is an independent venue dedicated to finding talented and creative writers with a unique voice in a wide array of fiction genres, with a preference for thrillers, suspense, romance and horror. An interview was recently up in the Small Press Review: Small Press Profile - Miss Nyet Publishing.

Delphine Pontvieux: ETA
344-page hardcover
US$ 18,95
ISBN 978-09842176-0-1

Indefinite Space 2010

Indefinite Space: Trees + bodies + minds, wilderness + birds, music—art, sea + sand compose the pages, as do situations, relationships, gardens, ghosts, and suns.

The 2010 edition of Indefinite Space contains work from 32 poets & artists: Aviva Englander Cristy, Felino Soriano, Jane Thompson, Ranjani Murali, Matina L. Stamatakis, Derek Henderson, Will Morris, Sarah Ahmad, Caitlyn Paley,
John Hocter, Kristen Ravel, Crag Hill, Doug Bolling, William Garvin, John Cross,
Nico Vassilakis, Ursula Ziegler, Kat Dixon, Talia Reed, Caitlin Johnson, Rebecca Mertz,
Guy R. Beining, Marina Blokker, Jeanne Shannon, Andrew Topel & Scott Helmes, Peter Layton, TWIXT,
David Spiering, Melissa Cannon, Dorothee Lang, and Matthew Joy.

Indefinite Space is edited by Marcia Arrieta, whose first chapbook experimental: was published by potes & poets press. Her second chapbook the curve against the linear is part of The Quartet Series— An Uncommon Accord, published by toadlily press. She has a MFA in poetry from Vermont College.

About Indefinite Space
Marcia Arrieta founded Indefinite Space in 1991 after receiving a grant for her work from the Pasadena Arts Council. She has continued to publish the journal independently for 18 years. Indefinite Space has a penchant for the avant-garde, the philosophical, the minimal (but not always), the natural, and the intangible.

Indefinite Space 2010
48 pages
single issue $7
ISSN 1075-6868

100 Stories for Haiti (Bridge House)

100 Stories for Haiti is a unique collection of stories bound together by paper and glue and massive amounts of hope. This is no ordinary book. One morning a writer woke up and decided, "I must do something." Hundreds of talented authors worldwide sent him their stories and the result is an anthology that anyone can enjoy.

This book was initiated by author Greg McQueen. The project website for this book is: 100 stories for Haiti. Read the starting moment of the book in "About", and visit the participating auhors in "Meet The Authors". The list of participating authors and their stories is also up: 100 Stories for Haiti - Revised List. It starts with 1. All-Or-Nothing by Nick Harakaway, and ends with 100. Haiti Before the Earthquake by Susan Partovi.
Proceeds go to helping the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Bestselling author Nick Harkaway contributed a story and penned the book’s introduction. Tania Hershman, author of The White Road and Other Stories, and prize-winning author, Vanessa Gebbie, are also featured in the book, along with other published authors and first-timers.

About Bridge House Publishing
Bridge House Publishing was conceived by Editor Gill James in 2008. Even though they are a new publisher, they have produced by end 2009 nine titles. Realising the potential and market for well written, innovative anthologies Gill brought on board Publicist, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt and Business Administrator, Nicola Rouch.
Bridge House Publishing is a fully fledged new publishing company specialising in anthologies showcasing both new and established writing talent. Their next titles are: Twelve Days, an anthology of 12 unusual adult stories for the long dark nights of winter, and a special Charity Book Animal Anthology.

100 Stories for Haiti
story collection, 292 pages
ISBN: 978-1907335037