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announcements, errata, hobnobbery
ALR Submissions Closed Until Late 2007 ALR
No Longer
Seeking The Absinthe Literary Review Chosen as Premiere Literary Site for LOCKSS Archive Winner of the 2003 Absinthe Editors’ Prize New Rules for Absinthe Editors’ Prize Winner of the 2003 Eros and Thanatos Prize Winner of the 2002 Eros and Thanatos Prize Winner of the 2001 Eros and Thanatos Prize
ALR
Closes
Submissions IMPORTANT ALR NEWS: For all of 2007, we will be taking a hiatus from submissions to catch up on an enormous backlog, and to attempt to pull together funding and structure for a viable print version of ALR. We will not be accepting any fiction, poetry or essays for submission until further notice. In addition, we will not be accepting new books for review at any time during the next year or so. Please do not send any new books until new guidelines have been posted. For further information on issue publication dates and other miscellaneous data, watch our submission guidelines page.
Due to our editorial restructuring, a substantial backlog, and our OS changeover crash, the Best of ALR Poetry issue will be published on some indefinite future date. Probably.
ALR
No Longer Seeking Due to exponential growth in submissions and books for review, ALR was seeking qualified individuals to read and potentially edit short fiction or poetry; however, we have completed our search for now. When we reopen for business, we will still accept applications and may keep them on file for future consideration, but we are not currently hiring. All positions are non-paying volunteer positions (though this subject will more than likely be revisited when we make the eventual jump to print). This is a great opportunity for up-and-coming and college level writers to bolster their writing skills, editorial acumen, and credentials through exposure to a broad range of fiction or poetry. Prospective applicants should first read our submission guidelines to see if they can read with an effective eye to ALR’s editorial mission, and then submit a query letter including general qualifications, a succinct and pertinent C.V., and a writing sample/clips in fiction or poetry. We may additionally ask candidates for references, though it is not necessary to submit them with the initial query. Candidates must have the technological capability of reading PC format document files (Word, RTF, text files, etc.) and should have some version of MS Outlook for receiving subs and for composing email responses. Subject line of query must read “ALR Position Query” or it may be deleted. Applications may be made via snail mail as well (see guidelines for address).
The Winner
of the The Absinthe Editors’ Prize is awarded annually to the best fiction, poetry
or essay published in the preceding calendar year. Muthoni Garland’s “Odour
of Fate” contained everything we at Absinthe look for in a short story:
vivid and sensuous description, a perfect balance between prosy and poetic
language, a sense of inescapable human obsession, disease, death, sex, you name
it! (We even left the Anglican “Odour” alone—a less than common courtesy
at ALR, despite our deep appreciation of old Will and his English cohorts past
and present.)
The Absinthe Literary Review Chosen as Premiere Literary Site for LOCKSS LOCKSS, a system dedicated to archiving important online material, has chosen to work with ALR as the premiere online literary site for their program. A group of British and American Literature librarians from eight institutions self organized to identify high priority, high risk electronic-only titles for preservation through the LOCKSS system. They submitted an initial list of about fifty titles. The selection criteria for this group was intellectual merit. The technical team reviewed this list and chose to work with ALR and one other online literary journal, Blackbird. Selection criteria was based on publisher technical competence. The librarian team had representatives from:
These eight institutions are expected to be the first places ALR will be preserved. A list of all institutions participating in the LOCKSS beta test is available online at http://lockss.stanford.edu/projectstatus.htm. There are roughly 80 libraries in this list. In addition to Stanford, the New York Public Library, Indiana University, and Emory University are partners on the LOCKSS project enabled by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. ALR is proud to be chosen as one of the first LOCKSS literary sites, and our editors look forward to working with the above institutions on this laudable project in the interest of permanently preserving important online literature. We’re pleased to invite all fans, writers, and readers of The
Absinthe Literary Review to join our new mailing list. Not only will you
receive an email announcement when each new issue goes live, you’ll also be
privy to the latest information regarding contests, prize announcements, and
information about the planned Absinthe print and anthology issues.
New Rules for Absinthe Editors’ Prize We are happy to announce that eligibility for the Absinthe Editors’ Prize has been expanded to include all work published in ALR in each calendar year, including the Eros and Thanatos issue. As a result, the Eros and Thanatos Prize has been discontinued. Further details can be found in our submission guidelines.
Frank Pulaski Frank’s story, “The Denouement”,
showed remarkable inventiveness in language, construction, and overall energy.
His mixture of the profane and the sacred, the intellectual and the sensuous,
the plain and the obscure won us over. Congratulations to Frank on that rare
thing—a story that breaks rules yet still hangs together.
Though the launch of this year’s Eros and Thanatos issue was fraught with illness and a series of irritating difficulties, we can at last reveal our selection for the winner of the annual E&T Prize. The winner of 2002’s Eros and Thanatos Prize is: Ms. Ang’s poems glowed with the kind of intensity and imagery we enjoy here at Absinthe. Her combination of inventive, metaphorical, and guttural idioms was masterfully done and elicited a number of unanimous world-stopping reactions from our editorial collective. Floating on the edge of the surreal, Ms. Ang never lost touch with the real in these poems; we consider that a rare quality in these sedentary and linear days. Applause, applause.
The 2001 Eros and Thanatos Prize goes to: Runners-up were Virgil Suarez and George Ochoa. Congratulations to all for some truly outstanding work.
In the catastrophic hardware meltdown of October 2001, we lost the e-mail
database of writers ALR has published. We are often approached by editors
and publishers looking to contact our authors for reprints, anthology rights,
etc. If you have appeared in a past issue of ALR, please email us
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