Place/Time deadline extended!

[rax]

A little while ago I posted about my most recent mad creative project, Place/Time, a literary journal based on focusing on a specific place and time and seeing what falls out. For our first issue, we're looking at Boston in 1997, and may be putting that in conversation with 1897, the turn of the previous century, after a longer submission that did a brilliant job of doing just that. We've pushed our submissions deadline back to December 1st; the stuff we've gotten is great but we're hoping to get a little more of it. Realistically, starting a journal out of nothing like this on a tight schedule, I don't expect to get inundated with submissions from friends, let alone strangers; but consider this a first reminder if I haven't gotten around to emailing you yet, and an invitation to drop me a line if you've got an idea in your head, whether it be something you'd like to produce or otherwise. We'd love to read some more fiction, especially, but we're also interested in book reviews of books that either were written then or deal with that time. (I've had someone recommend Zodiac, recently, as a book that would be particularly good for this.) So if this sounds exciting to you, drop me a comment or an email! (rachel@akrasiac.org) I'd love to hear from you, and I look forward to presenting issue 1 of Place/Time to all of you and to the world at the end of December.

...And then going to sleep for, like, a week. :P

Comments

[weirdquark]

Why is it that I don't feel I have anything to say about Boston in 1997 because the closest I got to there was when I was doing an overnight at Brandeis, but Boston in 1897 is totally okay?

[rax.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you want to write something or have written something about 1897, I'd love to see it. :) Maybe it's that one of them is something that your readership will know if you get even slightly wrong, and the other isn't? Unless your readership is a pack of historians. (What's the group-name for historians?)

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

oh man, i meant to write something for this...thanks for the reminder. i'll try to pull something together if i can find time (end of quarter dec 3 = teh suck!!).

my piece would be one of those self-indulgent memoir things, about visiting boston for a few days with my best friend from highschool - as friends - but then leaving the city in love and involved, all teenage swoony and ridiculous. is this sufficiently relevant?

er, actually...how far is this going to be circulated, and will it be on the internet? in that case i might submit under a pseudonym (if that's ok), just because he and i were both MIT folk...and, uh, i still haven't had that full conversation with the person i had to break up with shortly after i returned to minneapolis. durrr.

let me know :)

[rax.livejournal.com]

First print run will be somewhere between 100 and 200, and some/all of the issue will be online, though if you really didn't want something online, we could avoid it. Pseudonym would be fine if you preferred.

And yay self-indulgent memoir thing! Those can be fun :)

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

in the very, very late hours of today, you will receive one. wheeee!!