Blo͞o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021 UPDATE

 Blo͞o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021

update

More updates will be posted including the announcement of the new dedicated email address for submissions.

Send only ONE unpublished haibun (prose+haiku) or tanka story (prose+tanka) 

or any challenging prose+poetry combination!

The submission window will open around mid-April this year:

The submission window will be very short: 7-10 days!

It’s a good idea to start working on a piece for us now. 

We are open to different approaches to haibun and tanka story, and other combinations and variations. Be brave, be bold, do not worry about what other journals might or might not like and accept. This is an outlier journal!

This is just a rough guide, enjoy working around it, it’s your submission after all!

• ultra short (anything from single digits to double digits!)
• one page (300 to 350 word count)
• longer haibun (1500 max. word count)

I have also invited two incredible USA haibun writer/editors to join me as guest co-editors.

 

Guest co-editors:

Grix

An award-winning, as well as a Pushcart Prize nominated haibun writer, whose work focuses on disability, gender, trauma, and loss. They are the founding and chief editor for Human/Kind Journal. Grix is currently joint Team leader of the Trailblazer Awards; Assistant Editor with Sonic Boom, and Yavanika Press, and also reader for new British based "kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku" journal.

Grix is the author of the stunningly and much needed ‘different’ approach to haibun and tanka stories: “shedding light on these powerful poetic devices…it unravels openly, vibrantly, and unabashedly, leaving readers feeling pure catharsis, release, and unrestraint.” NADIA GERASSIMENKO, Founding Editor of Moonchild Magazine

Fire Rainbow: A Haibun and Tanka Story Memoir (Human/Kind Press, 2020): 

https://www.humankindjournal.org/store/p39/humankindjournal.org/firerainbow.html.html 

Kat Lehmann

Kat is a regularly best-selling author, including haibun.

Kat says:

“Her books are the lived experience of cultivating a complicated happiness that survived sadness.”

The psychology journal The Journal of Poetry Therapy (2017) wrote of her first book: “Moon Full of Moons” offers rich material for poetry therapy.”

She is the author of “Moon Full of Moons”; “Small Stones from the River”; “Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems”; and her fourth book explores the storytelling possibilities of haibun: https://www.amazon.com/Kat-Lehmann/e/B00U2PNZ5U/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 

Ripples of Kindness has grown into a national and international project, with signed books given to strangers currently gifted in 17 states and 14 countries with the idea “We can all put something good into the world, just by doing it.”

Well there you have it, two sublimely gifted and incredible writers who are now guest editors with me, wow!!!

Founding Editor, Alan Summers

Alan is a Pushcart Prize nominated haibun writer, as well as a Best Small Fictions nominated haibun writer. He is a former haibun editor for Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society journal), and founding and chief editor of Blo͞o Outlier Journal, as well as editor-in-chief of forthcoming The Babylon Sidedoor. 

His recent haiku pamphlets include: Forbidden Syllables (Bones Library 2020) Glint (Proletaria 2020) and joint collection The Comfort of Crows (Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf) with Velvet Dusk Publishing (2019): https://area17.blogspot.com/2020/06/recent-haiku-poetry-collections-by-alan.html

Alan is the co-founder of Call of the Page, and lead tutor including the Passion of Haibun, and Haibun 2 x 2 courses: https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/ 

Look out for further updates, and start writing your style, not our’s, as we are excited about what you can bring us, that might not be an approach seen elsewhere, yet!

Blo͞o Outlier Journal

Editor-in-Chief, Alan Summers