Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue 2 update
UPDATE:
Submissions for issue two are now closed.
The second Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue will be out during the Summer (2021).
A huge thank you to all who submitted!
Do keep checking the Blo͞o blog for details and updates: https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com
Blo͞o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021
LATEST UPDATE!
One more update will be posted when submissions open, revealing the new and dedicated email address.
INFORMATION:
Send only ONE:
unpublished haibun (prose+haiku) or tanka story (prose+tanka)
or
unpublished haibun (prose+senryu) or kyoka story (prose+kyoka)
or
unpublished Zuihitsu (max. words 1500)
Length/word counts:
- ultra short (anything from single digits to double digits!)
- one page length (300 to 350 word count)
- longer pieces (1500 max. word count) or if in two languages max. 750 words in English.
Submission window opens and closes:
The submission window will open Monday 19th April (2021):
The submission window will be very short: SEVEN days only!
Submission window ENDS at Midnight UK time, Sunday 25th April (2021)
It’s a good idea to start working on a piece for us right 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, accept, or think of your work or approach to the above. This is an outlier journal!
This is just a rough guide, enjoy working around it, it’s your submission after all!
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.”
Breaking news!
Kat Lehmann is a winner of the
Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Winners for 2020:
https://thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-individual-poems-2020/
Announced on International Haiku Day, Saturday 17th April 2021
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 the final update, start writing your style, not our’s, and start now if you haven’t already.
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
Hi Alan,
ReplyDeleteBlo͞o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021
Looking forward to the next issue.
You’ve set quite an exciting challenge. It’ll be my first really serious conscious attempt at writing haibun. A tad experimental; pushing my boundaries. I’m not sure about it! I hope you’ll like it.
I do have a question on length: the one in preparation falls between your ‘ultra-short’ and ‘page’ lengths at 194 words. Is this acceptable? do have another as backup if not although that wraps the prose of an author from the 1800s with two of my haiku - so that may not qualify!
All Best
Clive
Dear Clive,
DeleteBasically from single digits to 1500 words.
And as in the guidelines above:
"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, accept, or think of your work or approach to the above. This is an outlier journal!
This is just a rough guide, enjoy working around it, it’s your submission after all!"
Look forward to the submission!
warm regards,
Alan
Thanks Alan! Damn that puts me in a quandry - in the spirit of the journal I’ll go with the one I’m least confident about but is the one that pushes my personal boundaries most. Can’t wait now for the window to open ...
DeleteWarm regards
Clive
Well, the best thing is to use the wait for the window to open to be sure. I have two very fine guest co-editors in their own right, plus they are also Trailblazer judges:
Deletehttps://www.trailblazercontest.com/team.html
And remember that the next issue after this is natural history haiku so that should be right up your street!
Good luck!
Alan
That seems like a plan Alan. Thanks.
DeleteClive
hi Alan, I have a haibun I wrote a few years ago,
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you will like it,
but it is very dear to me.
I have decided to participate,
I'm glad you can read it
Angiola Inglese
Dear Angiola,
DeleteI will be delighted to read it, as will both Grix and Kat.
Thank you for trusting in us.
warmest regards,
Alan