While Hollywood prepares for The Manson Girls this year, a film that stars Canada’s own (Peterborough no less) Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes 2001) and the porn industry’s Ron Jeremy, the dearth of good Manson Girl poetry continues to plague our fair planet. Before it becomes a straight to Netflix film, it was in →
Dead Gender Magazine, a wicked-cool art & lit journal that “is interested in breaking the boundaries of art, and gender– both respectively and relatively,” wants your freakiest shit. Check out the call for submissions here. →
SB28: Translation Politics and patois. Hybrids, conversions, and mashups. Malapropisms and misspelling… We are calling for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art on the theme on translation for the twenty-eighth issue of Steel Bananas. We want to know what is lost, what is gained, what it looks and sounds like, from ekphrasis →
SB has started a chapbook press. For more information, check out the Steel Bananas Publications website. →
Steel Bananas’ Karen Correia Da Silva will be acting as Guest Poetry Editor for the next issue of the Incongruous Quarterly, a Toronto and Montreal based online literary journal. As such, she’s looking for poems on the theme of collage. The prompt: Disconnected or disorganized? Pastiche or plagiarism? We’re looking for mosaics and mash-ups. The →
From our friends at Broken Pencil Magazine: The world’s only battle royale short story contest is coming. Enter your best story (1500-3000 words) by December 31, 2010. Be one of 8 finalists and prepare for battle as your story goes head-to-head with other contestants in an elimination deathmatch tournament where the public’s vote is cut →
We’re happy to see our official call for submissions on the Tightrope Books blog. Life is fantastic. →
Greetings all and everyone and such and whatever, JUNE is… imminent. AS SUCH theRE IS A lot of FUckinG NewS to tell you AbOUT. I’ve got a lot of things to get off my chest here, and you’re damn well gonna read about ‘em. FIRST: THIS Isn’t this a friggin’ majestic creature right here? I →
Steel Bananas will be publishing a print anthology, in book form, of poetry and short fiction in the fall of 2009. We’re looking for interesting and insightful contributions on the topic of Fragmentation. Be it urban, cultural, psychological – whatever you can imagine. You choose the terms. Submissions will be chosen on the basis of both thematic and →