Full Of Crow Press And Distro

Plunge #1

The first issue of Plunge Zine is out, and available. Currently looking for content now for Plunge #2.

MUST #9

MUST #9 is out and available. Contributors will get their copies shortly, they will go out after the blizzard!

The PDF version/past issues are available at The Sphere - under “Downloads”. Just look for MUST. Here’s #9:

MUST 9 PDF

MUST #9 includes content by: Michael Solender, Paul Corman-Roberts, Kristin Fouquet, Jeff Callico, Doug Mathewson, Saling Pusa, and myself this time around.

Thank you to Andrew Taylor and erbacce, our latest distro partner. I will be sending copies to erbacce, in addition to the usual distribution. Also thank you to Saling Pusa and Plunge where copies of past MUST issues are on their way to be part of a benefit auction. If you would like information about distributing MUST, getting MUST, sending content in, or just want to share your thoughts please do. Information can be found in the tabs above. Now onto MUST #10… -LA

MUST 8 and Corporeal Flux

MUST 8 and Corporeal Flux 1 and 2 zines are available, above. Also available: MUST, all issues of Corporeal Flux (back issues and subsequent) as well as The Sphere’s TRNGKT, Machine, Dirtbox, Damaged Goods, and more. Rolling submissions, by email or post.

MUST 8 is “the commerce issue” with Kristin Fouquet’s cover photo and an assortment of inner works. MUST was developed by members of The Sphere; it is a collaborative “microzine” with eclectic content and relatively widespread distribution. If you would like to partner with us on distribution, please email.

Members of the Plunge network will be working together on a new zine and will also be sending in items for a fundraising auction.  The zines mentioned above will be donated as well as other items we can round up, more details forthcoming.

The New “Collected MUST” 2009

Available now to read or download, this is the new “Collected MUST”, collected content from issues #1-7 of MUST Microzine. Eight pages of MUST, from previous issues. Think of it like a second chance to read the poetry, fiction, and other content! To submit, get involved, get copies, or download back issues, check out The Sphere.

Negative Suck

Negative Suck is a new online magazine, edited by Jeff Callico. Submissions open on Nov. 1 and close Nov. 20. Please read the guidelines carefully. Jeff prefers submissions that “make him feel as if he got slapped in the head without warning”. (We always warn him- just saying.)

Shoots And Vines Print Zine: Into The Well

Review: Shoots & Vines Fiction Print Zine, Into The Well by Michael J. Solender

Not quite 1 year old, the unpretentious online lit showcase, Shoots and Vines, has become a well regarded platform featuring established and emerging writers who want to get their work out in front of those who appreciate the talent that abounds in the underground lit scene. With a primary focus on poetry and flash fiction, editor and founder Crystal Folz has tapped into an international cadre of writers and readers who have bookmarked the stylistic S & V, making it a daily stop for a solid dose of edible writes that typically don’t follow convention. Continue Reading…

GET YOUR MUST

MUST #6 is available now, you can download it (soon it will be here as well for download, for now at The Sphere)

Cover art by MUST photographer Kristin Fouquet.

MUST #7 will be coming too before you know it. Now accepting content for MUST 8/

Featured Publication: Prick Of The Spindle 3.2

The latest issue of Prick of The Spindle came to my attention from Mel Bosworth, whose novella will be reviewed this week at Crow Reviews. (Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom) Once there I discovered a few other friends of the Crow: Roberta Lawson, who has been appearing all over lately it seems. Howie Good’s poem “Heart of Hearts” appears in the poetry section, and he has an interview in the archives. Continue Reading…

Absurdist Monthly Review, #9

The Absurdist Monthly Review is “The Writers Magazine of The New Absurdist Movement”. The magazine is free to download, but honestly I would pay for it if I needed to, I like it that much. I don’t know of anything out there that is quite like it.

The cover art was done by Mona Aladpoush, an artist from Tehran. It was selected by readers and I was glad to see that it made the cut as it was my first choice.

There was some discussion about the introduction of the new “key points” feature and I admit that I came down pretty hard on polycarp about it, I might have used words like “reminiscent of a kids’ weekly reader”. The first time I saw the key points, I was a bit put off, having an elitist episode or something. It didn’t sit right with me- but then I saw some of the positive feedback about it and figured I was being closed minded in connection with polycarp’s intentions…again. There were people who expressed appreciation for the key points, said it helped them understand the articles. A few were engaged, drawn into the articles, encouraged to read more, they said. Maybe it’s a minor detail, but perhaps they could be called something else? How about just the bullets?

Enough about that. It was a minor point in an otherwise amazing magazine bursting with intelligent reads. Continue Reading…

Bolshevik,Worker,Revenant|Absent Cause

I’m not even sure how I started reading Absent Cause, or discovered redguard. Maybe redguard discovered me, we crossed paths online somehow and an issue of Absent Cause found its way into my hands about a year ago. And it was very cool: honest confessional writing, candor, examination. Body image, beauty, recovery, trust, pressure, conformity, identity, depression, parenting. redguard is, above all else, open. He lays it out, puts himself in there to be looked at as he examines himself. redguard explains the title, Absent Cause: “While reading Reynold Humphries’ excellent book, The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, I became fascinated by the formulation of history as the “absent cause” under capitalism – the “Real” that cannot be acknowledged, especially in the U.S., at the cost of exposing to the working class the exploitative (and unnecessary) nature of the whole system. Continue Reading…