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OW 1000th Monkey #4 Out Now!

Madrea and I finished the Monkey! 1000th Monkey #4 is out now, sixteen pages of poetry, fiction, art, comics, reviews, and more.

To view it now, look in the tabs above for the download. This zine is also available as a free PDF download at the Outsider Writers main site: www.outsiderwriters.org.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this issue: Theron Moore, Matt Gould, Thomas Sullivan, Jim Wittenberg, Jeffrey S. Callico, Michael McAloran, Michael J. Solender, Brad Nelson, Anna Nelson, Chris Nicholson, Doug Mathewson, Wred Fright, Jaria, Jenni Leigh, Paul Corman-Roberts, Kristin Fouquet, Erin Cole, Joseph M. Gant, JR McRae, Catfish McDaris, Walt Conley, Cliff Lynn, Allen Masterson, Lawrence Gladeview, Songtsen Hollander, David S. Pointer, Abigail George, Sal Butacci, Chris Hinderson. Editors: Content edited by Madrea Marie Loy, Produced by Lynn Alexander for OWC Press. Cover Photography by Kristin Fouquet.

I’m not sure when the next one will be out, or when submissions will be open- but keep you eyes open at the OWC community site which can be found here.

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…