the bad futurist

Just a quick note to let our subscribers and random stragglers know that I’m going to open submissions. Under this new format, if you’re accepted you’ll likely get a sort of “you’ll be published at some point in the future” letter, and then your piece will appear within one of the next few issues, but possibly not right away. This way, you can always submit. Please see the submissions page for more information.

Cheers!

Issue 1.0 is now live, and you can access it here or by clicking the menu at the top of the main page. A huge thanks to all of our contributors, and to everyone who submitted. Thanks also goes to my assistant editor, Megan Soderberg, as well as Meghan Hancock and Ida Huang for offering their feedback.  Now that it’s been done once, we can do it again! I’m currently working with Quark (outdated, I know!) to make a downloadable .pdf that more closely mimics print format. News on that will come in the future.

With Issue 1.0 completed, I hope people enjoy reading it. The magazine was not designed with much of an aesthetic standard in mind, but rather my primary goal was to make something that could be read, enjoyed, and maybe even re-read. Lastly, I hope to expand both the length and format of the magazine for the future, with Issue 1.0 being both a premier and a trial.

Thanks again- readers, writers and friends! See you in the future.

Lastly, Issue 1.0 isn’t really named “Irene edition”. Just this post.

Issue 0.5 is now live. Check out the menu bar at the top (or on the left column) for the gutsy glory that is Richard Pannbacker, Trey White, and James Connors. As you recall, the directions were to submit anything (200 words or less) in the future tense.

With that done, I’m now looking at putting together Issue 1.0. Thanks to everyone who has submitted so far, and please keep doing so if you haven’t yet. Submissions are always open on a rolling basis, and things you send now will still (just barely!) be considered for Issue 1.0. If you’ve already contributed, you should be hearing back shortly. Thanks for waiting.

If you haven’t submitted anything yet, please do! Especially if you’re writing creative nonfiction or if you’ve got some art/photos for us. Or anything else, of course.

Lastly, once Issue 1.0 comes out, I’ll be putting together a downloadable .pdf that is more suggestive of traditional magazine formats. Issue 0.5 will also probably appear in some way in the same .pdf.

Happily, submissions are rolling in. Thank you to everyone who’s submitted so far, and please keep it coming. We’re still hungry. To all of our submitters (past, present and future): we’ll be getting back in touch with everyone, and we’ll try to do so in less than two months. We’re new at this, so keep that in mind. Like it says on our submissions page, please feel free to submit your work elsewhere simultaneously, and just let us know if we won’t be the lucky ones to publish you. So far, we’ve been getting the most poetry, slightly fewer fiction, and hardly any nonfiction (essays and/or creative writing) or artwork/photography submissions. Tell your friends.

Looking down train tracks is hazardous to the future's health, but not if you've got a camera.

Firstly, if you’ve been following our Twitter feed, you know that we have a listing on Duotrope (although I’m guessing most of you found us because of it). The listing is here if you want to check out what they say about us. Although the really fun stuff won’t start appearing until after the first issue.

Follow us on Twitter here. We also have a Facebook page here. For the sake of not saturating you with social media, you could probably get by only following one of the two, or by simply checking back here once in awhile.

Lastly, one of our editors, Jesse Priest, was interviewed at Christian Harder’s Pages to Pixels. The interview link is here. It’s mostly unrelated to this magazine, although probably suggests at least an inkling of some of our aesthetic endeavors. Although maybe not.

Thanks for following. And now, back to work.

the bad futurist is now accepting submissions for our premier issue, which will be published Summer 2011.  Please see our submissions page for more details and guidelines.

We’re also looking for submissions of photography and art for at least the first issue, which we’d like to use alongside writing. Nothing too profane, though (but nothing too sacred, either).

The magazine will be published online (right here!) and a downloadable .pdf will also be made that will be more suggestive of the traditional magazine format.

As our premier issue, it’s hard to suggest the kind of thing we’re really looking for. Send us your best, your loudest, your ugly stepchildren.

More updates will follow on this page regarding the development of the magazine, staff information, facts and folklore.

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