As we approach the New Year SCP has a small bundle of exciting projects and announcements to share.
First off we would like to announce that after much deliberation we have decided to continue publishing CircleShow twice yearly (an idea we said we were axing earlier this year) and it will continue to be a print version which directly reflects our online content. We are doing this in light of the relative success in sales brought by Vol.2 as well as the fact that we really like being able to supply our contributors with something a little more tangible than just our online content, though the latter continues to be the central focus of our readership.
To complement our online library of poetry and to continue our mission of supporting the DIY literary world we are also going to be launching an online review feature, a place where authors/editors will be able to have one of their publications considered for review by SCP.
Along with this we are also going to be creating a new online Essay section. This will be a place where various minds will be able to contribute prose reflections on a range of topics concerning literature and culture. The section we formerly called the Post-Modern Poet will be merged into this new, larger project, details for which will be online in the next couple of months.
As we move closer to 2010 we are also excited about the pending publication of Into, a joint poetic effort from Robert Snyderman, Christopher Sweeney and Lonely Christopher.
These three young authors who in the past have published together under the collective imprint The Corresponding Society have crafted a wild, esoteric, deconstructionist, archetypal dream-ramble that we can guarantee is going to leave our reader’s scratching their heads in ecstatic/nauseating disbelief.
The publication of this book represents a decisive turn for SCP, not only as one of its first solicited perfect-bound productions, but also because of the dramatic shift of poetics it represents which is quite different from SCP’s prior publications.
Along those lines SCP is excited for the results of its first ever Chapbook/Spotlight Contest, the winner of which will be decided in June 2010.
SCP has already received a small ever-growing pool of quality manuscripts with many months of open submissions to go.
2009 has been a wonderful year for this little project and I am increasingly amazed by the continuous slew of quality writing that comes our way. With that said, 2010 promises to be another season of healthy blooming and I am already dreaming about the joyous hours ( and the not so joyous ones) spent shifting though submissions, with coffee in hand, trying to picture from what saint or sinner the lines before me have sprung.
Happy Holidays,
Seth Jani
Editor-In-Chief
