Your Editor Has Issues, Part 8
in which she does go on at some length, but mostly about the contents herein.
Well, although we're definitely pushing the "Winter" side of "Fall/Winter issue," our Volume 3.2 is finally here, in time for some holiday reading. Granted, I've noticed that the general tone of this issue's selections may be a tad more somber than usual, but sometimes even holiday cheer requires a holiday, and there's some good reading here, if I do say so myself.
The issue's playful cover makes me smile when I look at it. It's from award-winning teenage photographer Eleanor Leonne Bennett, who hails from the U.K. Eleanor's work also appears in our first featured photo essay as well as elsewhere throughout the issue. Photographs by Steve Wing and Kate LaDew are also featured throughout the issue.
Finally, the issue includes guidelines for our first-ever flash fiction contest. Yes, we didn't think poets should get to have all the contests, so this year we thought it would be fun to give flash-fiction authors a chance. Next year we'll do another poetry round, possibly involving longer-format submissions (which is the thing I've been hinting at in past editorials, but I won't say more until plans are definite. This is looking to be an eventful year for me and I want to make sure I'll be able to follow through with all these plans before I announce them.) Speaking of flash fiction, as you may have noticed in our guidelines, we are only accepting this shorter genre of fiction from now on, so unfortunately stories over 1,000 words can no longer be accepted.
And I won't talk too much about the print edition yet, either, until I can give more specifics as to when it will be available, but I'm hoping it will be summer, or at the latest by year's end, barring unexpected personal-commitment-overload, technological meltdown or Mayan apocalypse.
On that note, enjoy your holidays, and, as always, thanks so much for reading!
JEK
