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A wonderful interview by Ambrielle Butler of Katie Beswick, author of our newest chapbook, Plumstead Pram Pushers:

https://ambriellebutler.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/interview-with-katie-beswick-plumstead-pram-pushers/

Get your copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Happy Monday!

A quick note - our August issue is now full.

Which means, of course, we're opening the reading period for the October issue:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/300236/october-2024-poetry-visual-art

We're excited to officially release our newest chapbook - Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick - a coming of age collection set in South East London.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Readers describe the book as vivid, visceral, and deeply humane.

Check it out! 😀

We're a week ahead of officially releasing the newest chapbook in this year's series - Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick - and the book is already in Amazon's Top 100 for poetry.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D69RKGYP

Early reviews are unanimously positive! 😀

We're gearing up to officially release Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick, the newest chapbook in our in-house series.

For a look ahead of time:

https://ogre.red/info/books/2024-chapbook-beswick-katie/

https://katiebeswick.com/

We've had stellar early reviews! 😀

I haven't written much flash, so it's especially exciting to have a piece in this year's UK National Flash Fiction Day!

https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/surly-lizards-by-matthew-bullen.html

A little piece about dragon tropes. 😀

I'm just thrilled to have my Castlevania anime / Wagner opera mashup as this week's poem by The Friday Poem:

https://thefridaypoem.com/vlad-dracul-is-pissed-off/

It's one of my favorite recent pieces. 😀

Happy Saturday!

Our June issue is live with our trademark mix of poetry and visual art, along with a bit of creative nonfiction flash and a new essay in our regular critique column.

https://ogre.red/issues/2024-06/2024-06-introduction/

I'm delighted to have my contribution to the discourse of the day live in MEMEZINE's new "The Slop" special issue - a little poem about an adventurous bear.

https://www.memezinelit.com/slop-issue-1/interesting-landscapes-matthew-bullen

Matt, ROR EIC

I'm delighted to have a piece in Blackstone / Whitestone's new Found Things zine - a surreal word collage composed from marketing copy taken from a pack of CVS hairbands.

https://blackstoneonawhitestone.wordpress.com/found-things-zine/

Matt, ROR EIC

Right on schedule, our June issue is half full!

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

More prose poetry and longer poems would be nice.

We're also open for music / audioscape tracks (any genre or style).

We're excited to say that we have two new poetry chapbooks signed and in the works!

One about growing up in small town Colorado:

https://www.definwords.com

And one about the culture of South London council estates:

https://katiebeswick.com

Nice to see that within just a few days of its release, our newest chapbook is closing in on several Amazon Top 100 lists.

The Goose Liver Anthology is a retelling of Mother Goose in the style of the Spoon River Anthology.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CY4WT463

What makes it noticeable is that these Top 100 lists are usually filled with reprints of classics, longstanding reliably-selling titles, etc.

Rarely poetry chapbooks from small indie presses. 😀

Our twenty-third and April issue is live!

https://ogre.red

With poetry, visual art, a critical essay in our new critique column, and two music tracks.

The SFPA has graciously accepted nominations for three of our 2023 chapbooks for this year's Elgin Awards.

@sfpoetry

A reading this Saturday at The Writer's Center with Don Illich, author of Rescue is Elsewhere and Love Poems on Bar Napkins.

https://writer.org/event/illich-carroll

Don's books are available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback

Right on schedule, our April issue is full!

The last few acceptances will go out this week.

And that means we're now open for the June issue:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/290864/june-2024-poetry-visual-art

It's best to submit early.

Cover art for Don Illich's Love Poems on Bar Napkins, the newest book in this year's in-house poetry chapbook series.

Don's first book with us, Rescue is Elsewhere, is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Elsewhere-Ogre-Review-Books/dp/B0CHL3MB6Q

Mark your calendar for this Sunday for a reading by Angela Acosta, author of A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness from our SFWA chapbook series.

Free registration on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-presents-angela-acosta-march-10-2024-tickets-743959020457

The book is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Belief-Cosmic-Dailiness-Fabled-Universe/dp/B0CJLLLTZN

Draft cover art for the first book in this year's SFWA series, The Goose Liver Anthology.

The collection reworks Mother Goose rhymes into short narrative pieces in the style of The Spoon River Anthology.