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We now have museum-quality art canvases and prints by one of our artists, Sadie Maskery, available on ArtPal:

https://artpal.com/RedOgreReview

These are cool, and the artist shares equally in the proceeds.

We're now offering art prints by Scottish artist Sadie Maskery.

These are hybrid word art / collage pieces with a modern fantasy flair.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/RedOgreReview

Coming soon, our second yearly poetry anthology, to be titled "The Ogre Sees All."

And here's an advance look at the cover art.

A note on our chapbook series. We've finalized our first round of selections.

We have some absolute gems in the works.

We're keeping all submissions open for now, though, since we might - might - have room for a few more.

In the meantime, our October issue is open for poetry and visual art:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

@matt

Always the hardest part with DB design, segmenting records.

If you have traffic stats on what gets the most requests? It could be a scenario where the most recent material stays in the main or live table(s), for kind of obvious reasons.

The older but high activity segments get their own table(s) with some advance caching.

Low traffic / nobody ever looks at it? Archive. Not worth the bandwidth or overhead.

@matt

It might not be a quick fix, but spinning off older entries into their own quasi-archive tables could help, especially if they're ones that are rarely accessed. You'd need a routing mechanism somewhere to detect when to jump from the main table to the archives.

And do you have something like Redis in place for caching common / recent queries? That could help for material that's frequently accessed but doesn't change often.

Our August issue is live!

https://ogre.red/issues/2023-08/2023-08-introduction

With this issue, we trended back to how we started the zine: no prose, but a lot of poetry, with some visual art that ties in conceptually to the verse.

@ferngirl

They're both wonderful pieces, and we're happy to have them in the issue.

Our April issue is live!

https://ogre.red/issues/2023-04/2023-04-introduction

This issue leans into our literary roots with a number of pieces incorporating sci-fi and fantasy elements, critical theory, and absurdist humor.

#Poetry #Art #WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #CriticalTheory

Our April issue is nearly full!

We have 3 slots left for poetry, prose poetry, and visual art.

If you've already submitted, as usual, absent an express decline email - we roll over submissions to the next reading period.

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

Exciting news - Kate, one of our founding editors, has just launched a new zine in our group of projects.

The first issue is live. Please take a look!

https://redwolfperiodical.com/2023-03-editors-introduction/

And the next issue will be open for subs soon. Poetry, flash, and visual art.

Fundraising for indie presses can be tough, so we're excited to partner with Givebacks @GivebacksGenie.

Givebacks is a shopping rewards program that automatically donates at no extra cost to your purchases.

If you're familiar with the now-defunct AmazonSmile program, it works much the same way. The merchant donates a % of the purchase automatically.

Check out our page:

https://www.givebacks.com/causes/detail/8ae3db77-7837-437d-bd8f-86d98fd9dd24

For a fun kind of weekend side project, we just launched Grim Tales Radio, an online radio station for classic fairy tales:

https://grim.radio.fm

Narration by a text-to-speech AI.

Please be patient while the site loads. It uses a lot of photos along with the audio stream.

And if you really like it, feel free to tip us a buck or two for server time & fees. Donation link at the bottom of the page. 😃

Our April issue is now open for submissions!

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

Poetry, prose poetry, visual art and hybrid forms.

Stylistically, we prefer detail-focused descriptions, natural language, and often longer pieces.

For specifics, please refer to our editorial guidelines:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zhtGoP6WyYcm1MUYYE1Zc1gBRw6-Eolq/view

After a few days of giving our site a top to bottom code cleaning and polishing, the site now pulls a perfect score on Lighthouse benchmarks.

Most of the time dependent on network speed, etc., and not that those benchmarks are too meaningful - but nice to see!

One of the reasons we went with a custom-coded static site.

Our February issue is filling up!

By request, we've extended the deadline a little longer:

https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

Now is the perfect time to send something along.

Poetry, visual art, or hybrid forms. Pop culture themes would be particularly welcome.

Alan Gillis, Professor of Modern Poetry at Edinburgh University, says about the collection:

"Oisin Breen is writing at a pitch few other poets of his generation can muster. These are tremendously exciting poems."

We agree.

Looking for something to read?

One of our authors, Oisín Breen, has just published a new poetry collection with Beir Bua Press:

Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

https://beirbuapress.com/2023/01/01/lilies-on-the-deathbed-of-etain-and-other-poems-by-oisin-breen

Check it out!

@UncoveredMyths

I actually met Karina and Benjamin, the owners / developers, at one of their Zoom meet ups. Very nice people - they're putting a lot of work into building out the site.

@UncoveredMyths

Chill Subs is a newer platform / directory:

https://chillsubs.com