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Red Ogre Review is an indie journal of poetry, prose poetry, and visual art. We are fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for non-profit activities. Tweets by Matt, EIC.
Joined Nov 2022
Angela Acosta, PhD - one of our authors for our upcoming SFFH poetry chapbook series - will host a virtual roundtable on the future of Latinx speculative poetry at this year's Sturgeon Symposium.
The virtual roundtable is this Wednesday. Registration is free:
Quick update on our October issue - selections have been finalized.
As usual, if you recently submitted or haven't heard back, your sub has automatically rolled over to the next reading period.
We're also now open for December:
I'm happy to say that FERAL magazine has kindly picked up one of my surreal eco-poetry pieces for their next issue, a reply to a Carolyn Forché piece about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Check out their current issues:
Matt, ROR EIC
A new arrival to our chapbook series: John Sullivan's "The Big Forever Swim."
This is a hybrid work that blurs the line between poetry and scriptwriting, since many of the pieces are meant to be read aloud by several people.
The pieces have strong environmentalist and social justice themes.
For an excerpt:
https://ogre.red/issues/2022-11/2022-11-sullivan-john
Concept art for the book cover was taken from Luigi Colombo / Fillìa, an Italian Futurist painter from the 20s and 30s.
I'm not sure how crowded the field is for poetry anthologies on Amazon, but it's nice to see our latest anthology - The Ogre Sees All - crack the Top 100 in less than a day.
We would have been happy with Top 1,000 or Top 5,000 or really anything. 😀
If you'd like to support our authors and indie publishing, but don't need a copy for yourself ... there's always the option to donate a copy to your local library.
It's a great way to help authors gain longterm exposure to new readers. 😀
Our second yearly anthology, The Ogre Sees All, is now live!
Well over 100 poets, ranging from some first time published authors to two state Poet Laureates.
We'd love it if you could pick up a copy - this one of our fundraisers that we do to help with zine bills.
Ahead of releasing our second yearly anthology in the next few days, we brushed up our first from last year to sync formatting and style across the books.
Getting there!
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
- Site
- https://ogre.red
- Submissions
- https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
Admin
Red Ogre Review is an indie journal of poetry, prose poetry, and visual art. We are fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for non-profit activities. Tweets by Matt, EIC.
Joined Nov 2022
