Red Ogre Review @info@talk.ogre.red

Interested in Shakespeare, especially the Oxford authorship controversy?

There's a free Zoom webinar tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific.

Discussion of a lesser-known play, along with excerpts read by professional actors.

https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/king-john-illuminated/

Cover art for LARPing IRL, the third chapbook in our Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association grant project.

The book is an illustrated collection of Dungeons & Dragons-inspired poetry by debut author S. Michael Shrawder, similar to a punk rock version of Stranger Things in tone and style.

Cover art and illustrations by Dave Sims:

tincansims.com

An advance look at the cover art for A Registry of Omens, the newest chapbook in our Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association grant project - a collection of dark fantasy poetry by Kendra Preston Leonard.

Kendra's first book with us, GRAB, is up for an Elgin Award.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CHL3RPNH

If you're looking a few poetry chapbooks to round out your reading list for the Sealey Challenge ... we can help you out with 11 to choose from. 😀

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

https://www.thesealeychallenge.com/

Our August / September issue is live!

https://ogre.red/issues/2024-08/2024-08-introduction/

With our trademark mix of poetry and visual art, a new article in our regular critique column, and several music tracks.

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. 😀

And you can't mention Castlevania or that scene without mentioning Le Castle Vania's highly relevant track:

https://soundcloud.com/lecastlevania/le-castle-vania-nobody-gets-out-alive

For reference:

https://youtu.be/dfLfOcgJNg4?feature=shared

Skip to around 3:50 for Dracula.

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

We're at capacity for our in-house chapbook series and are temporarily closing submissions there.

We are, however, open for sci-fi and fantasy poetry manuscripts via our SFWA grant project.

Several strong manuscripts so far, but room for more!

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