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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
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.
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!
Thinking about publishing a chapbook next year?
We just posted the submission guidelines for our upcoming 2023 chapbook series:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/245157/chapbooks-speculative-experimental-poetry
We're looking for speculative and experimental poetry, prose poetry, and hybrid forms.
We are thrilled to say that the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association has approved us for a grant to fund a project we've wanted to do for some time, a series of single-author chapbooks.
More details on the way as we firm up our planning over the next several weeks.
Ahead of time, if you have an idea for a chapbook, or know someone who might be interested, it's not a bad idea to make a note to keep us in mind.
This mug features our banner image, a Gustave Doré illustration from an 1862 French version of the Puss in Boots fairytale. Specifically, the scene where the cat gets into a battle of wits with an ogre sorcerer.
Looking for a holiday present or a stocking stuffer?
Take 25% off our mugs and t-shirts through the 24th! Two designs for each. Shipping included.
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Proceeds will be used fund our 2023 projects.
While we're on vacation this month, now is also the perfect time to send along a submission.
It's usually better to send submissions well in advance. We like having plenty of time for reviews and edits.
Our Submittable:
Our December issue is now live!
https://ogre.red/issues/2022-12/2022-12-introduction/
In this issue, we went for a balance between conversational, everyday language presentations and some fairly complex and abstract material, just to keep things interesting.
We are delighted to nominate Prof. Maud Lavin (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) for this year's Pushcart Prize!
Read - and listen to a reading of - "Clumsy Poem" in our July issue:
https://ogre.red/issues/2022-07/2022-07-lavin-maud/
And "Topology" in our November issue:
A cleaned up and refined version of the Node.js script I posted last week to import posts from a Twitter archive file:
https://github.com/mattbullen/migrate-tweets-to-mastodon
You're welcome to adapt this for your own use, although you'll probably need to tweak parts of it to fit your preferences.
And please be sure to test it thoroughly before letting it rip on a full archive file. 😀
Since we're new on Mastodon, I thought it might be helpful to post some of our submission guidelines and editorial review standards.
These aren't hard rules, but pieces that are closer to following them tend to have better chances.
For a PDF, please use this Google Drive link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zhtGoP6WyYcm1MUYYE1Zc1gBRw6-Eolq/view?usp=sharing
Matt, EIC
It's a wrap! The December issue is now full.
And that's it for 2022 - we're taking December off for the holidays.
Our next issue is set for February 2023. Want to get ahead of the game? Submit here:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
It's actually better if you do submit well in advance, since we like having plenty of lead time to review subs.
Each issue is organized, loosely, around a set of common themes. It takes time to receive enough pieces to tease those out in the selections.
Apologies if you noticed a blast of posts imported from Twitter - I put together a script to pull in some posts to get our account's feed started.
If you're familiar with Node.js scripting, you're welcome to adapt the script for your own use:
https://github.com/mattbullen/migrate-tweets-to-mastodon
Caveat, though, I wrote it over my lunch hour today.
While it works, it could probably use some polishing and refining ... and it will need some adapting for other accounts. 😀
-- Matt, Founder & EIC
We are thrilled to say that Independent Arts & Media, @IndyArtsSF, has accepted us for non-profit fiscal sponsorship.
It's a milestone for our development as a journal and as an independent press. We're excited to make the most of it!
Originally posted on 8/17/2022: https://twitter.com/RedOgreReview/status/1559985358456008704
Last chance to save your spot!
Join us this evening at 5:30 Pacific / 8:30 Eastern for a discussion of prose poetry and a reading of selected works by Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Register here:
@JoseHernandezDz @HarvardExtAlum @HEAACalifornia https://t.co/kALo4faO7c
Originally posted on 11/3/2022: https://twitter.com/RedOgreReview/status/1588182652506361858
- 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
