Thank You for Your Patience

After a lot of reading and deliberating, our submission review process is over. Over the next few days, I will be emailing out more information to those who have submitted fiction, poetry, and art to our inaugural issue. Overall, we had a good batch of submissions and it proved difficult to narrow them down.

You can expect our first issue around late April!

Submissions Closing Soon!

As of tomorrow, at the stroke of midnight (Central Time), Asphalt Sky's submissions will be closed. We've had a great response so far, but there's always room for more. If you want to submit before the end of 2007, you only have 28 hours left!

Submissions Update

Submissions have been open for a month and so far, we've had a great response. We have a little over a month to go and we need your work.

We are especially in need of artwork and fiction, but all submissions are welcome. To submit, please review our guidelines for fiction, poetry, and artwork. Then, submit your work to asphaltsky at gmail dot com.

Guerilla Marketing Has Begun

As we speak, bookmarks and fliers are being posted all over Minneapolis, to spread the word about Asphalt Sky.

Have you told your friend about Asphalt Sky's open submissions? Submissions close on December 31!

Buttons!

In order to spread the word about Asphalt Sky, I've made lovely Asphalt Sky buttons for our supporters' webpages.

To get your own Asphalt Sky button, either in blue sky with white script, gray asphalt with black script, or black background with both sky and apshalt pics, please email me at asphaltsky at gmail dot com.

New Editorial Board Editor -- Round 2

I am so thrilled to introduce our second editorial board member, Kate Sloan Fiffer.


Kate Sloan Fiffer is a writer and performer living in Boulder, Colorado. She holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in Translation from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she served as Managing Editor and Translation Editor for Bombay Gin Literary Journal. She is a member of Lamp Mask and Puppet Theater, and is a co-founder of Wednesday Machine Arts Collective. Her reading interests are ever-changing, but currently include experimental fiction and contemporary Italian poetry.


For now, Kate, Jo and myself are the creative minds behind this new enterprise. However, if you're interested in getting involved, email us at asphaltsky at gmail dot com!

New Editorial Board Member!

Please welcome our first editorial board member, Jo Hemmant. You can view Jo's work here, as well.

Jo Hemmant has a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature and a Masters in Women Studies (with a thesis on flight and fancy in the novels of Toni Morrison). She worked for many years as a journalist, editor and in publishing management before leaving to start a family. Her literary interests span women’s writing, the contemporary novel, early 20th century writers, literary criticism and poetry. She is currently involved with various writing projects.

I'm very excited to have Jo on our board and I expect that I will be making another editorial board announcement soon.