1) You can now subscribe to a quarterly Feathertale T-shirt!
How does it work?
For $79 ($89 U.S.) we will send you one fresh T-shirt every 3 months for a year (4 shirts in total).
A slightly demented elderly man with a Danish accent and a shirtless back recently cornered one of our editors in an elevator. The particulars of what happened between the 15th floor and the ground floor remain hazy, but one fact is clear: the slightly demented elderly man with a Danish accent exited that elevator with a shirt on his back and the image of a monkey on his chest. Minutes later, a slightly naked editor walked into Feathertale’s headquarters with a vision to create a series of T-shirt designs that could be sold to anyone — from the slightly demented elderly Danish man to the completely non-demented, non-elderly, non-Danish woman. As a result of that vision, you can now subscribe to a quarterly Feathertale T-shirt! From now until we go out of business, Feathertale will be publishing a new T-shirt every three months. Here’s how it works. For $79 CAD ($89 if you’re living in the U.S.) you’ll get a one-year T-shirt subscription. That means four times a year we’ll ship you a unique, limited-edition T-shirt designed by an array of talented artists. Your inaugural T-shirt — designed by Toronto’s Graham Roumieu — will ship immediately. Subsequent shirts will ship in late September, December and March. We’ve got sizes for men and women. Subscribe before the end of September and we’ll even throw in a complimentary copy of The Feathertale Review 5. To order online or for more information, visit Feathertale.com/store.
2) Submission call for memoirs & comics
Like a hyperactive child who requires constant attention, Feathertale requires poetry, prose and comics for two upcoming issues of The Feathertale Review. Issue 7 is going to be our first-ever comics issue. That means we are looking for artists to pitch to us ideas for comics of varying shapes and sizes, from half-page newspaper-style comic strips to eight-page illustrated stories. Contact our art director, Lee H. Wilson, at lwilson@feathertale.com if you’ve got an idea for a comic. For Issue 8 we’re looking for a combination of true-to-life humorous memoirs as well as blatantly fictitious tales in the first person. Of course, we still need numerous poems and pieces of innovative flash fiction to round out our pages, so if you’re not interested in penning a long-form first-person narrative, don’t fret. Check out Feathertale.com/review for more details. Submission deadline for both Reviews is September 15, 2010.
3) Contest winners announced
We recently asked poets to craft for us a poem without using the letter e. Thank you to all the poets who crafted fantastic e-less contest entries, but we have to give special kudos to our runner-up, Joanne Underwood, who wrote us a collection of musings from Malaysia. Congratulations also to Michelle Luelo, whose exquisite use of loopholes in our contest rules won her the top prize for her poem “Omitt d.” We are also pleased to announce the winners of our recent Twittering Bard Contest. A number of writers took to their keyboards, rewriting and bastardizing a Shakespearean play as if it were originally conceived on a Twitter feed. Runner-up status goes to Vancouver’s Jackie Bateman for her version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. First-time Feathertale contributor Erik Lambert of Chicago is our winner for his tweeting of Julius Caesar.
4) The best this month from Feathertale.com
NEW FICTION:
In just 500 words, Jonathan Danielson of California tells the tragically amusing story of an American trapped in Spain in “The Flamdamadango.”
NEW POETRY:
Howie Good, a journalism professor, gives us a lesson on math, rejection, driving, sleeping, drinking, aging and Facebook in his latest, “Nothing Into Nothing Equals Nothing.”
Frequent Feathertale contributor Changming Yuan writes a poetic FAQ from the dentist’s chair. “Why do I sometimes feel so awkward about my teeth, doc?” Answer: “Because even your wisdom teeth are retarded.”
Meanwhile, Danielle Richardson, a high school student, waxes on about a boy who threw a water balloon at a girl and got into a heap of trouble.
For more poetry (updated weekly) go to Feathertale.com/poetry. NEW CARTOONS:
Feathertale has reached into the vault and pulled out a few aging gems by Matt Goerzen. In his Revisionist History Is Fun series (originally published in The Feathertale Review, 2006) Goerzen tells the lesser-known stories behind the Yalta Conference, the Egyptian pyramids and Christopher Columbus’s journey across the Atlantic.
Gavin McCarthy’s latest blot is much ado about pigeons.
Trevor Waurechen’s new comic offering “Mosquitoes” tells a tale about living near water in a dry place.
Long-overdue congratulations are owed to Toronto-based illustrator Oleg Portnoy, whose cover art for The Feathertale Review 4 was recently honoured by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.
The debut collection of poems by Rolli, a frequent contributor to Feathertale, is now available courtesy of Montreal’s 8th House Publishing.
