The absolutely brilliant Claire Trévien (poet, editor, creator of Sabotage and Penning Perfumes, all-round superb human being) and myself want to make an online magazine dedicated to experimental, interstitial, cross-genre, multi-media poetry/art/whathaveyou. We love that kind of stuff and think that it's worth making room for more of it in the world.
We've launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for our first issue - which includes building the website and paying for contents - and in under 24 hours it's nearly reached its target. Which is a) completely dizzy-making oh my god and b) awesome because it looks like we'll be able to move onto our stretch goals of paying more for contributions and throwing a great launch party.
I have really high hopes for this. Claire is an excellent literary poet and among other things we're hoping to straddle the literary/speculative divide - we won't be the only ones doing that, of course, but more can only be a good thing. We want it to be feminist, multicultural, queer-friendly and generally as diverse as possible.
So, please check out our Kickstarter (we're offering some cool rewards), and boost the signal. If all goes well we will open to subs in February, and I hope lots of you will submit - for now though, help us get it off the ground!
Kickstarter link - Verse Kraken: the magazine of hybrid art
THANK YOU
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The sky's the limit. ;-)