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Weave Magazine

E-mail: weavezine[at]gmail[dot]com

Web: www.weavemagazine.net

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes (see website) Reading period: 9/1-5/31 (year-round for subscribers) Response time: 6+ months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1948-1551 Founded: 2008 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Awesome Books, Books & Bookshelves Copy price: $10 Average pages: 100 Sample price (postpaid): $12 Subscription (individuals & institutions) 1 year: $18 + S&H

Publisher’s description: Weave Magazine is bicoastal, biannual art and literary publication. Weave is dark humor and magical realism. Weave is strange and fantastical. Weave also loves realistic narratives in fiction and poetry. Weave loves honest and simple nonfiction, not confessional for confessions sake. Weave loves strong, well-developed characters. Weave especially loves dynamic female characters. Weave loves flawed characters. Weave loves retellings of old stories, fairy tales and myths. Weave loves when writers play with language. Weave loves a poem that grabs our attention early and avoids clichés. Weave loves surprises. Weave also loves poems about animals. We love a good monkey poem, but have yet to find one. On that day, Weave will dance.

Recent issues:

Issue 07/ December 2011: Weave’s seventh issue is the largest yet. It's packed with poems by Carol Berg, Nicelle Davis, Noelle Kocot, and Nicholas YB Wong, fiction by Ellen McGrath Smith, Brooks Rexroat, and Anthony Varallo, nonfiction by Hannah Karena Jones and Julie Marie Wade, and art by Shoshana Kertesz, Jeannie Lynn Paske, Lindsey Peck Scherloum, among others. The issue also includes our first poetry and flash fiction contest winners and honorable mentions.

Issue 06 / June 2011: Weave's sixth issue reveals the gray areas between pleasure and pain, joy and sadness, beauty and ugliness. You'll fine magic realism, realistic fiction, and fairy tales retold. This issue is also very socially current with pieces that speak to racism, sexism, war, and the price of fame. Poetry by Nin Andrews, J.P. Dancing Bear, Rebecca Dunham, and Sally Rosen Kindred. Fiction by Lauren Becker, Z.Z. Boone, Jane McCafferty and Mary O’Donnell. Artwork by Sarah Leavens and cover art by Deona Fish.

 

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