First Print Issue :: Tarpaulin Sky

Founded in 2002 as an online literary journal, Tarpaulin Sky took the form of 12.5 internet issues before its first paper edition in November 2007. Moving into 2008 and beyond, the magazine will continue to publish new work both online and in print, often curated by guest-editors. Tarpaulin Sky focuses on cross-genre / trans-genre / hybrid forms as well as innovative poetry and prose. The journal emphasizes experiments with language and form, but holds no allegiance to any one style or school or network of writers – trying to avoid some of the defects associated with dipping too often into the same literary gene pool, and the diversity of their contributors is evidence of the TS’s eclectic interests.