Thank you to everyone who sent in work for consideration for AMERARCANA 2012. There was a rather heavy influx over the last couple weeks of the submission period, so there’s now an ample stack of work to be read through. Please bear with me. I’ll get word to you all soon as I can. Thanks again. It’s already shaping up to be a banger of an issue.
now accepting work for AMERARCANA 2012
AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now accepting submissions, be they poetry, creative or critical prose, other words, or black & white works of art. We’ll be reading and responding to unsolicited submissions between July 1st and October 31st, though you are encouraged to submit earlier, rather than later in that time frame. Please send submissions of no fewer than 5 pages, no more than 15, with brief biographical notes or any other pertinent information and salutations, preferably via post to: AMERARCANA / A Bird & Beckett Review / 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131 (Please include a self-addressed envelope with adequate postage for reply), or if necessary, via email to: AMERARCANA@gmail.com (.doc or .pdf files only for text; .jpeg OK for artwork). Thanks for your interest.
WHEN I SPOKE TO YOU, LEAVES WERE COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH
Micah Ballard, Patrick Dunagan, Christina Fisher, Matt Gonzalez, Erik Noonan, Cedar Sigo & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux will ALL be reading on Thursday, May 26th, 7:00 pm at aMuse Gallery (614 Alabama at 18th Street) where Gonzalez’s collages are currently exhibited along with paintings by Tom Schultz.
This should be a fantastic night. I’ve nothing to do with the organization of this reading, but am damn proud to say two-thirds of these poets have already appeared in AMERARCANA’s first 264 pages. Maybe the other third’ll appear somewhere in the next hundred-odd plus…?
SATURDAY NIGHT
Our oh so very official release reading and general celebration is on for Saturday, April 30th, from roughly 6:30 until 9:00, so come on by Bird & Beckett Books, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131…
It’s here! Now! & we’ll be celebrating April 30
The new issue of AMERARCANA has at last arrived! Come on down to Bird & Beckett to get a copy, buy it here now, or bide your time until the end of April when we’ll have a slew of contributors in to read from & celebrate the publication of this 2nd annual Bird & Beckett Review. That’ll be Saturday, April 30 starting at 7 pm. So far we’re sure to have Art Beck, Neeli Cherkovski, Patrick Dunagan, Naomi Goldner, QR Hand, David Meltzer, Erik Noonan, William Rockwell, Blake Rogers, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Ayo Khensu-Ra, Maurice Woods & who knows, maybe even Clark Coolidge & Diane di Prima’ll show. We’re sorry to say that Fred Moten, Craig Santos Perez & Waly Salomao (or his translator Maryam Monalisa Gharavi) almost certainly won’t be able to make it, nor most likely will Rebecca Ahrens, but we do hope to hang a few of her photographs around the shop for you to feast your eyes on, so do try to come on by. There’ll be a few libations to boot…
a review of last year’s Review
A kind review of last year’s Review was just posted at New Pages here:
http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2011-01-15/#AMERARCANA-2010
Rather timely, this, considering how soon no. 2 is due. Thanks, PW.
New Year, New Review
Happy New Year everyone. It’s official. The 2011 edition of AMERARCANA will feature the writing of Patrick James Dunagan, Clark Coolidge, David Meltzer, Fred Moten, Neeli Cherkovski, Diane di Prima, Art Beck, Blake Rogers, Maurice Woods, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Naomi Goldner, Waly Salomao (translated by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi), Craig Santos Perez, Erik Noonan, William Rockwell, Ayo Khensu-Ra and the editor, peppered with a few photographs by Rebecca Ahrens.
Look for it by the end of February, or sometime thereabout. Soon as we have it in hand, we’ll set a reading / celebration date. Thanks to everyone who submitted work. This is gonna be a good one.
submissions closed ~ decisions close
Thanks to everyone (& there were many more of you than anticipated) who submitted work over the last four months. Much has been read and considered already, but more has yet to get due attention. What with the Giants making history and all there’ve been a few distractions of late. Still, final decisions should be made within a matter of weeks, so those of you who haven’t heard anything yet should hear soon.
Submissions for AMERARCANA 2011
Submissions received from July 1st through October 31st will be considered for inclusion in the second issuance of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review, to be published in early 2011. For guidelines, please read on below. For more information about the publication, please click here. For a list of contributors to the first issuance, published in early 2010, please click here.
Writers are encouraged to send 5-10 or so pages of unpublished creative or critical prose, poetry, or other words, preferably on paper, to:
AMERARCANA
Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco, CA 94131
or via email, as a single .doc or .pdf attachment, to:
As for art submissions, please send 5-10 images, preferably copies on paper or .pdf attachments only, of work originally in black and white and preferably of a scale not too much greater than the 6″x9″ that any reproduction will necessarily be.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, though mildly discouraged as initial responses will be fairly quickly forthcoming. Please send word immediately if work submitted to AMERARCANA is accepted for publication elsewhere.
Now Purchasable (though certainly not venal) Online
If you’re somewhere not near
and would like to buy a copy of
AMERARCANA 2010
you can now do so here.
So have at it! Post haste!
Just about half the 500 remain,
for now…
