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The Starbeck Orion, a new opportunity for your writing

Paul Brookes

Paul Brookes

Paul Brookes
In the New Year I am having a go at running an online poetry and flash fiction magazine based on Substack. It will be called The Starbeck Orion, be 25 creative works long, and be published seven times a year. Please contribute via the Gmail address TheStarbeckOrion@gmail.com
Send three unpublished poems or flash fictions (1,500 words, or less) in Word.doc. in Times New Roman, 11pt. Make sure you put your name in the title of the Word.doc so I can find it. As this is a new venture I need your PATIENCE, above all. Publication will be on the 25th of every other month. So first issue will be posted on 25th February 2024, next one 25th April, and so on. Each issue will be themed: First issue theme is "New Life" or send three of your best. Contributions, I prefer that term to submissions, are open now.
 
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Paul Brookes said:
In the New Year I am having a go at running an online poetry and flash fiction magazine based on Substack. It will be called The Starbeck Orion, be 25 creative works long, and be published seven times a year. Please contribute via the Gmail address TheStarbeckOrion@gmail.com
Send three unpublished poems or flash fictions (1,500 words, or less) in Word.doc. in Times New Roman, 11pt. Make sure you put your name in the title of the Word.doc so I can find it. As this is a new venture I need your PATIENCE, above all. Publication will be on the 25th of every other month. So first issue will be posted on 25th February 2024, next one 25th April, and so on. Each issue will be themed: First issue theme is "New Life". Contributions, I prefer that term to submissions, are open now.
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Paul Brookes said:
In the New Year I am having a go at running an online poetry and flash fiction magazine based on Substack. It will be called The Starbeck Orion, be 25 creative works long, and be published seven times a year. Please contribute via the Gmail address TheStarbeckOrion@gmail.com
Send three unpublished poems or flash fictions (1,500 words, or less) in Word.doc. in Times New Roman, 11pt. Make sure you put your name in the title of the Word.doc so I can find it. As this is a new venture I need your PATIENCE, above all. Publication will be on the 25th of every other month. So first issue will be posted on 25th February 2024, next one 25th April, and so on. Each issue will be themed: First issue theme is "New Life". Contributions, I prefer that term to submissions, are open now.
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Good luck, Paul. I really dislike themed issues, never understanding why an editor would choose to limit readership to those whom the theme intrigues. For instance, not only do I have no poems that employ the theme of "New Life," but I have little interest in the theme itself. Why not just solicit the best poems regardless of theme?
 
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Good luck, Paul. I really dislike themed issues, never understanding why an editor would choose to limit readership to those whom the theme intrigues. For instance, not only do I have no poems that employ the theme of "New Life," but I have little interest in the theme itself. Why not just solicit the best poems regardless of theme?
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Good idea, Jefferson. I will alter the remit adding, or send three of your best
 
2nd edition, The Miner's Strike, closing date 7th April?

In searching around for a link to The Starbeck Orion, I saw that you have planned a 2nd edition, but you didn't make an announcement here . . .
are you floundering in all the work on the 1st Edition (were you too ambitious for every other month production?)?
<please understand I'm not having a go at you, just curious . . . you seem peripatetic from the internet traces I found . . . 8^) . . . >

yeah, the jist of this is that i would love to submit to the second edition, if you're ready . . .
i think @Ieuan ap hywel would ordinarily be very interested in this themed edition, if his current circumstances permit . . .

I think I understand the publisher/editor's premise for themed issues,
it's a creative impulse of its own genre, toward research & understanding . . .
so bless you & your efforts . . . 8^) . . .
 
David E. Matthews said:
2nd edition, The Miner's Strike, closing date 7th April?

In searching around for a link to The Starbeck Orion, I saw that you have planned a 2nd edition, but you didn't make an announcement here . . .
are you floundering in all the work on the 1st Edition (were you too ambitious for every other month production?)?
<please understand I'm not having a go at you, just curious . . . you seem peripatetic from the internet traces I found . . . 8^) . . . >

yeah, the jist of this is that i would love to submit to the second edition, if you're ready . . .
i think @Ieuan ap hywel would ordinarily be very interested in this themed edition, if his current circumstances permit . . .

I think I understand the publisher/editor's premise for themed issues,
it's a creative impulse of its own genre, toward research & understanding . . .
so bless you & your efforts . . . 8^) . . .
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Hi, David,

The second edition is themed about The Miner's Strike 1984. Perhaps, I am being remiss in thinking that there would not be many folk from this site interested in such a niche theme.
 
oh, a particular Miner's Strike 1984 . . . that IS niche . . . 8^) . . .
I DO see what you mean . . .
do miners write poetry where yer at?
Is there a larger gestalt of anti-Thatcherism at work?
good luck.
I do think you could just post a notice that you were taking submissions, despite your misgivings,
even if we can't contribute, it's good we pause and contemplate . . . 8^) . . .
 
David E. Matthews said:
oh, a particular Miner's Strike 1984 . . . that IS niche . . . 8^) . . .
I DO see what you mean . . .
do miners write poetry where yer at?
Is there a larger gestalt of anti-Thatcherism at work?
good luck.
I do think you could just post a notice that you were taking submissions, despite your misgivings,
even if we can't contribute, it's good we pause and contemplate . . . 8^) . . .
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Yes, to all of the above. Third edition is non themed, closing date 7th June.
 
well, you should post a note in Announcements when each issue comes out
and provide a sample . . . 8^) . . . I'd be interested forensically, and Ieuan shares an interest in working-man-poetry.
it appalls me that the Reagan/Thatcher era is now viewed nostalgically across the political spectrum in the age of Trump.
 
David E. Matthews said:
well, you should post a note in Announcements when each issue comes out
and provide a sample . . . 8^) . . . I'd be interested forensically, and Ieuan shares an interest in working-man-poetry.
it appalls me that the Reagan/Thatcher era is now viewed nostalgically across the political spectrum in the age of Trump.
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Appalls me too. I saw the devastation her and her police army caused.
 
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