Gigantic Sequins 1.2 coming soon to a store / website near you!
Featuring…
poetry by:
Kathleen Rooney
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Leigh Alexander
Adam Falkner
Jeff Laughlin
Cheena Marie Lo
Kyle Tacsit
Sophia Natasha Sunseri
Ryan Hunton
Joe Letourneau
Kiara Kharpertian
AND fiction by…
Zach Yontz
Lucretia Zappi
Ben Dover
Jordan Bowen
ALSO: the cover art and art inside issue 1.2 is by:
Mark Toneff
COMING SOON!
BUY OUR MAGAZINE HERE. Don’t delay! Order today!
Issue 1.1 features…
POETRY by Evan Ross Burton, Johnny Chinnici, Ben Fama, Molly Finkelstein, Max Goransson, Alia Hamada, shoney lamar, Jeff Laughlin, Chris Peck, Theadora Sirania
POETRY & FICTION by Sophia Natasha Sunseri
FICTION by Ryan Sanborn
PERSONAL ESSAY by Gleni Bartels
ART by Peter Harren
CLiCK the EVENTS link to your right for this information —–>
NYC Release Party : Saturday April 25, 2009 : McKibben Lofts 8pm / $1 at the door gets you in + a raffle ticket 255 Mckibben St. #507 Bushwick NY come and get your issue! we will have three acoustic performers and two readers! we are asking a dollar at the door again that also gets you a free raffle ticket. we will be raffling awesome things donated to us from local businesses! we will be selling GIGANTIC sequins for $5 a pop. you’ll want one. they’re pretty. your friends’ writing is in there. if you are a contributor or Friend Of the magazine, you can show up to get your free issue, to participate in our raffle, and to come out to a night of fun and music and awesomeness. PLEASE show your support. we had fun last time and expect to have fun again this time. music provided by… Christopher P. Stelling & Benjamin Shepherd & Chris Peck poetry provided by… Evan Ross Burton & Jeff Laughlin : L to Montrose or J or Z to Flushing will get you there.
BOSTON release party : Tuesday April 28th, 2009 : All Asia 9pm / $3 @ the door / if you buy our mag at the door, we’ll give you a FREE raffle ticket =) Stargraph! Shoney Lamar & the Equal Rights! Kingsley Flood! Climbing Ardeshir you can buy our magazine at any point in the night for it’s cover price of $5. you can buy a raffle ticket at any point in the night for $1 each. if you are one of our contributors or friends of the magazine and you live in the Boston area, you can pick up your copies of the magazine! BRING YOUR FRIENDS. help us out! support the music! support GIGANTIC sequins! do the right thing. do what you can. you can get to All Asia by either taking the red line to Central Square. You can also take the 1 bus.
GIGANTIC sequins is nearly available! We have gone off to press and are tingling with anticipation for our magazine to be out!
Meanwhile, we are busy planning our two release parties! Our New York release is on 4/25 and our Boston release is on 4/28. In the spirit of our first bash, we have decided again to have a raffle at each event!
What we need, though, is stuff to raffle off! We are accepting donations for the raffle at this time. If you run a business or a non-profit, a small press, a magazine of your own, a venue, a bookstore, a coffeeshop, etc! and would like to donate something small for us to include in our Grand Prize at one of our raffles (in either New York or Boston) please contact us at [ giganticmagazine@gmail.com ].
We are offering to run an ad for you on the links pages of our website if you do decide to donate something to us.
Let us know soon!
Thanks
GS editors
Here are many ways that you can keep in touch with Gigantic Sequins:
follow us on twitter here
add us on myspace here
follow our editors’ blog here
add us on facebook here
ALSO: Soon we will have more information about our release parties. We have a date and a venue set for our Boston release, April 28, 2009 at ALL ASIA. More details to come. Our New York release information should also be available soon. Keep your ear to the floor.
Gigantic Sequins is looking to print your best poetry, fiction, essays and visual art. The following Submission Guidelines and our reading periods can always be found on the sidebar to the right.
Our reading periods are:
March 1 – June 30 (Fall)
September 1 – December 31 (Spring)
Please send work to giganticmagazine@gmail.com as an Microsoft Word document. If you don’t have access to Microsoft Word, please copy and paste your work into the body of the email, but beware that your formatting may not transfer.
All genres are accepted, but please specify what genre you’re writing in. If you invented this genre, name it. When we say all genres, we mean the following and more: poetry, fiction, cultural essays, comics, short shorts, prose poems, other hybrid genres, excerpts from screenplays, novels, novellas, your-genre-here, etc.
Do not forget to include your current contact information: name, address, email, and phone number in the body of your email.
If you are submitting the same piece to other magazines, we will consider it, but do let us know if it gets accepted to the other magazine first.
There is a 15 page or 5000 word maximum for each piece (double or 1.5 spaced). Please only send up to five (5) works per submission period.
Gigantic Sequins will be available only in print.
We also feature visual art in our magazine. We only print in black & white as of now. Please take this into consideration before submitting your art to us. However, please submit your art to us. We do not accept photography as of now. Please send your art as an email attachment, specifying the genre of your work. Also please include your contact information. You may send your art to: giganticmagazine@gmail.com.
Thank you!
