REGARDING SPOT (LIT)ERARY (MAG)AZINE:
Spot Literary Magazine <http://www.spotlitmagazine.net> is a biannual journal published by Spot Write Literary Corporation, a nonprofit California public benefit corporation, with federal tax-exempt status.
Address subscription and administrative correspondence to: Spot Write Literary Corporation, 4729 E. Sunrise Dr., Box 254, Tucson, AZ 85718-4535. Via email, you may reach the editior <susan.hansell@gmail.com> or the publisher <gpuyeno@hotmail.com>.
Sustaining subscriptions are $25 US per year, which includes priority mailing costs. Single issues or back issues are $15.00 when mailed or $10 in person. Checks are payable to "Spot Write Literary Corporation."
SLM is also available at {OPEN} Books, in Long Beach, CA, and at Shakespeare and Company, in Paris, France.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 2007) features work by Suzanne Allen,
Brendan Constantine, Elizabeth Fenimore, Grim, Susan Hansell, Chris
Jara, Jennifer Lester, Lori Lubeski, Rachel Maize, Bill Mohr, Joshua
Peralta, Connie Pham, Jonathan Rapp, Mallory Reeves, Neal Storrs, and
Gerald Uyeno.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 2 No. 1 (Spring 2008) features work by Jeffrey Alfier, Suzanne Allen, David Barnes, Tobi Cogswell, Steve De France, Elizabeth Fenimore, Mark Guarie, Susan Hansell, David E. Howerton, Elizabeth Iannaci, Matthew Karver, Michelle Lauren Kay, Hari Bhajan Khalsa, Curtis Last, Jennifer Lester, Greggory Moore, Christopher Mulrooney, Jonathan Rapp, John G. Rodwan, Jr., Luke Salazar, Neal Storrs, Robert L. Wells, and Gerald Uyeno.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall 2008) features fiction by Michael Buckley, Anne Finger, Christian Lozada, and Lisa Manning; photography by Elizabeth Fenimore; poetry by Jeffrey C. Alfier, Tobi Cogswell, Steve De France, Elizabeth Iannaci, Curtis Last, Jennifer Lester, Paul Lieber, Lisa Manning, Bill Mohr, Luke Salazar, Suejin Suh, and Gerald Uyeno; prose by Greggory Moore and John G. Rodwan, Jr., and short plays by Susan Hansell and Jonathan Rapp.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1 (Spring 2009) features cartooning by Gerald Uyeno; drawings by Jennifer Woo; an essay by Lisa Manning; fiction by Michael Buckley and Jade Hidle; mixed media by Hazzel Yen; photography by Kyle Moreno and Robert L. Wells; poetry by Jeffrey Alfier, Laurel Ann Bogen, Steven Carey, Tobi Cogswell, Michael Lee Johnson, Rick Kilpatrick, Donal Mahoney, Stephen Mead, Bill Mohr, Kyle Moreno, Milos Petrovic, Jonathan Rapp, Joseph Reich, Brooks Roddan, Joan Jobe Smith and Fred Voss; prose by Greggory Moore; and a short excerpt from a new stage play by Susan Hansell.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 2009) features cartooning by Gerald Uyeno; drawing by Jennifer Woo; an essay by John G. Rodwan, Jr.; fiction by Brad Bisio, Michael Buckley, Werner Low, Christian Hanz Lozada, Greggory Moore, Christa Westaway; mixed media by Hazzel Yen; photography by Alireza Taheri Araghi and a. paul cartier; poetry by Jeffrey C. Alfier, Steven Carey, Tobi Cogswell, Shelagh Davis, Dennis Duncan, Michael Estabrook, Lorene C. Garrett, Christain Hanz Lozada, Donal Mahoney, Lisa Manning, Clint Margrave, Stephen Mead, Bill Mohr, Kyle Moreno, Christopher Mulrooney, Luisa Peña, Katrina Prow, Joseph Reich, Brooks Roddan, Joan Jobe Smith, Suejin Suh, Macrae Sutherland, and Fred Voss; and a play by Susan Hansell.
Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1 (Spring 2010) features cartooning by Gerald Uyeno; drawing by Jennifer Woo; essays by John G. Rodwan, Jr. and Christy Wise; fiction by Michael Buckley, Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, and Mike Guardabascio; mixed media by Hazzel Yen; photography by a. paul cartier and Kyle Moreno; a new play excerpt by Susan Hansell; poetry by Jeffrey C. Alfier, Suzanne Allen, Brad Bisio, Tobi Cogswell, Shelagh Davis, Lorene V. Garrett, Andrew Hilbert, Stephen Ira, Curt Last, Lori Lubeski, Lisa Manning, Bill Mohr, Eric Morago, Luisa Peña, Jonathan Rapp, Brooks Roddan, Luke Salazar, Joan Jobe Smith, and Fred Voss.
Order SPOTLIT via correspondence or email (see above), or purchase copies at selected bookstores, including [Open] Books, in Long Beach, CA, or at Shakespeare and Company, in Paris, France.
SLM accepts submissions from January 15 through February 15 for spring issues, and from August 15 to September 15 for fall issues.
Submissions are considered for acceptance via email only. Texts must be sent as Microsoft Word files in (simple) TIMES (or Times New Roman if you do not have TIMES CE) font. Send black and white photos or art work in grayscale JPEG file format.
Black-and-white photos and black-and-white artwork are desirable (please send as jpegs), as are cross-genre works. Authors and artists receive one free perfect-bound copy, limited-time internet publication (with permission; the take-down date is the publication of the subsequent issue), and one sponsored reading in the Southern California area.
For the latest information on any or all of the above, and for more on the bi-annual reading party events celebrating each issue's publication, please visit the SLM website and click the "Upcoming" left menu (link here) www.spotlitmagazine.net.
website photo by a. paul cartier