We are reading some really great stuff. Working on layout. Should be a blast.

Jackie is helping us out with some art to accompany each piece.

This how we roll

So the deadline has passed, but to be perfectly honest we will certainly consider any submissions that may come in post-deadline. If there's that story that you thought might work, send it along even if you don't think it's ready. If we like the idea, we'll help you get it ready.

The Time Is Nigh

Here we go y'all. We're right about twenty-six and one half hours to go. That's more than enough to do one last final draft before you send it to redheadedzine@gmail.com.

Crunch Time, Hammer Time, Hard Time Blues

Now is when you need to get going on these submissions. You have one(1) week left. 06:23:43:13 left and counting. I know what most of you are thinking to yourselves/saying to your computer screens: I work full time and/or I'm participating in NaNoWriMo. How can I make it in time/do it at all?

You just have to put your social lives on hold. You have to tell your friend or friends that you can't make it to karaoke/movie/quilting/curling night. You don't have time to go to Amsterdam's Shadow Festival. You have a commitment. Not to us, but to yourself. You are a writer and you say this to people you meet. You said it to your federal loans. You might have a piece of paper that states that you are bona fide. You like words. You read. You journal. You blog. You whatever. There is a story* in you or in your drawer and it needs to be on paper. It needs to be in print. It needs to be emailed to us because if it isn't, you're a jerk. It's selfish to hoard your story+ away from the world.

I expect to hear from all of you very, very soon. If I don't hear from you, you make me a liar. Do you want me to be a liar?

-Andreas

*-see also: poem
+-see also: poem

The Final Countdown Revisited

Zack, I fixed your link on the last post. It took me nowhere when I tried it. You're welcome.

I'm hoping to have the website up within the week.

The Final Countdown

Hey y'all, Zack here. There are only two weeks left for submitting, so hurry up and finish your stories. Unlike Andreas, I will not offer a shameless plug on a shared blog.




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Website news

Andreas here,

The website is coming along, I would say, swimmingly. We've got the layout designed. I've got some great ideas for post-publication. It will be up soon. It's my first time ever doing this so I'm excited to see the final product myself.

In other news, I'm partaking in NaNoWriMo. You can follow my journey on a sketchbook.

Currently, I am in my boxers (royal blue with little yellow sharks) and my black I Killed Amanda Palmer shirt. Barefoot. It's nice. For now, I must leave, work on my writing goal for the day, head to work. But first I'm on wake up duty.

One month left

This Dia de los meurtos marks one month to our submission deadline. That means all y'all motherfuckers better get to submitting lest we break your legs. But we'll probably just kick you in the shin, and fairly lightly. Andreas is working on the website designing and whatnot. Hopefully that will be up shortly and we can get on Duotrope. For the time being, work on ya damn art and check the setting on the toaster before using.

To Start it Off

This is my friend Dan on a roller coaster at Six Flags somewhere. One of his friends actually knows someone at NASA who digitally sends pictures out into space. This was sent up.

!yO

This here blog is a tandem thing Zack and I have going on. All to promote Redheaded Stepchild. I'm going to offer a new kind of submission. Since the whole mission statement is about things being funny and not, horribly funny, etc., I figured it might be nice to offer our illustrator and photographer friends a chance at the unfortunate humor that is Redheaded Stepchild. For all you visual artists: email redheadedzine@gmail.com. Attach a photo or drawing or painting or whatever and we'll post it right here on the blog. I'm interested in seeing what everyone thinks of when it comes to funny misfortune.

Oy!

Newly started Chicago-based Lit zine for long short-shorts. 2,000 words or 3 poems is all you get to express yourself. Accepting submissions for Vol. I (Redux). Deadline is December first. Copy & Paste into an email, then send to reheadedzine@gmail.com. We're looking for stories with an ugliness about them. Think walking into a glass door/finding out you had a twin who died at birth. We would like to pay you, but we can't.