Branch Magazine
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The deadline for the SLS 2012 Literary Contest is quickly approaching!
Submit before February 28, 2012!
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Prizes include…
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in print in the Black Warrior Review, and online in The Walrus. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-2012 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 17 - 30); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 4 - 18); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and publication in online magazine Joyland (fiction) or Branch (poetry). Third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount and publication in Joyland (fiction) or Branch (poetry).
The contest winner in the category of non fiction will be published in DIAGRAM, and will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-2012 programs.
Further details here.
Yay! We’re happy to announce that the wonderful Alison Strumberger, literary guest editor of Issue 5 (Wild), is returning to guest-edit Issue 8 (Make-Believe).
The deadline to submit is March 1, 2012.
Guidelines here.
(Clockwise) Fred Wah, Ryan Howarth, Found Inspiration, Jean-Paul Corbeil
Issue 7 (Style & Form) of Branch is now live. This marks the final issue of Branch for 2011 and we’re going out in style. You’ll notice a couple new features introduced here: “Branch Out” and “Found Inspiration.” Rob and I really enjoyed putting this one together; it has energy, it’s kinetic. There’s something sexier (a touch dirtier) about it. And that’s never a bad thing. We hope you love it.
Branch, Issue 7 Teaser
I had the pleasure of reading Yonah and Calvin’s script, Amy George, last February. Since then, the pages have transformed into a film and made its way into the Wisconsin Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Calgary International Film Festival.
Now, the guys are coming into town for Festival du Nouveau Cinema (playing Oct. 14 and 17) and I am looking forward to finally seeing this on screen. Join me!
Branch contributor, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, is coming into Montreal for the launch of her new book, Apologetic for Joy (Goose Lane, 2011), and Branch editor, Gillian, will be reading with her. If you’re in town on the 30th, swing by D&Q! The event will be hosted by the engaging Sasha Manoli.
We’re elated to share that Branch Magazine is participating in the 2012 Unified Literary Contest, organized by Summer Literary Seminars. The top prizes grant 2 winners the choice of attending one of the Summer Literary Seminars in either MONTREAL, LITHUANIA or KENYA. Each will receive free tuition, accommodations, and travel. Pretty amazing.
Branch will be publishing finalists’ pieces, along with The Walrus, Black Warrior Review and Joyland.
Get writing! Guidelines are here.
We were honoured when Dawn Raffel, editor of The Literarian, selected Branch as one of the contributing journals to feature in their current issue (up now!). They published “The Living on This Beach” by Alex Leslie, originally published in Issue 5 of Branch. We’re tickled pink!
Check out The Center for Fiction here.
Thanks, SLS, for playing matchmaker and introducing us!
My writing pal Michael Blouin is featured in the new issue of Branch Magazine - the Private Parts Issue!
check them out now please: www.branchmagazine.com
one of the poems featured in branch was written in response to this glorious thing above. this work of art sublime is a collabo between louise bourgeois and tracey emin. it is called “a million ways to come” and there are more.
We are pleased to launch our sixth issue: Private Parts.
Featuring: Marina Bychkova, Mary di Michele, Susan Gillis, Jonathan Bennett, Peter Farmer, Aisha Sasha John, Ben Clarkson, Sandra Ridley, Sheri Larsen, Eva Moran, Michael Blouin, Ila Kavanagh, Catherine Graham, Melissa Mercier, Shane Wilson and Robert Earl Stewart.
“So, Amazon.com announced their Best of the Year So Far 2011 and my book MID-LIFE was in the top ten for Comics/Graphic Novels.”
-Joe Ollmann
YAY for Joe!
See more of him in Issue 2 (Home).
