Keep it coming!
We've had a slow beginning (word of cool things travels slow at CSF, while that stupid rumor that Joe Fitz is actually 10 prairie dogs stacked on top of each other travels like wildfire), but submissions are starting to trickle into the inbox...
If we want to have at least one awesome issue before May, keep 'em coming! Especially photos, drawings, and paintings... because really, who wants to just read a bunch of words? I think Love in the Time of Cholera would have been MUCH better with illustrations.
Email your brilliance to humdinger.reader@gmail.com
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Submission Guidelines & Instructions
Want to get your stuff into the Humdinger Reader?
Here's how... And remember, These rules are always subject to change! If you want to add or amend a rule, email humdinger.reader@gmail.com and let us know what and why!
Submission Guidelines:
+ You must be a CSF student. Because we will accept submissions anonymously, this is partly on the honor system. Alums are also welcome to contribute. We would prefer you include your name with your submission, so you can show everyone how awesome you are, but anonymous submissions are indeed allowed.
+ Mediums accepted: Any type of written word, drawings (send us your doodles!!), photographs, or facsimiles of paintings. Digital files emailed to us will be used as-is, and originals submitted to our CSF PO box will be scanned. If you want your original back, please include your CSF PO box or street address. We will probably print in black and white, however, so know that your work will be turned to grayscale in print. If you would like your work to be web-only (thus only in color), please specify that in your submission.
+ We will publish just about anything. We'll tell you straight-up that porn, smut, racist/homophobic/sexist wank, and other blatantly inappropriate material will not be posted. The exact definition of "inappropriate" is a fluid thing; any piece that is straddling the line will be discussed amongst the editors. But be warned.
+ Egregious spelling and punctuation errors will be corrected. We don't want to look like someone just threw up on a page. In poetry and experimental prose, where "errors" are not really possible, we'll of course cater to your aesthetic purposes. If you have a problem with the way your piece was edited, let us know. We won't change the meaning, we'll just make it intelligible.
+ When you submit something to the Humdinger Reader, you're giving us permission to post it on this blog and to distribute it in print around campus. We don't have anything by way of copyright abilities or legal mumbo-jumbo, so if it's something you plan on selling to make your first million someday, you may want to re-think this. Because obviously, the world will come to us to steal your stuff. (Sarcasm.)
These are the basics. We're always willing to change or add details, so let us know your thoughts at humdinger.reader@gmail.com
So you want to submit?...
Email your submission to humdinger.reader@gmail.com
OR
Drop off a hard copy of your submission at the CSF post office. Bring it to the counter and write "Student Writers' Association" on the envelope. From off-campus, mail it to:
Student Writers' Association
1600 St. Michael's Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Here's how... And remember, These rules are always subject to change! If you want to add or amend a rule, email humdinger.reader@gmail.com and let us know what and why!
Submission Guidelines:
+ You must be a CSF student. Because we will accept submissions anonymously, this is partly on the honor system. Alums are also welcome to contribute. We would prefer you include your name with your submission, so you can show everyone how awesome you are, but anonymous submissions are indeed allowed.
+ Mediums accepted: Any type of written word, drawings (send us your doodles!!), photographs, or facsimiles of paintings. Digital files emailed to us will be used as-is, and originals submitted to our CSF PO box will be scanned. If you want your original back, please include your CSF PO box or street address. We will probably print in black and white, however, so know that your work will be turned to grayscale in print. If you would like your work to be web-only (thus only in color), please specify that in your submission.
+ We will publish just about anything. We'll tell you straight-up that porn, smut, racist/homophobic/sexist wank, and other blatantly inappropriate material will not be posted. The exact definition of "inappropriate" is a fluid thing; any piece that is straddling the line will be discussed amongst the editors. But be warned.
+ Egregious spelling and punctuation errors will be corrected. We don't want to look like someone just threw up on a page. In poetry and experimental prose, where "errors" are not really possible, we'll of course cater to your aesthetic purposes. If you have a problem with the way your piece was edited, let us know. We won't change the meaning, we'll just make it intelligible.
+ When you submit something to the Humdinger Reader, you're giving us permission to post it on this blog and to distribute it in print around campus. We don't have anything by way of copyright abilities or legal mumbo-jumbo, so if it's something you plan on selling to make your first million someday, you may want to re-think this. Because obviously, the world will come to us to steal your stuff. (Sarcasm.)
These are the basics. We're always willing to change or add details, so let us know your thoughts at humdinger.reader@gmail.com
So you want to submit?...
Email your submission to humdinger.reader@gmail.com
OR
Drop off a hard copy of your submission at the CSF post office. Bring it to the counter and write "Student Writers' Association" on the envelope. From off-campus, mail it to:
Student Writers' Association
1600 St. Michael's Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87505
About the Humdinger Reader
Over the years, it has become clear to the members of the Student Writers' Association (SWA) that the student body at the College of Santa Fe needs an outlet. Sure, we have Glyph, but only about 30% of the submissions to the College's main literary magazine actually get printed. For an even smaller set, the Helman Prize is awarded annually, and the finalists end up in a chapbook - but that's usually only 5 or 6 stories, and the competition is limited to juniors and seniors. Other than printing out your work and leaving it conspicuously on cafeteria tables, there was really no way to get your work out there.
Enter the 'zine. For years it has been on the minds of the powers that be at SWA, but due to a combination of laziness and lack of form, it never came about. In the 07-08 school year, however, we decided to just go for it, to create the 'zine, to get it over with - and modify the rules and regulations as time goes on.
The first step was SWA members submitting possible names. The second step was a mass email to the CSF community, asking for votes on the name. The title emerged, the blog and email were created accordingly, and here we are today.
We have no idea how often we'll publish. Every week? Every two weeks? Every month? Whenever we have enough to produce a worthwhile issue? It all depends on the number of submissions we get and how fast we get them. This is a work in progress.
At the moment I, Charlotte Jusinski (cjusinski@csf.edu), am the proprietor of the Humdinger Reader (as well as SWA's fearless leader). I've served my time on the staff of Glyph and the Independent, as well as putzing about at the Santa Fe Reporter, so I've taken the reins. I'm always down for help, and someday I'm gonna move on and someone will have to take over. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
So that's the story. It will keep evolving and more details will emerge as time goes on and we realize exactly what the students want, what the magazine needs to stay afloat, and what rules need to be laid out so we don't get in trouble (uh-oh). This has never been done before at CSF, so there's no foundation whatsoever. Let's start building.
Enter the 'zine. For years it has been on the minds of the powers that be at SWA, but due to a combination of laziness and lack of form, it never came about. In the 07-08 school year, however, we decided to just go for it, to create the 'zine, to get it over with - and modify the rules and regulations as time goes on.
The first step was SWA members submitting possible names. The second step was a mass email to the CSF community, asking for votes on the name. The title emerged, the blog and email were created accordingly, and here we are today.
We have no idea how often we'll publish. Every week? Every two weeks? Every month? Whenever we have enough to produce a worthwhile issue? It all depends on the number of submissions we get and how fast we get them. This is a work in progress.
At the moment I, Charlotte Jusinski (cjusinski@csf.edu), am the proprietor of the Humdinger Reader (as well as SWA's fearless leader). I've served my time on the staff of Glyph and the Independent, as well as putzing about at the Santa Fe Reporter, so I've taken the reins. I'm always down for help, and someday I'm gonna move on and someone will have to take over. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
So that's the story. It will keep evolving and more details will emerge as time goes on and we realize exactly what the students want, what the magazine needs to stay afloat, and what rules need to be laid out so we don't get in trouble (uh-oh). This has never been done before at CSF, so there's no foundation whatsoever. Let's start building.
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