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ragabrie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:44:21 CDT

Coatlism Book Prize. Enter it today!!! Michael Frissore, last year's winner, has his winning book coming out in September.

Print Issue No. 2 is out and red and fabulous. Make sure you get a few copies. Watch the trailer.

TheFlash Fiction and Poetry Prizeknown as the Cronopios & Famas Prize has been judged. The winners will be announced in Issue 48 of litchaos.com.

Visit the Magazine's Home Page

rmchiaia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:22:50 CDT

Current Issue of litchaos.com

Archives - search the site for all the past experimenal writers, poets, and artists.
Submission Guidelines
Bookstore
Contests:

Coatlism Full Length Book Prize - Coatlism Press will publish the winning manuscript and give the author 10 free copies and 25% of any profits.
Flash Fiction and Poetry Prize (Cronopios and Famas Contest) - $100 in cash prizes divided to the winners in each category.
The If on a fall crack-of-dawn a web-surfer...Prize - The winner is published in the print issue of litchaos.com with special recognition.

Online Questionnaire

rmchiaia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:53 CDT

Please fill out this Online Questionnaire

Please answer all (or some) of these questions. You may skip any questions you don't like or even change them to something you do like. I want to know more about you. I understand that this is very long and I would scoff at this at first myself, but it is for real. I really care about what you have to say and we promise to take it into account when making the site better, so please take a few minutes (it shouldn't take too long, really) and fill it out and email it to us at litk.os@gmail.com (please put questionnaire in the subject line, just in case, so it doesn't get spammed) or if you don't mind it being public, just do it right here. Thank you so much. You're the best for doing this. I will always remember you. --Ralph-Michael

1. are you a poet, fiction writer, or visual artist?
2. do you like the layout of the zine?
3. what would you change?
4. what new content would you like to see?
5. what service do you like most about litchaos.com?
6. what’s your yearly income?
7. what kind of job do you do?
8. are you married?
9. do you have children?
10. what’s your favorite sports team?
11. who is your favorite writer or artist?
12. what’s your favortite website?
13. Do you use a homepage, like My Yahoo or igoogle?
14. Do you click internet ads?
15. Do you watch internet porn?
16. Do you use a newsreader?
17. Has your poetry been published as a book or chapbook?
18. Have you ever been interviewed?
19. Do you have a page all about you on the web somewhere?
a. If yes, how many people visit per month? and who made it?
b. If no, would you like one?
20. How do you improve your writing?
21. Do you enter writing contests?
22. Do you donate to any ezines?
23. Do you read other ezines? (list as many as you’d like)
24. Do you subscribe to any print journals? (list as many as you’d like)
25. What can we do to improve litchaos.com?
26. Have you ever been published by litchaos.com?
a. If yes, did you link to friends?
b. If no, why don’t you send something?
27. What’s your biggest writing-related problem?

Completed Questionnaire by M Frissore:

Please answer all (or some) of these questions. You may skip any questions you don't like or even change them to something you do like. I want to know more about you. I understand that this is very long and I would scoff at this at first myself, but it is for real. I really care about what you have to say and we promise to take it into account when making the site better, so please take a few minutes (it shouldn't take too long, really) and fill it out and email it to us at litk.os@gmail.com (please put questionnaire in the subject line, just in case, so it doesn't get spammed). Thank you so much. You're the best for doing this. I will always remember you. --Ralph-Michael

1. are you a poet, fiction writer, or visual artist? Fiction Writer
2. do you like the layout of the zine? Very much so, yes.
3. what would you change? It needs some photos of naked women.
4. what new content would you like to see? See above.
5. what service do you like most about litchaos.com? This is nice.
6. what’s your yearly income? Not applicable at this moment
7. what kind of job do you do? I'm a "scorer," which is not as awesome as it sounds.
8. are you married? Quite.
9. do you have children? Not yet. Soon though. Hang in there.
10. what’s your favorite sports team? New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics
11. who is your favorite writer or artist? I dig Eric Spitznagel.
12. what’s your favortite website? Helium.com
13. Do you use a homepage, like My Yahoo or igoogle? MSN
14. Do you click internet ads? If they appeal to me.
15. Do you watch internet porn? Sporadically
16. Do you use a newsreader? See, I don't know what that is.
17. Has your poetry been published as a book or chapbook? No.
18. Have you ever been interviewed? You know what? I was once.
19. Do you have a page all about you on the web somewhere? Does MySpace or Facebook count?
a. If yes, how many people visit per month? and who made it? I guess not.
b. If no, would you like one? I don't know.
20. How do you improve your writing? Read and keep writing
21. Do you enter writing contests? Here and there
22. Do you donate to any ezines? No. I'm poor.
23. Do you read other ezines? (list as many as you’d like) Zygote in My Coffee, The Cerebral Catalyst, Monkeybicycle, decomP, rumble
24. Do you subscribe to any print journals? (list as many as you’d like) McSweeney's, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, New England Review
25. What can we do to improve litchaos.com? Not sure yet.
26. Have you ever been published by litchaos.com? Almost.
a. If yes, did you link to friends?
b. If no, why don’t you send something? Maybe I will.
27. What’s your biggest writing-related problem? It tends to be bizarre and/or offensive.

Here's one by Tantra Bensko

1. are you a poet, fiction writer, or visual artist?

All of them, all of them, all of them.

2. do you like the layout of the zine? 3. what would you change?

I'm used to analyzing web layout for magazines, as i've been the main artist on staff in three. I'm going to get more general than only the layout.

The layout is very clear. Someone put careful consideration into the placement of everything, all the ways of buying, and navigating around. It's consistent, professional, has panache. You seem to be putting more excitement into it. It's complete, intuitive, trustworthy, and I really congratulate you on making something viable, a business that is taking advantage of modern technology well.

But Visually, I am not drawn to it, myself. Though I do like the visual with the warning. I want to see more things like that there.

I would change the artistic aspect, but our visual preferences are just extremely different, i think, and yours is doing what it can to match the colors of the template. I just bought the Print issue, so will see how it looks in the flesh and pulp. As it is, the pictures on the book covers look like they were printed on the back side of inexpensive printing paper, scanned at low res, and saved too small but blown up. At the risk of being obnoxious to someone, I'd like to see the artistic visual effects be more appealing. It may well be that that's the effect you want, because that is fits the feel of the site.

That flat commercial, clashing colors style doesn't say "depth" to me, and I do want depth rather than superficiality in the writing in a magazine. You describe what you're presenting as hard nosed and kick-ass, and so maybe you're going for a hard edged style but I'd even roughen up what you have more. Put in more things like the Warning image. I would like to see the visuals either either softer or harder, but not in between like it is now.

There's a sense created by the visual effect that the work inside might be slightly superficial. The the general text of the site language isn't innovative or literary, and the art style isn't either, and without enough saturation and contrast to make it pop culture or rebellious, with a lot of humor or intensity or any style. It is good to be minimal enough to allow each writer or artist to dominate the page with his own style. But, if it weren't so one dimensional, with unartistic colors that don't set each other off, it would suggest more depth in the literature, more aesthetic appeal. I'd like to see boxes in the site somewhere with visuals which have some depth, or if not, humor or intensity.

Incredible visuals really sell literature and improve the experience. I've had my art paired with a large number of writing pieces in online magazines. And I've had my writing paired with a lot, and it can sometimes make the whole experience seem inviting, other times, I wouldn't have read my piece myself, if I were scanning the page.

The trailer for the first print issue starts off for the majority without enough saturation, and then it suddenly becomes saturated. That looks much, much better. A line goes through the center of it for awhile then. I would have liked the trailer to have had a quote from the magazine. And I had to turn the music off when it came on. Ugh.

Thank you--it's good you're moving out of just youTube, and found a better site. YouTube's pixilation is definitely not appealing.

Last time I described what I'd change about a magazine, I went into the color scheme reaction I had, what I wanted to see happen with the art, and I was enlisted to be the Art Director at Mad Hatters Review. (This issue, Marty Ison is taking over that role.) A magazine that is promoting itself as the best experimental art is going to have to prove itself to me pretty hard.

I like the looks of Unlikely Stories, and Retort Magazine and they are somewhat similar in tone to yours.

4. what new content would you like to see?

Maybe you'll keep up the chapbook contests til you are able to do regular full length book contests, and use very high quality art on the covers on expensive papers, have larger runs and lots of well known reviewers in magazines, which aren't generated between us, and you are able to offer them for low enough prices to make it viable. I'm rooting for you.

Primarily, just better and better innovative writing, more literary criticism and theory being discussed in the wiki, not going too much into rascally banter in it but having a sense of play and enthusiasm that you are so good at. Attracting the best writers out there is really the most important part.

I'm interested that you're moving more multimedia. I will be glad, as long as I like what you put up. My main inspiration for my art and writing is a combination of the two, really: experimental movies. If you have really beautiful, powerful movies, that would be a big draw for me personally, but I'm reserving myself until I see what you do. Experimental music would draw me too, truly innovative and high quality personal work that was as good as the best literature.

If anything you do can get me breathing more deeply, and trembling, I'd like that, please.

Though I just submitted some photos to it recently, I'm not sure what to think yet about your erotica page as it at this stage is empty.

I have sold a lot of art and writing, mostly articles about Tantra, to a women's erotica magazine, Oysters and Chocolate. Tantra, with its glowing layers of heavenly bliss of love and pulsating Kundalini flashes of manifest and non manifest, circulating energy between the lovers or around the self, is a lot of my sexuality.

To me, if the erotic content becomes pornographic, I guess you'd call it, too obvious, mainstream lighting and outfits and basic activities, it is not at all erotic. If the attitude of the magazine overall becomes too focused on the lustful, it could be tricky for the rest of it to be taken seriously.

If it goes into the erotic with high standards, keeps the rest of the discussions relevant enough, though of course, with the scintillating flirtations going on, and the naughty teases, it could be a wonderful way to combine the personalities of people such as myself. (See Ra's interview with me, Tantra Taunts Ra.) High quality sensual imagery can definitely be a big draw for a lot of people. You're trying an experiment, for sure. Living up to your reputation, there.

5. what service do you like most about litchaos.com?

That you keep energy and encouragement up for the world of experimental literature. That you can say you're at the top of the experimental writing ranking and it can make us get excited. We're really writing for our peers, and to connect with each other really helps, and this might forster that. That is a service. I like that you're opening it up more for people to get involved, in such a clear and organized way. That this can be a place to foment discussion about literary style, for example, and maybe readers will find that interesting enough to be made more lively, more excited about the potentials of being alive, looking at the world a little more vividly.

I like the poetry train idea.

6. what’s your yearly income?

Income?

7. what kind of job do you do?

I teach Tantra Yoga. People really go away transformed, and happy, from my sessions. I call some of my work Lucid Play, and that's the name of my company. I'm also a hypnotherapist.

8. are you married?

No, but I used to be, for 8 years, long ago, to a writer.

9. do you have children?

Yes, we created a fantastic pineapple of a son. He is the best thing that ever happened to me. He's a shining creature.

10. what’s your favorite sports team?

Sea lions. They knock each other off what they float on in the water. I root for both sides.

11. who is your favorite writer or artist?

I don't have one favorite. I like a lot of them, and am always coming across people in my path who do wonderful things. I have to say that artist Paul C. Wilm is my favorite writer, because of the consistently literary interactive quality of our communications over a large part of our lives. That inspires my genius more than any other writer.

I'm finishing up writing an essay that spans a whole series of John Crowley's books, including the one recently published by Small Beer Press, and though I am not a fantasy reader at all, I find his books an interesting example of what I call Lucid Fiction.

Writers who take their innovation really seriously and plunge into the depths of what consciousness is, our relationship to time, to our expanded selves including the true synchronistic nature of networking behind the scenes appeal to me. Writers who go beyond the traditional plot arc so that the structure of their fiction becomes part of the creative plot. Writers who let go of the old limitations of what a character is, so they explore what a person is, without the automatic bias of labeling a person by mass media standards.

What other ways can we look at what a constitutes a character. Can it be the force of flow of the universe in one sector? Does anything really cut apart what sector that is? I mean, our skin breathes all the time. Our nadis, which are astral pathways, which you can see on the Tantric diagrams, are our nerve endings of our aura around us. But our auras really are so huge it becomes hard at the edges of them to even say there are edeges to anything.

I am a spiritual teacher and healer and researcher, and I write as much about that as I write literature. But my spirituality is more like quantum physics than anything like religion. In fact, part of my concept of Lucid Fiction, is that it pushes beyond the usual mass media requirement to keep Christians in ignorance about all the previous Messiahs who had the same life stories.

So, I write about authors who are writing what I call Lucid Fiction. It's hard to have time to do it as often as I'd like because I have so many projects. But I hope to be able to promote that style of writing and really get that genre taken seriously as a style, like Slipstream, Bizarro, New Wave Fabulism, and such, which it has some relationship to. But it fills a gap in the publishing industry. I explain that in my published essays about it, which can be seen at http://www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko/lucidfiction.htm.

So, my next favorite writers may well be among those who send me their books or anthologies they are in, if feel they are Lucid Fiction writers, and would be curious what I have to say about them in that context, in public. I also write about magazines at times which have some Lucid Fiction qualities in some way. When they publish my Lucid Fiction fiction, that alerts me to consider writing about them.

12. what’s your favortite website?

Well, to answer accurately, the one I go to most regularly is actually www.Pandora.com, which is a music site, so I know we're veering off here. Though I do put out experimental music as well. (www.lucidplay.com/rubyfireorchestra.htm. My other answers stick to the literary realm. But for going to websites, I go quite often for information, to alternative information sites that deal with the consipiracy, health, and such. And I of course go to my own a lot, adding to them all the time. I do use myspace, have one for the orchestra, and one for me, http://www.myspace.com/latantriata.

13. Do you use a homepage, like My Yahoo or igoogle?

Yes.

14. Do you click internet ads?

Yes. I clicked the one for Fringe on your site. I never heard of the TV show.

15. Do you watch internet porn?

No, I find it a turn off whether it's on the internet, in print, or in the mind of someone I'm aroundi.

16. Do you use a newsreader?

What's a newsreader?

17. Has your poetry been published as a book or chapbook?

No, but I have three manuscripts completed and ready to publish.

18. Have you ever been interviewed?

Yes, silly! You're kidding, aren't you. I remember it well. You're just teasin' that you don't remember. http://litchaos.com/2006/vol2/issue22/interviewtantrabensko.htm

And for my writing, other magazines like Southern Hum, Global Inner Visions, Logascene, and quite a few more for my art, like The Times Journal of Photography, where I had my spread as the World Class Photographer. They contacted me from India. I was glad the world didn't end before it came out.

19. Do you have a page all about you on the web somewhere?

The web is my page. My sites are my exoskeletons. My writing site is www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko. An art site is http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com. A video site is www.YouTube.com/LucidFiction. An overarcing site is www.LucidPlay.com, but it doesn't lead to them all. They are a labyrinth you have to fly to get through.

a. If yes, how many people visit per month? and who made it?

I have a variety of sites, and it adds up to tens of thousands a month going to them.

I made them, using a template, www.freewebs.com, which is not free unless you want ads and such, which I would not want.

Some of my sites win awards. One site was Tantragarden, before someone snagged it, and it was made from scratch because of the skills and enthusiasm and genius of Dr. Simon Peter Hemingway. The site won awards, and Simon won the BT Design Award for that one. It had a lot of links that explained a lot of what was going on behind the scenes in the world. I was a juror for a long time for that award after that for both photography and art.

One of my other art sites won an award twice. It was for the http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com. The mosaicglobe gave the award themselves. That one is still around.

My sites come and go, and change, so go play in them. I couldn't even tell you how many there are offhand.

b. If no, would you like one?

It's....got.....to stop.

20. How do you improve your writing?

I used to be part of the Zoetrope writing community for a long time, workshopped my writing there. I spent a lot of my life in workshops with my MA and MFA long ago, but it still was helpful and I'd recommend it.

21. Do you enter writing contests?

Yes, sometimes, though the cost is generally too prohibitive. And I've won. Better is when I win contests that don't require entering, like Editor's Pick types. It makes me want to send them my best stuff.

22. Do you donate to any ezines?

Yes, I donate my heart.

23. Do you read other ezines? (list as many as you’d like)

Yes, like Cafe Irreal, and Dream People.

24. Do you subscribe to any print journals? (list as many as you’d like)

Yes, I subscribe to a few, usually when they come with the price of the contest entry. I like to support magazines on the cutting edge of experimental writing when I can afford it, which can be tough, and I have to chose carefuly, usually based on my developement of Lucid Fiction as a genre. I get anthologies more often. Paraspheres, Interfictions, Feeling Very Strange, Away With It.

As a photographer and artist, I also subscribe to magazines for that when I can afford it, like Black and White Magazine. They're incredible. Shots Magazine is another one. Breathtaking.

25. What can we do to improve litchaos.com?

I think I answered that one thoroughly. Thank goodness, eh? I bet you weren't ready for any more.

26. Have you ever been published by litchaos.com?

Yes, Indeed. Like:

http://litchaos.com/2006/vol2/issue20/bensko.htm and

http://www.litchaos.com/2007/vol3/issue26/tantra.htm

a. If yes, did you link to friends?

I would assume I posted it to my tantrabensko yahoo group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ TantraBensko/, which I was still taking the time to tell about my publications back then. I promise to start posting again, now that I went ahead put the link here. Being involved with so many publications and such that it's hard to take time to record them for the public is a problem I don't mind having.

But friends in general: they'd think I was bragging if I linked to all my publications as they happen a lot and i don't think that would make them happy. I don't just send them out when they first come out because they're out. There has to be some reason to send it to that particular person.

I put them on my website, www.freewebs.com/tantrabenkso, which is called Lucid Fiction. Then at some appropraite time, I may send the link to people who have some special interest, whether we've met in person or not, when it is a miraculously beautiful connection to make, and they feel my writing drip off their skin like raindrops in the sun.

b. If no, why don’t you send something?

Does anyone have friends who read online magazines? I mean, seriously, I'd like to suggest we take a poll on the wiki. Anyone who isn't a writer read literary magazines online? They may well do it. I'm curious if we are an incestuous, inbred bunch, inbred, speaking to ourselves like the various personalities of a skizoid personality.

Maybe I'll be oh so pleasantly surprised! If I learn that there are many readers who aren't writers looking to publish in magazines, I'll feel as if I'd just lain back naked, while someone wafted the wings of birds and their little bird beaks that tap up inside my nostrils and my ears, and my closed lips, that make me open them just a little more and speak into the beaks of the birds and write more passionately than ever.

27. What’s your biggest writing-related problem? Take 6 and 26 a and b above and mix them together in a blender. Add some cayenne pepper. Straight up.

I love you.

Tantra Bensko

Prizes

rmchiaia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:15:10 CDT

Fall 2010 -- The If on a fall crack of dawn a web-surfer... prize.
In honor of the late great Italo Calvino, we are offering this fiction prize.

$50 First Prize
$25 Second Prize
$10 Third Prize
Honorable Mentions will get a free print issue (you need only incur the shipping and handling).
$5 Entry

Please visit litchaos.com/crack for more info including the 'Pay Now' buttons. You can pay via google checkout or paypal (you do not need an account. A credit card will suffice). Also, you may send a check via snail mail to either of the addresses listed on the contact us page on litchaos.com.

Note:
We are looking for guest judges for future issues and contests. Inquire via email if you're interested.

Spring 209 -- Lit Chaos is offering $100 in prizes in poetry and fiction.

All you need to do is send your work (3 poems and/or one short fiction) and pay $5 using google checkout or paypal. Lit Chaos is a small online magazine, you may know, so the chance of winning are relatively high. It's not like playing the New York Lotto or joining a university sponsored contest. Here you have a real chance with editors who will know and remember your name.

Also, there will be honorable mention for pieces that almost win. The judging is by the litchaos staff, who favors experimental work.

Find out more about our prizes by clicking here.

News

ragabrie — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:28:48 CDT

NEWS

We have had a bad link for theCronopios' and Famas Prize. A lot of you still found us. To be fair, we're extending the deadline to July 15th, 2009. So get your Flash Fiction pieces and your Poetry in to us. Check thegood linkout here.

8 June 2009 -Issue 47 is being assembled right now with eight outstanding new pieces of poetry, fiction, photography, and artwork.Print Issue No. 2is in the mail. If you don't already have one, what are you waiting for?Buyyour copy today.

25 April 2009 -- TheBook Trailerfor Print Issue No. 2!Buy the book here. The web's pre-eminent experimental writing and artwork of 2009.

6 April 2009 --Issue 45of litchaos.com is out!It's well worth your time. It's got great new work and links tothe winners of theIf on a fall crack-of-dawn a web-surfer...prize. The contest came out great--we got many entertaining and well-written submissions--and nowPrint Issue No. 2is going to press with the winner's piece included.Buyyour copy today.

Also, theCronopios and Famas Flash Fiction and Poetry prizesare open. The winner will make it into Print Issue No. 3 and win a cash prize.

4 March 2009 -- I, Moctezuma Johnson, am writing love and/or hate poems to anyone who requests them. Come check out the one foryellow mama, oh yeah:http://johnshon.blogspot.com/2009/03/poem-for-yellow-mama.html)

28 February 2009 --I just re-made theDavid McLean review of my book Ten Poems & Ampersands. The links on that page were broken and I never realized. It's a great review and the page has really nice artwork, so check it out.

Also, we have organized all the covers of litchaos. Go tohttp://images.litchaos.com/?sionoto see all the beautiful covers. We would like to know which one is your favorite as well. You can leave your choice on this wiki.

19 February 2009 --Check out Tantra Bensko's newtip for writersat theLit Chaos Blog. You can find the previous two tips on the blog. We originally wanted to upload a tip per week, but we're not getting enough tips. Instead, we'll upload them sporadically when we get them. So send us your tips.

In other news,Issue #44of litchaos.com is out. So check that out. Also, we're designing, laying out, preparing Print Issue #2. We welcome last minutesubmissionsand we welcome advertisements for your writing, your blogs, your sites, your books, your ideas, your self, your home porn, your hate mail--whatever you'd like. Contact us.

2 February 2009-- All submissions are being read now. We apologize for taking so long recently. We got overwhelmed with submissions. We've had more hits recently, check site meter to see the stats (under tips on the litchaos.com site), and had trouble keeping up. Next year we may close submissions for certain perdiods -- maybe december. Anyway, we're reading all of them and will get in contact soon. If you haven't heard and are curious, you may send a query.

Also, the print issue is being assembled and the crack contest judged.

Two new books are coming out from Coatlism Press:Poetry is Deadby Michael Frissore andFarrago Soupby Doug Draime, so save up your pennies. We will try to make them as affordable as possible for you.

17 December 2008 --We are in the middle of judging submissions for the Coatlism Book Prize. The submissions are awesome! Thanks to everybody who participated. I wish everyone could win! Today I didn't want to go to work at all because I was having such a good time reading. We received experimental work with humor, history, you name it.

Also, Andy Riverbed's pre-order special is running the whole month of December. Order your copy today!

5 December 2008 -- issue #42 oflitchaos.comis out! It's pure poetry this time. Enjoy!

1 December 2008--$7 forDamagedin the month of December.

9 November 2008 --Issue #41 of litchaos.com is out! It's a full-blown attack of art, videos, fiction, and poetry -- including anaudio interviewwith Andy Riverbed, author ofDamaged, and anonline chapbookthat is very experimental. Plus, we are now looking for submissions for the 2nd print issue, due out in January/February. So get your submissions of artwork (black and white), fiction, and poetry. Also, there's a fiction prize, the winner of which will be published in print issue #2.

19 October 2008 --There are two contests that you need to take a look at if you're a serious writer. One is a full-length chapbook prize (more info below, see 12 September) and the other is theExperimental Fiction Prizefor best Short Story.

Also, Andy Riverbed's bookDamagedneeds to be reviewed. Anybody interested in reviewing his book of poetry with drawings, send an email to litk.os and request your free review copy. You can see the cover to the right on this page. In issue #41 of litchaos.com, Andy chats with Ralph-Michael about this book, his life, his writing, and life in boot camp in Puerto Rico. Check out the audio interview. Issue #41 also has videos from Tantra Bensko and Norman Ball, artwork by Tantra, poetry by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Aimee Delong, and Donald Illitch, as well as fiction by Jennifer Hollie Bowles.

13 September 2008 --Andy Riverbed's new bookDamagedwill be published by Coatlism Press. It's due out New Years Day 2009 but early review copies will be available in October. If you'd like to get a free copy then agree to review it. Send us an email at litk.os or coatlism @ gmail.com

12 September 2008-- TheCoatlism Full Length Book Prizeis really not a chapbook contest but a book contest. The name is a bit confusing. The winning book(s) will be very nice perfect-bound books. We just say chapbook because we aren't a big publishing house with much money. Still, our books look great when published, so the word chapbook should really be deleted.

Also, please note that chapbook submissions (not contest submissions) submitted to Coatlism are still being read and new ones are welcome. Full length stuff should be entered into the prize.

6 September 2008 --Please see theBulletin Boardfor new opportunities at litchaos.com. Right now, guest editors in poetry and fiction are requested.

5 September 2008-- Two cool things to report. Go to google and type in "experimental fiction prize" or "experimental chapbook" and you will see litchaos.com come up #1 in the rankings. Experimental literature has crowned a new representative. Lit Chaos is the web's pre-eminent experimental writing site. Thanks for helping us all climb up the rankings. Very few people know how they rank that stuff, but it's nice to have climbed up at least one list. This means a lot more exposure for the site and for all the poetry and fiction on the site.

One more thing to keep in mind. Lit Chaos now has its videos onrevver.comas well as youtube.com. We find that the quality onrevver.comis more crisp. Just type in "litchaos" to get all our uploads. Also, add "litkos" as a friend.

The First Print Issue of litchaos.com is available at atThe Coatlism Bookstore, and atAmazon. Check out abook trailertoo.

Buy First Print Issue merchandise at cafepress'scoatlism siteandlitchaos.com site: posters, bags, coffee mugs, t-shirts, etc. Each of the two links above carrydifferentmerchandise so please check them both.

While here, look to the left to see a short list of the pages included on this site. If you don't see the page you want, tell us. We'll make it for you. This is your site. You're in control, man.

Find out what's a wiki

If you're new to the site, I suggest starting by making your own profile so people can learn a little bit about you. Also, it's a lot of fun. One more thing, please invite other poets, novelists, artists, musicians, chaoticians to this site by providing there emails for the wiki to automatically invite.

Please check out some of (y)our pages, listed on the upper left. We want your feedback on the pages and the threads. This is your chance to get involved and help shape litchaos.com.

Bulletin Board

online questionnaire
ideas which may interest you
prizes
Interview
Promote Yourself
Lit Chaos Erotica

External Links:

litchaos.com

litchaos.blogspot.com(home of writing tips, promos, links, etc)

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Promo Blurbs by Litchaos Authors

rmchiaia — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:13:15 CDT

Instructions
Click the "EasyEdit" button (just above and to the left) and add any information about yourself or another author. You can use the toolbar up top to change fonts, colors, add links, etc.... This is your chance to big up yourself as much as possible, so let it rip. Yes is litchaos.com'

Books by litchaos.com authors and other cool links:

The Second Lit Chaos Print Issue -- Summer 2009 -- Coatlism Press - 90+ pp - featuring: David McLean, Marc Gulezian, Cecelia Chapman, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, CW Moore, Ralph-Micheal Chiaia, Cindy Rosmus, Radames Ortez, George Anderson, Aimee DeLong, J/J Hastain, Joe La Rosa, Ashok Niyogi, Justin Hyde, Moctezuma Johnson, and Joe Krause

The Lit Chaos First Print Edition Summer 2008 - Coatlism Press - featuring: Alex Nodopaka, Jamie Eyberg, Carmen Firan, J.D. Nelson, Maurice Oliver, Cindy Rosmus, David McLean, Marty Esworthy, Craig Sernotti, George Anderson, Papa Osmubal, Doug Draime, JJ Deceglie, Daniel S. Irwin, Justin Hyde, Steve Ely, Julie Shapiro, Michael Fisher & Emme Hor and the Winners of the Cronopios’ and Famas’ Contests: Aimee Delong & Taylor Gorman

Cadaver's dance by David McLeanWhistling Shade Press, 2008 - now available on alibris.com, and amazon.com

92 Rapple Drive by Lyn Lifshin
Coatlism Press, 2008

Ten Poems about East Asia and Kitsch Nebula Ampersands And by Ralph-Michael Chiaia
Coatlism Press, 2007

Tatterdemalion by Ray Succre
Cauliay Publishing. Release: Spring 2008

Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries (novel) by Julie Ann Shapiro
Synerge Books, Release: December 2007

Flashes of the Other World (short story collection) by Julie Ann Shapiro
Synerge Books, Release: Fall 2008

The Mad Verse of J. D. Nelson
Bizarre poetry & experimental texts

eating your night by David McLean
perverse verse - Papadildo Press

pushing lemmings by David McLean
Erbacce Press
purchasing links and reviews at author's blog

Nutley Pond by Lyn Lifshin
92 Pages, $12.95 paperback

twenty-six Javanese proverbs by Marty Esworthy http://www.irisgpress.org/books/index.htm

Bulletin Board

yesman1 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:08 CDT

Offer your services. The best way to help yourself is to help each other. Review a book by another litchaos author and get a blurb at the bottom. Any service your willing to do, advertise it here (nothing too erotic^^). Or if there's something you need and don't know where to find, let the YES Lit Chaos Community know about it here.

2008
For Monks Only needs backlinks. Anyone who wants to be on my blogroll only needs to link to http://formonksonly.blogspot.com/ and tell me, by email, and I'll link to you. The more writers linked to each other the better.

Lit Chaos is looking for guest editors for poetry and/or fiction for upcoming issues. Inquire at litkos[at]gmail.com

Lit Chaos would love a review written about the first print issue. Please contact us ASAP if you're willing to do that and we'll send along the file for your review before it goes to printing. Contact editor@litchaos.com

Moctezuma Johnson will write you an erotic poem, dirty poem, insulting poem, or depraved poem. These make excellent gifts and/or hate-mail. For $5, MJ will write one for you and one for a person named by you (perhaps an ex or a current lover). If interested email moctezuma.johnson@gmail.com. If your full satisfaction isn't acheived after a month. MJ will refund your $5.

Ralph-Michael Chiaia is looking to improve reviews for his book at Amazon. His book Ten Poems about East Asia & Kitsch Nebula Ampersands And has a less that superb last-written yet first-on-the-page review. If you have an account, please write a review that understands poetry better to add to the three reviews that have been sitting there idle for six months. You will get a free copy of this book (to review) and one surprise. Find more info at For Monks Only or Contact ralphadelic (at) gmail.com

Lit Chaos would love a review of it's newest online issue. Contact editor (at) litchaos.com

Lit Chaos would love a blurb written by one of you on wikipedia.com. Contact editor (at) itchaos.com

Tantra Bensko is an artist and is offering her art if you see some you would like to use something already created for a book cover. You can see a small bit of her art at http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com/. More can be seen in her publications, and other art sites. Her art has often been paired up with literature, and has been used on covers.

Erotica Page

yesman1 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:10:45 CDT

With the master, Moctezuma Johnson, on our staff--for he has self-declared himself to be one of the kind of erotica--we feel the time has come to start an erotica page. We're looking for erotic poetry, fiction, art, movies, music videos. They will be on their own page, doing their own thing.

Send submissions to submit.k.os@gmail.com or litk.os@gmail.com.

What is a wiki

yesman1 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:16:41 CDT

The brilliance of a wiki is this: it's not controlled, it's a wild free for all that you have access to. This wiki is for writing. It began in 2008. Until disclaimed, it is the first writing wiki in the whole wide world. Now, to wikipedia's definition of a wiki:

A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language . Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.

"Wiki Wiki" (/wiːkiː wiːkiː/) is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian word for "fast". It has been suggested that "wiki" means "What I Know Is". However, this is a backronym.

At Yes -- the litchaos.com wiki -- please post a comment, start a new thread, make a comment -- whatever you want. This is your online community. Just click the EasyEdit button with the pencil near it and start messing around.

This is a place where writers can exchange information, make comments on writing, chat, post things. It's an online forum, started by litchaos.com and open to anyone who wants to use it. You are all welcome to mash it up. Make your own pages, create threads, comment, make profiles, reveal all the chaos it is to be you, and be part of this first wiki writing community (WWC). If you have any problems or have limited access that you would like increased, please send a message to yesman1 or moctezuma.johnson.

Back to the Wiki Home Page or go to litchaos.com

Interview

yesman1 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:29:38 CDT

Yes Club, here's an online interview.
Cut and paste the questions into the body of an email, then add your answers, and send it along to litk.os@gmail.com with the subject "Online Interview" to get your very own very cool page about you at litchaos.com. Attach a photo of yourself in your email, too. The interview questions (feel free to augment):

What did you have for breakfast?
What's your favorite restaurant?
What's your favorite poem? (provide the link if you can)
What's your favorite plant? (provide the link if you can)
What's your favorite totem for your personality? (provide the link if you can)
What's the address of your blog, if you have one?
What's your favorite website?
What's your favorite side?
Look to the left right now. Turn back to the computer and describe what you just saw.
Make your own question and then answer it. (Leave your question here for others to answer)

Clap and pour yourself a hard drink, you're all finished. Thanks for taking the time. Send it along.

See Past Interviews

The Poetry Train

coatlism — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:30:39 CDT

The Poetry Train on Junajpu Day!

The poetry train starts on June 20th at 23:57 when the summer solstice takes place. It will last for 24 hours. It's in honor of Junajpu, aka Quetzalcoatl, from whom Coatlism Press derives its name. The quetzal is a symbol of spirit and abstraction and the coatl is a symbol of matter and detail. Together they form the feathered serpent. In Chichen Itza, one of the ancient capitals of Mayan Civilization, during the Spring equinox the sun hits the main temple in a way that makes it appear that Quetzalcoatl is slithering down the stairway. On June 20th, the summer solstice, we will slither through the wiki in a great big poetry serpent.

How will this work?
Everybody starts a poem, one or two lines is all, and sends it to the next member. Please note that if you click "Members" above you will get a full list of all wiki members. We have all been numbered, so if you're #1 you should send your line or two to member #2. The second person, or "receiver", will then add to it, or mash it up, or tweak it, or photoshop it, or turn it into a short movie or music video, and then pass it to the next person after doing any one thing to it. Like this we make a great big collaborative snake-train.

What should I do now?
Prepare your first two lines and get ready for the Coatlism Poetry Train!

What will happen when it's all finished?
The Yesman! will gather up all the finished projects and put them here and/or litchaos.com and/or mass-email them to all of us so we can all enjoy the final product.

Is there any twist?
Of course there's a twist. The order can be broken. In honor of the quetzal (bird) part, you can pick anyone, out of order, even outside of the litchaos.com community to continue. In other words you can break the train, or double the train and send to two people, or multiply the train and send to five people. It's all up to you. The only thing that you MUST do is keep the train moving!

This collaborative project was dreamed up and brought to you by:

Meandering & Incisive

moctezuma.johnson — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:17:11 CDT

Promote yourself!

yesman1 — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:48:42 CDT

We want to help your promote yourself, so click here to do it.

This is an opportunity to provide links to books for sale, to your website, blog, or anything else that will help you as a writer.

Experimental Writers

yesman1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:49:31 CDT

You may know now that litchaos.com is offering tips to writers. Now, they are written, but soon they will come in audio and video formats. If you want to contribute please send an email to litk.os@gmail.com and tell us.

Check out our latest tip on our blog.

Tip #2 - Character stands out
Tip #1 - Self-promotion

Which ideas interest you?

yesman1 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:06:59 CDT

You already heard that litchaos.com wants to provide more services for you. Which ones are useful?

We have been considering a few ideas. We want your feedback on new ideas and already existing ones. Comment right here on this Wiki below. If no thread exists, click "start a new thread".

poetry
fiction
artwork
interviews
podcasts (including some of the topics on this list)
new contests

a writers over 50 years old contest
women writers contest
others

writing tips made by litchaos writers
writing tips made by the yogic gurus at litchaos
polls
essays
book reviews
chapbook publishing
a chapbook sales page
links to more resources
more opportunities for writers to market themselves and get their words and name into circulation