Steampunk Shakespeare by M.S. Corley
We will open to subs on February 1st 2012
Why SU?
OSCfail. You know what it is, or if you don't... Suffice it to say that Shakespeare was misappropriated of late to serve as a delivery mechanism for hate toward our GLBTQ brothers and sisters. And not just HATE of the slathering, ugly, obviously villainous sort, but hate that smiles, and tightens its tie and reassures one that that is not what was meant at all. Not at all.
We invite you on a journey, and to contribute something fantastic along the way. No other single writer has had as great an effect on Western literature: here's a opportunity to grow our shared appreciation and to take back one of our most poetic voices from those who would use him for the propagation of hate.
Haters will keep hatin'. We're gonna do 'em one better than mere hate. Join us for Shakespeare Unfettered.
What do you want?
-All and sundry, so long as it is concerned with Shakespeare and his works and fits the overall taste here at FU.
And in that same vein, we hope to see both the sort of work that readers familiar with Shakespeare would deem worthy contributions to those works inspired by the bard, AND we want works that Joe Reader will pick up and find utterly compelling.
Everything from Forbidden Planet to My Own Private Idaho to Ten Things I Hate about You to The Lion King found their inspiration in Shakespeare. Don't count yourself out because you haven't read him since high school. There is plenty of time and we invite you to join us: read a few of the plays. Soak it in. Watch some Kurosawa for the first time (or a return viewing of Ran), read the Sonnets, take in Shakespeare in the Park this summer.
What about that overall taste & Shakespeare Unfettered?
High brow and vulgar. Yes: just as was the bard. Full of energy and life and the concerns of real people, set against tableaux that imply the turn of History. Yes, that's closer to the rub. The challenge. Do we hope for fictions that offer an answer or rebuke to OSCfail? Absolutely. Are we limited to any certain point of view? Not at all. All genres are welcome, including SF, horror, fantasy, and beyond, but your best bet to understand that overall taste is to grab a copy of the magazine. Issue Four is available and recommended.
POETRY: While free verse is always welcome, a preference will be given
to sonnets and other formal poetry. However, don't just make stuff
rhyme. Form must serve content. Send our poetry editor up to five
poems, either in the body of the email or as attachment. If you
receive a rejection, you may immediately submit again.
STORIES: Anything goes, but we prefer unconventional in terms of
who/where/what. We are really looking for something transformative as
far as the Shakespeare theme is concerned. Guidelines apply.
PLAYS: Yes, of course we will look at those. If you can write a play
in iambic pentameter, we want to see it. Be aware that we are a print
magazine though, thus we have limited space. The same length
restrictions that apply for stories also apply for plays.
MANGA: That, too. Be aware that we are interested primarily in a
story well told in the medium of brush and ink. We are not likely to
publish much shojo, but we will look at everything.
20 pages max, $33 per story.
20 pages max, $33 per story.
How long is it gonna take you to get back to me?
-To be fair, that may take a while. SU is due December 8th, 2012, but we
will be accepting submissions for this special issue from February 1st until
filled, which means that if you do submit that early, it may just take
us some time to see what the slush has to offer, and what we want.
Anything else?
-We edit, we may ask for rewrites, and in some cases we might offer feedback.
Feel free to query either of the editors if
you have a question that was not addressed here.
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