Updates

Just in case anyone thinks we’re resting on our laurels as regards Issue 3, we felt the need to clarify. Due to the extent of submissions we are snowed into our office with submissions, all knocking on the door yelping “pick me! pick me!” We’ve made significant efforts to silence them but they’re persistent little buggers so we’re ignoring them instead. We will have a final draft very soon.

In other news, we are going hunting printers this week to look into print copies of Issue Two – The Memory Issue and hoping that we will have a sample and pricing information ASAP.

Last but not least, there is some new work over at http://www.minus9online.wordpress.com

Please check out the work and send your submissions to us so that we may keep this venture going. Pretty soon, it will be a cornucopia of brilliant literature and artwork. Become a part of it.

Counting Down The Hours….

….until midnight tonight.

Yes, deadline day is upon us again but you still have a few hours to hone those submissions and get them into us before 12 tonight.

Issue Three has, in ways, been our most ambitious issue so far, opening up the themes in such a way that anything can be considered relative. We’ve had some really great stuff already so if you want the chance to have your work featured with us, get it into the email pronto:

minus9squared@gmail.com

‘Cover’ Us In Wonderment

Coming in from the cold here a little bit, we’ve left this blog quite sparse of late and we feel badly about, we do. So we’re taking this opportunity to throw up a few guidelines regarding front cover submissions. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be the front cover of Issue Three then tell us, show us and no doubt impress us:

If you would like your work to be in with a shout of winning this illustrious and much coveted golden slot on the zine then just take down these few details, get the tracing paper and magic markers out and dazzle the bejasus out of us:

We are looking for images with the following criteria:

1. A4 size.

2. Portrait format

3. The title of the magazine (Minus 9 Squared) the title ‘Disaster’ and the subtitles ‘Issue 3 – June’ somewhere on the body of the cover.

4. Something brilliant would be preferable.

We are accepting visual artistry of any kind, just as long as it’s visual and well, arty.

So get cracking folks – the front page needs you!

Immortality awaits.

News for Issue Three

We would like to thank all contributors, readers, subscribers and anyone who has shown any interest in this zine for everything so far. Issue One and Two would not have happened without you so raise a glass to yourselves and knock it back good and hard. Maybe one day, we’ll be able to refill it for you (The ambition is there.)

We have something big planned for Issue Three and it’s about time we unleashed the info.

Like everyone else in the world, we at Minus 9 Squared sent our sympathies to those affected by the recent Icelandic volcano eruption, be it as a direct result of the volcano itself or the ensuing chaos that struck Europe with the imposed No-Fly zones.

It was amazing to watch the news and think that the whole of Europe was at effectively a standstill, and it got us thinking about the power of nature, as clichéd as that sounds…

So as a tribute to those who endured trying conditions during this incident (and continue to in the intermittent ash cloud strikes since then) we have decided that Issue Three of Minus 9 Squared will focus on the themes surrounding the Iceland volcano crisis.

The main theme is going to be Disaster but we’ll be accepting work around any other themes people find relevant.

This is the first theme we’ve picked which, essentially isn’t a theme at all, it’s more like a free-for-all. If you have work that fits a theme which you feel is relevant to the events surrounding this event then we want to see it.

We are also on the look out for front covers again and hope to see more of the talent we were privileged to last issue.

Submission Deadline will be updated on the Minus 9 Squared WordPress site very soon so keep your eyes peeled and get your work in on time!

A Few Restrictions:

Short Fiction: Capped at 3000 words.

Poetry: Capped at 40 lines.

Flash Fiction: Capped at 500 words

For this issue, we ask that contributors please adhere to a few other submission guidelines:

1. If sending fiction, please, no more than two stories per person.

2. Poetry – up to 4 poems.

3. Flash fiction – no more than 3 pieces.

4. Photography/Visual arts – up to 6 photographs/pieces of art.

In the past we have been sent entire photo and art albums and we apologise but we simply do not have time to sift through them so pick and choose wisely and send them on.

DEADLINE: 4th June 2010