...are just about closed. That was quick, we know. Still, we've got a bit of a back-log, and we want to start giving folks the heads-up about our reading process in real time.
Does that mean you shouldn't submit fiction? Not necessarily. It just means that everything we get from this date forward is going to be considered for RMR4, which will be released in far-off ought-eight.
Now, we are always open to sim-subs, so if you really want to send us a story while it makes the rounds, please do. Just know that it'll take a while for its status to be resolved -- likely this time next year. You can also, of course, wait until our next reading period, which will start October 1, 2007. Thanks, as always, for your patience -- and for entrusting us with your work.
1.12.2007
FYI: FICTION SUBMISSIONS FOR RMR3...
12.21.2006
HAPPY HAPPY!
Don't know about you, but we're ready to call it an annum. Or something. Stay tuned to this space in early ought-seven. We're going to have new features: interviews (!), letters to the editor (!) and announcements (!). It's gonna be good times had by all!
Here's a teaser:
We know who our chapbook judge is...but you don't!
You'll just have to check back next year to find out who it is--and to read a fabulous, witty, provocative, meaty...eww, strike that...try again: So-resonant-it's-almost-painful-(but-in-a-good-way) interview with her. Or him. (Thought you tripped us up, didn't ya? Ah, but we haven't had that much nog, Ebenezer!) Needless to say, you won't want to miss it. Until then, have fun, be safe, and keep on sending your fine words to RMRsubmissions@gmail.com!
12.20.2006
SEND US STUFF!
● poems● fictions
● nonfictions
● chapbooks
ander monson ● bruce smith ● joan connor ● jim daniels ● katherine soniat ● charles jensen ● lou suarez ● rane arroyo ● tony crunk ● janet mccann ● john pursley iii ● emily rapp ● kelli russell agodon ● diane glancy ● josh russell ● mark neely ● chris forhan ● alison pelegrin ● kat meads ● angela balcita ● kristine somerville ● elizabeth rees ● you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!.....
be sure to include the title and the genre in the subject line, such as: "Moby Dick (fiction)"; "Five Poems"; "The Wasteland (chapbook)"; etc. if you want to be extra safe, send the text of your manuscript in the body of the e-mail as well.
We're reading for RMR3 from now through April 2007!
12.13.2006
HEY, IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN MALAYSIA...
...(that's Edna St. Vincent Malaysia, to you [Thank you! We're here all week!!])...this just in from the fine folks at Tupelo Press:
Stop by the Indie Scene Cafe in Kuala Lumpur's scenic Picolo Galleria, where Mong Lan will read some poems this Sunday, Dec. 17. It's free!*...
* [Editor's Note: Airfare and accommodations not included.]
10.29.2006
RMR2, ROUGH BEAST, SLOUCHES TOWARD BETHLEHEM
We are still here.
The media empire that is RMR continues its inexorable pursuit of total market dominence. Today, central Alabama. Tomorrow the world!
Lots going on in the last two months:
RMR2 is back from the printer and ready for purchase! New work from Joan Connor, Rane Arroyo, Diane Glancy, Jim Daniels, Janet McCann, and lots of others, "emerging and established," as the saying goes.
Just send us a check or money order for $6 to RMR/ASFA Foundation, 1800 8th Ave N, Bham, AL 35203. Or better yet, buy us right here on-line (see above and to the right)!
Poet Jim Murphy has agreed to come aboard as Poetry Co-Editor, joining the inimitable Mary Kaiser. This stokes us.
Last but not least, we've completed a deal with absnth.com to produce a stand-alone limited edition version of our chapbook each year! That means you can get Lou Suarez's On U.S. 6 to Providence (see above left) all by its lonesome for just $4. Buy it here on-line today! Here's a little teaser...titular, no less!
On U.S. 6 to Providence
Today I am lonely. It is not
the loneliness of a city without a river,
the waters on which the new ducks
enter, stay, then leave, on which
boys skip rocks and into which
girls wade knee-deep. Nor is it
the loneliness of the Confederate soldier,
so statuesque in the town square.
The pigeons at least flock to him
or splotch his head and shoes with white
that becomes black and hardens in sun.
And it is surely not the loneliness
of the bare tree in a field. No, not like that,
and not the tire in a roadside ditch,
not the fire escape
behind a school, the school itself.
I have never studied loneliness,
do not know how it resembles, say, love
or glory, nor how it differs from solitude, thirst.
I know this much: each has its own
rhythms that, when played together, make
a syncopated music I hear
in a part of my brain not meant for hearing.
I hear it in human breathing, hear it
in the truck driver's voice and hunch,
the bed wetter's, the asthmatic's....
Want the rest of the poem--and sixteen others as contemplative and wise? Buy it here! Now!
8.15.2006
YOU LOVE UTNE, WE LOVE UTNE, AND UTNE LOVES...
...well, Angela Balcita, but so do we, so it's all, like, one big happy love triangle! (Heck, throw Elysian Fields Quarterly in there, and we've got a rhombus! Or wait...would that be a pentagon?)
Anyhoo, check out this month's Utne for a reprint of the creative nonfiction piece formerly known as "You, Too, Can Be Americano" -- now simply "The Americano Dream" -- which first appeared in RMR1.
7.17.2006
WANT TO DESIGN AND PRINT YOUR OWN FANCY LIT MAG?
You know you do. If not you, who? If not now, when? Dammit, ask not what your country can do for you...
And when you finally decide to take the plunge, talk to Russell at www.absnth.com.
RMR is pleased to announce that absnth, inc., will be at the reins of the Quark Xpress (or whatever the heck program they use these days) for issue 2. Couldn't be in better hands, as Russell and the crew also handle the award-winning PMS: Poem-Memoir-Story.
Check 'em out.
7.07.2006
A MUST-SEE RESOURCE FOR WRITERS...
Check out writehabit.org. Lots of good stuff--publication opportunities, trolling agents, ideas for writing, and on-line workshops. Plus Angela Fountas, who runs the site, is good peeps. Check out how she fills her days: right-brain version here, left-brain version here. She's a great example of what one writer can do within a community. Who needs all the bureaucracy and blah-blah of university affiliation? Get out there and do something, in the real world.
Not that there's anything wrong with university affiliation. Just that there's more than one way to be a working writer in the world.
Here's to more writers just like Angela...
7.04.2006
CHECK OUT OUR NEWPAGES.COM REVIEW!
We're "unapologetically, if subtly, political"!
We're a "tender pinata"!
(That's good, right?!)
Read the review in toto [scroll down], cuz baby we ain't in Kansas anymore! In the words of the collective prophet, ZZ Top, we're nationwide!
So quit your elbowing -- there's plenty of Pez candy and trinkets for everybody...
6.30.2006
AND THE WINNER IS...
Annie Proulx, for Brokeback Mountain!
No, no. We kid.
THE 2006 RMR CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNER...AS CHOSEN BY RODNEY JONES...IS...
Jones told us he was drawn to On U.S. 6 to Providence not just for its intelligence, humor, and confidence, but for its emotional risk as well. Those are meat-and-potatoes attributes, that's for sure, and we're confident readers won't push away from the table hungry after sitting down to sample what Suarez has to offer in these poems.
Thanks to those who submitted -- more than double the volume of last year's contest! -- and we sincerely hope you'll try us again. Lots that was very, very publishable in this batch.
Encouraging and daunting at the same time -- so much good work, so few good venues.
But we're fighting the good fight and we encourage you to join us!
Submit!
Subscribe!
Most important: Write! Read! Think! Read More......
2.22.2005
ALL ABOUT RED MOUNTAIN REVIEW
Red Mountain Review takes its name from the seam of iron ore that runs through the heart of central Alabama. The magazine is produced at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, with the support of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Southern Progress Corporation, and the creative writing faculty at Jefferson State Community College and the University of Montevallo. In partnership with the Red Mountain Reading Series--which has hosted such writers as Dana Johnson, Peter Meinke, Tom Franklin, Natasha Trethewey, and many more--RMR is poised to take its place in Alabama’s long tradition of helping America’s best writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction find an audience.
We have a simple goal—to produce a fine literary magazine that gets noticed, and to do so with Birmingham’s roots in mind. The Magic City has a long history of working hard and of grappling with hard truths. We will, therefore, always seek to recognize those in our field who do the hard work, who tell the hard truths, and who do so expecting little or no remuneration. Which is to say, the vast majority of writers of contemporary literature, literature that—for reasons of form, length, subject, or project—has traditionally had a difficult time finding the light of day in mainstream commercial venues. Luckily, our editorial tastes are broad: academics and “real people;” sonneteers and the so-called “Grrl-esque” poets; writers of very short nonfiction; those who write long, leisurely, expansive fiction. The list goes on.
In addition to publishing great individual poems, stories, and essays, we are the champions of the chapbook. Every issue will feature the winning collection from our chapbook contest, which is free to enter and is judged independently by a poet of national reputation. The contest winner recieves a $250 honorarium and publication in the magazine.
Thanks for your interest in RMR and in contemporary writing in general. Please peruse the rest of this site to see more about what we’re up to. And you might as well bookmark us, because we'll have a steady stream of contest announcements and updates, book reviews, links, and other fun tidbits.
Contact the editors at RMRsubmissions@gmail.com.
