the first few pieces in Issue #2, transience

Last week we began Issue #2 with Stephen Batiz's cover piece, "The Path," and today we've added poetry from Sergio Antonio Ortiz and Parker Tettleton and fiction by Mitchell Waldman.  


More fiction, poetry, and artwork set for next week, and we are still accepting submissions for transience, as fleeting as the issue might be.  Like the flicker of candlelight, the first snow flurries, the seasons, each of us and our whims.  The moments we find ourselves caught up in like swirling leaves.  But what is temporary when we create records of everything, in our imaginations and memories, in our art and in ourselves?  Happy New Year. 


Post thundersnow in NYC,


Xtina

submission guidelines

trans lit mag is now accepting submissions for our second issue, “transience.”  Content will include but will not be limited to the following:

- literary fiction
- poems
- short shorts
- comics
- sketches (character or charcoal)
- scenes
- ten-minute plays
- novel excerpts
- a novel in its entirety, serialized
- photos
- drawings
- original translations
- open letters
- responses to any of the above
- reviews and criticism of such things as:

- new novels

- old novels

- Shakespearean sonnets

- short stories appearing in the current issue

- responses to reviews or criticism

- readings

- writing conferences

- mfa programs

- films

- theatre productions

- society

Each issue of trans lit mag has its own title that should be thought of as a guiding principle but by no means as a limitation.  “transience” will be our second transmission, a momentary broadcast, a sending across of our perceptions and strengths in words and pictures.  
trans lit mag retains the right to publish your work, and each issue is copyrighted, but you retain all rights to your work.  Please include a short bio with your submission - a new bio with each submission if you so choose.  Payment will be in the form of a downloadable copy of the issue containing your work as soon as one is available.  
Submissions are accepted and published on a rolling basis.  translitmag@gmail.com is the way to get in touch with us.  We look forward to reading your work.

wrapping up issue #1

I'm about to publish the last piece for Issue #1, Shannon Anthony's short short fiction piece, "Programmed Self-destruction," and I wanted to say that it's been a super exciting fall here at trans lit mag.  Thanks to everyone who submitted and to everyone who read.  I'm inspired by all of you.  Issue #2 will begin Dec 21, and we already have a few pieces scheduled for the first few weeks.  Plans are also in the works for a trans lit mag reading sometime soon.  If you would like to be on our mailing list, email me at translitmag@gmail.com or like us on Facebook (as well as in the real world). 


Since Shannon's piece will only be on the website for a few days, she has graciously agreed to let us share it with you here on the blog as well.  (Electronic copies of Issue #1 will be available shortly.)  So without further ado:  

Programmed Self-destruction

by Shannon Anthony

Family?  History?

Bravo.  USA.  E!

What?  My family had more sets than members.  Nothing special about what went on after school.  Good times (happy days, wonder years).  Did I jump, or was I written off the family tree?  No lifelines left, but who wants to take this cliff

hanger seriously?  Respond to jeopardy in the form of questions?  Not in the home version.  Paraphrase a parachute, cable stitch a safety net, quilt some scraps into a blanket statement.  Daytime talk and nighttime talk in-between these messages.  That oughta hold me.  It's been a very special episode, with enough Learning and Discovery to last a Lifetime.  Naturally it looks bad from this angle, at this velocity, through this faux hand-me-down shroud.  Dead air looms.  Don't touch that dial!  And don't point that thing at me.  Or are you just happy to see me?  Oh, the wacky misunderstandings we get ourselves into, week in, week ou—

 Shannon Anthony just makes this stuff up.  The accompanying piece is pure fiction; she's never watched TV in her life.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  You may remember her from such links as http://shannonanthony.wordpress.com/ and http://twitter.com/shannon_anthony. We'll be right back.  


So much fun.  Thank you and good night.  See you on the flip side.  Cheers,


-Xtina

Poetry!

How exciting is publishing two days in a row??  Evidently, a rainy and chilly New York City is great for productivity.

So, I'm very pleased to present two poems from Elana Seplow: "Maps" and "Awaker."  Her bio:

Elana Seplow is a native New Yorker and a poet.  A Columbia and Oxford graduate, she is the recipient of the 2009 Burns Society Prize and the Helene Searcy Puls Poetry Prize.  She has a firm handshake with a too-quick release.  She is, after all, a young professional.  

And in other news: the Table of Contents now links to the pieces, which makes the site much more navigable (especially as it continues to grow) and makes me very very happy.  Happy Tuesday,

Xtins

Story #2

Up today!  "Intangible Objects" by Douglas Silver.  Doug's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Berkeley Fiction Review, Our Stories, and Word Riot. He has been a finalist in competitions by Narrative Magazine and Glimmer Train. He lives in New York and fancies himself the World's Greatest Uncle. 

I have no doubt.  

Expect some poetry by Elana Seplow any day now.  Happy reading!

Xtins

Up and Running

I'm completely thrilled to announce that we just published our first piece of fiction!  Check out Eric Sasson's "My Late-Middle Period" on translitmag.com. 

So what do you think?  I'd love to read your feedback in the comments.  Or write a review.  Or throw a little literary criticism my way.  Or write a poem about it.  Do a drawing.  As I hope is clear from our submission guidelines, the sky's the limit.  This is a call for submissions and also a call for celebration.  Happy reading.

Xtina

We have our first submission!

And the first letter from the editor is up on the website.  I think it begins to express what the mission of trans lit mag is: seriously smart silliness.  We should deal with important things, but often in a very playful way.  Perhaps we want to explore how a certain theme is played out in the author's response to a critique of the review of the piece of poetry or fiction that was published the week before, and perhaps we want to present that exploration in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet.  That would be amazing.  Expect movie reviews for films that don't exist yet.  Write some yourself.  Anything goes. 

And have a happy Labor Day, wherever you are.  We have work to do.

--Xtina