The Lit Quarterly

[Anonymous No.15802000]

The spring edition of the Lit Quarterly is available now. The first round of summer submissions have been assessed. Second round and final selection to occur by the end of the month.

>What is it?
A literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from anons around the world
>How do I contribute?
Submit your unpublished works at litquarterly.ca
>How do I support the project?
By emailing your inquiries to [e-mail]

It's a non-profit project. We pay our contributors relatively well for their original works. We want to curate an apolitical space where good writing is given a wider audience. Also, a lot of anons here have so much potential but aren't driven to complete their works to any meaningful degree. The Lit Quarterly is trying to provide that motivation.

Drinking and taking questions for the next few hours.

[Anonymous No.15802031]

bump

[Anonymous No.15802035]

>>15802000
I emailed you got no response

[Anonymous No.15802087]

>>15802035
When abouts? If it was a submission for summer or fall, we are still making selections.

[Anonymous No.15802119]

>>15802087
Sure but I submitted poems a few days ago just wasn't sure. Also I'm not sure if my works political even though they're explicitly anti political

[Anonymous No.15802133]

>>15802119
I have a bit of a backlog for fall 2020 submissions. Have not save docs since 28 June because I was trying to catch up on the read-throughs of the summer submissions.

Will be sending out acknowledgment of receipt for submissions since late June soon.

[Anonymous No.15802162]

>>15802133
You said your rough goal to respond to state of acceptance in August, is that still accurate? The next edition would be released the start of September?

[Anonymous No.15802178]

>>15802162
Yeah, so we've significantly narrowed down the selections in the last three days. From there, we make final selections (hopefully this week). At that point, I will send out the acceptance and rejection emails. My goal is by end of July. From there, I hope the summer edition to be edited and released by end of August, though it's an admittedly tight timeline.

[Anonymous No.15802199]

>>15802178
You're doing God's work appreciate it anon.

Can I ask what the next goals are for the journal. I know sustainability is one topic and perhaps art in the future, I was wondering if starting a youtube channel or having some sort of writing competitions outside the journal was on your mind or what are your plans for these, perhaps a patreon?

[Anonymous No.15802218]

I have enjoyed much of what Spring 2020 has to offer. The Ratline and Punjab-Wallah were especially well written. Others (e.g. The Siren) were a bit rough around the edges. Overall, it is solid production (appreciated the new design) and a improvement over the last edition.

[willowo !!WLiEhST7Trn No.15802230]

where can i read it?

[Anonymous No.15802310]

>>15802199
We're kind of chasing half a dozen rabbits. Here are some current and long-term goals:
>developing a business model that allows us to compensate the contributors decently without sacrificing the quarterly itself (so far, sales do not make up for the cost of producing it)
>developing promising and up-and-coming writers by giving them a foothold in our quarterly
>Art: an anon contribute a few pieces of art for the winter edition but I didn't get a reply from him after his initial email, so we couldn't include them. But yes, I would love to have some sketches, artwork, or other things to sprinkle throughout the quarterly.
>the quarterly has become truly international: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America...we're trying to select a broad range of works from around the world and, so far, that's gone well.
>as an apolitical publication, I must strongly encourage people from ALL political and national backgrounds to contribute. We publish what we think is good and don't discriminate based on politics or ideology, to the extent that that's possible. So please, anons, contribute your serious writing so the diversity of opinion is maintained.

>>15802218
Thanks for your kind words. I and my co-editor loved those two pieces in particular. Thanks for your support.

>>15802230
litquarterly.ca is the main site. But if you want a PDF of prior issues (Fall 2019 and Winter 2020), shoot me an email at [e-mail]

[willowo !!WLiEhST7Trn No.15802346]

>>15802310
will you accept submissions in languages other than english ? include a translation ?

[Anonymous No.15802348]

>>15802310
Idk if publishers can pay you for referring good writers to them hopefully that could be doubly beneficial.
Gl anon we have faith in you

[Anonymous No.15802378]

>>15802346
Unfortunately no. English only. We've had translations submitted earlier, but we have to be extra careful with the legal side of things so that we don't have issues with the original writer. In other words, translations if done by someone other than the original author must truly rise above the masses to be accepted.

>>15802348
Yeah, we haven't been too involved in that side of things, but since our submission numbers exploded between the third and fourth issue, we feel like there's room to be quite selective with it and curate a good space for creative writing without the restrictions with which many other publications are burdened.

[Anonymous No.15802386]

>>15802000
do you publish solely in english?
I've got some short stories in spanish but never got around to translating them for my /lit/ anglobros

[Anonymous No.15802395]

>>15802386
If they're your stories and YOU are translating them, those would be perfectly acceptable submissions. But yes, only English.

[Anonymous No.15802397]

>>15802386
ignore this
I'm a retard and didn't realize you'd already answered this

[Anonymous No.15802401]

Is this a purchased Magazine?

[Anonymous No.15802408]

>>15802401
The hard copy is available on amazon or by emailing [e-mail], yes. $12 plus shipping.

[willowo !!WLiEhST7Trn No.15802410]

>>15802378
no i mean if i write something in a language other than english and then provide a translation alongside

[Anonymous No.15802427]

Is there a way to submit something and still have plausible deniability about ever having heard of /lit/? I'd love to get involved with this shit, but I don't want to get cancelled from civilization for publishing a short story in a curated pdf

[Anonymous No.15802429]

>>15802410
We would simply have to judge only the English translation on it's own, stand-alone, since that is what our readers would be reading.

[Anonymous No.15802441]

>>15802427
Yes, of course. Firstly, since the second edition, we've had non-/lit/ contributors printed in our quarterly. Secondly, you are welcome to use a pseudonym any time, and roughly half of our contributors do. Thirdly, The Lit Quarterly has "no official affiliation with /lit/, 4chan, its affiliates, or parent companies" and the opinions expressed in The Lit Quarterly represent the opinion of the contributor providing them and no one else.

[Anonymous No.15802467]

>>15802427
it's not the /lit/ quarterly it's the lit quarterly. All of their submissions do not come from lit alone, they have some twitter submissions I'm pretty sure.

[Anonymous No.15802501]

>>15802467
Correct.

[Anonymous No.15802669]

>>15802000
>the first round of summer submissions have been assessed
>I don't get in

[Anonymous No.15802702]

>>15802000
checked

[Anonymous No.15802714]

>>15802669
Still making final selections. But because of the expanded pool of submission, it has been much more competitive than previous issues. So many good pieces will have to be turned away.

[Anonymous No.15802847]

>>15802714
So I still have a chance?

[Anonymous No.15802932]

>>15802847
I have no idea. All I can say is that NO ONE who submitted for summer 2020 has received an acceptance or rejection yet.

[Anonymous No.15802955]

>>15802847
Instead of fixating on acceptance / rejection, why not discuss some of the works and ideas found in the journal?

[Anonymous No.15802959]

[Anonymous No.15802971]

>>15802310
>developing a business model that allows us to compensate the contributors decently without sacrificing the quarterly itself (so far, sales do not make up for the cost of producing it)
>developing promising and up-and-coming writers by giving them a foothold in our quarterly
Do a patreon online version or have your own online journal with your own payment processing. $5.00-9.99/month and many of us would pay for it. Additionally, sell merch.

[Anonymous No.15802987]

>>15802971
I'd also additionally allow people to forego payment. I personally don't care enough about the $hundreds to want to give up anonymity or take away from your own bank.

[Anonymous No.15803002]

[Anonymous No.15803184]

>>15802971
Very good idea. We've been toying with the inexpensive subscription model for online...$5/mo seems reasonable for a quarterly journal which averages nearly 100 pages.

>>15802987
Some contributors have done that. They've refused the compensation after being accepted, which is very helpful.

[Anonymous No.15803194]

Finally got my copy yesterday, but haven't read any yet. Probably won't until next week. It looks very slick, though.

[Anonymous No.15803216]

>>15803194
Good to hear. Don't hesitate to share your feedback with anons here.

[Anonymous No.15803223]

[Anonymous No.15803350]

>>15803223
Oh shit...LQanon got doxxed.

[Anonymous No.15803356]

shameless bump

[Anonymous No.15803503]

>>15802310
>Art
Do you accept photography?

[Anonymous No.15803557]

>>15803184
>subscription model for online
This would be ideal. I don't buy a lot of paper anyway, and don't live in America so there's something mad about throwing ten dollars plus into postage.

[Anonymous No.15803620]

Winter talk is okay, right?

Swallow and the German beer bros were way better than anything in issue one. Swallow feels like it's one or two paragraphs near the end away from being actually great, but I have no idea what needs to be added to make the leap.

My favourite thing in the Lotus Eaters is the mishmash of slang terms. Also, the fact that they mostly seem to be Americans is sort of curious subtext in terms of the gang's wider social relations.

[Anonymous No.15803684]

>>15803503
Yeah, in a manner. I would trust that my buddy who does the cover art is capable of convering the photography into a manageable format for the journal. Not sure how photography would be compensated though.

>>15803557
That's probably where it would end up going. But as an anonymous individual: would $5-7/mon for a quarterly seem reasonable?

>>15803620
For sure. Swallow was an early favourite for me, one of the earliest accepted works. Lotus Eating was a two- or three-draft rewrite which turned out very nicely.

[Anonymous No.15803694]

>>15803684
For me yes that's perfect price

[Anonymous No.15803723]

>>15803684
>$5-7/mon

You mean $15-21 per quarterly issue, right? It's a little on the steep end to be honest. $20 for an ebook is a lot more than most magazines charge. If you mean $5-7 per issue, sign me the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.15803750]

>>15803723
I think this would grant more readers 5-7 an issue

[Anonymous No.15803766]

>>15803723
That's the thing, though. If I keep the compensations more-or-less stable, and keep the volumes about the same size, $5-7/ issue doesn't cut it. The first and second issue are $8/copy +shipping (US roughly $6, Canada roughly $4, international roughly $10.40). So with that in mind, I would need to either sell an incredible number of copies or charge more per copy.

Right now, with cost plus shipping, it's easily $15-25CAD per copy, regardless of where you are. Since the third edition was slightly heavier than the second edition, letter-mail no longer cuts it and I have signed up for a small business shipping account which sends to the US for $8.40CAD, within Canada for $12 (for some fucked up reason), and to major European countries (UK, Germany, France, Italy) for $10.40CAD. Slightly indie countries like Sweden are $11.50 I believe.

My reasoning, though, is this. If everyone interested in reading it pays $5/month, that equals $60/year, which equals $15 per copy (extra if you want a hard copy delivered). Which I think is very reasonable.

[Anonymous No.15803781]

>>15803766
Digitally not paper, paper can be bought separately

[Anonymous No.15803790]

>>15803781
So $5/mon for the digital subscription...and no change to the price for the hard copy ($12CAD plus shipping).

[Anonymous No.15803792]

>>15803766
I'd pay 5-7 an issue for a digital copy

[Anonymous No.15803793]

>>15803766
iirc my shipping as a leaf was six fidy on amazon, so yeah the total cost already comes to more than fifteen.
I think he means a digital subscription service though, so you don't have the production and shipping costs wth that.

[Anonymous No.15803799]

>>15803790
Yes, that's probably what most of us would prefer. I don't have a fixed address and a patreon would be perfect on it. Just simpler and easier.

[Anonymous No.15803801]

>>15803790
5-7usd an issue*

[Anonymous No.15803817]

bumparoo. I have work I’d want to submit but I’m too scared to so.... maybe one day

[Anonymous No.15803827]

>>15803792
That's without shipping, though. Right now, third edition is $12CAD plus shipping. So, in the US, the total cost is about $23CAD. Canada = $26CAD. Mainstream Europe = $22.40CAD.

>>15803793
Digital subscription would save money for sure. The ironic thing with the third issue is that shipping across Canada is more expensive than shipping to the US (from Alberta, where I'm based).

>>15803799
I'm setting up Patreon now. Will discuss with my co-editor how best to set this up.

[Anonymous No.15803833]

>>15803817
Keep working on it and revising it.

[Anonymous No.15803849]

>>15803827
>>15803793
I'm an Ontario boy and maybe I got in before you changed shipping or something, but my total on amazon came to 18.49 in Canadian rubles. 12 + 6.49. I've encountered bizarrely expensive Canadian shipping before too, don't get it, shit is fucked.

[Anonymous No.15803863]

>>15803849
I don't doubt it. The amazon shipping price they charge you is less than it costs for me to ship, in most cases.

As letter-mail for the second edition, it was $3.39 to Canada, $5.57 to USA. The third edition breaks the 200g threshold so doesn't qualify for basic letter-mail. It's $8.40 to US and $12.50 within Canada. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.15803873]

>>15803863
that's odd

[Anonymous No.15803904]

>>15803873
Yeah. There's no, "Small Packet" air mail within Canada for some reason.

[Anonymous No.15804010]

>>15803827
This is the thing. I'm EU, so paper copies just don't make sense. It's just me making charitable donations to your postal service. As a digital copy I'd happily drop up to CA$10 your way.

[Anonymous No.15804270]

You say you prefer poetry of 12-40 lines. What about a number of short pieces? Would, say, seven haikus be treated as a single contribution? If accepted, would they be printed together, or scattered through the magazine?

[Anonymous No.15804387]

Really looking forward to seeing if I get in, be cool to see your own words printed.

[Anonymous No.15804928]

>>15803684
Would the physical edition still be available? I like having them on my shelf. Also assuming the quality continues I'd be happy to pay a little more than you're already charging, for a physical copy, if it would help the situation.

[Anonymous No.15805720]

>>15803184
Have online content that's free or something to encourage readership.

[Anonymous No.15806271]

>>15805720
Yes, there has to be something online to get people excited.

[Anonymous No.15806354]

>>15805720
>>15806271
Maybe you could publish supplementary material online? Like the next 5 pieces you enjoyed most but didn't quite make the cut?

[Anonymous No.15807668]

>>15804270
We could definitely consider a collection of short pieces as one piece, or select 2-3 of them that go nicely together as one piece.

>>15804928
I think so. That was part of the motivating factor from the outset: to have a physical copy of one's own writing that can sit on the bookshelf with the other writers.

>>15806271
>>15806354
Yeah, I'm going to try make that happen very soon.

[Anonymous No.15807736]

>>15806354
Problem with this is that they'll serve as an advert for the mag, so online stuff probably should be selected from among the best.

[Anonymous No.15807741]

>>15802000
Still on this thread?
How do you guys proceed with payments to people from foreing countries?

[Anonymous No.15807762]

>>15807741
Typically an interac e-transfer. Other times, paypal. A few times I had to send a western union money transfer. I do not have Venmo.

[Anonymous No.15807794]

been gone for awhile, this is new to me. love to see it.

do you need reviewers and or editors?

[Anonymous No.15808138]

No one has commented about my poem in Asterism

[Anonymous No.15808151]

>>15808138
Same thing happened to my poem in the first edition. You'll discover that that's a good thing, because you'll see where and how you could have improved your poem

[Anonymous No.15808186]

>>15808151
To be honest when I re-read it in the printed version I already found a lot of ways to improve it, to the point I was kind of embarrassed. It's amazing how putting a work away then returning to it with fresh eyes can improve it.

[Anonymous No.15808197]

>>15808186
It's alright. You have to submit it at a point when you're pleased with it, or else you'll always find ways to improve it. As for previous works, I'd say to forget about them. Let the dead bury the dead. You could've improved them, but you can't. Focus on making the best next submission

[Anonymous No.15808218]

>>15807762
Hey do you need anyone to help out as an editor or proofreader? I'd love to get involed, especially since I've sent in like three pieces of work for you lot to sort through I might as well give something back.

[Anonymous No.15808246]

>>15808218
>>15807762
I, too, am interested.

[Anonymous No.15808914]

>>15807762
>>15807794
>>15808218
>>15808246
Yeah, I've had a couple anons providing feedback for some of the summer submissions. If interested, please email [e-mail] and I will touch base regarding the upcoming fall submissions (already have 140+). Not sure how to manage, though. I think I will try to break up the submissions into clusters of 10 or so and ask the volunteer reads such as yourselves to review and suggest the best 2 works out of each batch.

[Anonymous No.15809150]

>>15808914
I'd be happy to start helping as a volunteer reader.

>>15803863
You need to start trying to organize printing different copies in different parts of the world. If you have Amazon or others print it I'm sure the shipping costs will decrease to nothing.

[Anonymous No.15810325]

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[Anonymous No.15810339]

>>15810325
>father has ribbons
fag

I sent an email, does volunteering just get given the work then made to critique it or?

[Anonymous No.15810561]

[Anonymous No.15811644]

>>15810339
So far, that's what we've done. A couple anons received 3-6 works each and provided corrections and feedback. This is very helpful, but I would still feel guilty about relying only on their feedback/critique without having read the work stand-alone myself. But this and the next issue will have well over 200 submissions which is a serious task to read in the short time frame we have. My co-editor finished reading them all last week and I only finished yesterday.

[Anonymous No.15811757]

Testing page. Looking for feedback on the page itself. Have never used this platform before.

https://www.patreon.com/litquarterly

[Anonymous No.15812123]

>>15811757
Looks fine 5usd a month is a bit much for a digital copy but it seems fine. Will become a patron when I get paid in a week.
Also bump

[Anonymous No.15812136]

>>15802000
>:3 poster in the top right corner
I should have known.

[Anonymous No.15812141]

>>15802000
Gotta say the modernist sheek is pretty outdated bro, you gotta know fashion and style are eternal, so be fashionable and not modern. :DDDDDDDDddd

[Anonymous No.15812274]

>>15812123
I've sort of looked at it this way: $60/year gives you four issues of the quarterly. $108/year gives you hard copies of four issues, and electronic copies of all issues.

It seems steep but I'm not sure how else to approach it.

>>15812136
What?

>>15812141
What do you recommend instead?

[Anonymous No.15812501]

>>15811757
I can't believe there's people who submit to this non entity, let alone pay for it.

[Anonymous No.15813089]

bump

[Anonymous No.15813244]

Hey k, i ordered 3 copies to holland. Youd get back to me yeah?

Sincerely,

Dutchfag

And send me a pdf if you will my love

European regional distribution office when?!

If youre going for subscription model it might be nice for a extra platform on the website for members such as art, art inspired on stories, etc. We can build a whole (elitist) nexus of creativity. The thing is youre looking at monthly payment for a quarterly product so it would be swell for monthly bits to keep the consumer masses satisfied. Hence selected artwork, or even lone selected monthly story online for members as an appetizer for the seasonal mammoth.

[Anonymous No.15813256]

>>15813244

Can also recommend a discount for physical copies if one is subscribed, to incentivize subscriptions.
or you just make lone copies more expensive

[Anonymous No.15813655]

>>15813244
Fuck off remy

[Anonymous No.15814512]

>>15812274

[Anonymous No.15814544]

>>15814512

[Anonymous No.15814885]

>>15814544

[Anonymous No.15815406]

Bong here, what's the current delivery estimate for international? I put through an order last month and want to know when I should expect it

[Anonymous No.15815919]

>>15815406
10-15 business days... basically three weeks. Shoot me an email and I can follow up if you haven't received it in that length of time.

[Anonymous No.15816257]

A quick letter to the editor;

Readers of the Lit Quaterly little magazine and its corresponding threads on this very imageboard may be aware of the "Theme Question", which has haunted this publication since its inception. Its editor, one KMD, has stated through official channels that he was located in the anti-theme camp, and had no intentions of implementing themes per edition. He has stated that this position was held in interest of maintaining a wide scope for submissions whilst the publication was in its fledgling phase.
I have submitting a formal challenge to this position. Again, frequent readers of these threads will also be aware that the Lit Quarterly has been receiving incrementally larger and larger batches of submissions each edition, now reaching over 200. This much has been stated by the staff (KMD). This volume of submissions has even become a burden, as it represents more work than the meager staff at LQ can possibly fulfill; rumor has it that they have scandalously began to hire "volunteer" readers to comb through the submissions so as to aid the editor, and they do it -for free!-
A modest proposal: Giving editions themes, even in the broadest sense, would give the LQ much needed cogency, as well as cut down on total submissions to a more manageable level. If it does not achieve the latter by directly lowering the number of submission, it will at least allow the editor to dismiss works which do not fulfill the broad theme immediately, requiring no further deliberation. In this way the LQ could cultivate a more focused set of submissions. It goes without saying these themes could be quite broad, including things as nebulous as "Love", the seasons, joy or isolation. They could be interpreted in my unique ways and they would be suited for long form fiction, essays and poetry.

A faithful reader,
Anonymous

[Anonymous No.15816933]

Just finished it, I enjoyed "We made something together" and "Two birds in the earthset" the most

[Anonymous No.15817559]

>>15816257
seconded

[Anonymous No.15817795]

>>15816933
Ayy thanks! I wrote “we made something together” in the apartment of a girl i was going to fuck. we were both writing, but i never read what she was working on. she read mine and liked it. the sex was okay, but even bad sex is good. life is weird.

i wrote the poem “seasons” in a bar a week after the dissolution of my relationship of 4 years. an extremely lovey lesbian couple was the “artist in resident” of that bar, i was the only male in-house, but that particular place is sp god damn cozy. i was on the verge of tears until i got booze stoned, and halfway up that roller coaster i wrote the poem.

even small comments like yours make writing worth every moment i spend on it. thank you, thank you, thank you for your time and headspace.

[Anonymous No.15817899]

>>15812501
alright negative nancy

[Anonymous No.15818322]

>>15817795
Really cool, anon. Really inspiring words.

It is really nice to see this Quarterly grow so much. There really is a chance for all of us.

[Anonymous No.15818596]

>>15816257
Your comments are acknowledged and appreciated. Nothing you've said is inaccurate. The good news is, as we're nearing the final selections for the Summer 2020 edition, some themes have emerged organically with our selections. This, I believe, is because of two things: we collected works at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic which, even merely two months in, had shown an influence over many of the submissions--a restless isolation, a hopeless and resentful demeanour, the urge to rise up and resist various things, etc. Similarly, with the power of Twitter, we have begun to receive submissions from places far and wide, including places less used to safety and stability in day-to-day life, such as we in North America and Europe have, until recently, broadly enjoyed.

And the summer timeframe has informed a broader theme of the selections as well. At the end of the day, a broad theme or two has emerged and I think will be recognizable in the fourth edition. But it was in retrospect. What you (and many others) are proposing seems to be to have a theme ahead of time in order to more easily gather and select submissions. Which I think is something worth doing for the next, next edition, though what that theme would be, I don't yet know. The reason is would be difficult to select is that so far, we've always received a few works of every major theme - love, failure, depression, isolation, violence, etc. My thought on this are incomplete but I'd like to continue the dialogue.

[Anonymous No.15818796]

>>15817795
I've mostly read classics and philosophy/sociology, so the bit when you talked about "hijacking your inner voice" (or something similar) genuinely made my jaw drop. It was so meta and self-referential that compared to what I normally read it was so different.

[Anonymous No.15819187]

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[Anonymous No.15819654]

>>15818796
I've read a bit of both, and I enjoy engaging with the ideas behind what I've read over the years in an offhand kind of way. I love metaphor and legend, and the work isn't fun for others if I'm not at some kind of play.

[Anonymous No.15819907]

>>15818596
the theme of Halloween
boo

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[Anonymous No.15821312]

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[Anonymous No.15822270]

lil bumparoo

[Anonymous No.15823181]

Can someone scan this so I don't have to pay.
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.15823222]

>>15823181
sent ;)

[Anonymous No.15823466]

is there a specific reason why people use aliases?

[Anonymous No.15823708]

>>15813244
You emailed me or through amazon?

>>15823466
People are really opposed to being associated with 4chan, even though the hard copies make no reference to the affiliation whatsoever. On people who use 4chan would be aware of it, unless they recognize that some of the pieces make passing reference to it. But about half of contributors appeared to use pseudonyms.