/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17862527]

wtf happened?

[Anonymous No.17862550]

>>17862527
Now we stan &amp by lit

[Anonymous No.17862559]

>>17862527

Hopefully it died, but I suspect not. Last thing this space needs is encouragement of its efforts along groupthing, faggy journal lines.

Unfortuntely I suspect this is false, and the organizers are taking their time. Let's hope not.

[Anonymous No.17862569]

>>17862527
I want to make a literary magazine, but have no printer, no other writers and no one who would read it

[Anonymous No.17862596]

>>17862569
This post is better than anything printed in the heaping pile of steaming dogshit that was the Lit quarterly

[Anonymous No.17862610]

>>17862559
>>17862596
someone had their pretentious shit rejected by the lit quarterly ow ow

[Anonymous No.17862630]

>>17862569
i don't think you want to make a literary magazine. i think you want to have made a literary magazine. it's a lot of work and the communal aspect doesn't ever seem to manifest into something meaningful. the editors and the writers all go their separate ways. for all the effort put into a group project, it's actually very lonely.

[Anonymous No.17862633]

>>17862596
As one of the authors in the first one, that hurt, friend. I am at least better than a fucking frog poster. C’mon.

[Anonymous No.17862641]

>>17862527
fifth edition due out soon, though experiencing multiple delays at the printers
>>17862559
Once the fifth edition is out, there will be a hiatus.
>>17862630
very insightful post

[Anonymous No.17862667]

>>17862596
Did you read the second edition?

[Anonymous No.17862713]

>>17862550
whens the next one?

>>17862610
i havent read any but ill say, ive been rejected by them for extremely valid reasons and it definitely made me a better writer. i dont know if what they accepted was good but at least one of what they rejected was bad

[Anonymous No.17862913]

>>17862527
Got banned for advertisement because it had nothing to do with /lit/

[Anonymous No.17863373]

>>17862550
I liked this one more, but I only read maybe a fifth of the content.

[Anonymous No.17863686]

>>17862713
I emailed him almost a week ago just to see how things were going and haven't had a reply yet. Getting worried.

[Anonymous No.17864615]

>>17862913
This didn't happen.

[Anonymous No.17864625]

Most of the works in """""lit"""""" quarterly no longer came from here, but from Twitter and Reddit people

[Anonymous No.17864836]

I hope all of you fellows are prepared for the new mag I am concocting. It shall be released at the end of the month and feature famous posters such as myself, Frater Asemlen and a few other famous fellows who do not use tripcodes because they decide against that particular way of posting. A frabjous day to all. xxx

- Lord Nonce

[Anonymous No.17864874]

>>17862527
>geneses
Did they purposefully use the plural of genesis, or did /lit/ actually put a typo on the cover of its first issue?

[Anonymous No.17864880]

>>17864874
guess

[Anonymous No.17864890]

>>17864874
It has to be the plural of genesis. What misspelling could it be? Genesis itself? Gene? Genius?

[Anonymous No.17864907]

>>17862633
>I am at least better than a fucking frog poster.
Unlikely, seeing as men of my caliber post frogs and the only """people""" who seem to seethe at them are trannies.

[Anonymous No.17865067]

>>17864625
Such is the way of 'literary' journals. There are more writers of bad prose and poetry than there are readers, and even niche journals will find themselves inundated with submissions once they become even remotely known.

[Anonymous No.17865084]

>>17862641
Sperg-tastic post

[Anonymous No.17865093]

>>17864836
... who?

[Anonymous No.17865237]

Is &amp still being made? I wanna written something for that

[Anonymous No.17865277]

>>17865237
I think the delay is because of low content. End of the month maybe? I’m surprised they haven’t made a thread.

[Anonymous No.17865306]

This was shit but it was worth reading. The author is not a good writer but he’s trying. Definitely gives off vibes of almost no life experience. As shitty as it was it was real and some Anon fucking gave it a shot and that’s worth reading.

[Anonymous No.17865321]

>>17865306
my stuff's on on pg. 29 (of the pdf)
what do you think

[Anonymous No.17865328]

>>17865306
> incorrect use of penultimate
Dang. The rest was pretty good, though.

[Anonymous No.17865392]

>>17865328
the ultimate one would be killing oneself?

[Anonymous No.17865566]

>>17865321
Oh that picture is dope. I remember the thread where you should some of your pictures. Good shit

[Anonymous No.17865585]

I liked this one. It gave me Bukowski vibes for some reason. I hope this Anon has more stuff.

[Anonymous No.17865654]

>>17865277
i could supply them with a whole issue full of stuff if they asked. they even liked what i gave them. theyre not even making threads anymore so of course theres low input

[Anonymous No.17865689]

Top tier magazine, lads.
I've finally managed to get accepted and anxiously await your roasting

[Anonymous No.17865722]

>>17865585
nice

[Anonymous No.17865759]

>>17865654
I agree, there should be more outreach. Hopefully we can all organize and work together because I think this is awesome.

>pic
Hilariously bad. The graphics help and it is still fun

[Anonymous No.17865876]

>>17864874
It's plural, as in..."beginnings"

>>17865306
that essay was pretty good IMO

[Anonymous No.17865964]

>>17865876
To each his own

This was creepy.

[Anonymous No.17866223]

>>17862527
It was honestly pretty good in parts, I can't deny, but I think after the Winter edition they put it behind a paywall. It was only using "Lit" to appeal to /lit/ and use the site overall as a springboard for a bigger grift. I could tell it wouldn't have longevity
as a /lit/-based product when I realized they were actually paying people.

[Anonymous No.17866236]

>>17865964
Agreed.

[Anonymous No.17866264]

>>17866223
What paywall are you talking about? The selling of the books?

[Anonymous No.17866298]

>>17866264
Yeah, it used to be free with a PDF on their site. In this sense it did become paywalled.

[Anonymous No.17866317]

>>17866298
You must be thinking of something else. We released a digital-only edition which is published on the site, but the formal hard copy editions were always sold. I did give away many free PDFs, but that was via email for those who requested them.

[Anonymous No.17866321]

All of you are hacks and I wouldn’t read your crap if you paid me

[Anonymous No.17866338]

>>17866321
What if we didn't pay you and you just read it to get a feel for what kind of writing is out there in the amateur/independent world, as a way to assess where your own writing is at?

[Anonymous No.17866351]

if this is an amp thread now i have a steal these stories idea

its a story where a guy wakes up and starts having the same exact day he just had so he figures hes in a groundhog day time loop and he goes around making use of it by doing whatever he wants messing with people, living life like everything will reset tomorrow, but time doesn't reset again and he is left with the consequences of all the things he did and its really awkward for him.

[Anonymous No.17866356]

>>17865585
sorry but writing shitty prose and chopping it up into little lines is not poetry.

[Anonymous No.17866368]

>>17866317
I know the hard copies were always sold but from what I remember is after one thread (presumably) you guys stopped putting digital editions out for free. When someone asked to read them you guys would respond asking for an email so you could send them samples, not of the whole book afaIk. I got these two from your site.

[Anonymous No.17866383]

I wanna write for &amp, is that shit still running?

[Anonymous No.17866413]

>>17866368
Hmm...I don't remember that. You got PDFs of the first two editions for free off the website? Because around the time of the third edition, I wanted to just post the first two PDFs for free but decided that we would shift slightly away from sales of the hardcopy (even though LQ2 sold better than expected) and would sell the PDFs on the website for $5 each. Yes, I gave away PDFs for free via email frequently, but don't recall ever posting them for free on the website. May have just forgotten about it though.

[Anonymous No.17866416]

>>17866383
Lit is &amp bro
We could just make another issue

[Anonymous No.17866422]

>>17866383
Been trying to get a hold of him...I sure hope it's still going, since it's much for in touch with /lit/ culture (and the hard copies are very high quality)

[Anonymous No.17866456]

>>17866413
From what I remember there were only a few pages on the website (maybe two) and one of them were just downloads to the first two editions, which is where I got the ones I have. I never inquired about getting a PDF because in your posts you always seemed like it was only samples, even though I was interested.

[Anonymous No.17866481]

>>17866456
I think I recall what you're referring to. When I first set up the site, (very crudely, as I'm sure you remember), there were links to the two PDFs. I had totally forgotten about that. But we overhauled the site shortly thereafter.

[Anonymous No.17866506]

>>17866481
are you releasing the fifth edition god damn you ?

[Anonymous No.17866551]

>>17866506
Yes. Significant delays with the printers. It was supposed to be out the first week of March. Waiting to hear from them right now. Very proud of this edition, the fiction selections especially.
Here's the table of contents.

[Anonymous No.17866666]

>>17866551
Interesting stuff
Poetry included in this?

[Anonymous No.17866711]

>>17866666
checked

[Anonymous No.17866764]

>>17866481
Can you email me some samples or PDFs or whatever? If you're still doing that ofc.

[Anonymous No.17866816]

>>17866764
sure, email [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.17867045]

>>17866816
I sent the email.

[Anonymous No.17867059]

>>17866666
>put me in the screencap
>will this be in &amp?

[Anonymous No.17867068]

>>17866666
>>17866711
>those digits
>forgot my pic

[Anonymous No.17867311]

>>17866383

He said something like they were trying to decide whether the deadline to submit was a week ago or end of March based on whether they had enough submissions or not. That's the last update I saw them posting.

[Anonymous No.17867704]

>>17862527
KMD and The Lit Quarterly are still on the road. One of the few things of quality that sprung from this manure heap.

[Anonymous No.17867758]

I want to buy a copy of the mobey dick

[Anonymous No.17867834]

>>17867068
Did you like Deep Under Covers? I submitted to 005 but I’m not sure if what i’ve got is really up to par.
Maybe some anons want to pick a story prompt from 004 and try actually submitting, get the same story from multiple people, something like Tarantino’s Four Rooms? I like the teacher and border agent ones

[Anonymous No.17868128]

>>17867758
The /lit/ annotated Moby-Dick? Has there been an update on it?

[Anonymous No.17868186]

>>17862527
What are the guidelines for submissions? Will they publish serialized fiction? Low long should each section be?

[Anonymous No.17868220]

>>17867834
I haven’t read that one. I’ll read it tomorrow at work.

[Anonymous No.17868238]

Could someone post a link to the &ampbylit website? I had it saved on my old phone but it stopped working recently. Very much appreciated if you can.

[Anonymous No.17868398]

>>17867834
I liked it. Had a good chuckle at the whole idea of it.

>>17868238
lampbylit.com

[Anonymous No.17868405]

>>17868128
Yes
No

[Anonymous No.17868883]

>>17865306
>literary journal
>sans-serif

[Anonymous No.17868911]

>>17868883
you have to be as old as him to prefer serif, yes

[Anonymous No.17869240]

tfw no KMD bf

[Anonymous No.17869805]

>>17867834
one of the highlights of 4. i hope ur in 5

[Anonymous No.17869817]

>>17864625
mine was in the last edition

[Anonymous No.17869946]

Reading through the latest edition—why are they literally all about Grindr hookups, Africans, or something exasperatingly contemporary?

[Anonymous No.17870677]

>>17869946

Wait literature isn't only about Grindr hookups?

[Anonymous No.17870688]

>>17869946
look at this guy, he's homophobic, racist, and not interested in contemporary social-political issues

[Anonymous No.17870926]

>>17869946
There was one story called Grindr about a guy who crosses paths with an ex which I thought was well-executed.
There were quite a few submissions from Africa that time around and several of them were selected, including an essay about surviving the 2015 Accra floods and one about a mother trying to stop her teenage girl's sexual urges by bringing her to a radical church, which I also think was well done and very funny.
>exasperatingly contemporary
criticism noted. But what type of story or content wouldn't fall under this category?

[Anonymous No.17870939]

>>17865964
This is a total classic and justifies everything. I also liked pic related.

[Anonymous No.17870999]

>>17865759
Hey hey hey I wrote that one :(
a huge chunk of the story got cut out for some reason so it didn't even make sense, so the editors were going to fix it and leave a note about it in the next issue.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5c4qdkdcslq2xk0/thehypochondriaclampsubmission.docx/file

[Anonymous No.17871004]

>>17864907
thank you for your service

[Anonymous No.17871517]

>>17865759
>>17870999
Fuck, I hope you read my post back to you, anon. I know the story may not be the greatest, but I was psyched that it got in, and it's influenced me to keep working on my craft.

[Anonymous No.17871523]

>>17871517
Nobody cares about your story retard

[Anonymous No.17871709]

>>17871523
Not him, but do you care to share some of your writing with the board?

[Anonymous No.17872085]

>>17870939
i really liked this writers first piece about all the kids he had but this one was a bit underwhelming. like the naturalistic dialog at the end feels a bit unnatural i dunno. but i love snow and still enjoyed most of it.
>>17870999
checked. not him btw. this version makes more sense from what i remember but it does read like a disgusting and edgy hotline miami fanfiction (i especially didnt appreciate skin tags and hand sanitizers) but i like the scene at the end and honestly the writing itself isnt bad when it stays journalistic.

[Anonymous No.17872193]

>>17867834
>>17868220
Just got to work and read Deep Under Covers. I’m hard. God damnit do you make me a faggot? I thought it was really good. I don’t know much about homosexuals but it seemed authentic. Keep up the good work!

[Anonymous No.17872220]

>>17865759
>>17870999
Oh wow that big missing chunk really made a big difference, much more coherent. Also, don’t worry what some anon like me thinks. My writing is nothing special and to be in this magazine is a huge feather in my cap.

[Anonymous No.17872842]

>>17862550
>not KULTUR TERROR
NGMI

[Anonymous No.17872884]

>>17871709
No, because no one cares about my story either

[Anonymous No.17872915]

>>17862527
Well it turned out that it was never about /lit/ (rather "lit" in the generic sense) so &amp swooped in and filled the niche

[Anonymous No.17873024]

>>17866551
are the female contributors actually female or trannies

[Anonymous No.17873146]

Hey dudes. Original editor of &amp here. Issue 005 is being put together by the new editor and he’s actually waiting on me to finish my F Gardner piece so he can wrap it up and solve the printer situation. The issue will be ready for April 1st at the latest.
My personal life is in shambles so I’m moving from the city to the countryside to make amends with myself and get off drugs. I do want to continue to produce the magazine but I haven’t discussed anything with anybody yet regarding the future. My plan has changed a hundred times in the last month, and my leadership has waned entirely. I haven’t met any of the goals I set like 4chan ads, distribution, monetization. The new editor has saved the magazine so he deserves props.
Submissions are low, and we have suffered bans for advertising &amp in hype threads, so things are quiet. After 005 drops, I will address the board and the &amp team regarding what happens next. I’d like to avoid having a gap in the monthly issues. Thanks brehs

[Anonymous No.17873303]

>>17873146
>we’reputtingtogetherateam.jpg

You’ve done a great job and i think i speak for many other anons that we want to keep this going and ride this strange torpedo all the way to the end!

[Anonymous No.17873463]

>>17873146
>My personal life is in shambles so I’m moving from the city to the countryside to make amends with myself and get off drugs
thats /lit/ af
>4chan ads, distribution, monetization
those would be a nice bonus but as it is, it has all the actually important stuff.
>Submissions are low
im sure many anons can help by submiting more stuff
>we have suffered bans
fuck jannies
>>17873303
this

[Anonymous No.17873757]

>>17873146

Hope you get through things and get to a better place, there's lots of options and the magazine will always be there when you get things in your life how they need to be.

[Anonymous No.17874808]

>>17873146
take your time, buddy

[Anonymous No.17874859]

>>17872884
lol, fair enough

>>17872915
really impressed with the quality of &amp

>>17873024
I don't know. There's no verification process. Also, selections for this last edition were read blind.

>>17873146
if this is really you, you've done a hell of a job on the first four issues so I know you'll find your feet. If you're genuinely short of submissions, I will throw some of my incomplete shit your way and see if you like it.
If this is a LARP, it's a pretty believable one and you've earned your (you).

[Anonymous No.17875947]

>>17873146
&amp is the shit anon, thanks for getting it out into the world. I hope you're able to get back on your feet soon. Best of luck to you.