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The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore

(clicked it yet?)

At the Read This Bookstore, you can buy any copy of Read This, past or present. You can also buy a brand new shiny for either six months or twelve, or an equally shiny but less brand new retroactive subscription. You’ll soon be able to buy the books produced by Read This Press there, too!

Happy shopping, guys!

PS: we just printed the brand new Read This Issue 14 and I genuinely believe it’s our best yet. The web features for this month are also up and looking lovely… go check it out!

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One Night Stanzas, my brand new blog for young writers, has been up and running for about a fortnight now, and so far I've had a very positive response from all you dA-dwellers, and from poets and editors far and wide. In case you don't know, the blog is all about helping young and uncertain poets to realise their writing potential - to improve their work, gain confidence and hopefully publish their poems and get themselves "out there"! Some of the best of the past fortnight's posts are these:

Getting Started: Sending Your Stuff To Magazines
Rejection Therapy and Dealing With Rejection Fallout
Poets' Tea-Party
Myths Busted: 10 Poetic Untruths You've Probably Heard
How to write a poem RIGHT NOW

But now One Night Stanzas has got itself a bit more established, it needs YOUR help! As well as needing you to comment on posts and let me know what you think, I am looking for guest-bloggers to write about their creative process. How you write, why you write, your publishing experiences... anything. If it's to do with poetry and you want to write about it, I want to see it!

How to submit:
- Read the blog and get some idea of what it's all about
- Write your article
- Email it to me at claire@onenightstanzas.com
- Get published on the blog if your submission is successful!

I'm also looking to feature emerging poets' work on the blog, starting very soon. Ideally, I'd like to run these 'features' over several days. Three or so of your poems would appear on the blog, accompanied by a quick interview with you, a bio, and a link to your dA, MySpace or website. If you'd like to be a One Night Stanzas featured poet, drop me a line to the above address, and we'll discuss it.

What are you waiting for?

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OK, so I've been banging on about this "project" of mine for weeks now, and finally it's ready to be unveiled, as it were.

Basically, I've been running Read This for nearly a year now, and over the course of that year I have realised that there is a distinct lack of resources out there for young people who write creatively - particularly for young poets. Every singe week, we get emails to the magazine, with questions from young writers - things like "how do I make my poems better?" "Did I write my cover-letter OK?" "how do I write a bio?" "Can I publish under a pen name?" Lately I've been getting stressed out replying to these questions... I try to point these writers in the direction of online resources to help them, but there just don't seem to be very many.

Don't get me wrong - there are a LOT of resources on the internet for poets, but my experience of them is rarely positive. There are a lot of personal blogs (and some larger, collective ones too) which seem to exist solely for the purpose of bringing other poets, publishers and companies down. There is a massive prejudice against what is called "youth writing", particularly in poetry - just yesterday, I read a saddening blog from The Guardian which was basically taking the piss out of young people who read The Beats and then try to emulate them in their writing. I've also seen whole forum threads devoted to slagging off "bad teenage journal poetry" and discussions that seriously suggest you should not begin writing until you are at least 25, "because otherwise it's just embarrassing." Not surprisingly, a lot of the online journals and zines put up so many barriers that younger writers might well be put off submitting to them - indeed, some make it obvious that writers like this are downright unwelcome.

Basically, I've realised that young writers not only have nowhere to go with questions; they also face a barrage of criticism if they unwittingly stray into the wrong part of the blogosphere or into an unfriendly forum -- easily done, it's happened to me! I wanted to provide a source of basic, friendly, easy-to-understand information for younger writers, whilst also providing them with a place to chat, connect, contribute and gets their work featured. That place is One Night Stanzas.

One Night Stanzas is made up of informative articles, useful resources and cool writing exercises, and although it takes the form of a blog, I would really like it to become more of a community. I want to give the writers who visit a chance to publish their work in a safe, criticism-free environment; I want to provide a question-and-answer service where no query is too small. As an ambitious but confused teen writer, I never had this, and I really think my writing suffered as a result of stupid decisions I made, just because I didn't know any better.

One Night Stanzas is not just for young writers. I reckon that the people it will really help the most are writers aged 12 - 20, but anyone under or over that age is of course welcome to read, participate, comment and contribute. I'll be on the lookout for guest-bloggers who want to write posts of their own -- I'll be calling out for people to talk about their own writing experiences and to provide their own work to feature on the blog's pages. One Night Stanzas was created for you guys, and for people like you, so I really hope you'll go take a look, maybe bookmark me, leave some comments, and keep coming back. There'll be new stuff there everyday. Spread the word!

Claire, and the RT Team x

PS - Check out my news article here and be sure to leave a +Fav.

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If you have a minute, please do wander over to Read This' site and check out its brand new look! It's taken Geeky Leon many hours (he's a perfectionist and a half) to get it looking that beautiful, so we really hope you like it! You all kvetched on about our funky rasta colourscheme, and so eventually, we waved a tearful farewell to the hippie yellow and green fusion, to bring you an altogether more classic look.

Check it out... and let us know what you think!

, The RT team x

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Read This is seeking submissions! As always, we want to hear from you!

Read This: WHAT WE DO

- accept all kinds of writing -- poetry, short fiction, articles, rants, essays and songs -- as well as artwork to make our covers beautiful

- accept submissions from everyone -- no matter what your age, nationality or ability

- read every single submission we get, and respond individually to everyone

- provide detailed feedback on the pieces we turn down, if requested

- provide two free copies of the magazine to anyone printed in it

- judge the submissions we receive solely on merit

- credit everyone whose work we publish

Read This: WHAT WE DON'T DO

- just publish our friends or people we know

- court famous writers to raise our profile, schmooze on forums and blogs, or engage in any of the other snobbery so sadly prevalent in the literary world

- alienate, insult or upset anyone who contacts us (if we do -- we didn't mean to! Tell us about it, quick!)

- insist on a zillion submission rules... just send your stuff!

You can learn all about us on our website at [link] -- find out who we are, what we're about, and how to submit. You can also read heaps of great writing on the website, as well as finding out how to get your hands on the print magazine. (Please note that the site is being totally revamped at present -- so apologies in advance for any glitches!)

You can send your work to submissions@readthismagazine.co.uk -- send submissions any time, we're always after a good read.

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The Read This team would like to thank everyone who's submitted writing and artwork over the past couple of weeks. We've been receiving more and more submissions recently and many of them have been of an excellent standard. Thank you so much for sharing all your lovely work with us!

We do need to point out that, as a result of our increased submission rate, we are taking longer to get back to everyone. We'd like to sincerely apologise about this -- but if you've sent us something recently, you will hear back. Just give us a little while!

The getting-back-to-you problem has been exacerbated by our Editor In Chief, Claire ( also known as *TheObviousChild ) going on a literary trip to Whitby (home of Dracula) for a week -- where, amongst other escapades, she experienced the 2008 UK Earthquake! Fortunately, she has come back unscathed, and normal service will now be resumed.

The rest of the Read This team would also like to give Claire a prod (affectionate... or perhaps not), as she has just been awarded The Sloane Prize for Short Fiction in Scots, 2008; the Lewis Edwards Prize 2008, and the Grierson Prize for Poetry 2008. Go prod *TheObviousChild !

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Great news! Read This is now able to accept submissions of visual art and visual literature as well as creative writing!

Obviously, we want to spread this cool news to as many people as possible, so please go check out our news article on the subject, here:
[link]
and be sure to leave us a +fav if you like the idea!

If you know any budding writers, visual lit enthusiasts or awesome illustrators who deserve to have their stuff in our magazine, send them in our direction -- to any of the following:

Our website [link] - Our MySpace [link] - Our dA [link]

ALL SUBMISSIONS WELCOME, TO SUBMISSIONS@READTHISMAGAZINE.CO.UK

]]> ~ReadThisMagazine http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/16536520/ http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/16536520/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:52:07 PST Read This Issue V - submissions required!

RT3 is out in stockists' stores now, and the team at Read This have just finished putting together RT4, the February issue. We're on the lookout for yet more great writing to put into RT5, so get writing!

For the first time, we're broadening our horizons to encompass drama, journal entries and basically anything you're willing to chuck at us.
If you're a writer and you want to get a foot on the magazine publishing ladder, or if you just want another credit to add to your CV, look no further.
Read This aims to help "unknown" writers to gain more acclaim and attention - we're a friendly bunch; we read and consider EVERYTHING we get, and we'll happily offer crit to anyone we don't accept, so they can edit and improve.

We'll consider writing of any genre, in any style, by anyone - no matter what your age or nationality... we want to hear from you!
Send your writing to submissions@readthismagazine.co.uk, and get more info (plus examples of the stuff we like) at our website, here: [link]

If you've been published by us before, you know we like you! And it's rude not to keep in touch, so let us know what you've been writing recently! And if we've rejected you in the past, chances are we still love you loads. Anyone who writes is awesome, and people who re-submit after being rejected are the best kind of writers. So don't let it put you off! We still want to hear from you!

Check out a whole load of our recently-featured stuff by awesome dA "unknowns" (we don't know why they're unknown...) by clicking on our gallery... or, go spy on our editors:
*TheObviousChild (Claire, Editor in Chief), ~IAmAScientist (Dan, prose editor), Lucy ~tangerinedreams, Hayley ~Elentari-86 and Struan ~Struco (poetry editors) and Leon ~leonart (webmaster extraordinaire)!
All you could ever want, and more, is also on our website - [link], and we're MySpaced up too, at [link]

SEND YOUR WORK TO SUBMISSIONS@READTHISMAGAZINE.CO.UK

Read great lit - Submit your work - Donate a sub - Note us with queries - Watch our gallery - Be our friend

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]]> ~ReadThisMagazine http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/15680737/ http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/15680737/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:42:47 PST Read This Issue III - our first issue of 2008 - to be packed with the best "emerging" literature on offer. So we're running a contest to encourage as many submissions as possible!

Because Issue III will see in a brand new year, the theme of the contest will be A New Start. It doesn't necessarily have to be about a new year; it can be about absolutely anything, as long as it does fit within that theme.

See details of Rules and Prizes here: [link]



]]> ~ReadThisMagazine http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/15676146/ http://ReadThisMagazine.deviantart.com/journal/15676146/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:34:31 PST Read This Magazine on deviantART!

For those of you who are not already familiar with us, check out what we're all about here [link] , or pay a visit to our official website at [link] .

If you fancy submitting some work to our lovely publication, our submissions guidelines are also on the official website, or you can see them here [link]
The email address for submissions is: submissions@readthismagazine.co.uk - that's also the email address you can use for any non-dA-related queries you have... one of us will get back to you asap.

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Read This Magazine is run by *TheObviousChild , ~tangerinedreams , ~IAmAScientist , ~Struco and ~Elentari-86 . Our website is run by ~leonart .

So, settle down and have a read of some of our fabulous poetry and prose - on the website ( [link] ), you can read what we're featuring right now, or in our dA gallery you can see a selection of Read This writings, past and present. You can also keep on the lookout for submission calls, contests and events by giving us a watch!

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