Thirty First Bird Review

 "Where all deities reside in the human breast..."

Hey Everyone, 

There are some big changes coming to Thirty First Bird Review as we gear up for the reading period for our second issue. The biggest changet, bucking the seeming trend that publishing is moving towards,  is that we will no longer have the online journal, only a print edition. If you were published on the online journal before, and are disappointed to now see your contributions missing, have no fear! I will eventually be archiving all of the great material we published for our one year run as an online literary journal. I've got incredible respect for the possibilities of the internet, and would eventually like to return to the possibility of having blogging, reviews, flash fiction on the site, but as of now I feel the format for this particular site was hard to manage along side the print journal. 

Now the good news, it's time for a second reading period! Technically this period began August 1st (if you religiously read DuoTropes you may have seen), but I'm announcing it here. From August 1st to December 1st I will be reading material that has to do with the theme of "Prayer." Think of this in the most expansive way possible. As always, there is no need to limit yourself to devotionals, if you are a theist, write poems directed to God (after all, it is one of the few genres with God as the intended audience), if you are an atheist write prayers praising disbelief or prayers to a dead god. If you are a polytheist, write prayers and hymns to Bacchus. As always, the iconoclastic is good and holy at the Thirty First Bird Review. And of course this isn't limited to "new prayers,"  I would love poetry about prayers, stories that involve prayer, essays on prayer, theoretical meditations on prayer etc.  While genre is pretty wide open, I've skewed towards poetry for the print edition in the past (mostly due to space limitations). If you do send fiction, drama, essay, a good rule of thumb would be that over 500 words is probably too long. Now, if you are the next James Joyce, by all means send it along, but in general, that has been the upper-limit. As always, submissions are sent in the body of an email along with a short biographical statement to thirtyfirstbird@yahoo.com. If you have inquiries feel free to ask your question(s) and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, but potential contributors shouldn't expect an answer on whether submissions have been accepted until December. Because of this, I happily allow simultaneous submissions to other journals, and I also am willing to look at previously published material. Copywright (as it should be) remains with the author, though I kindly request if you post it to a website or if it is republished in another venue that you mention this journal as the place of first publication. Unfortunately payment is not possible at this time. Contributors new to the journal are advised to pick up a copy of our first edition to get a feel for the philosophy of the Thirty First Bird Review. 

Thanks!

Ed Simon

Editor

Thirty First Bird Review  

It's here! Let me know what you think, at thirtyfirstbird@yahoo.com, and check back here for details on our second issue (you didn't think we'd stop at one, did you?)

Thanks!

Ed S.