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Novella Contest Homestretch

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Actual ScarJo not included.

UPDATED: Submissions to the Novella Contest are now closed. There’ll be no one to stop us this time.

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Fortune and glory, kid?

We got your shot at it.

Well, mainly the glory part; less so the fortune. (In fact, really, no fortune at all.)

The 2012 Jersey Devil Press Novella Contest is still open, but the hours are ticking away. You’ve got about a dozen days left to get your amazing entry in to us, win pride of place in the coveted August Issue, and impress your friends, neighbors, and family members with your literary acumen.

Also, Scarlett Johansson.

Look, we’re not making any promises, but we have it on reasonably reliable authority that she seriously digs novella writers. (Male or female.) And she’s single again. (We think.) And they let her keep the S.H.I.E.L.D. catsuit from The Avengers for personal use. (Supposedly.)*

So win August!

Win the dubious and illusory promise of a date with ScarJo in-character as Black Widow!

Win the JDP Novella Contest!

But first make sure you read the rules.

(And maybe an issue of JDP.)

Then take your best shot and submit.

* This paragraph not intended to be factual statements.

Now With Extra Ambiguity!

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Just the other day you were saying to your best friend or partner or spouse or veterinarian, “When in the hell is JDP going to do an issue focused on ambiguity?”

Okay, no one in their right goram mind has ever asked that, but, well, sometimes it’s the literary magazine’s role in society to give its audience not what it wants, but what it needs.

Or, maybe we just got some really cool stories that are a bit amorphous in terms of what exactly happens and decided to throw them together into a single issue to better mess with you.

Because you loved the end of Inception when you weren’t sure if the top tipped over or not. Or the way The Thing ends without telling you definitively if the monster is in Childs or MacReady.

Yeah, I hated that too.

But I do really like the stories we’ve assembled here.

And we haven’t gone completely crazy.

There’s one with cat entrails.

Plus, a few ghosts show up toward the end.

At least, I think they do.

Read it online here or as a PDF here.

Three Words: JDP Foam Party!

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That’s right, mofos, it’s Spring Break! We’re loading down the Winnebago with all the Beast it can hold, hitting replay on “Darlington County,” and heading to South Padre Island for a month of the Three B’s: brewskies, babes, and…uh…um…more brewskies!

Someone call Pauly Shore and find that chick in the red-white-and-blue uni-thong, because we’re partying old school MTV style! Like before they rated TV shows!

It’s going to be a Literary Foam Party deep in the Heart of Texas!

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Okay, you got us…we’re not going on Spring Break.

Really, we’re so not.

First off, not all of us are even allowed to cross state lines. And then this whole notion of being encased in foam on a dance floor? Sounds like a surefire recipe for multiple panic attacks. Also, someone could slip and get hurt.

So, no, we’re not really going to South Padre Island.

But we are taking a short break on regular submissions while we sort out the novella contest, deal with everyday life, and probably mangle our taxes. Nothing too drastic: we’ll shut down at midnight on March 9th (so you’ve got a few more days to send us something cool) and then reopen for regular submissions late in April, probably around the 18th. (There’s even rumors that we might be taking submissions for a special Halloween issue then.) We’ll try to respond to any outstanding submissions to the monthly mag in the next week or so, if you’re currently waiting on an answer from us.

And our novella contest will absolutely positively remain open through the end of March.