Regular Submissions Closed Until January

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Jersey Devil Press

The big bold font basically says it all. Regular submissions are now closed, but will re-open in early January. If you’ve already submitted, rest assured we have it and we should get back to you by the end of the week.

Holiday Half-Issue submissions will open on November 10th for one week. We’re looking for short, funny winter-themed stories. Christmas, Hannukah, New Year’s, abominable snowmen, the world’s largest slushball fight, that kind of thing.

In the meantime, be sure to re-read Issue Fourteen. Featuring work by Sandra Bazzarelli, Chloe Caldwell, Michael Frissore, Hilary Gan, and Annam Manthiram, it’s one of our best issues yet. It’ll give you a good idea of what we’re looking for in all those future submissions. More importantly, though, it will change your life forever. Seriously. I know I’m a better person for having read it.

Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jersey Devil Press

Reminder, regular submissions close at midnight tonight! Winter holiday submissions will be open for a week, starting November 10th!

In the meantime, assuming you’re not already in a sugar coma or weeping inconsolably about the suckitude of the Jets today, enjoy a suitably spooky story by the masterful Mike Sweeney over at the always awesome amphibi.us. It’s almost like they put the story up specifically for Halloween or something.

Issue Fourteen Now Online

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Jersey Devil Press

In our ongoing efforts to accidentally come up with themes at the most inappropriate times, we are proud to present Issue Fourteen of Jersey Devil Press, dedicated to that most wonderful and terrible of all emotions: Love.

That’s right. In the dead of autumn, just in time for Halloween, we’ve got a bunch of stories about the most pink and frilly of feelings. Or is it? After reading these five stories, I’m not so sure.

The authors here get love down in all its messy glory: the selflessness and the selfishness; the pain, the passion, the effort and the ease; the wonder and, especially, the unexpectedness of it all.

The first stop on this textual Tunnel of Love is Hilary Gan’s remarkable debut story, “The Pragmatist,” followed by “The Ballad of Done Me Wrong and Maybegirl,” by the enigmatic Sandra Bazzarelli. Next is the moving “The Rodeo Clown” by the prolific Annam Manthiram, then Michael Frissore’s “The Seven Stages of Sorrow,” equal parts beautiful and trippy. Then the ride brings us ashore, into a dirty fever dream of life in Brooklyn, as presented by the magnificent Chloe Caldwell in “That Was Called Love.”

There’s truth and heartbreak in these tales, as well as Chicken McNuggets and ninjas. If that’s not love, then I don’t know what is.

The issue is available for reading online here and downloading as a .pdf here. Remember to comment the crap out of the stories you like; it makes the writers feel special.