| Zygote Abstract, is scheduled for sale in late May or June of 2008, as we wait for publication reviews. You may order copies in advance by sending a check or money order to our snail mail address or you may use paypal. The book will be available at hundreds of independent book stores, at Amazon and Barnes & Noble online, and hopefully in Barnes and Nobles brick and mortar stores if we receive positive book reviews. We ask our writers to please promote the book throughout the Internet and in your local area by word of mouth. To purchase the book click on the pay now button located below the book cover image. |
| We reserve the right to postpone publication until we receive enough quality submissions. When your work is accepted we will inform you immediately so submit as soon as possible. Do not wait until the deadline. Zygote Abstract 2009 has a submission deadline. The first place winner will receive $100 and a free book. The second and third place winners will receive free books only. We are still in the poor house; however, as we prosper so will you. If a book sells enough copies to turn a profit, we will share a percentage of the net proceeds with the published writers of that particular book. You may enter as often as you like. Thanks to writers like yourself our first book "Zygote Abstract" is an excellent book so please promote the book, website, and our contests throughout the Internet and by word of mouth in your area. Zygote Abstract should publish in late May or June as we wait for reviews. Use Paypal or snail mail and donate by check or money order Red Pulp Underground POB 3082 Universal City, TX 78148 Donation reading fees are $2 per poem under 300 words, $3 for prose or flash fiction under 1,000 words, and $4 per short story under 4,000 words. If you cannot afford to pay the reading fee, please pay what you can. At the present time, this is our only source of income so please contribute. We are not a vanity publisher and everyone who works for Red Pulp Underground is a volunteer. We receive no monetary compensation for what we do. Our books are mailed out for review and we run a clean operation that actually publishes books and pays its winning contestants. Click here to Submit Guidelines In the subject line enter the name of the book project In the body of the email enter your personal information - first and last names, address or home town, and telephone number (not mandatory) include a short biography (visit our submissions page for an example of a short biography). Format: Times New Roman 12pt. Send your poems, short stories etc as attachments. Red Pulp prefers previously unpublished work. If you are submitting more than one piece and your first submission is unpublished, you may present a previously published piece of work. It is your responsibility to give credit to those that have published your work. In addition, we are asking for cover art submissions. At the present time, we do not have the resources to pay for your art but you will receive a copy of the book and publishing credit. (Of course, you retain copyright of your work) We look forward to your submissions. Good Luck. |
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Poets chosen for publication in Red Pulp Publishing’s Zygote Abstract Anthology 2008. Sara Rose - Academics - Honorable Mention Gail Gray - Seeds - Honorable Mention Chris Sabatelli - A Note to My Son - Third Place Piffle 203 West 81st Street Paula Obe Thomas - Soul Dance Heat Wave Jae Ming Jue - Old Man Johnny - Honorable Mention Anxious Sweat The Interview Federica Galetto - A Sensual Mood Courtney Campbell - He who’s First A Love Color of Mangos & Barbed Wire Password Aine MacAodha - Lough Derg/St. Patrick’s Purgatory 1979 Black 47 That Age Darrell Lindsey - Convenience Stores Adam Rodenberger - Thong Decision Insert “A” Into “B” Lover Much Missed Jason Hardung - Gun Barrel Lips Chris West - Young Karl Marx - Honorable Mention Jay Halsey - Convalescent Rain upon Lunchtime Soup - First Place Full on Empty Dante Prestipino - Dreams Heavy as Feathers Colin Dardis - A Schoolbag Full of Rocks Molbane Coagulation Cascade Venetia Ghozlan - Divinity Shame My Soul is Weary David McLean - Of the Fiction “Mental Illness” David Wills - Tedium Sophia Argyris - Steady Disintegration - Second Place Lines of Descent Johathan Muggleston - Autopsy Mike Freeman - Another Dead Iraqi Nadine Sellers - Freedom for Pay The Refugees of Others Pamela Macphail - To the Man Outside My Window Breathless Metamorphosis Susana Hazelden - Blow Monkey Alexan Burton - Disease Leila Arciero - Death-Rot Christopher Glazer - Is it Ten Yet? Hector Lopez - Market by Slavery Without Blinders Rachel Blackbirdsong - My Pen Drips Blood April Bratten - The Sympathy of Sleep Rod Stryker - Urban Angels Falling Reaping Sunshine John Miller - Soul Straps Shelly Wiseberg - Seeing Truth Marcy Jarvis - Disappearance off Easter Island Flora and Fauna Ivy of Albion Rob Plath - The Lull Mario Zambrano - Like Woolf Lucien Kalen - The Emotional Plague Capitalistic Empathy Lou Goodwin - Tin Relationships Joseph DiFrancesco - Two Bourbons, One Cigar and Her Joseph Bartolotta - Timbre On the Ferry Wheel of the Year John G. Hall - Consequences Karl Koweski - Every Minute Gay Science Christian Ward - Moth The Iceberg Yasha Remembers the Great War Suzanne Jubenville - Why Women are Beautiful Kristen O'Steen - Hi, My Name Is |
| Call for submissions Call for submissions Only one project has a deadline for submission. The other three have no deadline. Send us your short stories, Poetry and Prose (fiction or nonfiction) for: Zygote Abstract 2009 - Eclectic poetry and prose - submit your best work - submission deadline is January 31, 2009 A Lubricious Diary - A book of erotic poetry and short stories (no deadline) Dysfunctional Poets - Well written poetry on anything impaired (personal, social, and political rants) We are looking for dirt written in dives, dirty public bathroom walls, funky smelling bedrooms, and anywhere else you can dig it up. (no deadline) |
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