New Live Poets Society Open Mic at Flicker Bar!

We had our first open mic in the new space last night & it was fantastic!  I'm going to post some pics here as well as on Facebook so that everyone can see what a good time we had :)  The open mics are taking place in the stage room at Flicker, the room without the bar, and we had tables & chairs set out in the floor space so that everyone could sit down & drink while listening.  It's a great space for an open mic - intimate, cozy, with great acoustics!  There will be no open mic tonight, 1/31/11, as they already had a show planned, but next week there is a poetry open mic at Dog Ear Books and, after that, we plan on alternating Mondays with Dog Ear Books so that Athen's, GA has a Poetry Open Mic EVERY MONDAY!  We may also grab one Wed. a month at Flicker to have a featured poet or a variety show or a performance art night or, y'know, whatever we do...Hope to see everybody soon!

New Deadlines, New Print Edition, New Open Mics!

Okay, so the deadline for submissions has been pushed back, as we made a huge change since deciding to start this zine.  We are going to have Proetry as both an Online Literary Magazine for the Athens community, and also a Print Edition!  There is no longer a deadline for submitting work for the Online Edition, but the guidelines have changed a bit (See Below).  The deadline for submitting work to be printed in the Print Edition is 2/23/11, as we are aiming to print the first issue in mid-March.  Please email ProetryEditor@gmail.com for questions or info.  Also, we started a new project...Col-Ath-Po, Collaborative Athens Poetics, has started.  Col-Ath-Po is a collaborative poem which is being passed around Athens and will be printed in the first edition of Proetry.  If you see it, be sure to write some poetry in it and let us know what you think of this beautiful city we inhabit!  So I've posted the New Submission Guidelines below as well as the Col-Ath-Po Rules, just in case somebody gets the poem and can't read the rules on the envelope (there could be water damage, who knows?).  I've also posted a list of Upcoming Events for Athens' Writing Community, here & on the site, Proetry.com!  Be sure to check back as we will be updating the Upcoming Events section in this blog and on the website (Proetry.com) for the foreseeable future!

Submission Guidelines for Proetry

Website Submission Guidelines-

General: There is no deadline for website submissions, as we hope to keep the material on the site rotating more frequently than the bi-monthly printed edition. The first edition of the online edition should be published by the end of March. Please no profane or clearly religious-themed works of art, as the site host does not accept materials like that and we could get in trouble for posting them. (We want to keep this zine going!) Feel free to email us at ProetryEditor@gmail.com if you have any questions. Also, you can submit more than one type of writing and/or art, up to 3 poems, 3 pieces of artwork, and one piece of prose.

Poetry: Please only submit 3 poems per person. Put "Poetry Submission" in the Subject of the Email and send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com. Please send each poem in a separate email. Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well. If, for stylistic purposes, you need to send the poem in an attachment, please explain that in the body of the email, otherwise we will not open the attachment due to spam.

Prose: Please put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email and send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com. Please send each prose piece in a separate email. Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well. Please only submit 2 prose pieces per person.

Art: Please only submit 3 pieces of artwork per person. Send your artwork in the form of .JPG files. Put "Art Submission" in the Subject of the Email & attach the files to the email, one artwork per email. Send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com

Print Edition Submission Guidelines-

General: There are no unacceptable themes for submitting to the print edition. The deadline for submissions for the March edition is 2/23/11. We are aiming to have the first issue printed in mid-March. You can also submit more than one type of writing and/or art for the print edition, up to 3 poems, 3 pieces of artwork, and 2 pieces of prose.

Poetry: As the first edition of the zine will be rather small, please only submit poems which are a page in length or shorter. All other Poetry guidelines are the same as the website edition guidelines.

Prose: As the first edition of the zine will be rather small, please only submit prose pieces which are a half-page in length or shorter. All other Prose guidelines are the same as the website edition guidelines.

Art: Please send the highest resolution copy of your work for the print edition. If the Art Editor does not deem the work to be in a high enough res, we may email you back and ask you for a higher resolution version. All other Art guidelines are the same as the website edition guidelines.

Feel free to email us at ProetryEditor@gmail.com for more info!

You can also check out our blog at AthensProetry.Blogspot.com for updates & info.

Col-Ath-Po Rules

· This is a collaborative poem, which means your poetic contribution is part of a larger poem, which has already been written and which will be written after your piece. Keep the flow.

· You can keep the folder in your possession for a maximum of two days, yes, 48 hours.

· You don't have to write anything, but, if you do, you can write as much or as little as you would like.

· This poem is collaborative, which means it is the property of all of us, intellectually, however, the piece will be edited before it is published just in terms of grammatical revisions & things like that.

· After you are done with your poetic contribution, please pass the poem on to the next person you come across who you think will rock this poem.

· The deadline is February 23^rd, 2011. If you have the folder on this day, please bring it by the Daily Groceries Co-Op (523 Prince Ave. in Athens, for y'all who don't know) between 8am-10pm. We are aiming to publish the piece in early March.

· This is a local project. If you send the poem somewhere else, please make sure it gets back to Athens. Thank you!

Please email colathpo@gmail.com if you have questions or need any more info or anything.

We're looking forward to reading everyone's work!

P.S. This project is not affiliated with Daily Groceries Co-Op, it just so happens that one of us works there.

Athens, GA Writing Community Upcoming Events

1/26/11 @ 7pm – Plotluck Night, located at Cine (234 W. Hancock Ave.)

Story open mic, 10 storytellers have 5 minutes to tell a great story.

Email for more info: plotluck@gmail.com

2/2/11 @ 8pm – Word of Mouth Open Mic, located at The Globe (corner of S. Lumpkin & Clayton)

Poetry open mic with a featured reader, 1^st Wed. of every month.

Link to more info: http://www.athenswordofmouth.com/

2/7/11 @ 7pm – Goodbye Poetry Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.)

Poetry open mic, 1^st & 3^rd Mon. of every month.

Link to more info: http://www.dogearbooks.com/

2/21/11 @ 7pm – Goodbye Poetry Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.)

Poetry open mic, 1^st & 3^rd Mon. of every month.

Link to more info: http://www.dogearbooks.com/

2/23/11 @ Midnight – Deadline for Submissions to Proetry, the print edition!

Submit your work before this date so that we can get it printed in the mid-March edition!

Email for more info: proetryeditor@gmail.com

2/23/11 @ 10pm - Deadline for Submission of Col-Ath-Po #1.

If you have the Collaborative Athens Poetics piece, please bring it to Daily Groceries Co-Op by closing time!

Email for more info: colathpo@gmail.com

November's Here!

Hello, all!  So, it's November, which means not only is Xmas right around the corner, but the deadline for submitting your work to Proetry.com is at the end of this month!  That's right - you can only submit pieces of poetry, prose, or art through the end of this month (the actual deadline is 11/30/10) for our very first issue!  So send your work to ProetryEditor@gmail.com (view our Submission Guidelines below before submitting) and then see if you get published in our first issue.

I also wanted to let everyone know that the pieces which have previously been published on the site are being archived.  They will appear in a new Archives section of the zine once the first issue is finished being formatted.  Do be patient with us, as there are a lot of pieces and only a few of us working on this.  Thanks!

Hope to see your work in our inbox soon!

-Julie Wells, Editor in Chief
ProetryEditor@gmail.com

Athens Word of Mouth is Next Wed!

Next Wednesday, October 6, 2010, Word of Mouth Open Mic will be holding its monthly open mic at The Globe on the corner of Clayton and Lumpkin.  It's an awesome open mic with a featured reader; this month's reader is Ralph LaCharity of Cincinatti, Ohio, who I'm sure will be great!  Aralee Strange is the poet who organizes the event and she always chooses amazing poets to feature.  The open mic is free!  The reading is upstairs, so be sure to stop by the bar on your way up.  This is always a fun event with a lot of stupendous readers and guests; there's a break right before the featured reader, as the event usually lasts from 8pm until about 11/11:30pm.  Get there at 8pm sharp to sign up, as the list fills up quickly, but, if you don't, we can always make room for one more!  (I posted a pic of me reading there last month on the side so you can see what the stage is like.  And click here to visit the Word of Mouth website.)  See you next Wednesday!

Poetic Happenings

Okay, so this blog is about Proetry.com, Athens' New Online Lit Mag that we're currently accepting submissions for, but I also want it to be a place where we can discuss Poetic Happenings in the community, as well as in the world.

And I've got two announcements:  the first is that Poetic Soul was awesome last night!  Poetic Soul, if you don't know, is a weekly open mic for poets and acoustic musicians here in Athens, GA.  It's from 8-10pm on Tuesday nights at New Earth Music Hall (sign-up at 8 so be there promptly please).  It's an awesome event, one you should definitely check out, and last night was fantastic!  We had a pretty big crowd, there was a bunch of awesome poets and musicians, and we had fun!  It's every Tuesday, so be sure to come check us out next week, or the week after, or the week after that...

Second Announcement:  Next weekend, Oct. 7th-10th, the Dodge Poetry Festival is happening in Newark, NJ.  We are heading up there because it is always an amazing weekend and a great festival and I wouldn't miss it for the world!  Tickets are on sale on their site, or via phone.  Here's a link to the festival site:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/
You should all come if you can!  It's always an awesome time and there are always amazingly talented poets who come out for this festival every other year.  Come be a part of it!  Hope to see you there!

We Need Prose Writers!

Okay, folks, so we've got a bunch of poets on board, some who have submitted and some who will be submitting soon.  We've also got a lot of artists interested in getting their work into the zine.  But...prose writers!  We need you guys to jump on this!  I'm re-posting the Prose Submission Guidelines below so that you can see what we're looking for, but we need you!  Prose + Poetry + Art + Athens = Proetry...we can't do it without the Prose!

Prose Submission Guidelines:

Please submit prose pieces less than 4,000 words for the first issue.  Put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each prose piece in a separate email.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  Please only submit 1 prose piece per person, as there are not that many editors right now and we need time to review the works.  Send all submissions to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com

Thanks everyone for your interest!  Hoping to see your work in our inbox soon!

New Happenings at Proetry.com

There have been a ton of exciting things happening here at Proetry.com since we last posted: first of all, Athens Word of Mouth website now links to Proetry.com, and, secondly, Yoko Ono is now following us on Twitter!  If you haven't checked us out on Twitter yet, the name is ProetryEditor (that's me!).  If you need to contact us via email, the address is: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Hope you had as great a week as we did!