/pt/ – Petrarchan

Thank you to all those who have submitted so far, we are still looking for more and various contributions!

Welcome new visitors and 4chan refugees alike. I'm pleased to say that we've gotten enough subs that I'm confident there will be an Issue 2. So don't worry about missing the cutoff, just SUBMIT!

Just submitted.

>>1844 thank you!

bump :^)

Is it possible to submit in languages other than english? I would like to submit some things, mostly short essays and chapter excerpts from my novel.

>>2130 Depends on the language. if I can find someone who reads that language to review it, then yes. Which language is it?

its slovenian, altough I suppose it could be translated to English before submission; I just think there is already so much lingua franca lit out there it would be a waste of paper to add to that pile.

>>2132 Ok yeah I might struggle finding a slovenian editor... I guess I could run it through machine translate to check you're not pranking me with slash fiction or something...

>>2132 if you have anything that is reasonably short then I'd happily include it. I don't want to give over half the pages of the mag to something that realistically 97% of people won't be able to read, though :)

>>2134 what do you mean by editor exactly? As above you say: >In the spirit of the late, great /lit/ periodical &amp, editorial standards will be loose, so there's no reason not to submit whatever you have kicking around on your hard drive. And no I dont plan to troll you with slash fiction. Yeah I suppose deepl should work fine? Maybe idk. If you need help with editing I could give you a hand; i am not a native english speaker but I do edit an academic magazine here in EU, so I have some experience with this shit.

>>2138 I mean I intend to include pretty much all sincere efforts at literary fiction but that still means I need the ability to read everything that's submitted, if you see what I mean. I appreciate the offer to help editing. You can send me a discord message at @jfawley :)

>>2141 gotcha. for sure. i dont really use disc. will make one in the eve and message you.

>>2143 cool

>>2147 send u a message on disc

cool. bumped.

You should sticky this.

>>2221 Haven't implemented sticky in the software yet, haha

i'll mabye try to submit some small essay once i see the kinda thing others submitted in the first edition

I'd be interested in contributing, I never read &amp (it seemed to always attract discordfag drama to it) but put a couple poems into the old Lit Quarterly when that existed and I like the idea of these outsider collections. Detroit Lit Mag asked for submissions through /lit/ too and I liked the guy's style, he hand-drew shitty cover art and claimed he would print off each edition and hide them on the shelves of big chain bookstores. Gave it a google though and there is already a French magazine called Ventoux. Did you name it after a mountain?

>>2535 Thanks for the interest, it is named for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_Mont_Ventoux I know about the other magazine but it's a totally different domain so I'm not concerned by the clash.

>>2537 Very interesting. I've only read a handful of Petrarch's sonnets and hadn't heard of this story before. Are you going to set up a site for the mag or base everything out of here? I guess you'd be able to just make it a sticky or a general. Any plans for a physical printing?

>>2540 The game plan is to set up a subdomain of this site to host the magazine, I haven't written the software yet but hopefully I will get a chance next week. No plans yet for physical printing but I think it would be cool to do if there was the demand.

>>2535 Things took a turn around the time when the editor came back from his post-issue 014 disappearance. But the first fourteen issues had a nice spirit to them, when it was all done via email or /lit/. >>2541 You could upload them to a print-on-demand service like Lulu (or even Amazon; this is what their KDP service is). Some of the old /lit/ collab projects used Lulu, and same for the &amp best-of. The cost is relatively low so long as you opt for black-and-white and keep the margin low/zero. Do you have any mock-ups or examples of pages you'd share?

>>2556 Yeah I thought about going the Lulu route, I was pleased with the quality of the &amp best of. Nothing to share yet, will maybe tease some stuff closer to release. Stay tuned :)

This is very exciting!