Petrarchan is one year old today! To celebrate, we are launching an online magazine of arts and literature, and we want your submissions. Ventoux magazine is looking for examples of original work in the following categories for its inaugural issue... > Short Stories > Poetry > Essays and Criticism > Translations > Visual Arts > Letters to the Editor > Classifieds In the spirit of the late, great /lit/ periodical &, editorial standards will be loose, so there's no reason not to submit whatever you have kicking around on your hard drive. Submissions can be made to: **[email protected]** Please, no plagiarised work, no AI slop, and try and keep it under 10k words. Other than that, anything goes. There is no official submission deadline, but hopefully within a month or two we will have enough submissions to present you with a delightful premiere issue .
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!
bump :^)
>>2134 what do you mean by editor exactly? As above you say: >In the spirit of the late, great /lit/ periodical &, 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 :)
cool. bumped.
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 & (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?
>>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?
>>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 & 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?
This is very exciting!