Call for Submissions: Specter Magazine's Hip-Hop Issue

Hi folks. I'm guest editing a special themed issue of Specter Magazine.

From the submission guidelines:

Submissions for Specter Magazine's first themed issue, The Hip-Hop Issue, are now open. We're looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art/photography which embodies a hip-hop aesthetic. 

Find more details and submit here (bottom of the page).


Deadline is April, 30, 2012
I'll be doing periodic updates about the issue here: The Specter Collective

Submit away!

Rion Amilcar Scott, MFA '08
Datsun Flambe
Forgotten Tunnel TV

Five Alums Win storySouth Selection

The journal storySouth selected three four five stories by GMU MFA alumni for its Notable Stories of 2009 awards: Tara Laskowski, for “Like Everyone Else” in Fiction Weekly; Janet Freeman, for “The Ugliest Drowned Man in the World Washes Ashore Lake Michigan” in PANK; Benjamin Chadwick, for “The Power of Fiction” in Rough Copy; Rion Amilcar Scott, for “Rolling in My Six-Fo’—Daa Daa Daa—With All My Niggas Saying: Swing Down Sweet Chariot Stop and Let Me Riiiide. Hell Yeah.” in Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly; and Scott Garson, for “About Me and My Cousin,” in Matchbook. Congrats all!

Also named was the story “Stranger Things Have Happened,” by Alix Ohlin, one of our visiting writers in fiction this spring (the story appeared in failbetter.com).

Rion Amilcar Scott Strikes Again

Rion Scott, MFA ’08, heard that the journal Dogmatika has accepted his story, “Razor Bumps,” and Unlikely 2.0 liked his story, “Whatever Happened to the Man With the Familiar Face?” Unlikely 2.0 is putting his story in a special July 4 edition. Check back with Rion’s blog for publication dates.