August is the month of the shower of stars--the Perseids--and the month of mosquitoes eating you when you go out to watch. Despite the mosquitoes, Common Ground Review is looking at poems on stars this month and until September 30th for our first theme issue. Thank you for sending us poems! The stars don't have to be celestial--they can be celebrities, or asterisks, or anything starry that you are intrigued by. We are accepting other poems, too. Officially that deadline is August 31st, but we keep reading until the issue is full. And we are also catching up on the backlog.
Our Fall/Winter issue spotlights a work of creative non-fiction. This can be on any subject, but it must be relatively short-- less than or equal to 12 pages (double-spaced). If you have any questions, you can ask Dan Bevacqua, our Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Editor. And now, let's not dwell on Fall/Winter. It's still summer, and for a few short days, still summer vacation!
Here in western Massachusetts, the gladioli are blooming, the tomatoes are turning red, the weeds are thriving...and we start a new semester at Western New England on August 25th, so it's been busy. We've run into a delay in printing the Spring/Summer issue--sizing the cover properly. But we think that's been resolved, so we should be getting the issue out to our contributors (and anyone else who'd like an issue, a bargain at $10 including mailing costs) as soon as we can.
We also ran into a delay starting Submittable, but that should be available very soon--the Submittable programmers are working on upgrades this Saturday (August 23rd, also the day of the new Doctor Who episode), and we realized it would be smart to start up after those upgrades were in place.
Stay tuned...Our next theme issue will be on food!
