I sent this out to all my readers and contributors (and for the first time in my history of e-mailing forgot to use Bcc, and am really sorry!): (more…)
October 9, 2009
September 9, 2009
Reminder – 10th Anniversary Issue Callout
Hi all. I have been pretty busy since the spring issue of Jack, but am now accepting submissions for the 2010 10th-anniversary summer issue. Please see http://www.jackmagazine.com/submit.html for submission and content guidelines. I am still also looking for a feature artist, though do have some queries out there. Please e-mail me if you are interested.
The theme of the next publication will be travel-related.
August 21, 2009
Moon Willow Press
Moon Willow Press is a new startup and independent press initiative started by none other than your not-so-famous and not-so-primetime editor, Me. With years of editing and writing under my belt, I figured it was time to do this. The press will initially offer only editorial services in order for me to generate some revenue to start the publishing services.
The long-term mission is to publish fiction and non-fiction books and journals related to climate change, sustainable living, ecosystem preservation, and other environmental concerns. Moon Willow will use only recycled and ancient-forest-friendly materials as well as offer e-book alternatives.
August 4, 2009
Next issue change
I’m still working in an old HTML program (Adobe PageMill, if anyone remembers that!), and have decided to change Jack’s infrastructure to a more dynamic blogging software next summer. I hope this will be an acceptable change for all the readers. It’s so much easier to deal with blogs than clunky old editors. I will try to keep the appearance somewhat consistent with the current and older issues.
In the future (starting summer of 2010), this blog/links part of Jack will be merged back with the magazine.
July 2, 2009
Updates
We had a fantastic road trip through the Okanagan Valley recently, which included hiking in a wetland where cougars have been sighted recently, seeing pictographs by Ktunaxa First Nation tribes near Canal Flats, and sitting in a hot spring near a cold and rushing Lussier River. I might include pieces of this trip in the next issue. The next issue’s theme is travel, and though is slated for spring probably won’t go up until summer 2010 due to my work on Big Bridge at the same time.
April 15, 2009
Issue 11 correction
Stephen C. Middleton’s poetry has been added to the current issue.
April 14, 2009
Laki Vazakas video and Charles Plymell interview
Laki Vazakas sent this video he made for his his friend Grant Hart’s song “Nobody Rides For Free.” Charles Plymell is featured prominently, and Ray Bremser, Mary Beach, Charles Henri Ford, and Claude Pelieu make cameos.
Paul Hawkins contributed The Benzedrine Highway Interview interview with Charles Plymell in the current issue of Jack Magazine.
April 12, 2009
Call for Papers
Call For Papers
The Transnational/Global Beats: A Collection of Essays
Editors: Jennie Skerl and Nancy Grace
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2009
Tamalpais Walking
Gary Snyder’s new book, with illustrator Tom Killion, is coming out in May. Some book signing dates are here.
April 9, 2009
Remember my old site, Beat News?
Well I still have all that stuff on my hard drive, and though I’ve kept some things around, like Larry Keenan’s beat galleries, they aren’t very prominent. I’m slowly revamping the entire site at http://beatnews.jackmagazine.com, because I think it’s important to have around, a good resource. So the trio of the actual magazine, which is an annual publication, the old site that is a beat generation resource, and the combination of blog/twitter to keep things up-to-date, I hope this stuff is useful. It’s sure fun to do. (more…)
