Could your creative work be a part of a future Thirteen Myna Birds flock?

As of right now, the forthcoming February flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has one remaining spot in the flock for a uniquely wonderful poem or piece of art. Could it be yours?

You can join forces with the creative offerings of other poetry/art by Sandra Feen, Eileen Murphy/MISH, John Sweet, Daniel G. Snethen, and John Compton, all of whose work will be appearing within that February flock.

Of course as of right now, the current January flock of Myna Birds (the first of 2020) is still available for your perusal, featuring creative offerings from some of the poets/artists named above and also John Grey, Ashley Cox, Aaron Pride, and Wayne F Burke.

Read the current offerings and consider submitting to Thirteen Myna Birds if you think your creative offerings might be a good fit among the other oddities. The guidelines appear near the middle right of the flock.

http://13myna.blogspot.com/ 

review of Thirteen Myna Birds

Blood Pudding Press's spooky little online sis, Thirteen Myna Birds, receives an unexpected and keen review over at One Night Stanzas. Read the review here:

http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/onenightstanzas/?p=827

And then if it pecks at your peculiar fancy, why not consider some dark flocking by plucking out a few of your own feathers and sending them to Thirteen Myna Birds:

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

In more print-based news, the Blood Pudding Press sale continues; see entry below.

Also, a small interview starring Blood Pudding Press and me is soon to be published at Orange Alert. Stay tuned.

XO. Juliet

itty bitty Blood Pudding Press reminder

Only five days remain to submit your manuscript to the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook contest (see guidelines here--http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2009/02/blood-pudding-press-still-accepting.html ). Submissions will cut off just after midnight on February 28; winners and runners up will be announced next month.

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Also, Thirteen Myna Birds (http://13myna.blogspot.com/) is accepting submissions on an ongoing, rolling basis and we like to keep that bird blood circulating pretty quickly.

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In other news, my personal blog is in the process of relocating here: http://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/

Blood Pudding Press still accepting submissions

Blood Pudding Press is still accepting submissions for its first poetry chapbook contest!

Chapbook manuscript submissions will be accepted through February 28, 2009.

Two winning chapbooks will be chosen—one to be published in Spring 2009 (April or May) and one to be published in Summer 2009 (June or July). The winners will be announced in March. Each winner will receive fifteen free copies of their chapbook, which will be a ribbon-bound, delectably designed affair.

There is a $5.00 fee per manuscript for entering this contest; these entry fees will be used to purchase supplies for publishing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at JulietX@Bust.com. (You may either use Paypal’s Send Payment feature to send payment to that email address—or use the Donation button near the bottom right hand side of the page here–or if you would like to make alternative payment arrangements, you may contact me.)

I would like to consider collections of 10-20 poems. Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published before. Send your collection of poems to JulietX@Bust.com along with title, acknowledgments, a brief bio, and your contact data. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, please let me know right away.

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Blood Pudding Press is also accepting submissions for our new online literary publication, Thirteen Myna Birds. Please visit http://13myna.blogspot.com for the semi-amorphous guidelines. Submissions for this project will be accepted on a rolling basis, indefinitely.

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Lots of new goodies have recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Why not take a peek and help support independent poetry and art?

XO

Season's Greetings from Blood Pudding Press

Welcome to a summation of some recent poetry news from Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and a reiteration of Blood Pudding Press's latest Calls for Submission, all wrapped up neatly in one entry much like a holiday present.

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Firstly, please indulge me as I toot my own misshapen horn to make mention of a few other fabulous indie presses, which have recently published a few of my books.

My print chapbook, ‘Gingerbread Girl’ was recently published by Trainwreck Press out of Canada, available for acquisition here:

http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm

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My e-chapbook, ‘Projectile Vomit’ was recently published by Scantily Clad Press, available for your free reading pleasure or displeasure here:

http://scantilycladpress.blogspot.com/

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My very first full-length poetry collection, ‘Horrific Confection’ was recently published as a BlazeVOX ebook (with darkly delectable cover art by Christen Baer), FREE to read and download, here:

http://www.blazevox.org/ebk-jCook%20REAL.pdf

A small print run of ‘Horrific Confection’ will soon be creeping onto the scene for those who prefer to physically caress their horrific confections, at which point I will be offering special signed copies of these hideously delicious volumes in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop.

For now, please feel free to find out more about the book on the ‘Horrific Confection’ tab of my NEW! website— http://www.julietcook.weebly.com/ –where you can peer into some salacious details of what the book is about, partake of a review, and view an obscenely yummy flyer for the book designed by Kristinopolis Mayhem.

The new website is also your new best source for other Juliet Cook poetry news AND Blood Pudding Press news.

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Blood Pudding Press is currently enjoying the privilege of being a part of the dusie kollektiv 3.

The dusie kollektiv is a wonderful annual small press poetry chapbook swap. In this its third incarnation, each participant received the opportunity to design and publish a chapbook by another participant AND to have one of her chapbooks designed and published by another participant, in a glorious collaborative mélange.

As part of this project, Blood Pudding Press published ‘Humoresque’ by E. Tracy Grinnell, which has now been distributed to all the kollektiv members. A few extra copies are available for sale in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop.

Also as part of this project, my chapbook, ‘MONDO CRAMPO’ is coming soon, published by Dana Teen Lomax’s small press, so do keep an eye out or a gaping maw open, if so inclined.

‘Humoresque’, ‘MONDO CRAMPO’, and lots of other past and future yummy small press publications are available for perusal and acquisition in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/. They make lovely little holiday gifts for the poet or literary lover in your life and exceptional special treats for you. Amongst these luscious hand-designed, ribbon-bound offerings are [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, the two multi-writer projects that some of you helped make happen with your oozilcious contributions.

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Speaking of your contributions, Blood Pudding Press is NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS and would be highly delighted to consider your best and most provocative poetic material.

I am now reading submissions for the next multi-writer project, to be published in March 2009.

I am also hostessing Blood Pudding Press’s first-ever poetry chapbook contest, seeking to publish one winning chapbook in Spring 2009 and another winning chapbook in Summer 2009.

Please review the guidelines and if they are up your alley, please feel free to send your wares for one or both projects. I will post both sets of guidelines at the end of this message for easy reference.

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Here’s hoping your holiday season is off to a scrumptious start and your beverage of choice is spiked.

Cheers, Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press


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Guidelines for multi-writer project:

Blood Pudding Press is accepting submissions for its next multi-writer project, in the vein of [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS.

This new project will differ in that instead of accepting 1-2 poems by approximately 30 different writers, I hope to accept 2-3 poems by approximately 15 different writers, so selection will be a bit pickier and some high quality work will have to be rejected. To increase your likelihood of acceptance, please carefully read and follow these guidelines. If you fail to meet these guidelines, I may delete your submission.

-Submit between November 25 and January 25, 2008

-Send me 5-7 pieces either copied in the body of an email or as one Word Attachment. Also send a brief bio and your contact data. A cover letter is not necessary, but a small hello of sorts would be appreciated, perhaps including a little note about why you would like to be published by Blood Pudding Press. Email your submission to JulietX@Bust.com with the word ‘submission’ and your name in the subject line.

-Simultaneous submissions are fine & dandy, but please plan on informing me promptly if any of the pieces under my consideration are accepted for publication by another source. I do not want pieces that have been previously published by other print or online literary magazines, but pieces that have been posted on personal blogs are okay.

-Ideally, contributors will have read one or more of Blood Pudding Press’s offerings (available via http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/) to get a feel for the aesthetic we favor. We like things that ooze like the creamy innards of questionable dessert products. We like pulsating leeches. We like facial piercings. We like visible nipples. We like discolored flesh. We like sharp things, shiny things, furry things, fun things, dangerous things, and unapologetic things. We even like unapologetic shame, fear, pain. We like it tough, but we also like it vulnerable. We like railroad track debris and purring pussies. We like it messy, but that doesn’t mean uncooked. It should be well-baked, smart, maybe even strangely oblique. We like it sexy and we like it queasy and maybe even both at once. We like it girlie and we like it womanly and we also like it queer. If this description doesn’t make a lick of sense to you, then maybe Blood Pudding Press would not be the best fit for your material. We like icing bags, scars, sea creatures, love, lust, longing, burlesque, grotesque, and flirty. We might change this description later. We’re fickle that way.

-By pieces we mean poems, dreams, diary entries, short reviews from the small press literary scene, flash fiction (no long fiction, please), hybrids, collaborations, or sordid surprises.

The title of the new multi-writer project will be announced soon. Publication is projected for March 2008. Each accepted contributor will receive a complimentary copy.

Feel free to shower me with questions, comments, and peculiar propositions, but who knows what I might fling in your direction in return. I’m fickle that way.

Thank you.

Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press


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Guidelines for chapbook contest:

Blood Pudding Press is now accepting submissions for its first poetry chapbook contest!

Chapbooks manuscript submissions will be accepted from December 8, 2008-February 28 2009.

Two winning chapbooks will be chosen—one to be published in Spring 2009 (April or May) and one to be published in Summer 2009 (June or July). Three semi-finalists and the two winners will be announced in March. Each winner will receive fifteen free copies of their chapbook, which will be a ribbon-bound, delectably designed affair.

See the Blood Pudding Press online shop at http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/ and/or the Blood Pudding Press blog at http://www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com/ for a better idea of the press’s sensibilities and design standards.

There is a $5.00 fee per manuscript for entering this contest; these entry fees will be used to purchase supplies for publishing the winning chapbooks. This fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at JulietX@Bust.com. (You may either use Paypal’s Send Payment feature to send payment to that email address—or use the Donation button near the bottom right hand side of the page at http://www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com/ –or if you would like to make alternative payment arrangements, you may contact me.)

I would like to consider collections of 10-20 poems. Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published before. Send your collection of poems to JulietX@Bust.com along with title, acknowledgments, a brief bio, and your contact data. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, please let me know right away.

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Blood Pudding Press is also in the midst of accepting poetry submissions for our next multi-writer project, to be published in March. These submissions will be accepted through January 25th. There is no fee for submitting individual poems; only the chapbook contest has an entry fee.

If you wish to submit to both projects at the same time, please feel free—just follow both sets of guidelines and attach two separate documents with your submission—your chapbook manuscript AND your 5-7 pieces to be considered for the next multi-writer project. Visit http://www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com/ to view the guidelines for the multi-writer project and please feel free to let me know if you have questions about either set of guidelines.

Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press

ONLY FIVE COPIES LEFT!

POORLY-SPELLED MATING CALL



ONLY FIVE COPIES LEFT OF POORLY-SPELLED MATING CALL from Blood Pudding Press.

This chapbook is an assortment of 26 personal ads from craigslist, collected and arranged by Justin Dauterman from September 2007-January 2008--and assembled into chapbook format by Blood Pudding Press.

Adult content is definitely included, as these personal ads run the gamut of sexual orientations and sexual scenarios, some of them alternative or perverse or disturbing or titillating, depending upon one's perspective.

My perspective is mainly that this collection serves as a humorous little popular cultural document of sorts.

Multicolored cardstock covers, aged newsprint style text paper inside, saddle-stapled.

Act fast if you're interested, especially at the special slashed price of ONLY $3.50.

How can you beat that for a fun stocking stuffer for the slightly kinky popular culture fetishist on your holiday list?

http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/

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For the poet or literary lover, Blood Pudding Press also has the following offerings available:

~HUMORESQUE, published November 2008 (a watery melodrama of short form poems by E. Tracey Grinnell, as part of the dusie kollektiv 3)

~ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, published April 2008 (an assortment of oozing, pulsing, biting, flaming poems from thirty different contributors)

~w i n g’d, published February 2008 (a collection of animalistic, robotic, apocalyptic, tentacular poems by Kyle Simonsen)

~Planchette, published January 2008 (a collection of spooky, floaty, spidery, haunty poems by Juliet Cook)

~[GROWLING SOFTLY], published 2007 (an assortment of menacing, dancing, wailing, moaning poems from twenty-eight different contributors)

~Girl Gang, published 2007 (a collection of sassy, dangerous, sweet, violent, spiked poems by Juliet Cook)

~The Laura Poems, published 2006 (Blood Pudding Press’s very first offering, a collection of dark, strange poems about Lynch’s Laura Palmer by Juliet Cook)

All of the above are available for purchase, art trades, or as review copies.

('BONE-BODICED' by Rachel Kendall & Juliet Cook and 'CARNIVORACIOUS' by Suzanne Grazyna & Juliet Cook are SOLD OUT.)

For details and acquisitions, please visit http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/.

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Blood Pudding Press is also currently accpeting submissions for the next multi-writer project AND its first-ever chapbook contest.

See earlier entries for the details.

XO.

Blood Pudding Press wants your naughty bits on a silver platter

Blood Pudding Press is accepting submissions for its next multi-writer project, in the vein of [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS.

This new project will differ in that instead of accepting 1-2 poems by approximately 30 different writers, I will be accepting 2-3 poems by approximately 15 different writers, so selection will be a bit pickier and some high quality work will have to be rejected. To increase your likelihood of acceptance, please carefully read and follow these guidelines. If you fail to meet these guidelines, I may delete your submission.

-Submit between November 25,2008 and January 25, 2009

-Send me 5-7 pieces either copied in the body of an email or as one Word Attachment. Also send a brief bio and your contact data. A cover letter is not necessary, but a small hello of sorts would be appreciated, perhaps including a little note about why you would like to be published by Blood Pudding Press. Email your submission to JulietX@Bust.com with the word ‘submission’ and your name in the subject line.

-Simultaneous submissions are fine & dandy, but please plan on informing me promptly if any of the pieces under my consideration are accepted for publication by another source. I do not want pieces that have been previously published by other print or online literary magazines, but pieces that have been posted on personal blogs are okay.

-Ideally, contributors will have read one or more of Blood Pudding Press’s offerings (available via www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com) to get a feel for the aesthetic we favor. We like things that ooze like the creamy innards of questionable dessert products. We like pulsating leeches. We like facial piercings. We like visible nipples. We like discolored flesh. We like sharp things, shiny things, furry things, fun things, dangerous things, and unapologetic things. We even like unapologetic shame, fear, pain. We like it tough, but we also like it vulnerable. We like railroad track debris and purring pussies. We like it messy, but that doesn’t mean uncooked. It should be well-baked, smart, maybe even strangely oblique. We like it sexy and we like it queasy and maybe even both at once. We like it girlie and we like it womanly and we also like it queer. If this description doesn’t make a lick of sense to you, then maybe Blood Pudding Press would not be the best fit for your material. We like icing bags, scars, sea creatures, love, lust, longing, burlesque, grotesque, and flirty. We might change this description later. We’re fickle that way.

-By pieces we mean poems, dreams, diary entries, short reviews from the small press literary scene, flash fiction (no long fiction, please), hybrids, collaborations, or sordid surprises.

The title of the new multi-writer project will be announced soon. Publication is projected for March 2008. Each accepted contributor will receive a complimentary copy.

Feel free to shower me with questions, comments, and peculiar propositions, but who knows what I might fling in your direction in return. I’m fickle that way.

Thank you.

Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press

what’s next for Blood Pudding Press

I’ve been receiving a few queries lately and although Blood Pudding Press is not currently accepting submissions, I do very much appreciate the interest. Thus, I wanted to offer a small update regarding what’s next for Blood Pudding Press.

All of this information is tentative and subject to fluctuation, but here are some inklings of what to expect from Blood Pudding Press in the coming months.

I am in the midst of participating in the very exciting dusie kollektiv 3 collaboration chapbook swap project. As a part of this project, Blood Pudding Press in conjunction with dusie press will be publishing ‘Humoresque’, a poetry collection by E. Tracy Grinnell, this October.

Shortly thereafter, circa early winter 2008, I anticipate that I will begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press multi-writer project. This will be another poetry-focused chapbook similar to [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, but this time around, instead of selecting 1-2 poems by approximately 30 different poets, I will most likely be selecting 2-3 poems by approximately 15 different poets—and maybe a few other goodies, too. Please do not submit until I post my official ‘Call for Submissions’, which will appear here and elsewhere—and if you are interested in being added to the Blood Pudding Press email list, feel free to let me know.

I occasionally receive the question, ‘Does Blood Pudding Press consider poetry by men?’ and the answer is YES. Blood Pudding Press does harbor pussycentric tendencies and predilections, for sure. That said, I am delighted to consider creative material by women AND men AND those who identify in a more gender-fluid way. I am even delighted to consider submissions by alien witches.

After the next multi-writer project is published, I will probably begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook by an individual poet. I have not yet decided exactly how these submissions will be handled—it could be an open reading period, it could be more of a contest format (addendum: although now that I think about it, it most likely will NOT take the form of a contest model, because in the midst of the lastest rash of contest horror stories, I am very much starting to wonder why I even ENTER poetry contests, let alone consider hosting one through my own small press; for cripes sake, in some ways contests seem antithetical to who I am as a human being), it could be something different. Either way, stay tuned to this blog for more details sometime in spring 2009.

As always, Blood Pudding Press is an adoring fan of chapbook trades and other art swaps—so if you are a creative writer and/or small press editor who is interested in exchanging one of your chapbooks for one of the currently available Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, please do feel free to enquire. Review copies are also available upon request.

Thank you so very much for your interest in Blood Pudding Press. I am excitedly looking forward to reading and considering some ooze-ilicious new poetry in the coming months! Slurp!


Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press

COMING SOON FROM BLOOD PUDDING PRESS!

Hot and hideous ferment to bend your spoons and make you swoon!


~Just in time for the New Year—PLANCHETTE—a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook with cover design by the darkly wondrous Art and Ghosts. Brace yourself or prepare for the spooky embrace of haunted girls, dusty divans, odd divinations, and rather dreadful clairvoyance. Creepily floating your way in mere weeks.


~In February 2008—wing’d—a new poetry chapbook by Kyle Simonsen. Just thinking about it makes my fingers burn until my fingerprints mutate into tiny yet very active volcanos. Buzz in the back room called this material bestial & wild & monstrous & natural & jungular & foresty & creaturific.


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PLUS an upcoming new Call for Submissions (so far this is just a titillating teaser, as submissions are not being accepted yet, but soon).

Blood Pudding Press will be accepting submissions for its next one-off, multi-writer project from January 20th through March 20th 2008. The new magazine will be published some time in April 2008 and will serve as a sort of sister to [GROWLING SOFTLY], which was published in October 2007. The new magazine will be called ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS.

Remember that Blood Pudding Press specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings, so preference will indeed be devoted to poetry submissions. However, in addition to poetry, I will also be willing to consider poetic flash fiction, hybrids, collaborations, poetic blog excerpts/journal entries/dream blurbs, short poetic essays, and poetry chapbook reviews.

You may familiarize yourself with Blood Pudding Press sensibilities by reading any of the press’s previously released materials, but here are a few little hints as to what the editor does and does not tend to adore.

Yes to juicy, oozing, pussycentric, monstrously feminine, horrorotic, dangerous, provocative, unsettling, queasy, postmodern, feminist, and intellectually angsty.

No to dry, didactic, derivative, tame, clichéd, or vanilla pudding.

WE WANT WEIRDLY BLENDED BLOOD PUDDING UP IN HERE.

THINK OF LIVE BOMBS PLANTED IN INNOCENT CREAM PUFFS.

THINK OF METASTASIZING EVIL TWINS.

No previously published in other print or online magazines, but posted on a personal blog is okay. Simultaneous submissions are fine; just promptly inform if any of your submitted pieces are accepted elsewhere. Submit 3-5 pieces to JulietX@Bust.com either in the body or as one attachment and include a brief bio note. Feel free to let me know if you have queries. I will be accepting material from 15-30 different writers—and each accepted contributor will receive one complementary copy of ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS.

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Let the fermentation begin.

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fine print: all time frames and content descriptions are subject to slight alteration

art trades and review copies are always a possibility with Blood Pudding Press; please ask