Multimedia Chapbook and Logo Contest!

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LUMINA has two ground-breaking and exciting announcements today. The first is a call for submissions for our first ever Multimedia Chapbook, and the second an official logo contest.

1. Multimedia Chapbook

LUMINA is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for our first ever Multimedia Chapbook!

We’re looking for unique fiction, poetry, non-fiction, visual art and audio work. All genres are welcome; slam poetry and script-work is encouraged.

Here’s the twist: Every submission must have an audio as well as a visual component. Some examples are a poem and a reading of that poem, a radio drama with an accompanying transcript, or a painting with a reading of a poem. Ideally, we would like to see a wide variety, so be creative.

The art and writing will be printed in the physical chapbook and will be twinned with the audio accompaniment on our website. Simply send us an audio file along with the written and artistic work.

Here are some general guidelines:
- Please keep any prose under 1,000 words. The chapbook is a place for short essay and flash fiction, as well as poetry and scripts.
- Each submission should have two components: the written file and the audio file. The audio file doesn’t necessarily have to be a reading of the written work, so be creative! We’re curious to see what you come up with.
- Previously unpublished and original work only.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us right away if your work is picked up elsewhere.

To submit, go to submittable and click on “Media Chapbook Submissions.” We will also accept chapbook submissions through our “Tip Jar,” “Submit + Back Issue,” and “Submit + Current Issue” options. Just click “Media Chapbook” when prompted for genre.

2. Logo Contest

We’ll be running the Logo Contest in conjunction with the chapbook, with the intention of premiering the logo on the cover of the media chapbook. The logo will then be featured on the website and on merchandise. Credit will be given on LuminaJournal.com and on the copyrights page of the print journal as long as the logo is in use.

The winner of the Logo Contest will also receive a $50 prize, and another $50 when we make the final decision to use the logo.

We are looking for a logo that is simple, iconic, and represents the journal. Beyond those specifications, the criteria is wide open. Again, be creative. We do, however, recommend reading the LUMINA mission statement, before you start designing.

Here are some general guidelines for the Logo Contest:
- You may submit up to five (5) logo variations. Please include all images in one file.
- Please be prepared with a large file version of the logo. Should your submission be chosen as the winner, we will need a large file in order to do anything with it.
- If you require a back issue before submitting, please contact one of the editors at Lumina@gm.slc.edu.

To submit, go to https://lumina.submittable.com/submit and click on “Logo Contest.”

Deadlines for both the Media Chapbook and Logo Contest is August 1st.

If you have any questions about the submissions guidelines, please contact us at lumina@gm.slc.edu. Good luck! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Silveira, Multimedia Editor
Christina Harrington, Managing Editor
Nicole Cloutier, Editor in Chief

New Books of Poetry from LUMINA Contributors

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Possessive
Lumina contributor, Sally Van Doren’s new Poetry Book is out from LSU Press called Possessive which can be purchased on Amazon.

Uttered in intense lyrical bursts that reflect the poet’s command of language both familiar and strange, the visually dramatic moments gathered here probe the time-honored themes of love and death with candor and intimacy. The poems range in tone from a tongue-twisting search for identity to a plea to engage others in the refutation of pain

Dream Street Details
There’s good news for past contributor, Linda King, as well. Her new book of poetry, Dream Street Details, was recently published by Shoe Music Press. It is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Linda King’s “Dream Street Details” identifies the storyteller’s struggle for the word, trapped in a netherworld like some minor character with few reference points, learning as they go, filled with wonder, terror, and everything in between. As one forever sewn to their past, especially their childhood, the consistent narrator of the poems certifies that “language does such gentle harm in its steel needle stitching of stories.”

If you are a past contributor to LUMINA and have good news of your own, please tell us about it! Email us at lumina@gm.slc.edu and we’ll be sure to brag about it.

City Launch Recap

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Vol. XII Managing Editor Michelle Campagna introduces Melissa Febos. Photography by Rick Harrington.

Lumina vol. XII celebrated its city launch with contributors and fans at Cake Shop NYC on the warm night of May 22nd. The city launch was well-attended and the night started out with Melissa Febos reading an excerpt from “Bye, Baby,” the short memoir published in this issue.

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Jessica Lilien reads from “After Saco River,” which placed in the LUMINA vol. XII Fiction Contest judged by George Saunders. Photography by Rick Harrington.

Jessica Lilien, and John Fenlon Hogan also read from their work published in vol. XII, while Leah Schnelbach read an excerpt from a novel she’s working on.

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Joshua Lazarus. Photography by Rick Harrington.

Closing out the night, Joshua Lazarus read “apogee of hunt” as well as several poems inspired by the sea birds found in his new Hawaiian home. Festivities concluded with a raffle of prints provided by Pamela Petra and Andreas Englund.

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us at Volume XII’s city launch! It was a fantastic way to kick-start the summer.

A special thanks goes out to Cake Shop NYC and Mixer Reading and Music Series for hosting this event.

Support LUMINA by Purchasing a copy of Volume XII.

NYC Launch Party

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LuminaLaunchPoster_CakeShopLumina Volume XII is launching in New York City! Join us and celebrate by listening to readings by our fabulous contributors.

The event will be hosted by Mixer Reading & Music Series at Cake Shop NYC. And yes, there is cake.

Readings by: Melissa Febos, Ioanna Opidee, Jessica Lillien, Leah Schnelbach, Joshua Lazarus, and John Fenlon Hogan. There will also a raffle of prints available from our contributing artist, Pamela Petro.

The important details:

Location: Cake Shop
Address: 152 Ludlow St.
Date: May 22, 2013
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm

If you plan on coming, please RSVP on our facebook event page.
We look forward to seeing you all there!

Four Generations of Arabbers

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Four Generations of Arabbers

Gaia, a street artist featured in Volume XII of LUMINA, has launched a kickstarter account to raise funds for the transformation and eventual historical preservation of the yard used by the Arabbers, a group of Baltimore fruit vendors famous for their horse-drawn carriages.

The following information comes directly from the kickstarter page:

“Arabbing as a practice began in the 19th century in Baltimore when easy access to stables and the shipyards of the inner harbor made selling fruit with horse drawn carriages an attainable entrepreneurial enterprise for African Americans in Baltimore. During the war effort and after WWII arabbing became an almost entirely African American trade. Competition from supermarkets and restrictions from modern zoning laws have endangered this heritage. Today there are only a couple sites left that serve as arabbing stables, with the Fremont Avenue location being one of the most prominent in the city. Today, arabbing serves as a viable living for a handful of men and their families whilst also serving a variety of communities including neighborhoods that do not have easy access to produce and whole foods.

Mata Ruda, Gaia, Nanook and LNY will use the story and experience of Baltimore’s fruit sellers to produce murals that will span the entirety of inside and exterior of the Fremont stables. The paintings are apart of a larger plan that will be implemented on behalf of the Arabber Preservation Society in the near future to make the site into a visitor center and provide the necessary renovations to the preexisting stable.”

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/414330743/arabber-mural-project