The Shit Hits the Fan

This Just In!

Is this the very first mention of The Shit Creek Review in a list tof publication credits?

I am a member of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project. My work has appeared or will appear in Ad Hoc Monadnock Online, The Aurorean, Baby Clam Press, bear creek haiku, Bolts of Silk, Brevities, Ceremony, Children, Churches and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas, Eskimo Pie, Flutter, Haiku Headlines, Ibbetson Street, JAW Magazine, KuPoZine, Lilliput Review, Lone Stars, Mobius, Nerve Cowboy, Northern New England Review, The November 3rd Club, Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus, Poets Against the War, Pralaton, Red Owl, The Scribbler Ink, Ship of Fools, The Shit Creek Review and Taproot Literary Review.

Take a bow, Corey Cook!

But wait! Mary Meriam has perhaps beaten Corey at the post by including TSCR in her list of pubs. Yay!

History is being made, folks, and we are here to witness!


The "Limericks Overboard" Affair.

Two limericks making the voyage upcreek have left the canoe. They seem to have leapt or been thrown over the side and sunk from view, leaving just a few bubbles on the surface. Murky shapes were seen moving towards them beneath the surface, and grave fears are held for their safety. Read all about it here.


O O O O O O O O O O O O


Going up Shit Creek was like traveling back to the earliest beginning of the world, where vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were king. A turgid creek, a great silence, an impenetrable forest, the air was warm, thick, sluggish; the odour, faintly woofy. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

- Joseph Conrad

The Shit Creek Review is at http://www.shitcreekreview.com/

Some comments on the first edition of The Shit Creek Review:

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Submit to The Shit Creek Review. You know you want to. Resistance is futile. All your base are belong us.

The theme for # 2 will be 'Where I Live' : poems and prose about the place you are in the world, whoever you are. We hope that you can supply JPEG pictures that would go with your work, too. Submission deadline is December 20th 2006 for the January 2007 edition.

See the Submission Guidelines here.


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The Shit Creek Review Rides!

http://www.shitcreekreview.com/


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Dear Readers and Poets,

The books are closed now for poems wishing to board the issue #1 canoe. You should receive an email soonish notifying you of your poems' success (?) or otherwise in coming aboard. If you have not heard by November 5th, email us and pray that you get a sensible answer.

The canoe is preparing now to launch on its epic voyage Up the Creek, which should occur in the first week of November. We will wave paddles about in public places to signal this happy event.

Yours in Poesie,

The Shit Creek Team


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OK - it's a kayak.

The Shit Creek Review is calling for submissions for its #1 Edition.

http://theshitcreekreview.blogspot.com/

Printed on cheap, low quality pixels, edited by a dodgy incompetent, and read by The Editors, their family and friends, and the cat Geoffrey, as well as by googlers seeking the word "shit", The Shit Creek Review will nevertheless publish new poetry of reasonable merit, especially, but not exclusively, in the category of Yuma. It will make an impressive addition to your list of publishing credits.


Submission Guidelines

Poets should submit 1-5 original poems, together with brief biographical details, in the body of an email to:

Paul Stevens

Nigel Holt

shitcreekreview@yahoo.com

The deadline for #1 is:

Wednesday, 25th October, Midnight, GMT. We will have the first issue together before the end of the month.

And remember - the watchword is dodginess. It is just basically a Blogger blog being pressed into service for the Muses (as are many small poetry zines). It will probably have a readership of about 6 1/2 souls.

Essays, short fiction, prose poems will also be considered.

The fact that poems have been posted by authors in online workshops or their own blogs does not disqualify them from inclusion in The Shit Creek Review, as long as the poems are original and their author holds the copyright.

We could do with a couple of .jpg images too, if anyone wants to supply: they will be credited, of course. No particular theme, just interesting visuals.

Payment for publication in The Shit Creek Review is not possible in this life, but will be rewarded in the next. On the other hand the editors are very receptive to offers (redeemable in this life) of cash bribes, vouchers, favours, and so on.

All creative content copyright © 2006 by the respective authors, unless otherwise indicated.

Endorsements:

If he's willing to accept rejection, have him shoot high at first--better than starting out with the Shit Creek Review, where publication is barely better than nothing.

Steven D. Schroeder


It is an historical inevitability whose moment has come.

Paul Stevens


...what poet worth their salt wouldn't want a publication credit at Shit Creek. Of course, it could easily be mistaken for that other great literary magazine, Shirt Creek, the journal of unfortunate typos.

Brent Fisk


Since to write metrical poetry in Oz is already to be in shit creek, why not be in Shit Creek?

Mark Allinson


If this is real, it fucking rules.

Quincy Lehr


...I'll need a good nom de plume...

Anon


...it warms something previously quite tepid to see what you are doing for noble beasts... Best of luck with your important venture

Earl Haig


God speaks about The Shit Creek Review: If it didn't exist, some a***-hole would have to invent it.

M.A. Griffiths


Are you actually going to do this?

ChristinePotter


Beware, if this publication comes anywhere close to living up to its name, then the problem won't be getting into it...

Peter Richards



Dedicatory Verse

An unfortunate man from Strathclyde
fell into a sewer and died.
The next day his brother
fell into another
and now they're *interred side by side.


*orthography unclear


- by Anon




Dedicated to Julie Carter, Steven D. Schroeder and Philip Levine, without whom...