Corium + Hobart — Tomorrow Night!

Random Hookup: Corium + Hobart is happening tomorrow night in San Francisco. Greg Gerke and Lauren Becker of Corium, will collide with Aaron Burch, Amelia Gray, Andrea Kneeland, and Adam Novy of Hobart, for a one-night only encounter. No regrets. No commitment. No exchange of numbers. Just good words, good friends, good drinks …

Many thanks to Knockout SF for kindly hosting this raucous gang.

Come out and experience Random Hookup: It’ll never happen again.

Random Hookup: Corium + Hobart

Corium, Hobart, and friends hook up for one night only. Don’t miss it: You’ll regret it in the morning.

Hobart + Corium: Two hot journals, one hot reading, no numbers exchanged …

Featuring:

Co-hosts: Aaron Burch (Editor-in Chief, Hobart; High Emissions Book Tour)
Lauren Becker (Editor-in-Chief, Corium Magazine)

and the smokin’:

Amelia Gray (High Emissions Book Tour)
Andrea Kneeland (Hobart Web Editor)
Greg Gerke (Corium Fiction Editor)
Adam Novy (High Emissions Book Tour, Hobart Mini-Book writer)

Date:    August 4, 2010
Time:    7:30pm-9:00pm
Place:   The Knockout
             3223 Mission
             San Francisco, CA

FREE!

Please tip your bartenders generously AND leave some money on the night table to help get our High Emissions Book Tour friends out here for the hookup.

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Corium Magazine at Litquake

Corium is pleased to be part of Litquake 2010, the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast. Corium will have an event at Lit Crawl on Saturday, October 9, the culminating event of a stellar week of literary offerings.

Corium’s as-yet untitled event will be hosted by Editor-in-Chief, Lauren Becker, and will feature the following contributors/future contributors:

Jenny Bitner (June 2010, Short Fiction)
John W. Evans (September 2010, Poetry)
Stefanie Freele (September 2010, Short Fiction)
Andrea Kneeland (March 2010, Very Short Fiction)
Ben Loory (September 2010, Very Short Fiction)

Get it on your calendars!

Learn more about Litquake at www.litquake.org.

June Issue Live

I am delighted to announce that the second issue of Corium Magazine is up! We received many great submissions and the issue is comprised entirely of remarkable writing. Must name all because of their amazing contributions!

Gary Percesepe, Jenny Bitner, Nate Liederbach, B.J. Hollars, Roxane Gay, Mark Gozonsky, James Robison, Darlin’ Neal, Matthew Salesses, Sal Pane, Mary Miller, Jessica Hollander, David Peak, Ken Sparling, Nicolle Elizabeth, Vitor Oliveira Jorge, Tim Tomlinson, Angela Readman, Luis Rivas, Uche Ogbuji, and Rachel Dacus.

Greg Gerke and Heather Fowler, as always, provided exceptional editorial work!

Please read, enjoy, and look forward to another great issue in September!

Lauren

Corium on Twitter

We’re now on Twitter! Follow us at CoriumMagazine (no space) for updates.

Also, please join our fan page or “like” us (or whatever Facebook is calling it now) at “Corium Magazine.”

Thanks for the support!

Corium at AWP

Lauren Becker and Heather Fowler will be at AWP, taking it all in and hanging out with friends from DOGZPLOT and Artistically Declined Press at Table N-13 in Exhibit Hall A of the Convention Center.  Stop by and say hi!

Corium’s Responses to Six Questions For …

Jim Harrington was kind enough to pose his “six questions” to me prior to Corium’s debut. For those not familiar with his unique, helpful and very interesting concept, he asks editors, publishers, agents, educators, and writers the same six questions and posts responses approximately every 2-3 days.

I enjoy reading Jim’s blog, as it provides great insight into the methods by which other editors evaluate submissions. Each editor brings his/her unique personality to the process, and being privy to direct comparisons of these qualities provides valuable insight to writers with regard to selecting where and what to submit. I hope that the answers I provided on behalf of Heather, Greg and me provide similar insight.

My responses went up today here.   Meanwhile, I encourage you to take a look at other editors’ responses on Jim’s blog.

facebook

Corium Magazine now has a fan page on Facebook. Please join us there!

(Please do NOT join the “group.” We decided the fan page was the better way to go.)

thanks for the cupcakes

It’s our birthday for two more minutes. And I’ve gotta say, it’s been a good one. Like one with yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting. And one of those jumpy castles with slides. And a Big Wheel or one of those oversized Barbie heads whose hair you could style, with a convenient pink tray/head stand for makeup.

I am overstimulated, overtired, sugared up and really just very, very happy that people liked the words here. The ones who put them together did gorgeous things, didn’t they?

Lauren

Update

Thanks for all of the interest and fantastic submissions. Heather, Greg and I are surprised and thrilled with the quantity and quality of writing and artwork that is coming to Corium.

We’ve been asked a number of times when the first issue will go live. And the answer is …

March 22, 2010

All I can say is hold onto your socks. This issue will knock them off.