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Lit Chaos First Print Issue
Poems, Art, and Fiction
101 Pages
$9.95 (shipping included!)
Coatlism Press
ISBN: 978-0-9802073-3-0

Book Description: a print collection of experimental work from the writers of litchaos.com

Table of Contents:

Alex Nodopaka, Jamie Eyberg, Carmen Firan, J.D. Nelson, Maurice Oliver, Cindy Rosmus, David McLean, Marty Esworthy, Craig Sernotti, George Anderson, Papa Osmubal, Doug Draime, JJ Deceglie, Daniel S. Irwin, Justin Hyde, Steve Ely, Julie Shapiro, Michael Fisher & Emme Hor and the Winners of the Cronopios’ and Famas’ Contests: Aimee Delong & Taylor Gorman

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Wanna get your read on? The First Issue of litchaos.com in print!

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Lit Chaos Print Issue #1 is loaded with ass-kicking experimental writing, the winners of the Cronopios' and Famas' Poetry and Fiction awards, artwork, and much more. It's 101 pages, perfect bound, and has cool front and back covers done by Jeff Crouch.


If you have a minute, check out the trailer for the first print issue:

Issue #38 -- Chaos stock is rising

There are nine new writers out at litchaos, a poetry train (a collaborative kind of super-poem book), and opportunities to publish a full-length chapbook and be a part of the experimental poetry and fiction community. So check it out:

litchaos.com

where beauty is truth
and truth is chaos

And the First Print Issue of Lit Chaos is out for only $9.95. Pre-order your copy today!!

A Translated Poem (courtesy of Alex Nodopaka)

I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead by Anna Akhmatova

I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,
Or only when the sunsets fade
Be mourned serenely in my thought?

All is for you: the daily prayer,
The sleepless heat at night,
And of my verses, the white
Flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire.

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured
Me more, not
Even the one who betrayed me to torture,
Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.

Advertise with Lit Chaos in the First Print Issue

Before getting ready to go to printing with the first print issue of litchaos.com we are looking to see if anyone would like to take out an ad in the magazine. We are flexible to various ideas and pricings. You can advertise yourself, your writing, a book or books, another magazine, stop sweat in six week serums, absolutely anything that you'd like. If interested, please contact litk.os@gmail.com

5 new pieces: art, fiction, poetry, and music video

To check some new, experimental writing visit litchaos.com

Lot's of New Chaos

Willie Lepers

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To check some new experimental writing, art, and videos visit litchaos.com

A Translated Poem (courtesy of Alex Nodopaka

I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead by Anna Akhmatova

I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,
Or only when the sunsets fade
Be mourned serenely in my thought?

All is for you: the daily prayer,
The sleepless heat at night,
And of my verses, the white
Flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire.

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured
Me more, not
Even the one who betrayed me to torture,
Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.



To check some new, experimental writing visit litchaos.com

Writers!

Wiki Wiki Wiki
You have to check out the Literary Chaos Wiki - YES! Here you can do an online interview, promo your own works, and meet other writers. So, get to it and start to contribute.

$100 Prizes
Also, remember 1 June 2008 is the deadline for the Cronopios' and Famas' competition. Submit your flash fiction or poetry now.

You can promote your book or anything else that you'd like

Julie Ann Shapiro gave us the idea to have a section where you can put your own blurb. We are putting it on YES, the litchaos.com wiki, so that you can add and edit it yourself. So click the link and get involved in your writing community.

Promote Yourself

Downloadable Art from Jeff Crouch

दोव्न्लोअद सोम आर्ट
Click the nonsense Hindi that I wrote to download some art by Jeff Crouch. Right-click it if you would like to save it to your computer.

To check some new, experimental writing visit litchaos।com

Circus Chaos by Cecilia Chapman and Jeff Crouch

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more at litchaos.com

Beauty is Truth and Truth is Chaos!

Cronopios' and Famas' Prizes are a great opportunity. Lit Chaos is still a very small, intimate website. With your help, we've created an online writing community and this is a chance for you to win some cash. You are not competing against thousands of other people, only less than 50 per contest. So take your chances and enter now!




About the content of litchaos:

Click the Lit Chaos Ezine to be taken to Issue #36.

Character Stands Out! Tips for writing characters

Tip for Writers #2 - Tertiary Characters

I'm not talking about how to write a great character. I'm talking about tertiary characters. In other words, when a husband and his girlfriend are arguing in a subway, there are a bunch of people who watch and stare. When the husband threatens her, a man stands up and defends her. This man serves a purpose. It makes us aware of the escalation of the husband's argument. That's all this character should do. We do not need to know the emotional history of this man. We are interested in the emotional history of the husband. And maybe the girlfriend. Anything else will take away from the story of the protagonist and act to distract us.

Also, regarding poetry, many writers write from the first person perspective. There are some great poems with and about characters, or from the perspective of characters. You might want to have your character who is drinking away his depressions after his wife left him bump into a man on the street. He then gets angry at the man, or maybe he starts to cry and explain his sorrows. This will show us how drunk he is. Or maybe your poem is about a spoon and a necessary tertiary character is the napkin the spoon is resting on.

Whether you're writing poetry or fiction keep looking toward character. It doesn't matter if you're writing experimental literature or sci-fi. People love characters.

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Tip of the Week for Writers is a service brought to you by litchaos.com. To get an email update, please join our mailing list (see the right column). If you're interested in writing one tip, please query litk.os@gmail.com with your topic.

Final Month for Print Issue Submissions!

Literary Chaos has emerged out of the primordial slop. There are so many great things happening. We have just put out Lyn Lifshin's new book 92 Rapple Drive. If you don't have a copy, stop by coatlism.litchaos.com or coatlism.blogspot.com and pick up a copy or buy it from the Coatlism Bookstore on your right.

Also, the Cronopios' Fiction and Famas' Poetry Contest deadlines are fast approaching, so enter for your chance. If you use google checkout you will get to enter both contests for only $5. More details can be found below and by following the links to the prizes page.

We have noticed that many people use readers like My Yahoo, IGoogle, My AOL, Orkut, etc..., and we'd like to offer an RSS feed of litchaos.com. Just click the ashtray below to add litchaos on and you will immediately be linked with up-to-date information regarding contests, news, interviews, and now even writing tips. More to come, so get your feed now!

We are still taking submissions for the first print issue. This will be closing after this issue, so you only have a few more weeks. We already have many high-quality submissions.

And last but most importantly, we have five new authors showcased this month. So click the monkey below and enjoy this issue of litchaos.com

As always, feel free to pitch us any ideas. We have really enjoyed dialoguing with some of you.

We are starting to make podcasts of writing tips and other useful information so check back soon. Also, add our feed via email or your reader (My Yahoo, My AOL, Igooogle, Orkut, etc)

Attention Writers!

Writers from litchaos.com are all invited to send a 250-1000 word podcast. Send mp3 or ogg files, plus the text. You can explain anything that you think other writers would be interested to know to help all of us with the craft. There are so many of you out there with awesome skills. If you'd like to share one. Here's the place to do it. You will get full credit and will be helping build this great community that we have.

Send your podcasts (or even just text, we can get a reader) to litk.os@gmail.com! And see tip #1 below.

Lit Chaos Tip of the Week - #1

Tip #1 for writers

Every week, litchaos.com will upload a new tip for writers. We will give you information valuable to bettering your writing career. They are free. This is the first one. This one is about the importance of promoting yourself online. If you haven't already, get yourself a blog and promote your own writing. Tell all your friends, family, and acquaintances. Many sites help you find people like you who have similar interests. Add a few photos and links to where people can find your work and you'll establish a regular audience and loyal following. You will be surprised at how many people visit you. Where do you make a blog site? Blog publishing sites to consider are blogger.com, wordpress.com, wetpaint.com, and myspace.com. Then after you make your blog there are a few goodies to add. If you want to track how many people visit your site you can do so at sitemeter.com or goingup.com. You can earn a little bit of money with services like google adsense. You can add talking icons at voki.com. Surf the web and find many new and exciting goodies, gadgets, and widgets for your new site. The most important thing is that you post to your blog regularly. One thing to keep in mind, all of the services listed here are free.

This will be brought to you in podcast form by litchaos.com soon.

Yes, A new wiki from litchaos

Lit Chaos has opened up a wiki. This is a kind of online collaborative project or forum. You can add a post, start a new thread. Once you sign up, which takes about 30 seconds, you can contribute to the wiki. We want to support the online writing community and know what you think. The site is called Yes.

Collaborative Work

This issue needs a bit of explanation. There are six new writers. That’s pretty standard litchaos.com, but this time there’s a collaborative work with nine pieces. Click #7 the collaborative project to get a short intro. Then you’ll be forwarded to a page with nine image tiles (thumbnail seen on your right) . Each one links to something. Choose an image and enjoy.

This project contains work by Andy Riverbed, Ralph-Michael Chiaia, Bae Soojin, Emme Hor, Moctezuma Johnson, Jeff Crouch, Aimee Delong, Binnorie, and Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal.

If you have an troubles viewing any page, please direct an email to litk.os@gmail.com