escarp
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http://escarp.org
escarp is a selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose. Visit escarp.org for guidelines.
Listorious Interview
We found a community of likeminded publications, some came before us, some had the same idea at the same time, others came later.
Ha. Us? No, definitely not.
Any of the "Why is _________ trending?!" trends. We picture one meerkat standing up to look at something and all of the others following.
Gabriel García Márquez
We did a fun interview with @thaumatrope;their script asked 5-7 random who-what-when-where-why-how questions. Try that.
Ha. Probably @neilhimself or @arjunbasu -- we'd be happy to see that email show up in our inbox.
Creating a new literary culture, encouraging people who won't normally read a poem or a short story to take a nibble, see if they like it.
Of course! We receive friend notifications, journal submissions, revisions or spam at all hours of the day and night. Eat. Sleep. Breathe.
pens, paper, poems, stories, cellphones and maybe air.
To provide a market for brief literature, be it poetry or prose--to put the words of authors in the pockets of the people.
Poem? Story? Literature? #booksIBoughtToday?
Conversation tracking, both for tweeted replies, and for blog posts that mention tweets, would bring together two worlds of information.
We haven't created any hashtags. They don't really "fit" for us.
We're a little jealous of him, but we've got to give the nod to @arjunbasu for what he's doing for twit-lit.
Trying to figure out how you can use it to make money.
Oh, pretty much everything, and we keep our writers to that, too. Part of the fun is stuffing a literary gorilla into the bird cage.
We've got some, but we wouldn't pick one writer over another in such a public way. So we'll cheat: our initial "open-for-submissions" tweet.
As long as it takes to have something good to run.
Yes--spammers.
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