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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes 'vice' as "a practice or habit considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. It can refer to a fault, a defect, an infirmity or merely a bad habit. Synonyms for vice include fault, depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness and corruption. It's also a generic legal term for criminal offenses involving prostitution, lewdness, lasciviousness and obscenity. Vice is the opposite of virtue."
That certainly leaves the door wide open, at least thematically speaking, for Urban Graffiti 11. As long as submissions deal with "urban vice" in some way, shape, or form -- UG will consider it -- the more "immoral, depraved, and/or degrading" (in other words, transgressive) the better.
URBAN GRAFFITI is a litzine of transgressive, discursive, post-realist writing concerned with the struggles of hard-edged urban living, alternative lifestyles, deviant culture -- and presented in their most raw and unpretentious form. Submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, b&w artwork and photographs are welcome. Send all correspondences with a short creative bio c/o Mark McCawley, editor, to: gse.mccawley@gmail.com
Compensation is made in copies only, and URBAN GRAFFITI retains the right to reprint accepted submissions as a PDF file as well as in future anthology form.
Deadline for submissions: November, 2009.
Urban Graffiti is a litzine of transgressive, discursive, post-realist writing concerned with the struggles of hard-edged urban living, alternative lifestyles, deviant culture -- presented in their most raw and unpretentious form -- using sex, violence, shock value, parody, cynicism, irony, and black humour to explore the underside of contemporary urban existence.
Submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, b&w artwork and photographs on the theme of sexual violence and personal/social disintegration are presently welcome for Urban Graffiti's tenth issue.
Send all submissions to: gse.mccawley@gmail.com
Please include a brief bio, a photo, and any relevant weblinks with your submission.
Urban Graffiti retains the right to reprint accepted submissions in anthology form. Compensation is made in hard copies of the litzine, although free downloadable pdf files of each issue will also be made available.
After a four year hiatus from micro-press publishing, Greensleeve Editions launched the inaugural issue of Splurge, edited by Devin McCawley -- a zine which decodes and defaces the ostentation of contemporary consumer culture: by any means necessary -- at Edmonton's Black Dog Freehouse (10425 - 82 Avenue) on Sunday, April 13th, 2008. Payment for the zine was in the form of charitable donations (see posts on the Splurge website for more info). Besides the Black Dog donating their space for the event, the following bands also donated their own excellent performances to the cause: TEAM BUILDING, HEADBAND, and THE BLAZING VIOLETS (links to these bands also found on the Splurge website). Big Rock Brewery also donated a dollar from every Big Rock sold during the launch to our chosen charitable recipient for the event: Edmonton Street News. A very big thank you to everyone who donated their time, energies, and cash to make this launch a success, both up front and behind the scenes (you know who you are...wink, wink) and to all those who came out to the release party. An especially big thank you goes to the owner and management of the Black Dog Freehouse, Big Rock Brewery (for their forward thinking), and to the bands -- without your participation, there wouldn't have been any event.
For those of you who didn't, or couldn't, make it to the launch, free copies of Splurge are now available for download as pdf files from the Splurge website.
Remember to support your local food bank, homeless shelter societies, and youth shelters.
We are our brother's keepers.
4/7/09
Urban Graffiti 11 - Call For Submissions
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes 'vice' as "a practice or habit considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. It can refer to a fault, a defect, an infirmity or merely a bad habit. Synonyms for vice include fault, depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness and corruption. It's also a generic legal term for criminal offenses involving prostitution, lewdness, lasciviousness and obscenity. Vice is the opposite of virtue."
That certainly leaves the door wide open, at least thematically speaking, for Urban Graffiti 11. As long as submissions deal with "urban vice" in some way, shape, or form -- UG will consider it -- the more "immoral, depraved, and/or degrading" (in other words, transgressive) the better.
URBAN GRAFFITI is a litzine of transgressive, discursive, post-realist writing concerned with the struggles of hard-edged urban living, alternative lifestyles, deviant culture -- and presented in their most raw and unpretentious form. Submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, b&w artwork and photographs are welcome. Send all correspondences with a short creative bio c/o Mark McCawley, editor, to: gse.mccawley@gmail.com
Compensation is made in copies only, and URBAN GRAFFITI retains the right to reprint accepted submissions as a PDF file as well as in future anthology form.
Deadline for submissions: November, 2009.
10/26/08
Urban Graffiti X
Urban Graffiti X. Tenth issue. It's been a long time coming. Enjoy the flash version below, or download the PDF for yourself by clicking the corresponding button above. Latest version of Macromedia Flash recommended for flash viewing. For full screen, click on the top right button of the flash window below.
5/18/08
URBAN GRAFFITI X - Call For Submissions
Urban Graffiti is a litzine of transgressive, discursive, post-realist writing concerned with the struggles of hard-edged urban living, alternative lifestyles, deviant culture -- presented in their most raw and unpretentious form -- using sex, violence, shock value, parody, cynicism, irony, and black humour to explore the underside of contemporary urban existence.Submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, b&w artwork and photographs on the theme of sexual violence and personal/social disintegration are presently welcome for Urban Graffiti's tenth issue.
Send all submissions to: gse.mccawley@gmail.com
Please include a brief bio, a photo, and any relevant weblinks with your submission.
Urban Graffiti retains the right to reprint accepted submissions in anthology form. Compensation is made in hard copies of the litzine, although free downloadable pdf files of each issue will also be made available.
4/15/08
They Came, They Danced, They Splurged!!!
After a four year hiatus from micro-press publishing, Greensleeve Editions launched the inaugural issue of Splurge, edited by Devin McCawley -- a zine which decodes and defaces the ostentation of contemporary consumer culture: by any means necessary -- at Edmonton's Black Dog Freehouse (10425 - 82 Avenue) on Sunday, April 13th, 2008. Payment for the zine was in the form of charitable donations (see posts on the Splurge website for more info). Besides the Black Dog donating their space for the event, the following bands also donated their own excellent performances to the cause: TEAM BUILDING, HEADBAND, and THE BLAZING VIOLETS (links to these bands also found on the Splurge website). Big Rock Brewery also donated a dollar from every Big Rock sold during the launch to our chosen charitable recipient for the event: Edmonton Street News. A very big thank you to everyone who donated their time, energies, and cash to make this launch a success, both up front and behind the scenes (you know who you are...wink, wink) and to all those who came out to the release party. An especially big thank you goes to the owner and management of the Black Dog Freehouse, Big Rock Brewery (for their forward thinking), and to the bands -- without your participation, there wouldn't have been any event.For those of you who didn't, or couldn't, make it to the launch, free copies of Splurge are now available for download as pdf files from the Splurge website.
Remember to support your local food bank, homeless shelter societies, and youth shelters.
We are our brother's keepers.
2/7/08
Just Another Asshole Finds His Way Online
After nearly twenty years, and the publication of over fifty chapbooks, I am pleased to announce the arrival of Greensleeve Editions online.
Coinciding with this reincarnation is the imminent publication of the zine 'Splurge', with the launch date set for Sunday, April 13th 2008.
Hiatus is over.
Greensleeve Editions is an Edmonton based micro-press which publishes
transgressive, post-realist fiction and shortfiction chapbooks, zines,
and various other literary ephemera. Founded in July 1988.
