Hot Metal Hot Metal

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Apr 042008

Pitt’s online literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge has launched its third issue. I particularly love the short story by Dan Chaon and the interview with Tom Perrotta. But I admit I haven’t read the poetry yet, and sped through the nonfiction fairly quickly, so I imagine it’s all good. Great! It’s all great.

Hats off to Kelly Ramsey and Ashleigh Pedersen, the new co-editors, who’ve done tons of work putting this issue together (as have Sal Pane and Adri Ramirez and Phil Rau and Alexandra Valint and everyone else on staff). Me, I’ve done nothing more than enjoy the contents; I’m simply editor emerita.

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Submit submit submit

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Feb 232008

Seen the Call for Entries for the spring issue of Hot Metal Bridge? The deadline is Feb 25, and the subject matter is up to you. Rumor has it that more submissions in creative nonfiction are welcome.

Looks like Hobart is looking for stories for their baseball issue. I hear spring training has started. Batter up!

Yesterday I went to a crazily well-attended panel with editors from Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction and No: A Journal of the Arts. The upshot was: we get a lot of submissions, be smart and read the magazine you’re submitting to, don’t be discouraged if you get rejected, keep trying. Pretty standard, seemed to me, but the room was packed; maybe it was new to everyone else.

Duotrope has a searchable database of literary venues — 2100, they say — and their deadlines. So go get ‘em.

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Hot Metal Bridge-ing

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Oct 292007

Hello! How are you? Am I speaking too loud?! Do I seem a little awkward?

My apologies. It’s just – I haven’t seen people in a while. I’ve been putting things together, you know, type type typing. Staring at the screen. Anyway. Hot Metal Bridge – The Headless Issue is now live!

It includes: new fiction by Tod Goldberg! and Jack Pendarvis! an interview with Kevin Moffett! new nonfiction by Roy Kesey! an essay by Brian Evenson! new poetry by Christopher Bakken and Richard Siken!

It also marks the first time Kate Burgo (nonfiction) has been published, includes a racy interview with Daphne Gottlieb, and work from litblogger Erin Fitzgerald!

With not one but 2 poems by Justin Runge and screwy fiction by Jason Lundberg! Funny nonfiction from Kevin O’Cuinn and and funny/creepy nonfiction from Patsy Zettler — she’s got the issue’s best title, “Me and Pickle Baby.”

Finally, if you missed George Saunders’ appearance at Pitt, you can catch it virtually: we’ve got the video!

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Last call: Hot Metal Bridge Call for entries

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Sep 212007

With permission from the editor*, I repost the Call for Entries from the online literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge. Submissions are due Sept 24! And the theme? With the anticipation of a 13-year-old going to his first dance in wrinkled khakis and a boutonnière, you ask: what theme? What theme?

H E A D L E S S

Please send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the theme of headless. Horsemen, flat beer, chocolate bunnies, the guy who never gets a blowjob, zombies, animal crackers, classical statues, John Wayne Bobbitt, groups without leaders, blondes, Marie Antoinette and other unfortunate royalty, Medusa post-Perseus, the philosophy of D.E. Harding — any and all of these could fall under the heading of headless. Whatever your interpretation, be sure to stun us. We’ll know it’s good when we feel, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, as if the tops of our heads were taken off.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 24, 2007

Headless will be the sophomore issue. Number one included ficiton by Michael Martone, poetry by Alan DeNiro and more. Check it out.

* Full disclosure: the editor, c’est moi.

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Pssst … it’s Hot Metal Bridge

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Jan 182007

Consider this a quiet announcement of Hot Metal Bridge, the new literary magazine from the University of Pittsburgh MFA students in creative writing. Uh, yeah, that would include me. You can find me on the masthead if you squint.

But don’t go bothering with the masthead. Please check out our freshly-minted call for entries. We’re looking for new fiction and creative nonfiction and poetry. We’re not stuffy. But we are really excited to read your stuff.

Curious? Hot Metal Bridge is an actual bridge here in Pittsburgh that used to carry molten steel across the Monongahela River (that may be the coolest combination of words of I’ve typed — I would have called it “molten steel monongahela” if I could).
Check out the call for entries at Hot Metal Bridge.

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