Pamphlet Series

Submissions are open for the Pamphlet Series. The pamphlets are folded sheets with poetry, short fiction, photos, and more. Propaganda. Leaflets. You get the idea.

They make for convenient reading at laundromats and truck stops as they fit in a standard brochure holder.

They are easy to mail to family and friends. They don’t make great gifts, but do you want to keep those friends anyway?

Now please understand that these are like brochures for a Bed and Breakfast, like pamphlets you might see at a Planned Parenthood. Only they are not going to educate you, per se. (they might) We cannot print a fifty page story. We cannot print epic poems. We cannot print memoirs unless you are an infant. Think short, think dense, think of the format. It doesn’t matter what “genre” you want to call it. Just ask yourself if it is something that you would like to see on a folded up pamphlet. Found text ok. Quotes. Art. Napkin doodles. Whatever. We’re pretty open. If it is long and you want to be defiant, send it anyway and maybe we will just dedicate a pamphlet to you. Why the hell not.

Please ask yourself if you crave glossy full color printing with sexy graphics. Because if you do, forget it. FFC Pamphlets are a lo-tech xerox style situation. BLACK AND WHITE so you can make copies of your own, if you wish. If you are too good for that, then run along back to your latte and clever friends and leave us to our work.

Unfortunately, it is also difficult for us to say EXACTLY what we want to put on a pamphlet. All we can say is that they will be numbered so we don’t get confused. After all, it IS a series. And they will be archived in order so… you know. We need a system.

You will get one. We will likely throw up a PDF version. But each might be different, and we also can’t say for sure where they will end up. They might end up at readings, but they might also end up in windshields in a parking lot. We do not control what people do with pamphlets. We encourage people to make copies and distribute them, so if you are a control freak about your work, you might not be happy with this situation. But if you just want to get your stuff out there, stick with us.

We cannot predict their paths of distribution. We do not say this to alarm you, but to advise you of some potential for literary danger. Ok, probably not.

We use SUBMISHMASH for submissions. If you have never used it, you might be turned off by this and mutter that we suck …and we apologize. The reason is that it enables us to have submitted content in one central location so when we have guest editors etc. we can make sure that things are in one spot. You register, upload your document, and that’s it. If we have a special project, we can open up that section and then route them to whoever.  Plus, your tolerance shows us you love us. And we look for reasons to believe that about you.

Select the “PAMPHLETS” option and upload your work. We will know what it is for, you can track the status, we can keep our ducks in a row. Everyone happy. (ok, not that guy)

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