NOÖ Loves Everyone

Announcing the NOÖ Loves Everyone: The Interview Project. This project will launch October 1st, which is only a few hours away.

Here's what it is: we plan to interview every single one of the contributors in that list to your right. This will give you a chance to meet the cool people whose work you've read, see how they tick, read what they're up to now.

We'll go in first name alphabetical order, just like the list.

If you're a past contributor and you've got some hot news and want to be interviewed right away, that's cool: hit us up. We'll make it happen. That's my new phrase. "Make it happen." I think people in the 90s used that phrase a lot, but I have just recently embraced its chunky obnoxiousness as "can-do heft."

This project will start in October and continue--well, forever, but certainly into November, which will see the release of NOÖ [nine]. Start your engines! That's not my new phrase. But I like it.

Nomination Season

Sweet congratulations to our nominees for the following anthologies:

BEST OF THE WEB 2009

Notes From an Underground by Stephan Clark

Babyfat by Claudia Smith

Universalism by Leigh Stein

BEST OF THE NET 2008

List Prayer by Blake Butler

Trailer Park Photos Part III: Fragments of a Place Called Whispering Lanes by David Ensminger

from Farm Suite by Jack Boettcher

Home Says by Mazie Lousie Montgomery

Babyfat by Claudia Smith

Universalism by Leigh Stein

Maddy's Bakelite Wristband by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

The Ghost of Wells by Alex Burford

good time for bad poetry

If you like what we do, we'd like it ever so much if you'd scoot on over to the BAD POETRY page, kind people. We're going to launch a more subtle and meaty fundraiser soon, but in the meantime: any help you can give is much appreciated. We publish the print edition of NOÖ out of our own pockets and with help from donations (i.e. no ads, no school funding), and then we give it away for free. All donors are thanked in our Acknowledgments section and receive a free bundle of NOÖs.

If you don't really need BAD POETRY (though who doesn't?), we've created a Donate button over to your right.

Really, every little bit helps. Thanks!