About CRIT: Crossing Rivers Into Twilight Journal

Intent

CRIT Journal seeks to gather a set of artistic and literary works that reflect themes related to liminality, transition, border states, and the imperceptible. This could mean literally depicting dusk or fog, or it could mean something more metaphorical. Hybrid genres are especially desired for the purposes of this project.

Issues appear around the cross-quarter holidays.

Regular Submissions

There are no hard limits on length, but longer works will have to be of especially high quality. This does not, however, mean that sloppy short work will be accepted. Attempts to bully us into accepting your work will be laughed at. (Yes, this has happened. Some white men feel very entitled to publication.)

Send submissions to critjournal@gmail.com, or send images to the CRIT Submissions pool on Flickr. For text submissions, nearly any word processing format (except .docx) is acceptable, but .odt is best.

As CRIT does not currently have any incoming revenue, we are not able to pay contributors. No one working on this project is paid, so don't accuse us of being greedy bastards. (This has happened, too, though in much fouler language.) If we ever do make more money than we spend, we probably will pay writers.

Issue	Deadline	Publication Date
Samhain	October 1	November 1
Imbolc	January 1	February 1
Beltaine	April 1	May 1
Lughnasadh	July 1	August 1

Anthology Submissions

In addition to regular submissions, CRIT is now seeking pieces for ;, a poetry anthology featuring the semicolon. We are looking for poems (in the broad sense that includes vispo and the like) that use the semicolon in innovative and prominent ways. We will also accept prose (fiction or non) if it is about the use of the semicolon in poetry or uses the semicolon in an especially stunning manner. This is meant to be the first in a series of punctuation-oriented anthologies. DEADLINE: September 22, 2008. Send submissions to critjournal@gmail.com, and be sure to specify the anthology in your subject line.

Help Wanted

Bloggers

We are currently recruiting bloggers for Night Stream Journey. If you would be interested in writing regularly on topics of liminality and thresholds, please send an email indicating your interest.

Editorial Positions

We currently have openings for assistant and associate editors. Assistant editors will be responsible for helping to read submissions; associate editors will, in addition, have reponsibilities to solicit submissions and promote CRIT. Assistant and associate editors may select an area of focus (poetry, vispo, fiction, hybrids, etc.) or work as generalists. Both assistant and associate editors will be expected to participate in proofreading each issue, but we also have space for anyone who would be interested in volunteering solely as a proofreader. For any of these positions, please send an email indicating your interest and any relevant experience.

Web Designer

Bringing CRIT to the next level is going to require someone with coding skills better than mine. That said, CRIT should always remain minimalistic in design; unnecessary bandwidth-sapping flash animations are not desired here. Please send an email indicating your interest, any relevant experience, and links to examples of work.

Please note that CRIT does not have an incoming revenue stream and so all positions are on a volunteer basis.