We are the lucky recipient!

At HOOT we love being chosen for things. Even better if those things happen to be postcard projects (’cause we’re a postcard magazine, see the connection?). Not so long ago this showed up on HOOT headquarters’ doorstep:

Because we are a group that loves writing and pictures (and pictures with writing), a little investigation was required as this was the only information on the back:

After some sleuthing (thanks, Google!) we discovered this website, which belongs to Maureen who was kind enough to send us one of the postcards from the Naropa Postcard Project. According to this little blurb on her very awesome website

Here’s the basic idea: a group of writers all received about 30 blank postcards which we were then tasked with transforming in any way we felt using writing, text, art, drawing or whatever. The writers were then required to mail the postcards out to other writers on the list. So, all 30 writers should receive 30 postcards. The idea was inspired by Ken Mikilowski’s Alternative Press Postcard Project that the lit mag Bombay Gin covered when I helped edit the magazine. Cool idea, right?

Yes! Very cool! We even got a little shout out on her blog

I mailed out all 32 postcards! Did I really mean 32? Yes. 30 for the participating writers and two  extras for whatever. So, I sent one to Hoot a postcard-related lit mag and one to President Obama, just for safe keeping.

Thank you, Maureen. We needed a little inspiration and it was great that you decided to send us a postcard (along with the President). Happy writing, and drawing, and sending out postcards of inspiration.

 

Guerrilla HOOT

Ever since its conception HOOT has championed the idea of guerrilla literature. The idea of shareable literature and found art was important in both the concept and the aesthetic of our magazine. Editors and interns have taken a considerable amount of joy by spreading flash fiction and poetry through postcard bombing museums (in the friendliest way possible), planting HOOT flowers around college campuses, and beautifying abandoned areas with posters and postcards. If you look closely around your city you might even find one of our issues (and if you do let us know!).

So, with that in mind, we’re all pretty jazzed over here that we got a shout out in Flavorwire’s 10 Guerrilla Poetry Projects

Here are some examples of the places that HOOT has sprouted up:

From left to right (top to bottom): HOOT at the NY Public Library; HOOT at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia; HOOT planted in a garden in West Philadelphia; HOOT on the Amtrak

From left to right (top to bottom): HOOT hiding in a suit of arms at a haunted historical event in New Jersey, HOOT represented in a ukelele at a music venue in South Carolina, and HOOT at a cemetery in University City

And just to prove that we are fearless and creative, we have documentation of our guerrilla tactics in action:

That would be the HOOT gang wheat pasting our posters and planting HOOT flowers.

Happy hunting for HOOTs – enjoy the discovered words!

What was your spirit animal?

Maybe we’re big fans of stickers; perhaps gigantic fans of Lisa Frank; or we could just be spirit animal enthusiasts. Whatever the case may truly be your latest issue of HOOT came with an assigned spirit animal.

Did you discover that your spirit took the shape of a starfish, like this subscriber?

But you might not have gotten an animal. There is a chance you might have gotten a spirit fruit or spirit vegetable; but if you were super lucky you would have gotten:

 

Thanks for the kind words!

We are a very lucky group of people that get support from such great schools, organizations, writers, readers, and everything and everyone in between.

Sometimes we are so lucky that we even get some people to write nice things about us. In this case HOOT was the subject matter for both Niche Lit Magazine and Swarthmore’s bulletin.

Find the interview Amanda and Dorian did for Niche Lite Mag, here

And find the interview in Swarthmore’s magazine here 

 

Drop by and see us at the Rosemont College Book Festival

If you attend Rosemont, or live near the area, you should come drop by the College Book Festival and give us a visit. We’ll entertain you with grand tales of adventures and our most recent issues of HOOT.

Come say hello!