Your letters delight us
Since we run a postcard magazine it should come as no surprise that we love mail. The kookier the better (or the more avant garde the better). We recently received this mailed submission (we think it was a mailed submission?) and while we couldn’t accept the enclosed poem for the online or print issue, we did love it enough that we thought it warranted an update on here.
The envelope alone was an absolute blockbuster of a sending apparatus
Whoever sent us this we truly adored it.
We didn’t even know that this was an option in the postal world
And you should know that the associate editor, Janie, keeps this framed and hung at her desk for creative inspiration. Keep on keeping on, sender of this submission, you’ve inspired us.
For anyone else that wants to blow our minds with creative mischievousness please feel free; we’d be delighted to be on the receiving end.
We came, we saw, we had you throw a giant die
Oh hey! We have returned triumphant from Boston and AWP. It was delightful making so many new friends; so many people partook in our giant die game and we hope you had as much fun as we did.
That was our table!
To all of our new subscribers: hello! To everyone that supported us by stopping by, signing up for our email updates, bought shirts or last year’s issues, and subscribed: thank you!
We had a blast in Boston and it was mainly because of all of the clever chaps and lasses that came over to face their doom, challenged us to draw them a five second owl masterpiece, or sent an owl-a-gram
This was our favorite owl-a-gram
Feel free to drop us a line and remind us of the shenanigans of AWP!
Happy writing, all!
A blog! A blog! We have an, occasionally updated, blog (we’ll only put the coolest stuff on here, promise)!
Hello HOOT followers,
It might surprise you that at HOOT we are comprised of real humans that help create, develop, and mail out your monthly postcard and put up the online edition. We’re alive!
We come from all different creative and educational backgrounds, which is a big help in how we pick such diverse literature to mail to your door every month.
So, this blog is a way to get to know more about a few things:
- Who our writers and artists are; we’ll have Barbara Walters like interviews with them so you can see into their deep inner psyche (okay, maybe not that intense; but they’ll definitely be fun).
- Fun things about micro fiction
- Updates about where we will be a-movin’ and a-shakin’ (if we are coming to a literary convention near you)
- Fun, crafty, literary things you can do to get motivated on your writing
But it’s also a blog for you to share with us. We’ll post pictures of where you’ve snuck your HOOT in plain sight; have writing prompts and picture prompts; and it can serve as a forum for you to update us about your favorite micro fiction trends. Because like PBS before us, we would be nothing without viewers like you.
one of our favorite shared HOOTs, from Shawn at www.scribbledstories.com
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this is just a test. exciting announcement coming tomorrow!
