THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS PASSED. THIS PROJECT IS NOW CLOSED FOR CONSIDERATION OF NEW WORKS. IF YOU SUBMITTED, THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THIS PROCESS.

UPDATED: JULY 2, 2010

As you may know, I have recently become a fan of humorous and funny poetry. (Discovered it last year while playing Scrabble™ Brand Board Game with myself in a motel in Dallas.)

I also enjoy designing and putting together chapbooks, just not my own. So, I have a project in mind that I would like to put together by December 2010. I call it, Short Ones For The Shitter. (Hereto and furthermore referred to as “SOFTS”)

MY MISSION
To produce an inexpensive and hilarious poetic publication to be left in bathrooms around the world, but not limited to. Cheap but nice look’n!

NOT JUST POEMS! SUBMIT ANY TYPE OF SHORT WORK THAT MAKES PEOPLE LAUGH! LISTS, BIOS, PALINDROMES, POETRY, ORIGINAL JOKES, ANECDOTES, STORIES!

THE PROCESS
–Submit up to two short poems or a hilarious piece of writing – no more than 350 words – that you KNOW (or someone has told you) are the funniest pieces you have. The idea is to have one poem per page.
–Email them to me at my Gmail account: ilikemike
–You MUST subject your email with: SOFTS Submission 2010
–Submissions must be sent in by Tuesday, June 29 Friday, July 2, 2010 at 11:59pm.
–NOTE: By submitting, you give us permission to include these in this collection.
–Please denote under the title of each poem when and where it has been published previously, if applicable.
–Wait.

PROOFREADING AND EDITING
Victor Infante and I will proofread and edit the final manuscript.

Here is the list of people I’ve asked to judge:

CONFIRMED
Tony Brown
Shappy Seasholtz
Shanny Jean Maney-Magnuson
Tim Stafford
Joel Chmara
Lea C. Deschenes
Megan Thoma

STILL WAITING ON CONFIRMATION FROM
Mahogany Browne
Sonya Renee Taylor
Beau Sia

NOTE: I will ask them to consider as many topics, styles, and levels of humor as possible when selecting their favorites. I will ask them to pass on works that are distasteful.

I WILL NOT ACCEPT OFFENSIVE WORKS OR POEMS THAT PROMOTE ABUSE, RACISM, SEXISM, MISOGYNY, OR WORKS THAT ARE SIMPLY GROTESQUE. THIS IS A BATHROOM BOOK, NOT A BATHROOM-HUMOR BOOK.

FORMAT
–Submissions must be Arial or Helvetica 12-point font, aligned left.
–TITLES IN CAPS AND BOLD.
–Author’s name under title.
–Your email address.
–Any previous publication acknowledgments under author’s name.
–SEND ONLY ONE .doc or .txt file! (Thanks, Amy!) with your name in the file title.

I WILL
–Choose a selection committee of up to three around eight (8) selectors.
–Select around 25-40 poems for print.
–Do my best to respond to everybody whether or not we select your submission to be included.
–Oversee the initial print run, be it myself or through a 3rd party printer.
–Start with a short run and see where things go.
–Send one free copy to those selected for publication.
–Sell them from my site and on the road.

OTHERS WILL
–Buy this chapbook.
–Read it.
–Laugh.
–Leave it in their bathroom for others to read while shitting or peeing sitting down.
–Be glad we did this.
–Hear their friends laugh from their bathroom.
–Hope it’s because they’re reading SOFTS.
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Word to the nerd.

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