otto

Deadline Moving Up

In order to give us the time to layout, print and produce otto #2 by September, we're going to need to move the deadline for submissions up a bit from July 30th to July 15th, and that's for publication-ready material. If you want some help on editing or rewriting, we need to receive it much sooner, by June 30th to give you time to make changes if necessary. Otherwise, submissions coming in July 15th (or thereabouts) will have to be accepted or rejected based on our editors' decisions.

This issue is going to be way cool. We're planning on a graphic story as well as hyperfiction, so it will truly be "a compendium of diverse narrative."

We're still looking for some more poetry and short stories, and would be interested in a review and essay for this issue as well.

otto #2

As brought up at the Narratives meeting on May 11th, we're planning on hyperfictionalizing otto to make it interactive. While it will be an easy matter of taking care of that online, presenting it in book form will be the challenge.

A sampling of each issue, perhaps a short story and one or two poems, will be available to read on the website soon. Obviously, our choice in otto #2 for the online version will be a hypertext piece (clever, eh?). Ideas are welcome on this submission, and a reminder to get submissions in as early as possible before the deadline--we may be filled up by then, since submissions are open to the public.

And don't forget--artwork and photography are welcome as well, just bear in mind the horizontal format and the restriction to black and white.

We're anxious to see your stuff! E-mail it in to ottolit@comcast.net right away!