OPEN SUBMISSION PERIOD

Phantom Drift is open to submissions until March 31. To read guidelines,click on SUBMIT. You can then cancel out and come back when ready to upload your submission.

OUR FIRST ISSUE

"I carried [Phantom Drift] around for days as if it were a ticket to a place I've been missing all my life." -- Julie J. Nichols, New Pages

(Read full review)

PHANTOM DRIFT, Issue No. 1

ISSN: 2162/8211

ISBN: 978-1-877655-73-9

Subscriptions: $15 postage paid

7.5 X 9.25, 160 pgs., perfectbound

BOOKSTORES wanting to use credit card for order can contact us via email at info@wordcraftoforegon.com and receive 40% discount. Discounted orders are not eligible for free shipping.

Cover Art: "St. Christopher Carries His Child Self Across the River" by Jessica Plattner

Cover Design: Kristin Summer, redbat design

Interior Design: David Memmott

If you wi sh to subscribe by direct mail, send check or money order for $15.00 to:

Phantom Drift

c/o Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC

PO Box 3235

La Grande, OR 97850

CONTRIBUTORS FOR ISSUE ONE

(Links to websites with more info on authors)

FICTION

Brian Evenson

Eliot Fintushel

Stefanie Freele

Carolyn Ive Gilman

Daniel Grandbois

Peter Grandbois

Joe L. Murr

Nisi Shawl

Geronimo G. Tagatac

David Eric Tomlinson

Ray Vukcevich

POETRY

Aaron Anstett

Jonathan Ball

Richard Crow

Wade German

Joshua McKinney

Stephen McNally

Lawrence Raab

Anita Sullivan

NONFICTION

Thomas E. Kennedy

Jessica Plattner (Featured Artist, interviewed by Jodi Varon)

Richard Schindler (Featured Artist, interviewed by Michael Chocholak)

Matt Schumacher

Click on Samples PD1 to Read pdf

of Excerpts from Issue Number One Samples_PD1

Phantom Drift accepts submissions from December 1 – March 31. Electronic submissions will be accepted at that time through our website.

JULY 8, 2011

PHANTOM DRIFT at Wordstock

Phantom Drift, Limited, will be attending Wordstock within days of the launch of our premier issue on October 8 & 9 at the Oregon Convention Center. If you haven't pre-ordered and you live in the Portland/Metro area, drop by and see us.

JULY 7, 2011

PHANTOM DRIFT NOW A NON-PROFIT JOURNAL

The journal, Phantom Drift, has been organized as a non-profit journal for public benefit through the State of Oregon with Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, as registered agent of record. Phantom Drift, Limited, will be organized for the purposes of promoting a literature of the fantastic through its journal, workshops, readings and other publications somewhere down the line.

Our Editorial Board will consist of:

David Memmott, Managing Editor

Leslie What, Fiction Editor

Matt Schumacher, Poetry Editor

Sue Hoyt, Accounts & Subscriptions

A fifth member of the editorial board will be appointed in the next few months.

JULY 6, 2011

PRE-ORDERS FOR PHANTOM DRIFT COMING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

With almost all the pdf proofs back and corrected, we will be posting front cover design with button for preorders.

FIRST FLYER FOR PHANTOM DRIFT #1

Our first flyer for Issue #1

PD CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS UNTIL AFTER ISSUE #1

TO BE RELEASED IN OCTOBER 2011

We want to thank all the writers who submitted material for the first issue of Phantom Drift. We indeed have reason to be excited with the selections and our editors were impressed by the overall quality of submissions. In particular, Leslie would have accepted more fiction if we'd been able to increase the size of the journal, but as managing editor I am forced to set some limits. I hope you will subscribe and help us get PD into as many reader hands as possible.

PD #2 ACCEPTANCES PROGRESS REPORT

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 31, 2011

2/27/11

Two more fiction acceptances:

• "Just Between Us," Nisi Shawl, 3,100 words

• "Counting," Geronimo G. Tagatac, 6,500 words

PD #1 ACCEPTANCES PROGRESS REPORT

2/11/11

We are blissfully skipping along in accepting material for PHANTOM DRIFT #1. So far we’ have accepted or arranged for the following:

FICTION (accepted by Leslie)
• "No, Really," Eliot Fintushel, 2,600 words
• "Over the Rolling Waters Go," Stefanie Freele, 1,179 words
• "What the Billy Goat Said," Peter Grandbois, 2,891 words
• "Dwindle Chick," Carolyn Ives Gilman, 300 words
• "Fated," Joe L. Murr (Joel Kuntonen), 745 words
• "The Problem of Furniture," Ray Vukcevich, 1,100 words

POETRY (accepted by Matt Schumacher)

•  Jonathan Ball: "In Vitro City," "Lost (A Found Poem),"

• Richard Crow: "Do the Crows..."
• Lawrence Raab: "Sunrise with Sea Monsters," "Testament"
• Aaron Anstett: "Good Morning"
• Joshua McKinney: "The Couch," "A Sentence is a Snake," "The Death of the Author"
• Wade German: "Lichfield"
• Anita Sullivan: "When Solstice is Late"

Other contents (arranged by David Memmott)

• Reprint of Brian Evenson story

• Reprint of an essay by Thomas E. Kennedy

• Essay: " Exploring The Haunted Palace: GothicWarped Space, Phantasmagoria, and The Evolution of the Haunted House from Poe to Danielewski," Matt Schumacher

FEATURED ARTISTS: Jessica Plattner and Richard Schindler.

Deadline for submissions is: March 31, 2011.

The journal will be 120-160 pages, 7.5 X 9.25, perfectbound, full-color cover.

Subscriptions with free shipping are $15 in advance of release. Send check or money order to: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, PD Subscription, PO Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. 

NEW ANNUAL JOURNAL OF NEW FABULISM SEEKS SUBMISSIONS

OPEN SUBMISSION PERIOD DECEMBER 1, 2010 - MARCH 31, 2011

Click on guidelines on right to bring up a pdf with description of the range of material we're looking for.

PHANTOM DRIFT: NEW FABULISM

Call for Submissions.

Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, announces that we are now accepting submissions for the first issue of Phantom Drift, an annual literary journal of new fabulism. Reading period will be December 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011. The journal will be a perfectbound, 120-160 page, 7.5 X 9.25 volume. #1 will be released October 1, 2011. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, poetry and prose poems. Poetry editor Matt Schumacher says, “I welcome work readers might label new weird, slipstream and/or fantastic…work that shatters or valuably distorts reality, whether this means surrealism, magic realism, fantastique, or bizarrerie.” Fiction editor Leslie What likes stories “that favor the unusual over the usual…stories that create a milieu where anything can happen.” We pay on publication ($25 for flash fiction up to 2,000 words and $50 for short stories 2001 – 6500 words, $10 per poem, plus 1 contributor copy). Full guidelines can be found on our website at: http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/pd  Subscriptions are $15 with free shipping if in advance of release date. Send payment for subscriptions to: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, PD Subscriptions, PO Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. For more information, contact Managing Editor David Memmott at editor@wordcraftoforegon.com  Fiction inquiries can be sent to Leslie at fictioneditor.pd@wordcraftoforegon.com  and poetry inquiries to Matt at poetryeditor.pd@wordcraftoforegon.com .  

At twilight one autumn evening recently, I sat on my backporch in the rosy blush of last light observing a murder of crows congressing in the swaying crown of a fir tree across the street. Riding high above the rattling cornstalks and burned-back remnants of our garden, this raucous gathering served notice not only of a change of season but of something in me grown restless, unsatisfied, and seeking renewal of the energy that first brought me into publishing...

I started thinking about returning to something like Ice River Magazine which was a journal of the fantastic published in the mid to late 80s and was the foundation that supported over a decade of speculative publishing.

When stumbling around at the inception of a new venture, I often start by coming up with a name for it. After a number of rejected ideas, I came upon what I thought was an original name: “Phantom Drift.” So I did what any responsible writer or publisher would do in this day and age, I ran into the house and Googled it. I found several pages of references to Phantom Drift, which surprised and disappointed me as I thought I’d come up with this myself. But at least there were no publications. Most were terms used in engineering and technology. For instance, when race cars come into a turn at high speeds and the rear end sweeps out uncontrollably, this is Phantom Drift. I also found in the printing and music recording business that Phantom Drift referred to instances where two halves don’t quite match up. 

For me, Phantom Drift was something of a zone of intersection like that found in a mandorla. A mandorla is an ancient symbol that, in its simplest form, is two circles overlapping to form an almond shape in the middle. The two circles overlapping in the Phantom Drift logo with the eye in the zone of intersection was designed with this in mind and the mandorla beckons back to a more incomplete version of the mandorla which was the logo for Ice River Magazine. The zone of intersection in the mandorla suggests symbolically a state where opposites become entangled, where the greyness of possibility defeats easy separation of black and white, heaven and earth, spirit and flesh, dream and reality, science and religion, conscious and unconscious. Furthermore, this blurring of overlapping opposites can symbolize a process of healing and awakening, thus the eye, which in turn refers back to the early influence of Steve Smith's magazine, SF EYE . As one long fascinated with the implications of quantum physics, I found the mandorla to be a delightfully subversive symbol because it exists in a state of quantum uncertainty like Shrödinger’s Cat—difficult to label, impossible to nail down, both wave and particle at the same time.

Essentially, each issue/volume of Phantom Drift will be another installment in an editorial aim of resisting the temptation to “tell” the creative community what we mean by “new fabulism” by instead “showing” you. Our editors are acutely attuned to a mission of exploring and supporting a range of work that may well be indescribable. Yet when they find it, they will know this story or that poem has reached into the unknown and touched something invisible, giving readers an opportunity to step into a swift current, fresh as snowmelt, to stand knee-deep in Phantom Drift.

--David Memmott, Managing Editor

November 20, 2010

from the short essay, "Knee-Deep in Phantom Drift: A New Beginning"