Phantom Drift

Our cover designer, Kristin Summers, of redbat design, really jumped on this and provided us with a proof of the cover for Issue Number Two: Valuable Estrangements. Thanks, Kristin. It’s beautiful! Click on image for full image.

Cover art by John Frame, cover design by Kristin Summers

Yes, the award letter from the IRS has arrived and Phantom Drift Limited’s status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization became effective July, 2011. We will be actively engaging in fundraising over the next few months to assure publication of Issue Number Two. We will set a fundraising goal soon. Expect to see buttons on our blog and website in the next couple of weeks for BUY (Current Issue), SUBSCRIBE (Next Issue) and DONATE.  If you just can’t wait to donate, please contact Managing Editor at: phantomdrifteditor@yahoo.com  We can make arrangements to accept donations until we’ve set up the mechanism.

Phantom Drift is pleased to announce that a still entitled, “This Is My Body,” from John Frame’s feature-length animated film-in-progress, “The Tale of the Crippled Boy,” will grace the front cover of our second issue, Valuable Estrangements. John Frames work on this fabulist film is featured in an exhibit, “John Frame: Three Fragments of a Lost Tale,” until May 27th at the Portland Art Museum. Go see it. You can further support this independent feature by visiting their website at: http://www.johnframesculpture.com and purchase a still or make a donation. Our second issue will also include more information on the film and its development. Stay tuned.

Additional fiction since last post: 

Joyce Goldenstern, “And the Horse that You Rode In On”

Gail Griffin, “Four or Five Witches”

Jessica Reisman, “Boneshadow”

John Brown Spiers, “Ben is Dead”

Adrian Stumpp, “Dauphin”

POETRY ACCEPTANCES

David Axelrod, “Skiing with Dostoevsky”

Jeannine Hall Gailey, “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter[Escape]”

Tim Kercher, “The Shared Birthday”

Rebecca Lilly, “The Guesthouse”

Helen Marshall, “The Ghosts of Birds”

Mary McMyne, “The Girl Who Came Before,” “Thunder”

John Morrison, “Opossum,” “The Uncles”

Jacob Rakovan, “Jenny Greenteeth,””Leviathan,” “The Man Who Made The Nightingale”

Elizabeth Schumacher, “Feejee Mermaid,” “Iroquois Flying Head”

Lorraine Schein, “The Poem of the Damned”

Noel Sloboda, “Lapses”

Mathias Svalina, “Against Suicide,” “A Set of Teeth,” “Reformation”

Eric Vithalani, “The Man Who Swallowed the World”

Congratulations to contributors. We will still pay $25 for intelligent critical essays up to 2500 words on “fabulist literature” and seek some reviews of fabulist works. We can only pay one contributor’s copy for reviews up to 1000 words. Send directly to: phantomdrifteditor@yahoo.com

Phantom Drift Limited, in cooperation with the Union County Cultural Coalition and Arts East, is presenting a three-hour workshop with short story writer, Ray Vukcevich, on April 28th, 2 – 5 p.m. in La Grande, Oregon, at the Arts East White House Gallery. Fee is $25. Slots are still available. Send check to: Phantom Drift, Fiction Workshop, PO Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. For more information contact David Memmott, Managing Editor, at phantomdrifteditor@yahoo.com  Ray will give a public reading at the La Grande Public Library, Colleen Johnson Community Room at 7:30 p.m. following the workshop.

The following stories have been accepted by Leslie What for Phantom Drift #2: Valuable Estrangements

“Isn’t”           Chris Gavaler

“Cryptopolis”      Robert Guffey

“When You Find Us We Will Be Gone”      Christopher Linforth

“Petals”         James O’Brien

“Raven’s Daughter”        Kathleen Alcala

“The Bones of Our Ancestors, The Blood of Our Flowers,”   Alma Alexander

“A Shadow and Its Man,”      Amelie Olaiz      (translated by Toshiya Kamei)

“The Midlife Forecast for Men”     Bruce Holland Rogers

“Other Names, Other Histories,”      Dennis Ginoza

“Sunrise with Sea Monsters”        Care Santos    (translated by Lawrence Schimel)

There may be a few more stories accepted from those submitted. We will keep you updated.

The deadline for submissions to Phantom Drift’s second issue closed on March 31st. We received about 550 short story submissions and almost as many poems. The editors want to thank all those who took the time to submit. The submissions overall were of a very high quality. Our fiction editor, Leslie What, was so impressed with how many good stories she received that her job was most difficult. But alas we were able to accept only about 2% of the stories submitted. 

We will be working to increase our subscriber base over the next year and do some fundraising so perhaps we will be able to expand the number of pages for #3 in 2013. We will also be adding some volunteer staff and readers. 

Phantom Drift couldn’t exist without all of you who have submitted material for consideration. We cannot thank you enough for giving us such great work to choose from. We are looking forward to your second issue: VALUABLE ESTRANGEMENTS, which will be published in October. 

If you haven’t read our first issue yet, I want to encourage you to get a copy and help us meet our funding goals for the second issue.

David Memmott, Managing Editor   (phantomdrifteditor@yahoo.com)

“Over the Rolling Waters Go,” by Stefanie Freele, which appeared in Phantom Drift #1, is the first story in her  new story collection, Surrounded by Water,  which can now be pre-ordered from Press 53 at http://www.press53.com/BioStefanieFreele.html

Congratulations, Stefanie.

Poster for Writing the Weird

Matt Schumacher is presenting a three-hour poetry workshop, “How to Write the Weird: The Hows, Whys and Ways of Valuable Estrangements,” in La Grande, Oregon, from 2 – 5 p.m. on March 3rd at Arts East White House Gallery, 6th & L. There will be a reading at 7:30 p.m. the night before at the La Grande Public Library Colleen Johnson Community Room. The workshops is made possible due to a grant from Union County Cultural Coalition and the cooperation of Arts East.

Deadline for submission of fiction and poetry for our second issue is approaching: March 31st. We have begun accepting some exceptional work including  the short story, “Isn’t,” by Chris Gaveler and the following poems: “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter…” by Jeanine Hall Gailey; “Against Suicide,” “A Set of Teeth,” and “Reformation,” by Matthias Svalina; “Skiing with Dostoevsky,” by David Axelrod; “Lapses,” by Noel Sloboda; and “The Man Who Swallowed the World,” by Eric Vithalani. 

Congratulations to all! We’re looking forward to an excellent issue.