New Submission Procedure and Guidelines

Today Perigee launches a completely redesigned submission procedure, the first major change to our online submission process in over three years. In addition to the streamlined design—which breaks the guidelines into genres and separates each genre into its own process—the new procedure includes updated guidelines. Among other changes, the poetry limit has been changed to 3 (instead of 5), and the prose limit has been increased to 5,000 words. We are also now seeking interviews and reviews (query first please).

The new submission process is live, here.

We are open to comments, criticism, and suggestions. Simply comment on this blog post. Although comments will not receive a personal response, each will be read and considered carefully.

We hope you will submit work soon!

Issue 17 Contributors

Our 17th issue—due out Sunday, July 15th—will include 8 short stories, 14 poems, and 4 memoirs. The issue also features a brand new "Sue's Column," photography by a talented new artist, Jack-E Thornton, a book review of Michael Lee's In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot (Wordcraft of Oregon), and an interview with Robert Gover (author of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding) by Thomas E. Kennedy.

This is a very special issue indeed. The contributors are as follows:

Avis M. Adams, "Clotheslines"
Cori Baill, "Omens"
Joanne Barney, "Fiftieth Reunion"
Duff Brenna,"Michael Lee's In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot"
C.A. Cole, "Times When We Were Happy"
Lily Corwin, "Because of the Cars"
Juditha Dowd, "Goldfish"
Susan Fellows, "Ruminations: Sue's Column"
Laurie Frankel, "Let it be a Dance"
Randy Gentry, "Raskolnikov in the East Village"
Kathie Giorgio, "Jesus Moves"
Marianna Hofer, "What You Always Knew" and "The Photographer's Apprentice Lover"
Barry Jay Kaplan, "Valle De Bravo"
Robin Keehn, "Finding Paradise in a Supermarket in California"
Thomas E. Kennedy, "A Conversation with Robert Gover"
Timothy Martin, "Will"
Michael Minassian, "The Arboculturist"
Benjamin Nardolilli, "Flyer Guy"
Karen Bingham Pape, "Iconoclast"
Bojan Pavlovic, "An Old Friend"
Carla Panciera, "The First Story She Tells of the Place"
Joan Potter, "My Mother's Kitchen"
John J. Ronan, "Dog School"
Tom Sheehan, "Bare-Ribbed Talisman" and "For Stars Not Yet Begun"
Joanna Sit, "When Peace Comes"
Megan Stielstra, "Logic"
Gina M. Tabasso, "Baba Yaga"
Jack-E Thornton, Assorted Photography
Leslie What, "Performance Anxiety"
Robert Judge Woerheide, "Addressing Amy"

This just might be our best issue ever! Don't miss it, coming July 15th.

New Fiction Editor!

We are excited to announce that Perigee has a new Fiction Editor! The novelist, professor, and wordsmith Duff Brenna, has agreed to take Perigee's fiction section into his very capable hands.

Duff Brenna is Professor Emeritus at Cal State University San Marcos. He worked for San Diego State University from 1987 to 1992, where he was given three Outstanding Faculty Awards. He is a former AWP Best Novel winner, and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship.

His third novel, Too Cool, was a New York Times Noteworthy Book. His fourth novel, The Altar of the Body, was Book Editor's Favorite Book of the Year at South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

His sixth novel, The Law of Falling Bodies (Hopewell Publications), will be published in September 2007.

We couldn't be more pleased to count him among our inner circle, and we know he will have a profound and positive effect on our fiction department and our annual fiction contest—recommencing in 2008. Please join us in welcoming him.

Meeting 17

Perigee's 17th meeting was a raging success. We couldn't be happier with the quality of submissions, and the increase in the number as well. There are a lot of talented folks taking notice of our publication and working hard to bring their voices to our readers.

We also have a big announcement coming soon. A new member has joined our group and he is talented indeed. We know his participation—as our new Fiction Editor—will bring big things.

Those who submitted work to our July issue can expect to hear from us with our decision shortly.

Editors Meeting

The editors are meeting this weekend to make final decisions on the work which will appear in our July 15th issue. Writers who submitted work for this issue can expect to hear from us soon with a decision.

Thank you to all who continue to submit work.

Submissions are currently being accepted for our fall issue.