Gigantic Sequins

We are counting down the days left to fundraise for Gigantic Sequins 3.2, which is chock full of some pretty talented writers and artists. We will be bringing you NUMBER-RELATED QUESTIONS via our facebook and twitter pages to raise awareness of the days remaining in our Friend Drive. We’ll also post them here, in case you don’t have a facebook/twitter, but still want to respond! We’ll be updating this post daily until the final day of our fund drive, MAY 15th.

NINE DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter: Look at your nearest bookshelf. What is the NINTH book to the right?

EIGHT DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter: If you were to name an EIGHTH day of the week, what would you name it?

SEVEN DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter: Who is your favorite writer/poet with SEVEN letters in his/her name?

SIX DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter: What’s your SIX-word memoir?

FIVE DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter: If you could choose someone (anyone alive in the world!) to live FIVE doors down from you, who would you choose?

FOUR DAYS LEFT!  We asked on facebook & twitter: What book(s) have you read FOUR (or more) times?

THREE DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter:   You have spent your first two wishes, you can’t wish for more wishes, what is your THIRD wish?

TWO DAYS LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter:  Which TWO writers/authors/poets do you own the MOST books by?

ONE DAY LEFT! We asked on facebook & twitter:  Who is the ONE most influential writer to you?

THE LAST DAY! We asked on facebook & twitter:  What is the LAST book you read and loved?

Please feel free to SHARE/RETWEET/ANSWER these questions to help spread awareness of the remaining number of days in our friend drive and also just to have some fun! If you’d like to donate, you can! If you can’t afford to be a friend, but want to support us, order an issue or simply help spread the word. Remember, MAY 15th is the last day to donate to help fund issue 3.2!

Thank you, as always, for your kindness and support of the arts.

Please become a friend of Gigantic Sequins by donating to us. We need to raise funds in order to print our fabulous 3.2 issues. The writers and artists for that issue will be announced any day now. Please become a friend today, and come back soon for when we announce a full list of our 3.2 writers and artists.

Thank you in advance for your support during our Spring 2012 Friend Drive.

PLEASE NOTE that the deadline to give to help fund our 3.2 issue is MAY 15th.

Hello all! We had such a blast at AWP in Chicago that we don’t have too much to say about it besides that. We enjoyed meeting contributors whose faces we never put names to before, talking to any new friends and fans, throwing sequins at and around our table/friends from Big Lucks/passerby, and finally, we enjoyed all of the readings/panels we attended, on-site and on-site. Check out videos from our only off-site reading, BEFORE WE GO, below. There were readers from Knee-Jerk, Rose Metal Press, Big Lucks and Magic Helicopter Press as well, who were great.

These are from Saturday 3/3 at Beauty Bar. Our EIC, Kimberly Ann Southwick, took the footage on her phone, so the video quality is at times shaky, but most importantly, you can hear our poets loud and clear. Enjoy!

First, here is Amanda Auchter.

Secondly, we have Matthew Siegel!

And finally, though Christie Ann Reynolds read for our friends Big Lucks, we have her reading, also.

We are pleased to announce that we have a select number of poems up on our Archives page. We still are adamant about being a print magazine, but we want to offer people who do not have easy access to a copy of our magazine a chance to see a few examples of what we like to publish. We hope that by doing this we will encourage writers to submit their work to us. In addition, we hope that readers who like what they say will consider purchasing a copy of our journal by buying one from our online store or from a bookstore, or by attending one of our events. So far we only have up poetry, but we should have, again, a select number of works in other genres.

Please visit the archives page to read a poem by Natasha Kessler and two by Joseph Calavenna. You also can peruse two poems from our 2.1 issue, one by Elizabeth Hoover and  the other by Anne Marie Rooney.