Gigantic Sequins

September 14, 2011

Pete’s Mini Zine Fest / 3.1 News

Hello friends and enemies! We are pleased to announce the following.

Issue 3.1 is being put together in its mock form, and we will soon announce the writers and artists featured in it. Stay tuned!

In addition, we will be at Pete’s Mini Zine Fest at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, NYC on Sunday, September 25th. The festival is a fundraiser for the NYPL, and entry is FREE. Our Editor in Chief will be missing watching the Eagles/Giants NFL game to attend this zine fest, and she hopes to see you there! See the flyer below, or visit its events page on facebook for more info!

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August 5, 2011

Boog City Fest 2011

This weekend is the festival celebrating Boog City’s 20th Anniversary! All events that involve GS (book fair + readings) are located at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn, NYC. By subway, take the B or Q to 7th Ave. in Prospect Heights, BK.

Gigantic Sequins will be at the SMALL PRESS FAIR on Saturday from 11:30 am-9 pm and Sunday from 12noon-4 pm. Stop by our table! We will have FREE stickers, all issues of GS for sale (discount packages available if you want to buy more than 1!), bookmarks, and a RAFFLE. (You all know how much we love raffles.)

In addition to tabling at Unnameable Books with other great artisans and presses, Helen Vitoria (2.2) will be reading Saturday @ 12:40 pm and our editor in chief, Kimberly Ann Southwick, will be reading Sunday @ 1:35 pm.

Click here for the Boog facebook event that has information about the entire Festival, which runs from today, Aug. 5th until Tuesday, Aug. 9th. Can’t wait to see you there!

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July 20, 2011

Welcome Summer Raffle Winners!

Thanks to all who entered, all who donated, and all who bought a copy of 2.2 in the past month or so. If you haven’t ordered your copy of 2.2, do it today!

Drumroll please… The TEN winners of our 2.2 raffle are…

PAM WEISS

ROBERT YUNE

SHERRIE FLICK

ROBBY AULD

PAUL MEDINA

MARK DECARTERET

CURTIS CRONN

STELLA

DAN CROSS

HELEN VITORIA

…If your name is on this list, you will be contacted within a week by someone at Gigantic Sequins for more information on the delivery of your awesome prizes!

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July 14, 2011

Holler! Our Reading @ Word Up in Washington Heights

Gigantic Sequins had a great reading at Word Up this past Tuesday night, featuring prose by Michelle Cheever, poetry by Leigh Phillips and Helen Vitoria, and non-fiction by Ian Carlos Crawford. Veronica Liu of Fractious Press introduced the night by explaining the motivation behind the pop-up bookstore, Word Up, and then the readings began.

Here are some photos from the night:

Leigh Phillips

Michelle Cheever

Helen Vitoria

Ian Carlos Crawford

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July 12, 2011

TONIGHT: Holler! A Gigantic Sequins reading @ Word Up in NYC

Tonight! Be there!

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July 2, 2011

RAFFLE DATES EXTENDED!

We’ve extended the Welcome Summer Raffle until JULY 15th! Now there is more time for you to enter and win!

DO IT HERE

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June 27, 2011

Shine On, Welcome Summer, WORD UP, send us

1) Our Shine On reading in Pittsburgh to celebrate 2.2 was a success! Everything was lovely. Here are pictures of two of our three readers– our Poetry Editor forgot she had a camera at first, in all her excitement, so the wonderful Alayna Frankenberry is not pictured.

Elizabeth Hoover–

Jim Daniels–

Our lovely audience–

2) You can still order 2.2 and you also can still receive entry into our Welcome Summer Raffle. Every $5.00 you spend gets you 1 ticket to win. You can also enter lots of other ways, but don’t you want a copy of 2.2? We think you do.

3) We have a reading at the pop-up bookstore WORD UP in NYC forthcoming on July 12th. Visit this page again soon for more detailed information. You’re not going to want to miss this! Dig this article in the New York Times about the pop-up store.

4) Our submissions period is still open! Send us your best work today!

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June 17, 2011

2.2 Pittsburgh Event: SHINE ON

To celebrate the release of Issue 2.2, Gigantic Sequins presents a reading on JUNE 22nd featuring the following Pittsburgh poets and contributors:

Jim Daniels

Alayna Frankenberry

Elizabeth Hoover.

Doors 7:30, Reading at 8.
BYOB. Desserts included! Cover: $5.00

This lovely event will be held at the ModernFormations Gallery, 1919 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA.

Issues of Gigantic Sequins will be available for sale on-site. It will also be a last opportunity to buy tickets in-person for the Welcome Summer Raffle!

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June 7, 2011

It’s 2.2 eve…

Tomorrow, we will pick up the final printed version of our 2.2 issue. We are very excited. Have you pre-ordered yet? Are you aware that you can be entered into a drawing to win one of TEN PRIZE PACKAGES if you pre-order? Do it!

Gigantic Sequins 2.2 features…

ART by Jennifer Maidment, Joshua Gabriel & Josean Rivera

POETRY by Adam Atkinson, James Wagner, Leigh Phillips, Helen Vitoria, Joseph Calavenna, Jim Daniels, Matthew Siegel, Rich Ives, Natasha Kessler, James Caroline and Matthew Whitley

FICTION by LaTanya McQueen, Len Kutz, Michelle Cheever, Craig Bernier and Yelena Valer’evna Moskovich

Add Gigantic Sequins 2.2 to your summer reading list.

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May 15, 2011

The WELCOME SUMMER raffle

the WELCOME SUMMER RAFFLE is here!

We have TEN prize packages– that’s right, TEN– that each include between 2-4 prizes.

Here’s what you can win:

SIGNED BOOKS: Tea by D.A. Powell, The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn & Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder, Cocktails by D.A. Powell & Lunch by D.A. Powell, Like a Sea by Sam Amadon

HARDCOVER BOOKS: Landing Light by Don Paterson, Hart Crane, a life by Clive Fisher,The Bigger World by Nicole Kocot, Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer & I <3 Your Fate by Anthony McCann

PAPERBACK BOOKS: Glass City by John Grochalski, Revisions Of by Goodloe Byron

ART: pins handcrafted by Savannah Schroll Guz & animal sculptures made by Darla Jackson

CDs: blanketfort records Sampler 1.1, Bright Day by Emily Rodgers, VDMA by VDMA,Glenrose by Brendan Little

VINYL: Emily Easterly/J Seger split 45”

Tell all your friends!

TICKETS: 1/$5.00, 3/$10.00 OR 7/$20.00

TO ENTER: You have a few options!

1) Send a check made out to our editor in chief, Kimberly Ann Southwick, to 1223 Daly St. Philadelphia, PA 19148

2) Every PRE-ORDER of our upcoming issue 2.2 comes with a chance to win one of the ten prize packages! Get more for your money and pre-order today!

2) Email one of our editors to arrange a purchase: Sophie Klahr (sophie.klahr@gmail.com), Zach Yontz (zyontz@gmail.com) or Kimberly Ann Southwick (kimberlyannjosephine@gmail.com). We will be selling tickets in person, wherever we are.

3) You can also find us at our events! There will be a TBA event in Pittsburgh celebrating the release of issue 2.2. We are in the process of setting up various other events in places like Philadelphia, New York, Boston and/or Chicago!

Our fabulous prizes were donated graciously and gracefully by these wonderful people:

Blanketfort Records