From the Board Over a year in the formation, ILEF is incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of Michigan. Currently funded by its Board of Directors, ultimately, we will be seeking grants to further implement our mission. All members will be asked to join at least one committee -- as we plan to be an active, working organization; our focus is on online literary sites whose main means of distribution is the Internet. Please send your committee preference(s) to ilef@heelstone.com When we have received all of your committtee info., chairpersons will be in contact with details on initial meetings. If you have any questions/comments on this or any other ILEF matters, please feel free to contact us. To apply for ILEF membership, please use our application form. Calls for Submissions, Contests and Other Announcements 2River has just released its latest addition to the 2River Chapbook Series, the Gospel according to Thomas, a cycle of poems by kris kahn, in which he explores the paradoxical intimacy that comes with loss. You can read it by going to http://www.2River.org where you'll see a link to the chapbook. 2River has released the 6.1 (Fall 2001) issue of THE 2RIVER VIEW, with new poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Laura Hartman, Romana Iorga, Elizabeth Knapp, Ann Neuser Lederer, Walt McDonald, Mark Melton, Allan Peterson, Matthew Schmeer, and Leonore Wilson, and art by David Zvanut. You can read it online or download a PDF by going to http://www.2River.org Also, beginning November 1, 2River will begin litter pick-up along a stretch of adopted HWY E in Jefferson County as part of Missouri's Adopt-A-Highway program. The remote 2-mile stretch of highway is a highly unlikely spot for a sign that says Poetry, Art, Theory. Look for a picture of it in mid November. Since 1996, 2River has been a site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. Anthropophagy.com strives to present original, creative, challenging, and experimental visual and textual works. By providing a format for this kind of work, anthropophagy.com attempts to challenge and engage in both new kinds of art practices and in new ways of reading. The magazine's overall approach is eclectic. We hope to combine various visual pieces (illustrations and photographs) with essays, interviews, prose, some poetry, and any other highly crafted, cross-genre concoctions; and we hope to eventually streamline short films. Anthropophagy.com's next "rolling" issue will be online March 15. Edited by Amanda Lynn Jones and Brian P. Katz, this issue will feature work by Margie Schnibbe, Alessandro Thompson, J.F. Foster, and Brendan O'Connor, interviews with Naomi Uman and Margie Schnibbe by Amanda Jones, and more. Please visit anthropophagy.com now and repeatedly. We update the site often. http://www.anthropophagy.com/ Bluff Magazine will be written up in the CityScapes section of Milwaukee's Shepherd-Express-Metro http://www.shepherd-express.com, sometime around March 1. John Kusch Bluff Magazine jkusch@wi.rr.com Conspire- a journal of literary art Issue 19 - Fall 2000 www.conspire.org Poetry David Cazden Bridget Gage-Dixon AnnMarie Eldon Anna R. Hall Sharon Kourous Eleanor Stuart Patton SuZi Prose Amanda Ngozi Adichie Irving A. Greenfield Alex Keegan Joshua Lefkowitz Bianca Stewart Michelle Vlatkovic Exploring Literature Randy Money- "Escape?" Jack Marion- "Visions from Bukowski at the Golden Dragon" Also... News from the on-line literary community ______________________ Conspire Issue 20 - Feb. 2002: The 4th Annual Women's Issue. Accepting submissions November 18th - Feb. 1st., for poetry, prose poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, gender-specific essays from women writers, and literary essays regarding women & literature from all writers: Include "Women's Issue" in your subject line when submitting. Male authors who are interested, are encouraged to submit theory articles regarding women and literature. ______________________ best wishes from Conspire, CK Tower, Lead Editor Fanoula Sevastos, Prose Editor Randy Money, Exploring Literature(prose) Jack Marion, Exploring Literature(poetry) A new edition of Friction Magazine is now online. I invite you to stop by to see the new material we've added in all categories. William Peck, Publisher/Webmaster Friction Magazine - a journal of writers and artists http://www.frictionmag.com Three doors to art and literature. *** On 16 October 2001, gangway.net received a prestigious at-award in Vienna. The jury: "This site is neither particularly beautiful nor particularly fast. It is rather an example of consistent use of particular possibilities of the Internet, enabling small initiatives to publish worldwide and extensively, and thereby fostering an understanding for culture and the arts. The international high standard of its interesting and vast contents does the rest." *** Drei Tueren zu Kunst und Literatur. Call for Submissions *** GANGAN.COM Contemporary Australian and Austrian (experimental) literature. Two manuscripts for online publication will be accepted in 2001. http://www.gangan.com *** GANGART.COM Door #2 is under construction to be relaunched in early 2002. The forum is open for ideas and suggestions on art and culture. http://www.gangart.com *** GANGWAY.NET Issue #21 - September 2001 will be out shortly. Open for submissions for issue #22 - December 2001. http://www.gangway.net Regards Gerald Ganglbauer Three doors to art and literature. Drei Tueren zu Kunst und Literatur. www.gangan.com | www.gangart.com | www.gangway.net PO Box 522, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, (Sydney) Australia Ph.: +61 2 9280 2120 - Mobile: 0411 156 309 Fax: +61 2 9280 2130 - E-Mail: gerald@gangart.com N E W . O N . O Z P O E T Our August Showcase is open for submissions from Australian poets. This month we are inviting you to submit a poem on the topic of "Relatives, relations and relativities" that you have written in the past 12 months. ANDREW BURKE and GILLIAN SAVAGE will be the selectors. Submissions are being displayed on the site as they come in and you can access them through the Showcase page. The OZpoet July Showcase is now online with the theme "Animals -- fur + fin + feather". The Showcase, selected by Coral Hull and Carolyne Bruyn, offers a quality selection of the poems submitted. From the Showcase page you can link to the Submissions page and browse through all the offerings. Discussion is welcome on the Message Board. Poets featured in the July Showcase are: Pat Corbin, Carolyn Cordyn, John Stokes, John West, Gloria Yates. While you're at OZpoet, check out some of the sites listed in the reference pages and keep up to date what Australian poets are doing online. Come and enjoy the new offerings, Gillian Savage OZpoet http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gbsavage/ozpoet.html Issue No. 41 of PIF MAGAZINE, October 2000 - Your FREE Literary Monthly - Is Online Now at http://www.pifmagazine.com Now online: The Salt River Review, Vol. V, No.2, Spring, 2002 <http://www.poetserv.org/> With POETRY BY David Graham,David Howard, Rhoda Janzen, Laura Jensen, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Janine Kelley, Muriel Nelson, Anthony Robinson, Pamela Stewart, Robert Sward, Ian Randall Wilson & Vasilis Zambaras FICTION BY Michael Anguiano, Dylan Maiden & Sylvia Wheeler CREATIVE NON-FICTION by Laraine Herring & Helen Ruggieri The newest issue of Terrain is out at http://www.terrain.org/, with the theme of 'Energy.' TERRAIN ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR "THE MOUNTAIN'S RANGE" Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, now averaging over 75,000 hits per month, is currently seeking submissions of poetry, essays, fiction, articles, and reviews for Issue No. 8, "The Mountain's Range," which will be online September 8. Submissions are due to editors@terrain.org by August 10. For more information, including submission guidelines and an overview of upcoming themes, visit Terrain or drop a note to the editors. Please send your news items to jvcervantes@earthlink.net This page will be updated as needed.