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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock #6: Westerns

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Booksellers are encouraged to send works fitting the theme of Westerns. They pretty much publish just about any type of genre or form. Simultaneous submissions welcome, but no previously published works will be considered. Submissions over 3,000 words may not be considered. One to two fiction pieces only for each theme, or, if sending shorter works under 1,000 words each then up to three. Up to 7 poems per theme. Up to 4 – 12 images for art. See website for more details.

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Fictional Film Club Book Release

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

This is the launch event for the new book FICTIONAL FILM CLUB by MARK SAVAGE, published by DEEP OVERSTOCK. There will be: Readings, invocations of the impossible, a live ritual in tribute to art that will never be. With snacks 'n' booze, glamour 'n' shoes. Bring your friends/crushes/lovers and receive bonus Tokens of Cool* In FICTIONAL FILM CLUB, our narrator attempts to review a series of movies that don't exist. From here, he slips into an ever more obsessive and self-obsessive unreality of made-up movie stars, false features, and perverse productions. MARK SAVAGE is writer and musician from Portsmouth, England. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is the host of the MIND-MELD, CAPTAIN OF STORYTIME, and the founding member of the FICTIONAL FILM CLUB.…

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Deep Overstock Issue #6: Westerns Release Party and Reading

ILWU Local 5 Union Hall 920 West Burnside, Portland, OR, United States

Yeehaw, y’all!!! Please join us this Friday the 18th at 7:30pm at the ILWU Local 5 Union Hall (920 W Burnside) for the release of Issue #6: Westerns 🤠 Huge thanks to the immensely talented @weirdefruit for designing our cover! Come out for readings, booze, and a rollicking good ol’ time.

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue #7 “Horror”

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Horror writers and artists! Please submit to our upcoming issue. Submissions are due next Wednesday, November 20th 👻 General Guidelines We publish fiction, poetry, comics, art, images, medical reports, plays, essays, philosophies, sculptures, sounds, mushroom dataset analyses, magic spells, fairy tales, folklore, riddles, jokes, horoscopes, death-predictions, and more. Surprise us! Simultaneous submissions are fine, just tell us if the piece gets accepted elsewhere. No previously published works (though personal blogs are fine). Include a short bio about you, your work, and your role as a bookseller, librarian, or book collection steward in the body of your email. If you have been published previously, we will use your previously used bio unless you provide an updated one. Submissions over 3000 words might not be considered. Email…

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Deep Overstock Issue 7 Launch

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a launch event with reading from contributors to the latest issue of Deep Overstock, the booksellers' journal. The theme for this issue is Horror. Deep Overstock #7: Horror is here! Come out on Friday the 13th for readings, journal copies, booze, and snacks. Confirmed readers: Robert Torres Mark Savage Benjamin Kessler Doug Chase

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HYPNOZINE Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A release party for us all to slip into the HYPNO-verse. HYPNOZINE: THE BIRTH OF HYPNO is an illustrated psychedelic science fiction novel that ebbs and flows between narrative and poetry written by Jason Squamata, with illustrations and design by Andrew Mc Kenzie. It’s a mythology from a weird future that shifts and shimmers on the other side of our chaos. A book-shaped game that kisses the eye and says “play.”

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Light Sleeper Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Light Sleeper: Poems is the newest poetry collection by Coleman Stevenson. Please join us for a virtual release party, at which Coleman will read from the book, answer questions, and perform bibliomancy with the book itself! This is a FREE event. RSVP and pre-registration required! Access the registration page here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkfu2qrT4sHdG05oHAjEtgel5ZlkbBg9s9 Coleman Stevenson is the author of Breakfast: 43 Poems (Reprobate/GobQ Books, 2015), The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609 (Bedouin Books, 2012), and a number of books and decks for divination through her company The Dark Exact. See more about her tarot and fine art work at www.colemanstevenson.com.

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A Reading with Coleman Stevenson, Shayla Lawson, Stephanie Adams-Santos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Hosted on Zoom by Daedalus Books and Deep Overstock RSVP at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-mgqTMiE9aRJKRBm1NNrgGjRqVBIK4g. Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poetry (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), The Dark Exact Tarot Guide, and a book of essays accompanying the card game Metaphysik. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as Seattle Review, Mid-American Review, Louisiana Literature, tarot.com, and the anthology Motionless from the Iron Bridge. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the Pacific Northwest, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon,…

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue 11: Animals

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Submissions for Issue 11: Animals closes in just one week on 11/30. Keep those animal poems, stories and art comin'! We publish fiction, poetry, comics, art, images, medical reports, plays, essays, philosophies, sculptures, sounds, mushroom dataset analyses, magic spells, fairy tales, folklore, riddles, jokes, horoscopes, death-predictions, and more. Surprise us! Simultaneous submissions are fine, just tell us if the piece gets accepted elsewhere. No previously published works (though personal blogs are fine). Submissions over 3000 words might not be considered.

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue 19: Hacking

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Submissions for Issue 19: Hacking are now open. Submit your piece(s) by November 30, 2022. The color of the cover will be Gray. General Guidelines We publish fiction, poetry, comics, art, images, medical reports, plays, essays, philosophies, sculptures, sounds, mushroom dataset analyses, magic spells, fairy tales, folklore, riddles, jokes, horoscopes, death-predictions, and more. Surprise us! We have open submissions on a rolling basis. *Winter Issue: Open September 1st through November 30th. Release: January. Spring Issue: Open December 1st through February 28th. Release: April. Summer Issue: Open March 1st through May 31st. Release: July. Fall Issue: Open June 1st through August 31st. Release: October. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if the piece gets accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published works. Include…

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