7X20 twitterzine looking for a new editor

From Joanne Merriam:

Hey everybody. Between my full-time job, managing Upper Rubber Boot and having some sort of approximation of a life, I am finding it is just too much to continue editing 7x20. After four years, too, a fresh perspective would probably benefit the publication. Accordingly, I'm looking for somebody to take it over.

7x20 is a Twitter zine, which means it is published only to Twitter. We have about 3,000 followers. I follow back everybody who isn't obviously a bot or an SEO marketer. Based on my knowledge of Twitter reading patterns, tweets are probably read by about 1/3 to 1/2 of our followers every day, although this is really difficult to get reliable data on.

Posts are limited to 140 characters by their system, and in addition to that, I require people to include their name or Twitter handle at the end of their submission (so that if people retweet it - over which I have no control, and which happens frequently) the attribution for the work isn't lost. This limits the character count even more. I accept very (very) short stories, six-word stories, American sentences, cinquains, and an awful lot of haiku (haiku, senryu and related forms are the most commonly written things that comfortably fit the character count), both literary and speculative. There's no pay, but since the work is so very short, and we also tweet a bio that promotes (and hopefully sells) the author's books, and we accept reprints, nobody has complained about that. The zine also makes no money, and this is a non-paying "for the love" kind of gig.

It's not terribly onerous. I get several submissions every week, unless I explicitly ask for more, and post new work week-daily (that is, daily except for weekends). I read and answer submissions, and plan and schedule posting of work (which I use hootsuite to automate, so this is not a daily task for me), about monthly, and it generally takes me 3-6 hours to get through everything.

Sometimes (and this is more time-consuming, but lots of fun) I troll through back-issues of publications that publish very short works (eg Four and Twenty, Heron's Nest, etc.) and reach out to the authors of exceptional pieces to ask them for reprint rights and invite them to submit. The zine is well-established enough now that the occasional call for submissions is all that's needed to receive enough quality work to keep it going.

If you have an afternoon a month to devote to it, and an interest in very short forms, this could be for you! Email me off-list (here at joannemerriam@gmail.com) with your editing experience and your experience with Twitter. Thanks!

Joanne Merriam
http://www.joannemerriam.com
Editor, Seven by Twenty: http://twitter.com/7x20
Editor, Upper Rubber Boot Books: http://www.upperrubberboot.com/

Most recent release: Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days
http://www.upperrubberboot.com/apocalypse-now/

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I'm in @7X20 today

Follow the famed twitterzine @7x20

scifaiku at 7x20 today

By me. Go to @7x20 on twitter.

haiku in 7x20 today

by me!

New twitter anthology

I'm in there

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006KLYF8G/

My work in 7x20 today

@7x20 on twitter.

Plus, here's today's blogoem:

Louise Crumpet was
savaged by dandelions
her brother's fault

Kickstarter for anthology

I have work forthcoming in 140 AND COUNTING, an anthology of twitter literature originally published in Seven by Twenty. Check it out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1431077765/140-and-counting-an-anthology-of-twitter-literatur

Note that Kickstarter provides rewards for donors. The rewards for donating to this:

$5: A copy of the anthology. (Since the book will cost $5, this is essentially a pre-order of the book.)

$10: The anthology, and two other books (poetry chapbook Blueshifting by Heather Kamins and poetry collection The Glaze from Breaking by Joanne Merriam).

$25: The above, and a thank you in a sponsor listing in the book and on the website of Upper Rubber Boot Books for the next year.

$50: The above, PLUS a one- to two-page manuscript evaluation by the editor (she may comment on aesthetics, word choice, setting, characterization, description, pacing, plot holes, marketability, and other things to consider when revising your work) on up to ten of your poems or a short story (under 5,000 words).

$100: Free copies of every book Upper Rubber Boot publishes for the next five years.

There's a video with details on how the funding works: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1431077765/140-and-counting-an-anthology-of-twitter-literatur

Poetry or nanofic

My writing will be in 140 And Counting, an anthology of twitlit – pre-order here: http://is.gd/IhJ8WK

It's all good, from 7x20.

me on twitter

nanofic on @7x20 today

my latest 2day

http://twitter.com/7x20

new tanka by me at 7x20

http://twitter.com/7x20

Laurel part 4

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15846227477
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https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15846230758

part 3 of Laurel

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15776843454
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https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15776846349

nanofic Laurel part 2

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15702251031
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https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15702254371

fiction and more fiction

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/06/until-we-run-out-of-cake/

That one is by Luc Reid, but I have a nanostory at 7x20 today on Twitter, part one of "Laurel."

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623940994
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https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623956355
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https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623959583

sf nanofic

http://twitter.com/7x20/status/8631383862
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http://twitter.com/7x20/status/8631385440

them pesky aliens!

http://twitter.com/7x20/status/3909739937

my new nano fiction

http://twitter.com/7x20/status/3885955326

nanofic-o-th-day

http://twitter.com/7x20/status/3861682050

new genre/lit twitterzine

https://twitter.com/7x20

Includes sf poem by me, prob. tomorrow