About this project
(quick-note: the green face/sketch above is by Numa Amun, a Canadian artist, and may be used as the cover of our next issue)
IMPORTANT UPDATE: EVERY BACKER OF OUR PROJECT WILL GET OUR AWESOME CUSTOM POSTCARDS, SENT TO YOUR DOOR PRE-STAMPED FOR YOU TO SEND TO SOMEONE YOU LOVE OR HATE.
It is low-brow if you read it that way, it is high-brow if you read it that way. We want to hijack your internal narrative, get you out of your life for a bit and into something else.
- Our "mission statement" which opens every issue of theNewerYork reads:
- Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use
- Of his own nature, and the various arts,
- And likes particularly to produce
- Some new experiment to show his parts;
- This is the age of oddities let loose.
-Lord Byron
This is our experiment. We publish lists, fictional glossaries, internet forums, classified ads, post-cards, love letters, aphorisms, fragments, punctuationless stories, upside down stories, and other absurdities.
Our first issue, which was funded on Kickstarter, turned out wonderful, our second issue will be exponentially better. Having established a strong distribution base in independent bookstores and boutiques in New York City, Los Angeles, and Paris (see our website for details) as well as a good relationship with writers and printers, this next issue will have higher quality writing, higher quality art, and twice the amount of narratives.
For submissions we place ads in newspapers, online, in cafes, with stickers, over Twitter and also search through short fiction blogs. Our writers and artists come from all over the world.
We will print about 2000 copies total, depending on pricing. Estimated cost, $5,700. The rest of the money will be used to pay for some rights to art, shipping rewards, and design costs.
Ask us any questions you might have. We thank you very much for your continued support and hope you love the mag.
The book is printed by Brio Books in Minneapolis and the e-book is made using Folium Book Studio and is sold through Paypal, Amazon, and Google.
FAQ
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Not as of now but hopefully for future issues. All artists and writers get to submit their own bio-blurb and put in their desired contact info. Also, theNewerYork does not ask for or retain any rights to the submitted work, so contributors may do as they wish with their work elsewhere. We want theNewerYork to be a stage for writers who wish to experiment with form, so we can help each other spring those forms, and conceptual literature, into the mainstream.
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Our mag will be available in print, PDF, and e-pub formats. However, our graphic design messes with the printed word often requiring you to turn the book sideways or upside down, these quirks come across only dimly with a PDF and almost not at all with the e-pub. Both electronic editions will be readable and enjoyable, but theNewerYork is in many ways a print only magazine. In the future we hope to offer a discount to people who have purchased the digital editions and would like to see them in print.
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
Pledge $2 or more Pledge $2 or more
YOU DON'T GET NOTHING FROM US, SLACKER!
Pledge $5 or more Pledge $5 or more
You get a PDF (or e-book) of our 2nd issue. And good karma.
Pledge $15 or more Pledge $15 or more
Free digital editions of both the 1st and 2nd issue plus a shout-out on our sponsors page (in the book) and on our Twitter.
Pledge $25 or more Pledge $25 or more
A copy of our 2nd issue signed by the editors and sent right to your door. (With some stickers and a handwritten thank you note!)
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A copy of the first AND second issue of theNewerYork sent right to your door. (With stickers! and signed by editors!)
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A copy of the first AND second issue of theNewerYork sent right to your door. (With stickers! and signed by editors!) a NewerYork t-shirt (design pending), pre-stamped NewerYork Postcard for someone you hate or love. Name listed on the sponsors page. And the gods will rejoice in you.
Pledge $100 or more Pledge $100 or more
One of the pieces in the book handwritten and framed. Get your name listed on the sponsors page. A copy of the first and second issue of theNewerYork sent right to your door. (With stickers! and signed!)
Pledge $111 or more Pledge $111 or more
INTERNATIONAL BACKERS: Same as the 70$ donation except accounting for extra shipping costs.
Pledge $500 or more Pledge $500 or more
All above awards plus a copy signed by as many contributors as possible. Framed hard-copy of an original personal letter, postcard, or art that was published in the book. One or both of the editors will call you and read you their favorite pieces. Automatically get a free digital edition of future issues of theNewerYork sent to you.
Pledge $3,000 or more Pledge $3,000 or more
At least 2 contributors will come to your house and read from the mag/entertain you and your friends for a night with literary delights. (Only US/Canada/Mexico) Plus get the original painting that was used as the cover to our first issue. Plus get an original painting by PaulRichard (www.PaulRichard.net)
Project By
Connected as Roshua Jaab (498 friends)
I am Josh, artistic manager and editor at theNewerYork Mag.
We have offices (meaning people with computers who help us) in Paris, New York City and Los Angeles.
I went to school for English and Philosophy (the money makers).
I like yoga, reading, classical piano, composting, gluten-free diets and hybrid cars, but when the time is right, I also like beer, trucks, shotguns, cigarettes, and dubstep (usually simultaneously).
I hope to grow theNewerYork into something bigger, a community/stage for experimental writers.
I've got big plans.
