Hi all,
We just want to begin by saying what a difficult decision this was. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your work. The following finalist and semifinalists were selected from over 180 manuscripts. Please know that each manuscript was read carefully (and more than once) before making our final decision. With that said, we are very excited to announce our selection from the 2018 Radioactive Cloud Chapbook Open Reading Period. Radioactive Cloud will publish the following chapbook in 2019:
We just want to begin by saying what a difficult decision this was. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your work. The following finalist and semifinalists were selected from over 180 manuscripts. Please know that each manuscript was read carefully (and more than once) before making our final decision. With that said, we are very excited to announce our selection from the 2018 Radioactive Cloud Chapbook Open Reading Period. Radioactive Cloud will publish the following chapbook in 2019:
Pollen Path
by Alex Gregor
Alex Gregor is a writer, editor, and educator from Atlanta, Georgia currently living in Rome, Italy. He is one of the founding editors of OOMPH!, an international literary press that publishes contemporary poetry and short prose in translation, as well as the banjo player in the band, The Ship & The Swell. His poems and short stories have appeared both online and in print. You can follow him online at www.marginalcomets.com
We also found the following manuscripts equally impressive and we sincerely wish we had the time and resources to publish more chapbooks this year. Our 2018 semifinalists (in no particular order):
The Outlaw, the Red Ghost, Half-lives, a Photograph Exposed by the Dirt by Zachary Anderson
House Arrest by Logan Berry
in the house on the cusp of light by Ryan Bollenbach
Dogteeth by Levi Cain
I Saw Detroit in a Hat by Eric Dolan
Wretch Poetics by Evan Gray
Late in the Long Now by James Meetze
May/be by Rachel Mindell
Objects &/or Locations by JJ Rowan
One Green Eye, One Topsoil Eye by Lindsey Warren
Thank you again to everyone who sent us work! We appreciate your support!
All best,
Paul Cunningham & Jake Syersak
Managing Editors
The Outlaw, the Red Ghost, Half-lives, a Photograph Exposed by the Dirt by Zachary Anderson
House Arrest by Logan Berry
in the house on the cusp of light by Ryan Bollenbach
Dogteeth by Levi Cain
I Saw Detroit in a Hat by Eric Dolan
Wretch Poetics by Evan Gray
Late in the Long Now by James Meetze
May/be by Rachel Mindell
Objects &/or Locations by JJ Rowan
One Green Eye, One Topsoil Eye by Lindsey Warren
Thank you again to everyone who sent us work! We appreciate your support!
All best,
Paul Cunningham & Jake Syersak
Managing Editors
