SPRING 2004 RED WHEELBARROW GREEN SHEET & PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

EWRT 65-01 (#0905)

Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine

Classroom: Sem 5

Weekly meeting time: 4:00-6:30

Instructor: Ken Weisner, 864-5797

Ken's Office: FORUM 3G

Office Hours: M & W: 11:15-12:15; T: 12:30-1:30; Th: 1:30-2:30

Magazine office: L41 read manuscripts here

weisnerken@fhda.edu and gyre@cruzio.com

Online group, listserv (broadcast email for Red W staff & friends): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redwheelbarrow; redwheelbarrow@yahoogroups.com

The editing and production schedule is roughly as follows:

April 7 Introductions, information sheets, orientation.

April 14 Whole staff meets to discuss work in hand. Publicity, solicitation reports. Process in place.

April 21 Editorial

April 28 Editorial

May 5 Editorial

May 12 Editorial

May 19 Editorial: SUBMISSION DEADLINE THIS WEEK

May 26 Editorial: last minute submissions, and final decisions.

June 2 Editorial plus art. Order, design. Production time.

June 9 Book should be in final production stage by tonight: close to press ready. Proofread. Send out later this week.

June 16 Send out final "rejects," publicize event.

June 23 Book in hand; book party: Reading + Contest winners.

Course Goals and Requirements:

Greetings Friends of the Wheelbarrow; welcome to “the making of a literary magazine in three months”! We did it last year; we can do it again! Our plan is to have the book in hand finals week.

All student edition manuscripts will be anonymous——names removed. Manuscripts will have a number instead. We can refer to the pieces by number and by title and by other stuff like you know “the weird one about the flying dog,” etc.

All manuscripts are first logged in (recorded and given a number by managing editor). Screeners (at least two) then do initial reads and rate the manuscripts. The screeners indicate whether there is "maybe" potential; if there is, then everyone on the magazine is asked to read and make a comment. See comment/rating sheet (available in L41).

Write all comments on the outer envelopes and comment sheets. Posting comments to the Yahoo site is also fine. I will get you signed up on the Yahoo site by the end of this week. Look out for the invitation in your email; you may need to respond to it.

Electronic manuscripts are very encouraged! We will log them in, print out one copy for the office, and then most often post the piece as an attachment on the website. We can comment on manuscripts through the listserv, using it as a forum. We also hope to have a volunteer on the staff to scan worthwhile hard copy manuscripts into electronic form so we can post them that way. Reminder: please don’t accidentally (or on purpose!) write directly on an original manuscript (unless we have already agreed to ask for revisions and are working on the manuscript with revision in mind).

Check the listserv/e-mail for meeting agenda updates. Work in the wire basket in the L41 office: is work we plan to discuss that upcoming Wednesday night. Read and prepare for Wednesday meetings, and comment on the work——especially all work in your genre area if you are specializing. That is the "homework" in this course! One other reminder: please don’t remove manuscripts from the office without special permission.

Please do not to be overly flip in your assessments; the work we are evaluating could easily be from one of us on the staff or from someone’s friend! Honest evaluation need not be meanness. Ours is a fun, important task requiring respect for truth, for art, for craft-- and for one another. When our own work is being discussed, we don’t let on. Like all writers through eternity, we keep our hopes sky high but also stay prepared to wallpaper our rooms with the requisite slurry of rejection slips.

On Wednesday evenings, we will focus on discussing "maybes"——poems, stories, plays, etc., from the wire basket. Votes are taken after plentiful discussion; everyone gets an equal vote. Up through May 26th, we can still vote to put work back into the maybe pile, or to ask for revisions—or to put off tough decisions. But June 2 is the day of reckoning: only yeses and nos after that. Notice that the submission deadline is May 19^th by 3:00 P.M. Tell your friends to send work, and send some yourself! Encourage everyone to send work in EARLY.

Now let's get out there and hustle work! The best case scenario for submissions is an email submission. You can submit: up to five poems; one short story of up to 4,000 words (16 pages) or three “short shorts”; one play or screenplay (4,000 words); up to five black and white prints or b/w digital files (.tif or .psd format) photographs or drawings; up to one b/w comic strip; a book review of up to 1,000 words; or any other creative text or image that you can imagine that I have left out here! Let's have a great quarter. —kw

Red Wheelbarrow Staff Info Sheet, Student Edition, 2004

Name:

E-mail:

Phone:

Address:

Amount of units of EWRT 65 you are taking:

Your expectations, hopes for the EWRT 65 experience:

Areas that especially interest you (check as many as you like):

Poetry Editor:

Fiction Editor:

Art Editor:

Managing:

Production:

Proofreading: √

Publicity:

Marketing, distribution:

Event coordinator:

Contest coordinator:

Videographer:

E-Zine dream/website:

Other: _____________________