Founder and Editor-in-Chief Andrea Grant is relaunching Copious Magazine on the web. The first issue is now available at copiousmagazine.com. The magazine, which “has been printed intermittently since 2001,” features “the finest in underground art, subculture, fashion, music events, literature, photography, film, and everyone’s favorite: pin-up girls!”
Grant writes “Our fans simply won’t wait any longer. We were reporting on Dita Von Teese before burlesque had its resurgence. We have existing relationships at all levels of the underground and an intuition for what’s gorgeous and up-and-coming. In a world that is getting more and more dangerous and thought-controlled by the minute, art is what uplifts and inspires. This is the right time to re-launch the magazine.”
She also says the magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews. Remarkably brief submission guidelines are here, though they don’t mention pay. Grant says “We do not just engage with a finished artistic product, but also the process through which work is created. Copious Magazine is ultimately a dialogue between the artists, the readers, the editors, and the work itself.”
The fiction and poetry in the current, Summer 2008, issue include:
“The Afghan” by J.L. Steinhoff
“Polychromatophilia” by Nic Kelman
“Revolutionary” by Ruth Dominguez
“Bacchus’s Villanelle” by Jonathan Vitarelli
several poems by Melissa Hansen
fiction by R.M. Schneiderman
several poems by Andrea Grant