Michael A. Burstein reports on the existence of a new webzine, Polu Texni, which is subtitled “a Magazine of Many Arts.” The first issue, which is now available, has artwork by Pat Lillich; “Double Occupancy” (fiction) by Jack Skillingstead; the first part of a serialized story, “Transit”, by Adam Rurik; and interviews with Lillich and Skillingstead.
According to editor Dawn Albright, the magazine’s name “is a Greek phrase meaning many arts. It’s the same root word as polytechnic. Polu Texni is a web magazine about mixed-media arts and speculative or weird fiction. We’re interested in the intersection where different media, styles, crafts, and genres meet to create something more interesting than what they would be alone.” Albright also tells a little about herself: “she is a statistician in her day job, who also writes, sculpts, and sews whenever she can. She was co-founder of Avesta Blues Press (formerly Angelus Press) in the late 1990s. This project [the webzine] is a continuation of where that left off.”
The second issue, which is scheduled to go live on 29 September, should have the second part of Rurik’s story, a short by Burstein, and an article on the art of costuming.
The magazine is free, but donations are requested. The writers’ guidelines note that the magazine will pay 3 to 5 cents a word for fiction (but they’re full and not reading right now) and non-fiction (which they do need; queries welcome).