LOGAN HOUSE PRESS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR TOWN
Got a story to tell about your hometown? Logan House Press (Winside, Lincoln NE) would like to hear and read about it for an upcoming publication.
Logan House is seeking submissions for its first volume of Our Town. Stories should be rich in character and show an aspect of Nebraska.
"We want stories that make this state come alive," said Logan House Publisher J.V. Brummels. "There's a character, a story, a legend in every town; we want people to capture that."
"Whether it's true or not, a fibbed or fabled tale, there's a slew of stories that never leave the kitchen table or back porch in Nebraska, and that's the kind of stories we're looking for. It's like the stories you hear your mother and father tell you," said Logan House Imagining Editor Jim Reese. "You just can't let them go."
Brummels, a Wayne State College Professor and Reese, a former student and writer, founded Logan House in 1995 to publish authors of the High Plains, including Nebraska, the Dakotas and Montana. Submissions are welcome from anyone, living anywhere.
"More than likely if they take the time to write about an experience, they've lived through it," Brummels said with a laugh. "Besides, we can spot a fake."
Fiction, tall tales, non-fiction and essays are welcome, but all stories must be set in Nebraska. No more than 2,000 words please, but consideration will be given to exceptional stories that are longer.
"There's room for all kinds of stories in Our Town," Reese said. "It can be set in the country, the city, a dirt road or high rise office building. Rudyard Kipling once said, words are the most powerful drug used by mankind, and I agree with him there--but the
stories are what we have to keep the mold intact. I mean, think about it, what would our lives be like without stories?"
Brummels hinted that Our Town, due out on January 2, 2002, might just be the first in a series of books featuring an eclectic gathering of voices and genres.
"If people like it, we might produce one annually," Reese said. "We can't offer any grand prize or trophy, what we can offer is that their story be told and held high in American tradition."
Logan House has previously published A Time To Sink Her Pretty Little Ship, the first book of fiction by Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, poetry chapbooks and a collection of short stories that was used as a textbook in Russia. Forthcoming from Logan House Press is Frankenstein Was A Negro by University of Nebraska at Kearney Professor of English, Charles Fort and the Logan House Anthology of Post Modern Poetry.
Submissions to Our Town are due by August 1st, 2001. All published writers will receive copies of the publication.
Send submissions to Logan House Press, c/o Jim Reese, 3954 Woods Boulevard, Lincoln, Neb. 68502 or loganhousepress@alltel.net. Visit the Logan House Press web page at:
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/logan-house.htm/
