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tor.com - 1/8/2009
Outshine: More short short fiction
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As previously reported here , Twitter seems to be inspiring new forms of expression in the science fiction community. Joining Thaumatrope is Outshine , a new weekly Twitter fiction zine from Jetse de Vries, former editor at Interzone and editor of the Shine anthology, which concerns itself with ...

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twitter.com - 1/6/2009
Twitter / Outshine
— twitter.com — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! Outshine is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start ... (more) Twitter / Outshine

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OUTSHINE submission guidelines « Shineanthology’s Weblog
shineanthology.wordpress.com - 1/6/2009
OUTSHINE submission guidelines « Shineanthology’s Weblog
— shineanthology.wordpress.com — Outshine A Twitterzine for optimistic, near future prose poems. They’re flash length, and look ahead: why not call them flashforwards ? poetic_elements_1 Submission guidelines: What I’m looking for: prose poems of optimistic, near future SF that fit ... (more) OUTSHINE submission guidelines « ...
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Picowebzines as paying markets
Futurismic — We’ve already mentioned Thaumatrope here on Futurismic, but thanks to the ever-vigilant people at Tor.com we hear that Jetse de Vries - the man behind the forthcoming Shine anthology of optimist sf - is starting another Twitter-based webzine named Outshine, due to launch January 14th; check the Shine anthology blog for submission guidelines. Two new venues for picofiction, both of them paying markets… is this a fad, or a sign of things to come? I don’t think ...

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