Elektrik Milk Bath Press

1-2-2012

Happy New Year To All!!!!

We are hard at work wrapping up the Oceans anthology.  We have about 20 submissions remaining and we have already begun weeding through our shortlist.  Final decisions will be going out throughout the month and we'll be posting the TOC and cover as soon as they are finalized.

We are still catching up on submissions for Paper Crow.  Everyone who submitted to us will receive a response.  We have not forgotten you.

Also, there have been more complications with the mail.  This has caused a huge delay in some contributors receiving their copies/payments.  We are working hard to correct this and are in the process of resending copies.  We apologize for the frustration and are extremely thankful for your patience.

Finally, we are excited to have three new projects in the works.  Details on these, including submissions guidelines, will be posted as soon as we are caught up.

11-23-2011

The winners of our Fall Giveaway have been announced.  Congratulations to Laura Blackwell, Paul Bates, Rachel Ayers, and grand prize winner Sophia James.

Thanks to everyone who participated!!  If you were a winner, your goodies are on their way!

11-15-2011

Just a quick update on the status of all projects.

We will post the winners of our Fall giveaway as soon as we have their  permission to do so.

We will be responding to the last of the Oceans  submissions over the next week or so, and then we will be making final decisions regarding all shortlisted stories.

We are working hard to catch up on our Paper Crow submissions and hope to be open to new subs for the month of December.

Finally, we are finalizing the schedule for next year's projects.  We will be announcing a new call for submissions once the Oceans anthology is completed.

10-15-2011

The latest issue of Paper Crow is available in the bookstore.  Check it (or any of our other fine and fabulous offerings) out for a chance to win goodies inclduing Dia de los Muertos-themed prizes, gift cards, and other goodies.  For full details, see the post below!

10-1-2011

It's our favorite time of year and we want to celebrate it with you.  

We are offering the Dia de los Muertos anthology at a reduced price for the month of October.  Also, for those who purchase the antho from our bookstore during this month, we will throw in a free copy of the newly released Ephemera. 

Also, if you buy any book from our website bookstore in October you will be automatically entered to win cool prizes in our Halloween/Dia de los Muertos giveaway.  We have several prizes, including a goody basket filled with Dia de los Muertos-themed items.  Winners will be chosen at random from qualifying entrants throughout the month of October and the grand-prize goody-basket winner will be chosen on November 2nd.  Winners will be notified via the e-mail they provide and they will also be listed here.

The full list of prizes will be posted soon.

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9-30-2011

There is a lot going on at Elektrik Milk Bath Press!!

Below is a quick catch up . . .  more detailed announcements will be coming soon.

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First, huge congratulations to our Dia de los Muertos authors!! The book has been named a finalist in three categories for the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards.  Winners will be announced on November 18th. 

On Sunday, October 9th, there will be a book release party and poetry reading for In the Garden of the Crow at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.  More information coming soon.  Get your tickets here.

The latest issue of Paper Crow is at the printer and will be available soon.  We are still reading through the last round of submissions and are almost caught up. If you have not heard from us, you will.

We are also still reading for the Oceans antho.  We had an overwhelming number of submissions and still have about 100 remaining.  We are reading and responding every day.  Thanks for your patience. 

Because we are so behind in our reading, we are not opening to submissions for Paper Crow on October 1st.  We will remain temporarily closed until we are caught up.  As soon as we know our next open reading period, we will announce it here.

More updates will be posted over the weekend.

8-16-2011

We are temporarily closed to submissions.  Thank you for your patience while we catch up.

The submissions for the Oceans anthology have been overwhelming and we are still trying to catch up.  We have accepted a few pieces and have shortlisted some others and still have a little over 100 subs to read through.  If we do not fill the anthology, which is extremely unlikely, we will re-open to submissions. 

We are behind on Paper Crow submissions as well and are working to catch up.  Responses are going out every day. 

New announcements will be coming soon.

7-25-2011

In the Garden of the Crowis now available and we are giving away copies over at Goodreads.

We are still reading/responding to submissions for the Oceans anthology.  We still have over 100 submissions to get through so please be patient.  If you have not yet heard from us, you are still under consideration.

More updates coming soon.

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7-6-2011

Dia de los Muertos has received an awesome review over at Red Room.  Check it out!!  We are beyond thrilled!

In the Garden of the Crow will be released later this month and is now available for pre-order.  Order now and take advantage of our special summer sale price!

We are still reading for the Oceans anthology as well as Paper Crow.  Responses are slowly making their way to you.  Will post an update soon regarding our progress.

6-26-2011

We are behind on our responses but want to assure everyone all projects are still a go.  We are responding to your query e-mails in the order they are received.  For those of you who have not yet heard from us, we do respond to all submissions.  If you have not yet received an individual response to your submission, your work is still under consideration.

Updates regarding specific projects will be coming over the next couple of days.

5-6-2011

COVER ART NEEDED

We are taking cover art submissions for our In the Garden of the Crow anthology as well as our Oceans.  Interested artists may send sample artwork and/or queries to artsubs at elektrikmilkbathpress dot com. Artwork should somehow fit either the titles and/or the themes of the anthologies.  For more detailed information, please see our submissions page.

We have almost finished reading for the antho and hope to send out the remaining responses this week.  We are down to the very end and the final decisions are hard to make.  If you have not yet heard from us, you are still under consideration.  Those poems not used for the antho are also being considered for upcoming issues of Paper Crow.

We are also reading the latest Paper Crow submissions, as well as those stories submitted for the Oceans antho. 

More updates coming soon.

4-24-2011

The newest Paper Crow 2.1 is now available.  

We are behind in our responses due to some unforseen issues but we are scambling to catch up.  We are reading over the remaining submissions for the Garden antho and have posted a partial line-up on the Garden page. We will continue to add names as contributors are confirmed. We received a ton of submissions for this project (as well as for Oceans) and have roughly 100 poems still remaining to sort through.  If you have not yet heard from us, you are still under consideration.  All submissions should be receiving a response soon, as we are hoping to wrap up the antho over the next two to three weeks.

We are also still reading for Oceans. So far, we have accepted 3 pieces and have shortlisted a few more.  Again, if you have not yet heard from us, your story is still under consideration.     

3-27-2011

About four days remaining until the Oceans antho closes to submissions.  We are working hard to catch up on responses but are still quite behind.  

We are still having some problems with the mail service and have people working on that.  Hopefully all will be resolved within the next couple of weeks.

Paper Crow will be back from the printers tomorrow or Tuesday and will begin going out over the weekend.

More updates coming soon!

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3-20-2011

The new issue of Paper Crow is at the printer and should be available within the next week.  We are still responding to the last round of submissions and are working hard to catch up.

We are also still reading/responding to submissions for both Garden and Oceans and we are behind due to the surprising number of subs received. 

We are sending out responses every day and have roughly 100 submissions for Garden still awaiting a reply.  At last count there were about 150 remaining subs for Oceans with new stories arriving every day.  

If you have not heard from us, your poem and/or story is still under consideration.  We will be responding to everyone who submits and will continue to post updates on our progress.

We truly appreciate your patience while we catch up.

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2-24-2011

Still reading through submissions.  Plan to send out a large chunk of responses over the weekend.  More detailed update coming soon.

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2-16-2011

We are slowly picking our way through the submissions for Garden.  At last count (not final) we had nearly 350 poems submitted for the antho. 

We are also still reading the Paper Crow subs and have started sending out the first round of responses for the Oceans antho.   

Anyone who has not heard from us is still under consideration.

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2-9-2011

We are still responding to Paper Crow submissions, as well as submissions for the Garden and Oceans anthologies.  We have received a ton of submissions, many of which are quite good, so we are having to read carefully.  If you have not  yet heard from us, your work is still under consideration.  Thanks for your patience.

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2-5-2011

The Mad Hattery, featuring poems by Marge Simon and art by Sandy DeLuca, is now available to order.

Updates for other projects coming soon

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1-18-2011

There is little less than a month left to submit to In the Garden of the Crow.  We're reading these submissions, as well as the Ocean stories and the latest Paper Crow. 

For the number-people out there:  228 poems were submitted during PC's last reading period.  So far, we've accepted roughly 15.  We are hoping that all Paper Crow subs will have received a response by the end of the month but will post here if that time frame changes.

Dia de los Muertos is shipping.  We are busy sending out  contributor copies/payments to all authors involved.

Finally, we have been working on a project or two and will be posting an announcement shortly.  

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1-1-2011

Happy New Year!!!!!

To celebrate the new year, we will be offering our Dia de los Muertos anthology at a special low price for the entire month of January.  To take advantage of this, order from our bookstore.       

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12-31-2010

Today is the last day to submit to Paper Crow for this reading period.

We have been responding to submissions, but in the last week we have received nearly 200 poems.  Thanks for being patient with us while we make our way through all these pieces.

Garden is still open to subs until February 15th or until filled.   

We have also received a number of stories for Oceans.  So far we have received 30 subs (since December 20th, for those who are interested in that sort of thing). 

We will continue to post regular updates as we read through our submissions.

12-23-2010 

Due to our work on the Dia de los Muertos  anthology, we are behind in our responses to Paper Crow submissions.  We appreciate your patience as we work to catch up. 

Our Ocean Stories anthology is officially open to submissions.  We received over 20 stories the first day and will begin reading them over the weekend. 

The deadline for In The Garden of the Crow has been extended to February 15th.    

Finally, we have two other projects in the works for 2011.  More details coming soon.

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Dia de los Muertos Update                 Paper Crow News 

12-16-2010

We are thrilled to announce that Dia de los Muertos is finally available!!!

We are now open to story submissions for our ocean-themed anthology.  For complete details, see the submissions page.    

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12-13-2010

The anthology has been sent to the printer!!!

Will post an update soon. 

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12-1-2010

We are quickly wrapping up the antho and it is now available for pre-order on the publications page. 

We have been receiving e-mails and will be in contact with everyone involved over the weekend.  Thanks so much for your patience!!

Huge update coming soon! 

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9-30-2010

For those authors already accepted, we have started sending out contracts and final edits.  You should receive this information by the end of next week, if not sooner. 

We are still responding to all queries regarding the antho. 

We have two new projects in the works and expect to have the guidelines posted sometime at the beginning of October.

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9-13-2010

Finalizing antho . . . just a few details left to take care of.  Will be posting guidelines to two new projects as soon as this one's finished up.

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8-22-2010

Still wrapping things up with the antho.  Hoping to post cover art and pre-order info soon.  

We are planning for a late September/early October release. 

Also, we have two new anthologies in the works, one of which will be ocean-themed.   We will be posting more details including official  guidelines and open reading periods soon.  

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 7-12-2010

Updates have been made to project page.   

Still finalizing cover art.  Will post cover and release/order info as soon as available.

We have started sending out requests for updated information to accepted authors and contracts are soon to follow.

12-13-2010

We are aware that there was a problem with some of the September contributor copies not being received and are hard at work fixing this.

We are also beginning to respond to submissions from this reading period.  There are still a few days left to submit.

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12-1-2010

We are behind in responses but will be catching up over the weekend. 

More updates coming soon!

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9-30-2010

Submissions open tomorrow for the next reading period of Paper Crow.  

Submissions will also be open for our new poetry anthology, In the Garden of the Crow.  To see what we like, check our Paper Crow page and for specific guidelines regarding the anthology, please visit the submissions page. 

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9-13-2010

We will be open to submissions again beginning October 1st.  In addition to our regular submissions, we will be taking poems for a special poetry anthology.  The theme for this anthology is Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes.  Detailed guidelines will be posted soon. 

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9-3-2010

The September issue is finally here!  We will begin sending out contributor's copies early next week.

We will open to submissions again on October 1.  Details on the Paper Crow anthology should be posted over the weekend. 

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8-22-2010

We are catching up on responses and have just a few more to get out.  Our September issue is nearly ready to go to print and the March issue is already starting to fill. 

Our next reading period will open October 1, 2010 and, along with regular submissions, we will be taking submissions for a themed poetry anthology.  More details coming soon.  

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8-9-2010

We are still a bit behind on our responses but are working hard to catch up.  

A list of poets appearing in the Spring 2010 issue of Paper Crow will be posted soon. 

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7-12-2010

Congrats to the Rhysling winners!

We are a little behind but hope to have all responses sent out within the next week. 

September line-up as well as special project guidelines coming soon.

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6-15-2010

Huge Congratulations to our three Rhysling nominated poets!!

Kristine Ong Muslim was nominated for her poem, "The Tree of Forgiveness," Marsheila Rockwell was nominated for her poem, "Of Amaranth and Honey," and Charles Saplak was nominated for his poem, "Laments of the Lucid Dreamer."  All three poems appeared in our debut issue. 

Best of luck to all of you (and all of the other nominees) . . . we are so proud!