"Medulla"
is the Latin word for "marrow" --- the middle part of a structure.
Bone marrow. Plant marrow. The spinal cord. It's also the name of a
record album released in 2004 by Icelandic singer Björk, an album
stripped of all instruments other than the human voice.
The Medulla Review is
a literary journal that caters to experimental and surreal writing, a place in the hindbrain where breathing, swallowing, and circulation
are done through words, a venue for those who believe in creating
reality. We want to hear your voices. What jars you? What makes you dance
on the staircase of your mind? It's about the core of things, getting
down to the essence: that soft center of being and experience where you
are free.
Submissions
for Oblongata Contest #3 will open for submissions from July 1, 2010 to July 25, 2010. See the submission guidelines---they have changed!---under the Oblongata Contest link to the right.
Check out previous first place Oblongata Contest winners on the name links to the right, as well as second and third place winners under the Oblongata Winners link!
News! The editor-in-chief of The Medulla Review just opened her literary jaws wider by launching a small press, Medulla Publishing, and she will be holding a chapbook competition from July 1 until September 30! Please visit the website for more information!
Donations:
In an effort to fund the website, the yearly anthology, and promote Medulla authors, the editor-in-chief is now seeking donations.
Donate any amount you like, but from July 1, 2010 until October 31,
2010 for every $5 donation, you get to cast a vote for your favorite
poem, flash fiction, or fiction piece from Volume 1, Issue #1. The
most votes cast in each category will become the "Featured
Poet," "Featured Flash Fiction Writer," and "Featured
Fiction Writer" from November 1, 2010 until February 28, 2011
with a link on the homepage of The Medulla Review. Writers are
welcome to cast votes for themselves! Donate via PayPal and remember to cast your vote in the message of your payment!
Resources for writers: Check out the resources link to the right for information on excellent books, services, and other sites of interest to writers. If you would like to have your book, website, service, contest, etc. listed on the Resources page, the price is $5.00 per month for your own link template. For more information and to set up your link, please eMail the editor-in-chief at themedullareview (AT) gmail (DOT) com.
ISSUE
UPDATES: Volume 1, Issue #3 of The Medulla Review is live! The issue is themed around darkness, death, apocalypse, and alternate/future realities.
Poetry in the
third issue features a diverse selection of outstanding writers, including raw,
surrealistic verse from Margaret Walther, gutsy, analytical verse from
John Grey, the hard-hitting voice of Catfish McDaris, the fluid voice of
Carol Lynn Grellas, work from the unparalleled political poet David S.
Pointer, and five poems from John Tustin.
Flash Fiction in the third issue includes work by Robert Laughlin, Eric Beeny, and Len Kuntz.
Fiction in the third issue will knock your cerebral socks off with the prose of emerging writers such as Cathy Kodra and Selena Casha, among many others!
Issues one and two are available to read online. Click on the links to the right to read poetry by Hugh Fox, Dorianne Laux, J. Michael Wahlgren, Howard Good, Steve de France, Susan Slaviero, and Changming Yuan and fiction by Mark Howard Jones, Barry Jay Kaplan, Richard Kostelanetz, Karl Koweski, Adam Moorad, and Tim Tomlinson, among many other talented writers!