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The Winter 2012 issue
The long-anticipated Winter 2012 issue is finally ready in PDF form! Click on the image below to download it. Print copies should be back from the printers’ in a week or so, and will be available around campus.
Please note as well that the submission email for Euphony has been permanently changed to euphonyjournal@gmail.com. Future submissions should be sent to that address rather than to those of the current editors.
Thanks as always for reading!
Important Message from the Editors: New Issue Coming Out Soon
The long-expected winter issue of Euphony will finally be coming out within the next few weeks. Editing and layout are finished, and we are just waiting on the printers to get back to us with the copies. In the meantime, a new piece of short fiction from the issue, “Lynn Somebody”, can be found below.
Thank you for your commitment to Euphony as readers, and we hope you enjoy the new issue!
- The Editors
Sneak Peak from the New Issue: “Lynn Somebody” by Corey Mesler
The first time that I died I didn’t even make it to the gates. I was stopped by an angel with a baton and a can of pepper spray. Move along, he said. Where? I rightly asked him. Back to where you came from, Skippy, he said. I thought the use of ‘Skippy’ unnecessary and condescending but I went back anyway. My wife was asleep in the chair, her head hanging over knitting needles which had dropped from her drowsy hands. She was not attractive in this posture but she was my wife. She woke up. Where have you been, she asked, surreptitiously wiping drool from the corner of her mouth with a colorful, half-finished merkin. I went out for a while, I told her. You wanna sandwich, she asked. I told her I wasn’t hungry and went into the rec room because I felt like a wreck. I found some good strong cord. Next time, I thought, I will get pass that bastard with the pepper spray. (more…)
Second Annual Euphony Cover Contest
We would like to announce the winner of the Second Annual Euphony Cover contest, Irene Hsiao, whose photograph can be seen on the front page of our just published winter issue. Congratulations, Irene!
Thanks to all those of you who submitted entries, and we hope to see your work again when we format the spring issue in a few months.
- The Editors
Important Message from the Editors: Submissions Email Change
After a long series of attempts to fix the mysterious problem with Euphony’s university email account, we have decided to sidestep the issue entirely by switching to Gmail. Henceforth, all submissions should be sent to the address euphonyjournal@gmail.com. They will then be forwarded by the Managing Editor to the appropriate content supervisor.
Submissions sent to the editors’ emails previously posted here will still be reviewed, but only until those editors graduate at the end of the year. Their university accounts will then be shut down and continued submissions to them will not be received.
Thank you for your patience and understanding with this problem, and we hope it has not been too inconvenient for our submitters.
- The Editors
Welcome to a New Year of Euphony!
Hello, everyone! Euphony is pleased to begin its 12th year of operation by publishing the story “When We Are Gone the Light Is Alone”, by Michael McCanne, as well as the poem “War Games”, by Rob Schultz, both to be found below. We hope these to be just the first of many interesting new pieces of fiction and poetry we can present to you this year.
Our first actual meeting of the year will be on Thursday, October 6th in the Reynolds Club conference room (019) at 7 pm. We look forward to seeing all those interested in participating in our magazine then, and best wishes for the new academic year!
- The Editors
We Have a Cover!
Congratulations to Kristina Strother-Garcia, whose photograph will appear on the cover of our Spring 2011 issue! It was hard to select just one photograph, as we received a lot of truly fantastic submissions, but thank you to everyone who participated. The cover contest will probably be a regular fixture at Euphony from now on, so watch out for our notice in the autumn!
- The Editors
Fiction: “Grace” by Jason M. Jones
Then turning to the spirit once again,
I said: “Francesca, what you suffer here
melts me to tears of pity and pain.But tell me: in the time of your sweetest sighs
by what appearances found love the way
to lure you to his perilous paradise?”-The Inferno, Dante, Canto V, Circle Two
I. Francesca
Paolo threw himself from the window last night, but it might have been the night before or the night before that. It might have been a hundred years ago, and it’s quite likely he’ll do it again tomorrow. Time means so little when the same monotonous moonbeams have streamed through these broken panes for years on end and all I see is night.
He returned inexplicably, and that’s what matters. I woke (who can say how long I slept?) and there he was, sitting across from me. We never share a word, but lacking that mad look, the snarling smile and arch of his brow, this room would lose meaning, the shadows wouldn’t take form, and our story would dissolve.
When I close my eyes, I can see his face—not Paolo’s, but a replica—a round, olive orb, curtained by twisting black locks, his brazen scowl as he crept the corridors before our death, his eyes like flames in the bedroom’s hearth. He clutches a long knife below the blade’s silver glint—his lips a demonic curl—and he springs through heavy wooden doors to catch us off guard.
Important Message From the Editors: Updated Submissions Guidelines
As many of you may have noticed in the past week, we recently revamped our website to be more accessible in anticipation of Euphony’s forthcoming Winter 2011 issue. In keeping with the theme of change, we would like to take this opportunity to announce an update to our submissions guidelines. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, electronic submissions must receive priority in our reading pool, and so as of March 16th 2011, we no longer accept print manuscripts. That means that from that date, we only accept literature submitted electronically to euphony@uchicago.edu.
We will, however, continue accepting print submissions from writers who have absolutely no access to the internet—meaning, if you are reading this now, this exception does not apply to you.
Thank you for your understanding, and we hope to see more excellent work in the future!
- the editors
Greetings from the New Editors
Hello! I’m Keith Jamieson, Euphony’s new Fiction Editor. I and the new Poetry Editor, Yini Shi, are hoping to make the website a more integral part of Euphony than it has been in the past. That means more unique content and more frequent updates. To start off, you’ll find below a new, web-exclusive story by Raphaela Weissman. Please check back to find out more in the coming weeks, as well as to download a copy of our upcoming Winter 2011 issue!
