ISSUE TWO

hopefully going to press (is this still the correct terminology for doing shit digital?) in mid-march or early april. got some great content already. could use more. could use yours. thanks.

submit: championsubs [at] gmail.com

also, an interview with ben marcus coming up in the next issue. check out ben's updated site. some great essays, links to short pieces, drawings, and information on upcoming events. man is power manifested.

also, hear some rumblings about a whole bunch of kids doing book tours this summer. should be fun times. keep your eyes open for tour dates/locations/times. we'll try and be up to the minute in posting information to this and our facebook and twitter. sorry, we've been absolute shit at doing those things.  

GIMME DAT SHIT

back from vacation. reading through submissions. next issue will probably be out around march. i wish i could put 'em out faster but fact of the matter is, i'm doing this shit solo and i'm a grad student that teaches and tutors and has to eke out time to work on my ownsome. that being said, i could probably honestly still put out more issues a year but i'm doing this with the help of an impossibly talented web designer who also has to put work in on other websites. and lastly, i'm not sure how you feel, but i'm not necessarily in favor of online lit mags putting out issues every other week or blasting our faces with 27 different contributors. sorry, but i see that much shit roll past my eyes and there's a little balk in the caverns of my onepiece. what i'm trying to say is, with every issue i'm probably not going to include more than 9-10 contributors. and until the next issue is up i'm still going to try and get people to go back and read the pieces. once it hits shit ain't over. i'll still hold a knife up to a motherfucker to get 'em to read "pee on water." maybe i'm a dick and i'm not utilizing technology to its utmost but i really feel the pieces i pick and i want them to murk as many bodies as possible. if slowroll is that way, so be it. more and faster ain't always better, dig?  

KEEPIN' SHIT REALLY REAL

i've had the song 'danke schoen' stuck in my head for at least four days now. they keep looping it at work. saw 'ferris bueller's day off' at a midnight showing at this theater a while ago and after watching it, the girl i was with, who was seeing it for the first time and in a theater nonetheless, was fixated on the fact that during that famous parade scene the entire crowd knows the lyrics to 'danke schoen.' nothing else in that movie made her bat a lash. oh, yeah, all that other zany john hughes shit, nothing, every day of her life. 

it reminded me of how in workshop, kids'll get stuck on the most mundane things if they're not mimetic to real life. BUT HOW COULD THAT PHONE CALL HAVE BEEN MADE AT THAT TIME WHEN CALL-WAITING WAS BUT A SUGGESTION? in the case of lady parts, it was funny and endearing, but in the workshop climate shit can be timesuck of all timesucks. in some instances, sure it's distracting, if that's what they're going for, real life twinning and the whole schtick. in that context, sometimes. but in 'ferris bueller' it's to be expected. the whole movie is one crazy fuck all of every high school kid's wet dream. 

anyway, apologies for not posting more. busy with mfa shit and general schoolness. also, took a break from writing a monster pedagogical paper to watch raekwon on jimmy fallon. and then listened to 'danke schoen' on youtube for a half hour to purge. 

THANGS AND THANGS

Apologies for not posting sooner. Schoolworks, work works, novel works. Anyhow, we are now listed on Newpages and were on the front page of The Millions Blog, thanks to Garth Risk Hallberg. We were called handsome and then we feigned embarrassment while secretly fistpumping the air behind your backs. 

Also, check out The Millions because they've got a great on-going "Year in Reading" segment where they ask motherfuckers in the know about reading. For example: Jesse Ball, William Gass, Deb Olin Unferth, Diane Williams, and a few others. 

Keep sending us stuff: championsubs@gmail.com. We've been getting disgustingly good stank so far but we're greedy so keep feeding us. We already have some ridiculous things set up for next issue. 

rectangles full of words

So, a few of the CHAMPION SQUAD have books out or books forthcoming:

Blake Butler's EVER from Calamari and Scorch Atlas from Featherproof are disgusting in the most mind and body wrecking ways.

Mathias Svalina has a silly amount of chapbooks and poetry books out, but most of all you should purchase his latest, from CSU Press, Destruction Myths. 

Adam Robinson has a forthcoming book that you can pre-order from Narrow House called ADAM ROBISON AND OTHER POEMS. I've read the intro and a few poems from this beast. It will hurt you.

You can find Gary Lutz's Stories in the Worst Way re-released from Calamari. These stories will certainly worst you for the worster. 

And lastly, our friend Adam has the foresight and tastemaker's bravura to decide to release a chapbook from A. Minetta Gould and a collection of short stories from Rachel B. Glaser in 2010. Keep posted. 

drop lines

thanks to everyone who has been reading and spreading the word and sending stuff in. most of the spread has been word of mouth and we're already getting a ridic amount of hits/views/whatever you prefer. 

if you enjoy a particular piece, you should hit up the respective writer. almost all are internets ready, check that, all are. 

blake butler - http://www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com/

mathias svalina - http://mathiassvalina.blogspot.com/

rachel b. glaser - http://rachelbglaser.blogspot.com/

ally harris - http://idiotmusic.wordpress.com/

adam robinson - http://www.publishinggenius.com/

jonathan papas - http://wakeuprod.blogspot.com/

carl annarummo - http://armsasser.blogspot.com/

a. minetta gould - http://www.lonesomefowl.com/

christopher higgs - http://brightstupidconfetti.blogspot.com/

giancarlo ditrapano - http://www.nytyrant.com/home.html

re: mind blown. thanks so and so. my brain batter was once skull kept but is now sitting pretty lap-ready. sincerely, the person who is sending you this note. 

something along those lines. 

so, we're up and running. apologies to everyone for the delays, we just wanted to get things right. we hope you'll take a look around and really read the stories and poems we've posted. we feel like the words is some of the strongest words this side of February. honestly, have you read rachel's story? gian's? the poems of jon and ashley? ally harris? shit is stupefying. shit is just plain stupid how thick-necked it is. please send us your words. and spread the word. equally, check our facebook and twitter. and this blog. we're really hoping to use this site as a jumpoff for doing actual, real life things. readings around boston. boss type stuff. you know the know. thanks again.