[Nettime-bold] Call for Submissions

[Dead Letter Office <postmaster@deadletters.com>]

Dear friends,

We are still looking for submissions for our July installment of the Dead
Letter Office web site (http://www.deadletters.com). We have varied our
content widely in recent months to include any document or object that seems
to fall under the category "dead letter." This does not mean submissions
must have a "dead letter" theme or any stylistic feel in particular. They
just have to be dead letters of some sort.

To give a better idea of our varied content, our current update includes not
only the usual fare of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, but some twisted and
comical correspondence between one man, Daniel Arp, and two corporations:
StarKist and Amazon.com. ("Shall I shop and compare thee to a summer's day
sale at Wal-Mart?" he asks of Amazon's new Lawn & Product Store. "Thy lawn
product prices are more moderate, and more fair.")

Next month, the centerpiece of our issue will be a serialized full-length
memoir by Margo Perin narrowly rejected for publication by Simon & Schuster
and two other publishing houses due to office politics. Then in August, we
will be memorializing a late, great master among dead letter writers, Robert
Lansberry, whose tireless correspondence with the FBI and Walter Mondale led
to his arrest and acquisition of the label "chronic letter writer" from
government officials. In the end, however, he triumphed: he obtained his
long-sought-after FBI file through Freedom of Information laws, and a copy
of this file has been retained and will be excerpted by our office.

So you see, we are looking for anything interesting, anything rejected. We
are not looking for works you feel were worthy of rejection, however. And we
are not looking only for works that have been rejected for publication.
Those never-shown, long-held-dear manuscripts in your locked desk drawers
will do us just fine. Get your keys. We won't tear them to shreds. And we'll
actually read them.

Send submissions to this e-mail account or to:

The Dead Letter Office
P.O. Box 81236
Pittsburgh, PA  15217

Help us celebrate the Dead Letter writer in all of us and submit. Wouldn't
you like to see your name in darks? Next update: July 23. Keep those letters
pouring in!

Spoken true,
Ms. Patti Lyle Collins
Postmaster
http://www.deadletters.com/


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