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(March 7, 2012) UNION STATION MAGAZINE is a quarterly online magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, photography, book review and interview.

With each issue, we seek to bring together diverse and emerging voices in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as showcase freshest talent in photography. Please checkout our most recent Issue nO.5.

Issue nO.6 is scheduled for release in June 2012. Submissions will close for this issue on April 21, 2012.

For the complete submission guidelines, please visit the website: http://unionstationmag.com/submit. All submissions can be made through our online submissions manager at Submishmash: http://unionstationmag.submishmash.com

Any questions should be directed to editor[at]unionstationmag.com.

 

 

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE!

ISSUE nO.4 is scheduled for release in March 2011. Submissions will close for this issue on February 15, 2011.

For the complete submission guidelines, please view this page.

Any questions should be directed to editor (at) unionstationmag (dot) com.

CONGRATS TO UNION STATION MAGAZINE’S 2011 PUSHCART NOMINEES!

Small press editors, both print and online, around the U.S. nominate works from what they believe to be the best stories, essays, or poems published in their magazine each year. The good folks at Pushcart then begin what must be an exhausting (and we hope exhilarating) task of selecting their favorites from the thousands of nominations.

A nomination to the Pushcart holds no promise of publication in the anthology and in no way reflects on those writers whom we could not nominate. We were only allowed six nominations after all. We see our nominations as a nod to all our contributors, indicating that we deeply admire the work that they have chosen to share with Union Station Magazine and that the works listed below resonated with us long after publication.

We submit our nominations in December and announcements of those included in the Pushcart Anthology will be issued in April. Please join us in congratulating our 2011 nominees.

Poetry

* J.W. Basilo – Anointing the Hand

* R. Dwayne Betts – And if every cuss word was a sin

* Bushra Rehman - Masjid Alfalah

Fiction

* Rohin Guha – We Sat Around For a While & Talked About Eyjafjallajökull

* Shelly Oria – It Is Something Like This.

* Lara Stapleton – New

JEANANN VERLEE JOINS TEAM US!

On the eve of taking our third issue of Union Station Magazine live, we’re proud to announce that Jeanann Verlee has joined us as Associate Poetry Editor. Union Station is a brand new addition to the literary magazine e-horizon and our mission is to explore the nomadic and urban aesthetic of modern writing and photography and to put into relation the various narratives, voices and images that are redefining the international landscape.

Before joining us an editor, Verlee garnered national regard as author of the acclaimed and award winning poetry collection, Racing Hummingbirds. She co-curates the Urbana Poetry Slam series and has been a multiple time member on both the Urbana and louderARTS National Poetry Slam teams. Verlee’s work appears in a several journals and magazines and she performs and teaches across the US. We are honored to have her join our team at Union Station Magazine and look forward to her contributions.

DZANC BOOKS BEST OF THE WEB 2011 NOMINEES

The annual Dzanc Best of the Web series is in its fourth year and has been lauded as, “heartily significant” and “nearly universally superb”. Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose, the co-founders over at Hotel St. George Press note it, as “…this gift of a book, Best of the Web, that feels, to us, like the presentation of an award.” When we first noted the approach of the nomination deadline, I grabbed a copy of it off Amazon and was stunned by what was offered in the 2010 edition. The work you will find there is both weird and wonderful. The voices are diverse and distinct.

We are proud to offer our three potential additions to that wild universe of voices. Please join us in congratulating Jai Chakrabarti, Bianca Spriggs and Stacia L. Brown, our nominees for the 2011 Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.

BEST OF THE NET 2010 NOMINEES

While we are new to the business of publishing on the web, with November 2010 marking our 3rd issue of Union Station Magazine, we know for sure that good poetry and literature has an important place on the internet. More and more each day we stumble upon surprising and superb new writers thanks to our counterparts at the myriad excellent online journals across the internet horizon. Sundress Publications celebrates that and the work we all do with the 2010 edition of the Best of the Net Anthology.

Since 2006, the Sundress editorial team, led by Erin Elizabeth Smith, has brought needed recognition to wonderful writers willing to offer their work at the democratic altar of the web. In 2009, the recognized writers included favorites of ours both well known and some perhaps under appreciated, such as Adrian Matejka, Matthew Dickman, Kim Addonizio, Rachel Bunting, Alix Ohlin and M.O. Walsh.

I am pleased to offer work by the nine writers listed and linked below as Union Station Magazine’s nominees for the 2010 Best of the Net Anthology. We value all the work presented in our magazine and as such, this was not a simple decision. Still, we are proud of our nominees and we welcome the efforts of the Sundress team in bringing attention to the outstanding literary work of online journals and potential exposure for our wonderful writers through possible inclusion in the anthology.

2010 Union Station Magazine nominees for Sundress Publications Best of Net 2010 Anthology:

Poetry

R. Dwayne Betts – ‘And if every cuss word was a sin’

Ocean Vuong – ‘Tenement (nocturne)‘

Bushra Rehman- ‘Masjid Alfalah’, ‘My Aba’s Masjid’

Austin LaGrone – ‘His Name Was Frank’

Adam Falkner – ‘Batman and Robin (Most Dangerous Game)’

Bianca Spriggs – ‘Omen‘

Jared Singer -‘Reasons to Leave This City, And an Attempt to be Someone I’m Proud Of’

Fiction

Shelly Oria – ‘It’s Something Like This’

Stacia L. Brown – ‘Shhh’

We congratulate each of the writers, and are deeply grateful to all the contributors whose works have appeared in Union Station in our first year.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Part of Eve’s Discussion

From The Good Thief by Marie Howe

It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,

and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still

and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm, as when

a hundred starlings lift and bank together before they wheel and drop,

very much like the moment, driving on bad ice, when it occurs to you

your car could spin, just before it slowly begins to spin, like

the moment just before you forgot what it was you were about to say,

it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only

all the time.

From The Good Thief, copyright © 1988 by Marie Howe. Used by permission of Persea.

Create. Build. Destroy. Repair. Reinvent. We see this manifold movement in our physical and imaginative worlds. Our collective consciousness is preoccupied with imminent demise. This is not unique to our generation, although the ability to immediately share in the experience of destruction everywhere in the world at once without a parallel sense of participating in the reconstruction (a slower, less exciting process?) is definitely, uniquely ours. Twitter tells us it is happening. The CNN app provides video and pictures in as close to real time as we can get. The late evening news is irrelevant and outdated as it goes to air.

Consequently, what seems unique to us is a series of unfortunate events: the ultimate intervention of nature upon civil society —by earthquake, tsunami, sinkhole, hurricane, tornado, volcanic ash. Only man challenges Nature’s careless capacity for destruction: ruptured pipelines, broken levees, arson, suicide bomb, gunshots in the distance and across the street. This is compounded by a rise in the popularity of the darkest creations of humanity’s imagination—zombies and vampires are everywhere—we are dreaming an apocalyptic end to civil society.

Art inspects, interprets, reimagines, redraws, holds and erases the lines between all our modes of destruction and creation. For our third issue of Union Station, we are looking for poems, fiction, photography and non-fiction that function at that line. Great civilizations rise and fall, but what of them remains? The individual is crushed under a collapse of either our own invention or external force and begins him/her self again. Send us your best words and images that explore these themes.

FOR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES CLICK HERE.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OCTOBER 7, 2010.