You ought to know, that while we consider all submissions equally, it is extremely important to enter one of the competitions officially because we are obligated to publish winning pieces first. If your piece is excellent and worthy of publication, you may lose your opportunity to be published, not due to lack of talent, rather due to lack of space in the magazine. Whatever space is available (if any) after we have completed the lay out for the winners is filled in with a piece from our “approved literary material box.” The piece we choose from this box (which has all of the excellent unsolicited pieces in it) will be the best piece that meets the space requirement available after the winners are published. There is nothing more disheartening than to have an official entrant receive the large award sum, even though a non-registered piece was actually the better one and ought to have received it. It happens quite frequently, so do consider entering. Even if you are not in need of the grant money, winning a literary award in a prominent literary review magazine stands out to agents, publishing houses, filmmakers and is a valuable asset on resumés. It also makes you eligible for the Pushcart Prize and other awards. No other review offers writers the kind of full-colour, world-wide publication and publicity Carpe Articulum does. We are passionately dedicated to the support and perpetuation of the literary and photographic arts. We look forward to reading your work!
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To Our Beloved Readers,
Carpe Articulum Literary Review is a magazine dedicated to the perpetuation of the Literary Arts. Each edition introduces fresh voices and new insights into the world of writing. Articles are always informative and enlightening, allowing the reader to keep his/her “finger on the pulse” of the global writing community, (and its many genres).
This issue’s theme is Longing. As usual, we chose a theme that offers writers a broad, inspirational venue to uncork the genie of genius within them.
The written word is the most brave and egalitarian form of communication, since the reader has no way of forming prejudices against the writer because there is only the black and white word. Thou ghts can be heard and accepted or rejected based solely upon their own merits. No one knows if the writer is black, white, male, female, Jewish or Buddhist except that the writer tells them so (or not). The written word may be the only true Utopian environment the human race ever has the privilege of engaging. It is the only true defense against being forgotten. In this day and age, when the oppressed are finally gaining a voice and a willing ear, we see this mission of being a conduit for them as sacrosanct. So, our desire is to continue to raise a flagship in such uncharted waters, and to create a stage for the heretofore silent. Moreover, the written word is all that remains of us. As Faulkner once said, “Nobody remembers Shakespeare’s children”. Even our children’s memories will last but a few generations, but our written words make us accessible and memorable forever.
Aside from providing a stage for fresh writers and writings via a forward-thinking literary review, Carpe Articulum also bestows awards, scholarships and grants regularly upon new artists whom display promise and potential. Chief among these awards is the prestigious Carpe Verbum Literary Award, which presents about $10,000.00 per annum to writers and artists from every walk of life. In this manner, we show our undying support to the blossoming writers, painters, photographers and other interpreters of life. We will continue our work as an eclectic medium for writers, agents, publishing houses, filmmakers and photographers to converge. Keep writing! Keep reading!
Sincerely,
H.R.L. Broscova
by Lucille Bellucci
He told me a dream he had
the night before
Sentenced to execution,
he held me
and asked me the
fatal question:
Are you pleased
to have me
love you
more than
you love
me?
He said I nodded
while at his back
I slipped in
the knife.
But he only said,
Don’t worry–
it doesn’t hurt.
You are doing it
exactly
right
