Underground Voices Magazine
Encyclopedia
Underground Voices is an American literary magazine
created in 2004. Based in Los Angeles
, Underground Voices caters to edgy, raw, dark fiction, flash fiction
, and poetry
. The magazine also publishes the works of visual artists. In 2009, Underground Voices expanded into a small press
with its first book, Chewing The Fat.
2007 Puschart Prize XXXI Best of the Small Presses Anthology - Special Mention
Ned Vizzini
(It's Kind of a Funny Story
, Be More Chill
, Teen Angst? Naaah...)
James Brown
(Los Angeles Diaries)
Andrew Coburn
(crime novelist, Edgar Award
nominee for the novel, Goldlilocks)
Nancy Weber
(The Life Swap
)
Poets
Patricia Fargnoli
Tony O'Neill
(Down and Out on Murder Mile, Digging the Vein)
Cortney Davis
Lyn Lifshin
S.A Griffin
Charles Plymell
Linda Ravenswood
Artists
Jeremy Caniglia
Chris Anthony (artist)
Ben Goossens
Misha Gordin
Alessandro Bavari
Michal Macku
Mark Parisi
(Off the Mark comic panel)
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
created in 2004. Based in Los Angeles
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Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Underground Voices caters to edgy, raw, dark fiction, flash fiction
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
, and poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
. The magazine also publishes the works of visual artists. In 2009, Underground Voices expanded into a small press
Small press
Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...
with its first book, Chewing The Fat.
Awards and recognitions
Work published has been awarded or received honorable mention in the following:- Pushcart PrizePushcart PrizeThe Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1888889446
2007 Puschart Prize XXXI Best of the Small Presses Anthology - Special Mention
- Best of the Web, Dzanc Books
- Storysouth's Million Writer's AwardStorySouthstorySouth is an online quarterly literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, essays, and visual artwork, with a focus on the Southern United States. The journal also runs the annual Million Writers Award to select the best short stories published each year in online magazines or...
http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/millionwritersnotable_2009.htmlhttp://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/millionwritersnotable2008.html, http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2007notablestories.html, http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2005notablestories.html, http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2004notablestories.html
Past Contributors
AuthorsNed Vizzini
Ned Vizzini
Edison Price "Ned" Vizzini is an American writer who is the author of books for young adults. He is best known for his novel Be More Chill. He has been a columnist for the New York Press since his teens.-Life and career:...
(It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. It follows a depressed teenager who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004...
, Be More Chill
Be More Chill
Be More Chill is a science fiction novel published in 2004 by American author Ned Vizzini. It features a fictional pill named the "squip". This story is supposed to take place around 2010.-Plot introduction:...
, Teen Angst? Naaah...)
James Brown
James Brown (author)
James Brown is an American novelist who has also written short fiction and nonfiction.His acclaimed memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries is an intimate portrait of his dysfunctional family, covering his childhood, Hollywood script meetings, his splintered marriage and life with his older brother, the...
(Los Angeles Diaries)
Andrew Coburn
Andrew Coburn (author)
Andrew Coburn is a United States novelist. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and three of his novels have been adapted into French films subsequently subtitled in German and Italian. He is married to Bernadine Casey Coburn, a former journalist and Boston University publicist...
(crime novelist, Edgar Award
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
nominee for the novel, Goldlilocks)
Nancy Weber
Nancy Weber
Nancy Weber is an American writer known primarily for her non-fiction work The Life Swap . Her twenty-some other books include The Playgroup and Brokenhearted , both speculative novels with medical themes, and eight romances written under the byline Jennifer Rose...
(The Life Swap
The Life Swap
The Life Swap memorializes the adventures of writer Nancy Weber after she put an ad in The Village Voice offering to trade places — friends, families, lovers, work, and breakfast preferences — with a stranger. Originally published by Dial Press in 1974, The Life Swap came back into print in 2006...
)
Poets
Patricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli is an award-winning American poet and retired psychotherapist. She was the New Hampshire Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009....
Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill is a New York-based author. A one time musician with Kenickie , Marc Almond , The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Kelli Ali , O'Neill is also the author of several books including Digging The Vein 2006, Down and Out on Murder Mile 2008 and Sick City 2010.Digging the Vein was a novel...
(Down and Out on Murder Mile, Digging the Vein)
Cortney Davis
Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin
-Life:Born in Barre, VT, she was raised in Middlebury, VT. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont...
S.A Griffin
Charles Plymell
Charles Plymell
Charles Plymell is a poet, novelist, and small press publisher. Plymell has been published widely, collaborated with, and published many poets, writers, and artists, including principals of the Beat Generation....
Linda Ravenswood
Linda Ravenswood
Linda Ravenswood is an artist, writer and vocalist who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Linda Ravenswood was born in Los Angeles, California and lived in Europe throughout the 1980s. In 1993 she moved to Ireland with her husband, the songwriter and music...
Artists
Jeremy Caniglia
Chris Anthony (artist)
Chris Anthony (artist)
Chris Anthony is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden, primarily known for his macabre and Victorian Gothic-inspired photographs. Anthony has also directed commercials for companies such as Deutsche Telekom and music videos for groups such as The Dandy Warhols....
Ben Goossens
Ben Goossens
Ben Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, Goossen's turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive Surrealism style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte....
Misha Gordin
Alessandro Bavari
Michal Macku
Mark Parisi
Mark Parisi
Mark Parisi is the creator of Off The Mark, a comic panel which began in 1987 and now appears in 100 newspapers, as well as on greeting cards, T-shirts, and more. Off The Mark is distributed daily by United Media. Parisi's work is influenced by Charles Schulz, MAD Magazine and Gary Larson...
(Off the Mark comic panel)
Books by Underground Voices Press
- Hotel Oblivion (2011) - (Paperback 978-0983045625)
- On The Verge (2011)- (Paperback ISBN 978-0983045618)
- Last Train To Noir City (2010)- (Paperback ISBN 978-0983045601)
- Chewing The Fat (2009)
Additional Books
- Underground Voices: Drugs, Guns, and Crazy Detectives - Print Edition Vol. 3 (2008)- (Paperback ISBN 9781440107016)
- Underground Voices: Stories from the Asylum - Print Edition Vol. 2 (2007)- (Paperback ISBN 0595474667)
- Underground Voices: Print Edition Vol. 1 (2006)- (Paperback ISBN 0595415717)
- Underground Voices: a collection of short stories (2006)- (Paperback ISBN 0595380921)