Think you can write a great 500-word story in which the item pictured above (a BBQ Sauce Jar) features significantly? You’ll get an opportunity to do so, soon. A well-known online magazine is going to judge a Significant Objects fiction contest — the winning story will be published by the magazine, and also on this site, and (naturally) on eBay when we auction off the BBQ Sauce Jar. Stay tuned for more details about the contest!
Joshua Glenn is an editor, publisher, and a freelance writer and semiologist. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.
He's cofounder of the websites
HiLobrow,
Significant Objects, and
Semionaut; and cofounder of
HiLoBooks, which will reissue six Radium Age sci fi novels in 2012. In 2011, he produced and co-designed the
iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He's coauthored and co-edited
Taking Things Seriously,
The Idler's Glossary,
The Wage Slave's Glossary, the story collection
Significant Objects (forthcoming from Fantagraphics), and Unbored, a kids' field guide to life forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
In the '00s, Glenn was an associate editor and columnist at the
Boston Globe's IDEAS section; he also started the IDEAS blog
Brainiac. He has written for
Slate,
n+1,
Cabinet,
io9,
The Baffler,
Feed, and
The Idler.
In the '90s, Glenn published the seminal intellectual zine
Hermenaut; served as editorial director and co-producer of the pioneering DIY and online social networking website Tripod.com; and was an editor at the magazine
Utne Reader.
Glenn manages the
Hermenautic Circle, a secretive online community. He was born and raised in Boston, where he lives with his wife and sons.
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I really want to write for this project, and the contest may be my opportunity to start to be involved. PLEASE KEEP ME POSTED. I contacted Rob Walker at his website and although he said he replied to all, alas, no reply……
Thanks, P.D. The contest is scheduled to happen very soon, so watch this website for updates. You can subscribe to our RSS feed via email by clicking on the EMAIL link at top right.
I don’t think I ever got that email, P.D. There’s nothing from your email address in my email archives, not even junk folders etc. In any case, my apologies.
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So, how stringent is the 500 word rule? Any leeway?
Thanks for responding , both of you. Am definitely looking forward to the contest. Thanks for telling me my initial response to you, Rob, was lost in space. I can save being marginalized for other reasons………….
Extremely stringent, Pamela. Not that we haven’t published over-500-word stories on this website — but this is a contest. We want to make sure the judges will actually read all the entries. So: 500.