FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

3 Blind Elephants, a New Media Literary Journal, Now Accepting Submissions

New York, NY - July 20, 2009. A new online literary journal, 3 Blind Elephants, is now accepting submissions and is preparing for a public launch this fall.

Armed with good intentions and strong opinions about literature and technology, 3 Blind Elephants strives to show by example what a good literary journal can be in the digital age: easy to access, and fascinating to read.

When it launches later this year, the journal's content will be available for free on the 3 Blind Elephants website (3blindelephants.com). Readers will also be able to choose from other various preferred media: RSS, e-newsletters, Amazon Kindle and other e-book formats. Selected entries will be read in an audio podcast, downloadable at Apple's iTunes Store.

3 Blind Elephants will focus on new short fiction (under 2000 words)—"short enough to read on a train commute"—but will also publish occasional essays, reviews, and experimental writing that will inspire and confound readers. By winter, the journal will host regular themed contests in conjunction with several graduate writing programs across the United States and Canada.

3 Blind Elephants is the creation of Christopher DeWan, an MFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and a longtime writer at The Urban Sherpa blog (theurbansherpa.com). In addition to his own work as a poet and fiction writer, DeWan has been involved in a number of prior collaborative arts endeavors: in 1999, he helped create "The Edge of the World Theater Festival," a grassroots celebration of Los Angeles theatre artists, and the only festival of its kind in Southern California. He worked with visual artist Steven Hull and Nothing Moments Publishing on the book, Blind Date. In 2001, he organized "Alive in Los Angeles," a collection of Southern California's spoken-word artists. And in 2003, he curated artists in New York for a citywide guerilla installation project, titled "The Desert Island Project," using messages in bottles and the Internet to explore fleeting connections amidst urban isolation.

In recent years, DeWan has been exploring new media and its impact on publishing and the arts, through projects with Disney Books, Oxford University Press, MIT's Education Arcade, and the acclaimed Boston-based web publishing agency, Interactive Factory. Most recently, he worked with Peabody Award-winning documentarians Art 21, Inc., to expand their body of work into new social networks.

For 3 Blind Elephants, DeWan teams up with established short story writers and MFA writing students, as well as artists who generally work in other genres, hoping to prove that though reading and writing are being changed by new media, they are still very much alive, and as interesting as ever.

CONTACT
For more information, visit the 3 Blind Elephants website, 3blindelephants.com, or write info [at] 3blindelephants.com.

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